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Canada is extending the agreement to keep the U.S. border closed to non-essential travel to Oct. 21 during the coronavirus pandemic. Public Safety Minister Bill Blair said Friday they will continue to base the decision on the best public health advice available to keep Canadians safe. The restrictions were announced on March 18 and have been extended each month since….

About 8,800 unaccompanied children have been quickly expelled from the United States along the Mexico border under a pandemic-related measure that effectively ended asylum

A British judge on Monday rejected a request by lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to delay his extradition hearing until next year to give his lawyers more time to respond to U.S. allegations that he conspired with hackers to obtain classified information.

While the coronavirus continues to kill some 1,000 Americans each day, President Donald Trump defied his own administration’s pandemic guidelines to speak for more than an hour to a tightly packed, largely maskless crowd on the last night of the Republican National Convention Thursday. COVID-19 tests were administered to some attendees but not all. The death toll in the United…

The death toll in the United States surpassed 180,000 Wednesday, with more than 5.8 million cases of the coronavirus reported nationwide, according to a tally from NBC News. A potential coronavirus vaccine generated a promising immune response in elderly patients in an early-stage clinical trial, Moderna announced Wednesday. The vaccine from Moderna is one of dozens in development worldwide to…

More than 180,000 people have died in the United States due to the coronavirus pandemic that has infected over 5.8 million in the country, according to a tally from NBC News. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention quietly tweaked its guidance on COVID-19 testing Monday, saying healthy people who have been exposed to COVID-19 “do not necessarily need a test,”...

How you doin’? While a certain tri-state accent ranked among the sexiest in the entire country, another local accent didn’t fare too well — coming in dead last as the least sexy accent in the U.S. According to a Big 7 Travel survey, the accent found among New Jerseyans has the least sex appeal compared to the state accents. “Poor…

The number of Americans newly diagnosed with the coronavirus is falling — a development experts credit at least partly to increased wearing of masks — even as the outbreak continues to claim nearly 1,000 lives in the U.S. each day. About 43,000 new cases are being reported daily across the country, down 21% from early August, according to data compiled…

The Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency authorization of convalescent plasma treatment for the coronavirus Sunday, with President Donald Trump announcing the development on the eve of the Republican National Convention. However, evidence so far has not been conclusive about whether it works, when to administer it and what dose is needed. The World Health Organization weighed in Monday…

The world hit a grim coronavirus milestone Saturday with 800,000 confirmed deaths and close to 23 million confirmed cases. That’s according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. Governments have been attempting to balance public health with economic health. Officials believe the true numbers are far higher because of a lack of testing and reporting. In the U.S., the…

The Trump administration ran into immediate opposition after its top diplomat officially informed the United Nations it is demanding the restoration of all U.N. sanctions on Iran

The Justice Department has notified the British government that it will not pursue the death penalty against two Islamic State militants suspected in the beheadings of Western hostages.

As schools across the U.S. decide whether to reopen this fall, many are left wondering how to know if it’s safe. Public health experts say virus rates in the community should be low, but there’s little agreement on a specific threshold or even a measurement. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants to collect sewage samples at the...

On Tuesday, the University of Notre Dame and Michigan State became the latest colleges to cancel in-person classes because of the coronavirus as colleges struggle to contain outbreaks and students continue to congregate in large groups without masks or social distancing. A new NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Tracking Poll out Tuesday found that only 44% of Americans will get a vaccine…

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill canceled in-person classes for undergraduates just a week into the fall semester Monday. The decision came after clusters were discovered in dorms, a fraternity house and other student housing, the university said. As the United States continues to see an increase in the number of coronavirus cases, the U.S. Food and...

The national death toll from the coronavirus surpassed 170,000 over the weekend, and the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases topped 5.4 million, according to a tally by NBC News. In Oklahoma, a high school student diagnosed with the coronavirus went to school, under the incorrect belief it was safe to do so because they were asymptomatic – several of the…

The national death toll from the virus that has upended the way Americans live and wrecked the economy surpassed 170,000 over the weekend, and the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases topped 5.4 million, NBC News figures showed. Texas reached 10,000 coronavirus deaths this weekend. Meanwhile, Florida eclipsed the 9,000 death mark two days after Gov. Ron DeSantis raised eyebrows by repeating an awkward metaphor...

It can seem to public health officials that giving an inch means people will take a mile, NBC News reports. In the months since most U.S. states emerged from coronavirus lockdowns, wearing a mask has become a matter of politics more than safety, “pandemic parties” have been broken up in California, New York and Florida, and many states that forged ahead with...

The Iranian navy boarded and briefly seized a Liberian-flagged oil tanker near the strategic Strait of Hormuz amid heightened tensions between Tehran and the U.S., the American military said Thursday.