If President Trump has persuaded you to use a disinfectant like bleach or Lysol to protect yourself against the coronavirus, scientists have some advice: Don't.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo acknowledged frustration with coronavirus stay-at-home orders but compared them with past sacrifices during national crises.

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

Gun rights advocates had hoped Supreme Court would uphold a right to carry a gun in public, but justices said the case was moot.

There is no clear favorite in the in the race among those who might take over in North Korea if Kim Jong Un dies.

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

More Americans killed from virus than in Vietnam War

China's interpretation of the 'rule of law' governing Hong Kong is likely to further incite protesters following the arrest of activists.

Recent speculation about Kim Jong Un's health shows how the fate of North Korea is still seen as inextricably linked to that of one much-hyped individual.

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.

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.

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.

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

As more states reopen, an army of contact tracers will have to be enlisted to join the effort to stop the coronavirus.

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

Medicaid and other parts of the healthcare safety net get left behind in the Trump administration's plans for distributing aid to battle the coronavirus.

U.S. prosecutors accused a former commander of the Honduran police of importing tons of cocaine into the United States on behalf of the country's president, a Trump ally.

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.

The United States wants Mexico to reopen its border factories, even as the coronavirus spreads and worker deaths rise.

A common cough syrup ingredient has pro-viral properties and should be avoided by people infected by the coronavirus, scientists warn.

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.

The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus outbreak has surpassed that of 9/11, even the Vietnam War. Here's a look at COVID-19's place in history.

Gradual easing of coronavirus restrictions brings hopes, fears

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 Philippines is promising better pay for its nurses to lure them to the front lines against COVID-19, but a legacy of exploitation and poor working conditions in the nation's hospitals has dampened the enthusiasm to answer the call.

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

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

The aggressive nationalism of China's diplomats matches the swagger of Xi Jinping's China, which is determined to deflect blame for the coronavirus.

Los Angeles Times journalists Christopher Knight and Molly O'Toole won Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, bringing the newspaper's total to 47.

Most presidents act as consoler-in-chief in times of national crisis. Trump has struggled to show any empathy with victims or survivors of COVID-19.

The coronavirus pandemic is threatening Mexico's fragile public health infrastructure.

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

Rick Bright, pushed out of a job heading a federal research agency, files a complaint saying he was retaliated against for resisting Trump's plans.

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 COVID-19 deaths keep rising, Trump's message has shifted from 'one is too many' to praising Americans as warriors fighting to open the economy.

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.

Federal indictments were down 75 percent in April and 25 percent in march as prosecutors and investigators were forced to curtail operations in response to coronavirus.

Risk guides much of our medical care system. COVID-19 is showing us, unless we have developed immunity, we are all at risk.

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

Mother's Day weekend will be summery in California and wintery with snow in parts of the East

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.