PHOENIX (AP) – They saw the sinister photos: crowded hospitals, exhausted nurses, bodies piled up in morgues. It was far away, in New York, northern Italy, and other distant places. Now, after three months of anxious waiting and preparation, Arizona nurses and doctors are on the front line as the …

The death toll from COVID-19 reached half a million people on Sunday, according to a Reuters count, a grim milestone for the global pandemic that appears to be re-emerging in some countries, even as other regions are still grappling with the first wave. Respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus …

A married couple brandished firearms at a group of protesters who marched through their exclusive St. Louis neighborhood on Sunday night on their way to Mayor Lyda Krewson’s home. The male owner was barefoot on his Renaissance-style porch in the Central West End neighborhood while carrying a semi-automatic weapon around …

However, Trump found time to defend a statue of former President Andrew Jackson, who retired to his slave plantation in 1837, and retweeted a video in which a supporter chanted “white power.” Trump denied reports that he was informed that Russia was offering a reward for the Taliban killings of …

Australian authorities nervous about surge in Melbourne cases Jamie Smyth in Sydney Australia faces a “worrying” spike in coronavirus infections with 75 new cases reported in the state of Victoria on Monday, prompting authorities to warn that they are “on the verge of” being able to handle the outbreak. “Obviously …