●The Chinese government reported 648 new cases of the novel coronavirus across the country on Sunday, as well as 97 deaths. This brings the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 76,936 with a total of 2,442 deaths from covid-19. ●At present, three…

Six hours later, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute student’s roommate discovered his body, the Times Union first reported. The case highlights issues that have plagued 911 phone systems across the country since the advent of smartphones. Cellphone privacy…

Trump arrives Monday for his first visit as president to India, where he’s generally viewed positively. The country is one of just six where a majority of those surveyed approved of his handling of world affairs. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has cultivated…

TOKYO — Japanese government officials and members of an official expert panel defended a “tough decision” to quarantine more than 3,700 people on board the Diamond Princess, admitting on Monday the quarantine had not been perfect but pushing back against…

“She’s a fantastic voice for free markets and for climate realism,” said James Taylor, director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy at the Heartland Institute, an influential libertarian think tank in suburban Chicago that…

Hughes, a self-styled daredevil, flat-Earth theorist and limousine-jumping stuntman, died Saturday when his crudely built contraption propelled him on a column of steam, spiraled through the air and cratered into the sagebrush outside Barstow, Calif. He was…

How about declaring Putin Russia’s “Supreme Leader”? Or maybe enshrining the country’s nuclear weapons in the constitution? Perhaps it’s time to work in wording to protect the purity of the Russian language, or elevate Russia’s “civilized identity” or preserve…

The president’s strategy of publicly downplaying the threat that the virus poses to the United States was undermined Monday as the Dow Jones industrial average — a measure he follows closely — shed more than 1,000 points for its largest drop in two years.…

Only three states have spoken. Plenty of opportunities for twists and turns remain, starting with the next debate on Tuesday and the South Carolina primary on Saturday. But Sanders is now the clear front-runner, with a plausible straight-line path to the…

TOKYO — Bracing for a surge in coronavirus cases, Japan announced a new policy on Tuesday designed to focus medical care on the most serious cases, while urging people with mild symptoms to treat themselves at home. It is radically different approach from…

Where, if the need was insurmountable and the opportunities for relief scarce, would he go to pee? Charged with fining public urinators during the city’s world-famous Carnival, which culminates this week, Gitsen, a member of Rio’s municipal pee squad, ducked…

Three years later, Bernie Sanders was fresh off the plane from Moscow, reveling in the beauty of the land and the contentedness of the people. And a year after that, he returned from Cuba having tapped into a revolutionary spirit “far deeper and more profound…

Trump made no mention of the new case Wednesday as he struck an optimistic tone about the virus. “We’ve had tremendous success, tremendous success beyond what many people would’ve thought,” the president said during a White House news conference that followed…

BEIJING — The Chinese government has sent a team of investigators to Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak, to determine how a woman infected with the virus had been released from a prison in the city and fled to Beijing despite a mandatory…

Another thing Joe knows: This is a make-or-break moment in a political career that began 48 years ago, and has taken him to the heights and back down again. Biden has run three presidential campaigns and has yet to win a primary or caucus. In three contests…

At a minimum, Democrats now face the most unsettled contest in decades, with several candidates showing a potential to win delegates after the winnowing process of the first four primary states. The Democratic race goes national Tuesday, when 14 states and…

But when Trump took to the lectern for a news conference intended to bring transparency to the spiraling global crisis, he made no explicit mention of the California case and its implications — and falsely suggested the virus might soon be eradicated in the…

The family of the Seattle-area high school student who tested positive for coronavirus took all the right precautions in dealing with the teen’s illness, health officials in Washington state said Saturday, seeking to calm backlash from the community. The…

Trump said he would be “meeting personally with Taliban leaders in the not too distant future.” Asked whether such a meeting would be overseas, or if he would invite them to Camp David, an idea he broached last year, he said, “We’re looking at that.” Senior…

The baby is due in early summer, and it was not immediately known whether the couple will wed before or after the birth. Symonds, 31, is one of youngest partners of a prime minister in centuries, the BBC reported, and Johnson will be the first prime minister…

After a head-spinning four days, a primary race that began with a historically large and diverse field — powered by a half-dozen women attempting to tap into an activated female electorate — has now boiled down to two white men in their late 70s who each…