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President Trump holds his first coronavirus press conference since April on Tuesday as COVID-19 cases rise to the 4 million mark and daily confirmed cases of the virus regularly reach more than 60,000 per day. The 5 pm ET briefing, which none of the White House coronavirus task force members …

LM Otero / Associated Press the The University Interscholastic League has delayed the start of high school soccer for the two largest Texas conferences due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Class 6A and 5A schools were originally scheduled to begin practices on August 3, but will have to wait until September …

BRUSSELS / AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Hungary, Poland and the Netherlands were victorious on Tuesday after a European Union summit left open the way to link a new coronavirus recovery fund to democratic values, raising questions on whether compliance would be possible or significant. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte (left), European …

A passenger at Newark Liberty International Airport was arrested Monday after hiding an assault rifle and a cache of ammunition in the lining of the luggage, authorities said. The East Orange man “cleverly” concealed an assault rifle, large-capacity magazine, four boxes of hollow-point bullets, three magazines, one of which was …

A doctor serving as Minnesota’s state senator announced this month that his state’s Board of Medical Practice is investigating him following his criticism in April that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines on the classification of coronavirus deaths could artificially inflate the counts. Dr. Scott Jensen (R) …