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Although there are doubts as to whether the president’s grand acceptance speech and a fireworks display Thursday in the White House would be appropriate for a pandemic-challenging crowd of more than 1,000 people given what proponents say are “unsurpassable” conditions for those who it’s in the way of Hurricane Laura. …

South Korea reports the highest number of daily cases of coronavirus since March, and has forced parliament to close amid expectations that authorities will impose tougher restrictions. The U-turn by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on testing close contacts of people with COVID-19 raises concerns among …

Chen Guangcheng, known for fighting his work against forced abortions under China’s one child policy, faced years of harassment by authorities before fleeing to the US Embassy in Beijing in April 2012, ahead of a visit by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. After a month of tense negotiations, Chen was …

Led by ocean plankton fossils and climate models, scientists have calculated how cold the earth became in the depths of the last ice age, when immense ice sheets covered large parts of North America, South America, Europe and Asia. The average world temperature in the period known as the last …

Forty minutes after Kevin Gausman was to throw the first pitch to Mookie Betts at Oracle Park, the Giants and Dodgers, longtime rivals, issued a rare joint statement. Their game was postponed. Instead of playing, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts posed for cameras in the hallway outside the visiting clubhouse at …