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The United States is aligning its South China Sea policy with a 2016 arbitration court ruling and officially rejecting many of China’s broad claims about the strategic waterway. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who called China for intimidation and coercion in the South China Sea, said Monday that “the predatory …

Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House coronavirus advisor, said the United States is experiencing a spike in new Covid-19 infections because the country never closed entirely. At the beginning of the outbreak, US coronavirus cases peaked at around 30,000 new cases a day before falling and hitting approximately 20,000 new cases …

(Reuters) – The number of coronavirus infections worldwide reached 13 million on Monday, according to a Reuters count, which increased by one million in just five days. The pandemic has now killed more than half a million people in six and a half months, and the head of the World …

HERMISTON, Oregon. – José García reached into the bed of his truck and cautiously took out a sealed plastic bag. Inside was a homemade mask that a worker had given Mr. Garcia in one of the sprawling farm fields surrounding his home in Northeast Oregon. The mask was made of …

Unbridled pessimism about the prospect of playing college football in the fall of 2020 has become fatalistic. Take a deep breath and start to get comfortable with the idea that there is virtually no chance of playing college football in any recognizable way this fall. Start digesting the notion that …