The US reported a daily global record of more than 55,000 new coronavirus cases on Thursday as infections rose in the vast majority of states and America’s top public health expert spoke of a “very disturbing week”. Hospitals in some of the new hotspots in the US south and west put themselves on a crisis…

Thousands of beachgoers began flocking to the shores Friday to kick off the Fourth of July weekend despite a nationwide resurgence in coronavirus cases that has prompted holiday beach closures in some of the hardest-hit areas and other restrictions to prevent more infections.In Chicago, beaches are officially closed through the weekend but Foster Beach was packed as…

A man carrying a "Liberate Hong Kong" sign as he drove a motorcycle into police at a protest against the territory's Chinese rulers has become the first person to be charged with inciting secession and "terrorism" under a new national security law. Beijing imposed the legislation on the former British territory earlier this week despite protests…

Protesters blocked an access road to Mount Rushmore Friday, hours before President Trump was set to give a speech to kick off Independence Day weekend.According to the Associated Press, the protest group was mostly Native Americans protesting that South Dakota’s Black Hills were taken from the Lakota people against treaty agreements. Sheriff's deputies and National Guard troops confront protesters…

TOPLINE As Congress is headed for an 11-day crunch to agree on a new rescue package and have it signed by President Trump before a key provision of the $2.2 trillion CARES Act expires—with millions of Americans unemployed and new cases of the coronavirus soaring to alarming levels—here’s what’s at stake in the next round…