President Donald Trump again declined to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the Nov. 3 presidential election. "We’re going to have to see what happens," Trump said Wednesday at a news conference, responding to a question about whether he’d commit to a peaceful transfer...

An estimated 14.6 million new internal displacements have been recorded across 127 countries and territories in first half of 2020, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) said Wednesday. “The staggering figures recorded in the first six months of the year are testament to the...

Johnson & Johnson is beginning a huge final study to try to prove if a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine can protect against the virus. The study starting Wednesday will be one of the world's largest coronavirus vaccine studies so far, testing the shot in 60,000 volunteers in the U.S., South...

India’s total death toll crossed 90,000 mark early Wednesday as the country recorded 83,347 new COVID-19 cases and 1,085 more deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the Health Ministry data.  The national toll of confirmed infections stood at 5.6 million, including 90,020 deaths...