The World Health Organization joined with global leaders to accelerate production of vaccines and treatments aimed at stamping out the coronavirus.

Ease up or clamp down: Differences over ending coronavirus lockdown turn into power struggle

Images of corpses in Ecuador stoked fear of the coronavirus' effect on developing nations. Infections have yet to peak elsewhere in Latin America.

The governors of Colorado and New York outlined plans to ease pandemic restrictions but stressed they were moving with caution.

The Supreme Court says insurance companies can collect $12 billion from the U.S. government to cover losses in the early years of Obamacare.

Infectious disease experts are raising questions about the reliability of early coronavirus antibody tests and studies that hinge on their results.

The new White House communications team is scrambling to keep Trump on TV but limit his ability to offer dangerous medical advice. The goal is to show him as a leader and push his reelection message. The problem is that Trump almost certainly will sabotage the plan.

Antonia Morales has lived in her historic El Paso neighborhood since 1965 and sees no reason to leave now. Until she and a few other holdouts depart, demolition cannot begin.

The coronavirus outbreak has put science on hold. Now there are discoveries that may never be made and patients who will miss the chance at a breakthrough cure.

As the coronavirus keeps us stuck at home, scientists and health officials fear that social distancing could take a toll on our mental health.

New York sees a dip in deaths, and Louisiana governor meets Trump, as each state in the union thinks about how to move forward amid coronavirus.

In a clinical trial, the drug remdesivir shortened recovery time for patients with advanced cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.

Germany's leadership, history help stave off catastrophe from the coronavirus crisis — so far

Joe Biden has tried to move past an allegation that he assaulted a female staffer decades ago by not talking about it. It isn't working. Some Democrats worry the story line will fester into a much bigger problem for him and the party if he keeps ignoring it.

U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that the new coronavirus is "not manmade or genetically modified."

Medical researchers are puzzled over why the coronavirus — which typically lasts about two weeks in the body — endures far longer in some patients.

Republican lawmakers, determined to punish China for concealing early data on the coronavirus outbreak, are proposing ways to turn up the heat.

Before a single case of coronavirus, President Nayib Bukele placed El Salvador in lockdown and has engaged in other moves that critics say are authoritarian.

Since the sun's UV rays are lethal to the coronavirus, it seems like a safe place to be, right? Wrong. Here's what sunlight can and can't do.

After trying to remain silent, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee says the allegation of an assault dating to the 1990s 'isn't true.'

Coronavirus: There is a price to pay for pledging too much as the world anxiously awaits even a marginally effective therapeutic for the disease known as COVID-19.

Gradual easing of coronavirus restrictions brings hopes, fears

Texas reopens restaurants, Utah reopens salons. As several states lift coronavirus restrictions, many warn of a second wave if social distancing ends too soon.

A week after Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp plunged Georgia into the middle of a national social experiment — rolling back restrictions on businesses in an effort to restart the economy after a monthlong shutdown to halt the spread of COVID-19 — some restaurants, salons and tattoo parlors remain shuttered. Most that are opening are proceeding cautiously.

The search for existing drugs that may help treat coronavirus infections now has researchers testing the heartburn drug Pepcid, among others.

Governors across the U.S. are encouraging people to continue practicing social distancing amid summer weather

Toss-up contests from Arizona to Florida hold the key for President Trump and Joe Biden.

Washington state has a billion pounds of potatoes -- with no destination

As more states reopen their economies, officials say fighting the coronavirus outbreak means wearing a face covering. But some are balking at restrictions.

U.S. deportation flights to Guatemala resume -- with promises of testing for coronavirus

A mutation in the novel coronavirus has led to a new strain viewed as more contagious than the virus that emerged from China, according to a new study.

While much of the world is under lockdown, baseball returned to South Korea on a day when the country reported just three new cases of COVID-19.

Italy Easing Lockdown

De Blasio says he needs Trump to lift New York City from the ashes of COVID-19. But the president says no 'bailout' is coming for his old hometown.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized Tuesday with an infection caused by a gallstone, the Supreme Court said.

The coronavirus is pitching the U.S. and China into a new Cold War -- a confrontation over ideology as well as trade and security. It's happening partly because President Trump needs an issue to run on -- and it's dangerous

As states lift coronavirus restrictions, none has met federal benchmarks, a health expert warns. The COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. surpasses 73,000.

A desperate attempt to halt coronavirus cases is underway on the country's largest reservation, which spans Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.

More than two months after an unarmed black man was shot in south Georgia, protesters across America are asking why it took so long for police to investigate.

Washington state fruit growers say that a ban on bunk beds in farmworker housing would cut their seasonal work force in half, likely leading to food shortages and price hikes.

We are on the precipice of spread COVID-19 from dialysis centers to nursing homes. But there is a safer way to administer this lifesaving care.

Syria's Bashar Assad faces dissent from his rich cousin Rami Makhlouf

For many Americans, Arbery's killing harks back to the old Jim Crow days when white mobs hunted black men down and killed them with impunity. In Brunswick, the shooting has sparked an uneasy conversation about race and power.

Artificial intelligence technology is being rapidly deployed worldwide to help tackle Covid-19.

With imports slowing, many African nations are learning the importance of local manufacturing.

A look at the different ways nations are trying to cushion the blow from the virus shutdowns.

A tie-up is agreed that will create one of the UK's largest mobile, broadband and media firms.

The retail chain will expand its online beauty concept to shopping centres when the lockdown ends.

The airport has been granted permission to appeal a block on its expansion plans

Wizz Air's József Váradi says budget airlines will be in high demand once the pandemic ends.