New York’s statewide positivity rate for coronavirus has reached a new high for the fall season, with the state’s 29 different micro-cluster zones rising – the highest zone was just 10 percent shy of the 7-day average. The state’s positivity rate has risen steadily in recent weeks, from 8.88 per …

A British-Australian professor who spent 804 days in some of Iran’s most infamous prisons has been arrested for dating an Israeli, a report says. Dr Kelly Moore-Gilbert was released on Thursday after the Australian government secretly arranged for a complex prisoner exchange involving Thailand. The university lecturer was stopped at …

November 28, 2020 7:32 p.m. Stephen Cohen Posted: November 28, 2020 7:32 p.m. Update: November 28, 2020 8:38 p.m. Election Observers, OK, November 21, 2020 Madison, Wiz. Ask questions from officials and Plexiglass screens as a hand-counting support by Dan County officials at Mono’s Terrace. Votes in Dan and Milwaukee …

Updated at 4:10 p.m.: Improved to include COVID-19 data from Denton County. A further 982 coronavirus cases were reported in Dallas County on Saturday, all counties new. Four new COVID-19 deaths have also been reported. The most recent victims were a man from Lan Lancaster in the 60s, a man …

Jupiter and Saturn will arrange to create a mostly “double planet” in the night sky in December – and that will happen just before Christmas. What’s going on? Popular mechanics report that Jupiter and Saturn will align for the first time in centuries. In fact, the two planets have not …