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The United Nations and Britain will host an online climate summit in December, the fifth anniversary of the U.N. Paris climate agreement, in a lastditch bid to have countries meet a deadline to upgrade their emissionscutting pledges.

A Virginia health official is warning of a severe public health threat if a planned campaign rally for President Donald Trump goes forward Friday evening.

The Trump administration on Thursday hit an Iranian revolutionary court and several judges with sanctions in part for their role in the conviction and execution of a young wrestler.

Election Day is typically the end of the contentious fight for the White House. But it could just be the beginning. With both Democrats and Republicans preparing for possible legal fights over the vote count, the post-election process for seating the winn...

Health authorities warned Madrid residents Thursday to brace for tough weeks ahead as a sustained coronavirus spread that is hitting the Spanish capital hard brought the countrys total infections over the 700,000 mark.

Britains film academy is shaking up its membership and its awards voting rules in a review prompted by the glaring lack of diversity in the nominations.

The Delaware Attorney Generals Office is standing by its earlier decision not to charge police officers involved in the fatal shooting of a Black man in a wheelchair, following a review of new evidence in the case.

It all started when Rick Everett walked out of his home in Sydney and put up a sign on his kitchen window that read: Free coffee to combat the virus.

U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson, a Trump administration appointee who bucked the president's conservative base by blocking a Tennessee law that restricts mailin voting, had an announcement to make before wrapping up his decision: it had nothing to do w...

The International Monetary Fund has signed off on Sudan's economic reform program, a move that can eventually allow the highlyindebted African country to get debt relief and move ahead with rebuilding its battered economy as it transitions to democratic r...

The Latest on a grand jury's decision not to indict police officers on criminal charges directly related to Breonna Taylor's death: (all times EDT)

Heres whats happening Thursday in Election 2020, 40 days until Election Day:

Three times as many people tested positive for COVID19 in England in latest weekly figures compared to the end of August, NHS Test and Trace said on Thursday, with more people being referred to the system, though the proportion reached fell.

Sir Harold Evans, the charismatic publisher, author and muckraker who was a boldfaced name for decades for exposing wrongdoing in 1960s London to publishing such 1990s bestsellers as Primary Colors," has died, his wife said Thursday. He was 92.

Swiss health authorities have ordered a quarantine for 2,500 students at a prestigious hospitality management school in the city of Lausanne after significant outbreaks" of COVID19 that are a suspected byproduct of offcampus partying.

Israel on Thursday moved to further tighten its second countrywide lockdown as coronavirus cases continued to soar.