Tropical Storm Hanna is expected to hit the southern Texas coast as a hurricane on Saturday afternoon or early evening, forecasters said, all while another tropical storm approached the Caribbean. Hanna was centered about 140 miles (225 kilometers) east-southeast of Corpus Christi, Texas, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said early …

Almost 40 countries have reported record single-day increases in coronavirus infections over the past week, around double the number that did so the previous week, according to a Reuters tally showing a pick-up in the pandemic in every region of the world. The rate of cases has been increasing not …

  Coronavirus has now infected some 15.4 million people and has killed more than 632,000. Here are the latest updates for July 23: Thursday, July 23, 2020 US cases took 16 days to go from 3 to 4 million The total number of coronavirus cases reported in the United States …

President Donald Trump announced a surge of federal law enforcement to address crime in U.S. cities, saying that Chicago, Illinois, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, will be added to the Justice Department program dubbed “Operation Legend.” “Today I’m announcing a surge of federal law enforcement into American communities plagued by violent …

Global confirmed COVID-19 cases topped 15 million on Wednesday, reaching 15,000,424 as of 16:35 GMT, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. A total of 617,832 people worldwide have died of the disease, the data showed. The United States has suffered the most …

US President Donald Trump is planning to deploy federal agents to Chicago and possibly other Democrat-run cities as he continues to assert federal power and use the Department of Homeland Security in unprecedented, politicized ways. DHS is slated to send about 150 Homeland Security Investigations agents to Chicago to help …

Astrophysicists on Monday published the largest-ever 3D map of the Universe, the result of an analysis of more than four million galaxies and ultra-bright, energy-packed quasars. The efforts of hundreds of scientists from around 30 institutions worldwide have yielded a “complete story of the expansion of the universe”, said Will …

Oregon’s attorney general is seeking an order to stop federal agents from arresting people in Portland as the city continues to be convulsed by nightly protests that have gone on for seven weeks and have now pitted local officials against the Trump administration. Federal agents, some wearing camouflage and some …

Countries from the U.S. to South Africa to India were struggling to hold down rising rates of the coronavirus, as global deaths from COVID-19 surged past 600,000 in a sign of how far off the world remains from a return to normalcy. While the U.S. leads global infections, South Africa …

Mexico’s top security official has said authorities are investigating a video which showed dozens of uniformed troops with military-grade weapons and armoured pickup trucks apparently connected to a major drug cartel. The video, which circulated on social media on Friday, appeared to be a show of power by members of …

Biden, who committed to choosing a woman for the job he held for eight years under President Barack Obama, said this week he expected the background vetting process to conclude around July 24. He would then interview each finalist before making a decision, expected by early August. The selection of …

As President Donald Trump vies for reelection this November, polling data indicates most voters think he is pushing for division in efforts to win. More than half of the individuals who participated in a new YouGov poll responded that they believed that to be the case. The poll, which surveyed …

The number of infections with the novel coronavirus has surpassed 13 million worldwide with the deaths exceeding 571,000 and recoveries over 7.58 million, according to Worldometer figures. According to the latest figures on Monday morning (+3:00 GMT), 13,069,861 people have so far been infected with the novel coronavirus globally, with …

Nearly half of Oklahoma remains a Native American reservation, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday, in a case that could have major consequences for how some crimes are prosecuted in the state. In the 5-4 decision written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the court held that only tribes and the federal …

China is forging ahead in the race to develop a vaccine to help control the COVID-19 pandemic, with Sinovac Biotech’s (SVA.O) experimental vaccine set to become the country’s second and the world’s third to enter final stage testing later this month. While a laggard in the global vaccine industry, China, …

If Kanye West is serious about running for president, the American rapper and fashion designer will face major obstacles to mount a serious campaign less than four months before the Nov. 3 U.S. presidential election. West, who said in a July 4 Twitter post that he was running, would have …

The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) officially entered into force on Wednesday, replacing the 26-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). “Today marks the beginning of a new and better chapter for trade between the United States, Mexico, and Canada,” U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer said in a statement, adding the …

The Trump administration has bought up virtually the entire stock for the next three months of one of the drugs proven to work against Covid-19, leaving none for the UK, Europe, or most of the rest of the world. On Monday the US Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) …

A court in Los Angeles has ordered the release of more than 100 children held in United States family immigration detention because of the risk that they could catch coronavirus in the facilities. Two of the country’s three family detention centers have confirmed cases of the infection, district judge Dolly …

US President Trump’s transfer last year of $2.5 billion in military funds to pay for border wall construction was an illegal overreach of executive authority, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled Friday. The 2-to-1 ruling was a setback to the president’s increasing …