Trump told journalist Bob Woodward in March that he was deliberately playing down the severity of the coronavirus to avoid inciting panic as he publicly dismissed the virus's threat in a way public-health experts say harmed the ability to curb its spread.

A DHS official filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that he was instructed to stop disseminating intelligence memos on threats posed by Russia to the presidential election.

Biden called for higher taxes on U.S. companies' foreign income and special tax breaks for domestic manufacturing, appealing to blue-collar workers during a trip to Michigan.

The Trump administration will cut the number of U.S. troops in Iraq to about 3,000 this month, a top military commander said, from about 5,200 there now.

The U.K. placed new limits on social gatherings to stem the spread of coronavirus, becoming the latest European country to reimpose curbs.

AstraZeneca said an independent panel is reviewing the potential safety concern that led to a pause of its clinical trials of an experimental Covid-19 vaccine.

A bombing targeting the convoy of Afghanistan's first vice president killed at least 10 people in the country's capital.

Fire destroyed much of Europe's largest camp for asylum seekers, located on the Greek island of Lesbos.