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Thousands more businesses will now have to close or extend closures as restrictions escalate.

A suspect accused of shooting at a police officer while handcuffed was caught following a nine-day manhunt.

Months after apologizing for downplaying the coronavirus pandemic, celebrity doctor Drew Pinsky has revealed he is positive for COVID-19.       

A well-known divorce lawyer in Connecticut killed his COVID-19 positive wife before fatally shooting himself during a murder-suicide on Christmas Day, authorities said. Cindy Liquori, 55, was dog-sitting at her mother’...

An Israel man died of a heart attack two hours after receiving his COVID-19 vaccination.

Officers visited the home of Anthony Warner after his girlfriend said he was producing explosives in his R.V., according to a police report. They said then that there was no evidence of a crime.

The Justice Department said poor-quality surveillance video place prevented prosecutors from being able to conclusively determine whether Rice was reaching for his toy gun

Finding a lack of evidence to prosecute, the Justice Department ended a five-year inquiry into the death of the 12-year-old Black boy, who had been carrying a pellet gun when an officer shot him.

A pregnant woman and her brother died and a 1-year-old girl was wounded in a gruesome shooting at a home in Canton, Miss., early Tuesday, the city's police chief said.

Eight workers at a German nursing home were accidentally injected with five doses each of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, according to reports. The seven women and one man -- ranging in age from 38 to 54 -- work...

Sinopharm, a state-controlled company, said its candidate was shown to be 79 percent effective in interim late-stage trials, bringing a China-made vaccine a step closer to approval for mass use.

The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has hired a forensic accounting firm to assist in its investigation of President Trump's business operations, people familiar with the matter told The Washington Post. The probe w...

Australia's Minister of Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs has threatened to cancel the visas of any visitors caught breaking rules designed to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in the country, after hundred...

China sentenced Hong Kong activists detained on the mainland to up to three years in jail after a dozen attempted to flee the city by speedboat

Felix Yeung stops to allow a pair of huge, black buffaloes to lumber past.

The study by Chinese officials suggests there were more positive cases in Wuhan than official figures suggest.

Thousands of residents in Aspen, Colorado were left without heat during near-zero degree weather after vandals — possibly green activists from an environmental group — attacked the city’s gas system, authorities sa...

Det. Myles Cosgrove and Det. Joshua Jaynes, two Louisville Metro police officers involved in the shooting of Breonna Taylor, received notices of termination on Tuesday, their attorneys told The New York Times. Taylor, an...

The Delaware computer repairman who revealed the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop faces an uphill battle if he refiles his libel suit against Twitter -- partly because of a law that shields social-media sites, experts s...

Stimulus payments may hit some bank accounts Tuesday night. Colorado has confirmed the first known U.S. case of a new COVID-19 strain. Virus updates.       

President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday criticized the Trump administration's plan for distributing coronavirus vaccines, saying if doses are administered at their current rate, "it will take years, not months, to vaccinate...

Here's the officially reported coronavirus death toll through December 29. The raw data from Johns Hopkins is here.