Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders sought in Sunday's debate to cast themselves as best-positioned to lead the nation through a global pandemic, with Biden pledging to deploy the military to help with recovery efforts and Sanders using the crisis to pitch his long-sought...

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Sunday the impact of the coronavirus pandemic was producing a "slowdown" in the American economy but that he did not expect a full-blown recession. Asked by an ABC interviewer if the country was already in recession, he replied, "I don't think so."...

Spain decided Saturday to follow Italy in declaring a nationwide lockdown to slow the accelerating spread of the coronavirus epidemic, Spanish media reported. Spain's decision came as European countries took ever more severe, though widely varying, measures to reduce contact between their...

     (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 190 women and children have been freed from the deserted Kurdish-held Al-Hol camp in northeastern Hasaka province over a tribal mediation, local activists said Thursday.   The freed families headed their homes in the village of...