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The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):

Enrique Marquez Jr. was sentenced on Friday in a major terrorism case that shook America when radicalised Pakistani-American couple Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik massacred 14 people and injured 22 others in a shooting rampage.

Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin met the king on Friday to ask him to declare a state of emergency, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said, a move that opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim denounced as an attempt to cling to power.

The claim that the virus that causes Covid-19 could spread to North Korea from the Gobi desert, 1,900 km away, appears unsupported. Two metres is a common social-distancing metric, although the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says droplets c...

The United States broke its daily record for new coronavirus infections on Friday as it reported 84,218 new cases due to outbreaks in virtually every part of the country, according to a Reuters tally.

Police officers in Kansas City shot and killed a homicide suspect in a ridehailing vehicle Friday during an exchange of gunfire, authorities said.

The United States is approaching a record for the number of new daily coronavirus cases in the latest ominous sign about the disease's grip on the nation, as states from Connecticut to Idaho reel under the surge.

Pope Francis expressed support on Sunday for 18 fishermen held in Libya, weighing in on a standoff between Italy and the administration of Khalifa Haftar, one of the North African country's two rival leaders.

Nearly 15 years ago, Grace Ma decided to name her bar Club 71, in commemoration of a July 1, 2003 rally where hundreds of thousands of Hong Kongers protested a proposed national security law for the semiautonomous Chinese city.

Guineans go to the polls on Sunday as octogenarian President Alpha Conde seeks to extend his decade in power after pushing through a new constitution that allowed him to run for a third term, sparking months of violent protests.

Biden also accused Trump and Senate Republicans of 'court-packing,' saying their push to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court before the election is an effort to undo the Affordable Care Act.

Thousands of Israelis demonstrated outside the official residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday night, resuming the weekly protest against the Israeli leader after emergency restrictions imposed as part of a coronavirus lockdown were li...

A federal judge in San Francisco is mulling the competency to stand trial of a Mexican man who shot and killed 32yearold Kate Steinle, a shooting that figured prominently in President Donald Trump's run for the White House four years ago.

A Black woman whose arrest when she was ninemonths pregnant sparked outrage has given birth to a girl, her attorney says.

A medical drone delivery service founded by trainee doctors that aims to transport coronavirus samples, test kits and protective equipment between hospitals has won the backing of Britains Space Agency.

The Dutch royal couple were back in the Netherlands Saturday after their vacation trip to Greece had to be abandoned because of an uproar back home, where people are urged to stay at home as much as possible.