Some 860,000 Americans lost their jobs and filed for unemployment insurance last week, the Labor Department said Thursday.

The reward offered for a gunman wanted in the shooting of two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies last week has nearly tripled following donations.

The White House offered to provide the the Big Ten with enough COVID-19 tests for play to begin, but it sourced the tests from a private company instead, officials said.

The World Health Organization’s European director has warned countries against reducing the quarantine period for people potentially exposed to the coronavirus

A growing chorus of experts is calling on Russian scientists to explain potential discrepancies in the data supporting the country's COVID-19 vaccine, dubbed Sputnik V.

An 85-year-old man has been stabbed to death inside a southern Michigan supermarket, but his attacker was unable to flee because a woman who witnessed the attack held him at gunpoint until the police arrived

The White House is signaling an opening in negotiations with Congress over the next coronavirus stimulus relief package.

Barr called lockdowns the "greatest intrusion on civil liberties" in U.S. history, besides slavery.

Nearly 40,000 pounds of marijuana have been seized by the government.

Joe Biden has slammed the move.

Leading Republican congressmen submitted a resolution calling on Russia to release Trevor Reed, an ex-U.S. Marine jailed in Russia.

Western Illinois University says a student suspected of shooting his roommate in their dorm room has turned himself into police

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Traces of the Novichok nerve agent used to poison Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny were found on a bottle in his hotel room in Siberia, his team said.

The president said he saved “hundreds of thousands of lives” with his administration’s COVID-19 response. “I don’t think [our response has] been recognized like it should,” he said.

The president said, "I do wear them when I have to ... a lot of people don’t want to wear masks. There are a lot of people who think that masks are not good."

The president said “I think we could have had two million deaths” if he didn’t institute travel bans. He said COVID-19 “is going to disappear.”

The president said “We have to give the respect back to the police that they deserve… You have to allow the police to do their job, otherwise crime is going to soar.”

The president responded to a question about income inequality, unemployment rates and COVID-19 within the African American community. "There was going to be unity. But unfortunately, that was hurt."

The president said he “would like to see additional stimulus” in a future COVID-19 relief bill. He said the pandemic “wasn’t anybody’s fault. It was China’s fault.”

Trump said Democrats “will get rid of” coverage for preexisting conditions “if they go into Medicare For All. You can forget about your doctors and your plans.”

The president touted what he said were wins from his first term. “Sometimes you don’t have time to be totally, as you would say, presidential. You have to get things done.”

The president said reports in which he supposedly called U.S. soldiers “suckers” were “fake.” He called the former military officials speaking out against him “disgruntled former employees.”

“Police are so afraid today that if they do something slightly wrong ... their pension’s gone, their job’s gone,” the president said. “We have to be about law and order.”

Flor Cruceta asked the question on behalf of her mother who died from COVID-19. They both immigrated from the Dominican Republic and had recently become U.S citizens in order to vote in the election.