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Dueling Trump-Biden events offer contrasting virus responses

A presidential campaign that has largely been frozen for several months because of the coronavirus took on a degree of normalcy Thursday when President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden swung through critical battleground states presenting starkly different visions for a...

Germany, France step up support to embattled WHO

Germany and France promised Thursday to pay hundreds of millions of euros to the World Health Organization, which faces a US withdrawal over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The two European nations said their increased support was not aimed at filling funding holes left by the US...

US jobless claims top 47.2 million, 1.48 million new

Another 1.48 million Americans filed new claims for unemployment benefits last week, the Labor Department said Thursday, a worse-than-expected figure that showed the continuing potency of the coronavirus pandemic. The new claims were a decrease of only 60,000 from the week prior and brought...

DR Congo declares end to Ebola epidemic in east

DR Congo's government on Thursday officially declared an end to an Ebola epidemic that broke out in the east of the troubled country in August 2018 and went on to claim 2,277 lives. The outbreak was "the longest, most complex and deadliest" in the 60-year history of the Democratic Republic...