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The Latest on President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump testing positive for the coronavirus (all times local):

The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved a $2.2 trillion Democratic plan to provide more economic relief from the coronavirus pandemic, as a bipartisan deal continued to elude House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the White House.

The number of locations where Texas voters can drop off their mailin ballots has been vastly reduced to ensure poll security, Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday.

Facebook and Twitter promised to stop encouraging the growth of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon, which fashions President Donald Trump as a secret warrior against a supposed childtrafficking ring run by celebrities and government officials, after it...

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett signed a 2006 newspaper ad sponsored by an antiabortion group in which she said she opposed abortion on demand and defended the right to life from fertilization to the end of natural life.

The traditional bowler hats, bright blouses and long, plaited pollera skirts of the young women contrast with the skateboards under their feet as they swoop back and forth on the skate ramp in Bolivia's largest city.

The head of an organization of Kosovo war veterans, who was detained last week on suspicion of offenses including intimidating witnesses, appeared in court Thursday for the first time since his arrest.

Two more cases of African swine fever (ASF) have been confirmed in wild boars in the eastern German state of Brandenburg, Germany’s federal agriculture ministry said on Thursday.

A record surge of new coronavirus infections in the Czech Republic in September has been followed by a record number of virus patients being hospitalized, putting the nation's health care system under serious pressure for the first time in the pandemic.

An Afghan official says at least 16 passengers were killed in separate traffic accidents Thursday in western Herat province.

Indian police detained key leaders of the opposition Congress party, Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi, on Thursday after preventing them from visiting a northern village where a 19yearold woman from India's lowest caste was gang raped last mont...

Police in Ukraine are investigating the death of an American woman who worked for the United States Embassy in Kyiv.

Investors in Japan and elsewhere were left scratching their heads Thursday after trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the worlds third largest by market value, was halted for the day due to a technical failure.

Donald Trump and Joe Biden debated. Americans cringed.

Iranbacked militias launched rockets targeting U.S. troops that landed near Erbil airport in the semiautonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq, a Kurdish security agency said on Wednesday, hours after Iraq's premier pledged to protect foreign missions.

The sanctions came a day after intense clashes in southern Syria broke out between Russia-backed Syrian troops and local fighters who belong to the minority Druze sect, killing and wounding dozens.