Almost 60 U.S. universities filed a brief supporting Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in their effort to stop the Trump administration from enforcing new visa guidelines that would bar some international students from entering and staying in the country to attend college.

Stanford and Duke universities, and the ...Read more

NEW YORK -- New York City, once the epicenter of the nation's coronavirus outbreak, has just reported its first day with zero confirmed or probable virus deaths since the pandemic hit New York State.

The milestone came Sunday in initial data from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

It marked the end of a four-month ...Read more

MADRID -- In Spain's first return to its strict lockdown since June's easing of coronavirus restrictions, officials in the city of Lleida and seven surrounding municipalities announced new quarantine measures on Sunday amid a spike of infections.

As of Monday, people in these areas will only be allowed to leave their homes for work, shopping or...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Investigators on Sunday were continuing to search for a cause of a fire that erupted at the San Gabriel Mission, destroying the roof and much of the interior of the 215-year-old church building.

Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez planned to say Mass in the mission's chapel at 11 a.m., as the L.A. Archdiocese launched a ...Read more

A Florida sergeant has been arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after he allegedly threatened to shoot an unarmed Black man who wouldn't identify himself.

Janak Amin of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office pointed his gun at the unidentified man who had left DACCO Behavioral Health Center, a mental health ...Read more

Sen. Lindsey Graham is preparing to invite former Special Counsel Robert Mueller to testify before a Senate panel about the probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to a spokesperson for the panel's Republican majority.

Graham of South Carolina, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, tweeted earlier that he would grant...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- A three-alarm fire onboard the amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard injured 11 sailors Sunday morning as multiple agencies responded to the blaze.

A spokesman for Navy Region Southwest said the location of the blaze and its extent are not known at this time.

Eleven sailors were sent to local hospitals with minor injuries, ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The messaging was unmistakable: Surgeon Gen. Jerome Adams, on a network news-talk show Sunday, wore a large white mask that left little showing but his eyes -- which were wide and impassioned as he pleaded with Americans to wear face coverings in public to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Adams is often photographed wearing a ...Read more

President Andrzej Duda came out on top by a razor-thin margin in Poland's presidential runoff election, according to an exit poll.

If confirmed by official results, Sunday's runoff ballot will give Duda and nationalist governing allies, the Law & Justice Party, a mandate and more time to transform Poland from a nation hailed as a model of post-...Read more

One of President Trump's coronavirus task force members said Sunday that infectious disease specialist Anthony Fauci doesn't necessarily "have the whole national interest in mind" in suggesting responses to the pandemic.

Fauci, who's also on the task force, "looks at it from a very narrow public health point of view," Admiral Brett Giroir, ...Read more

South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa read the riot act to those violating rules aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus and announced new measures, including reintroducing a ban on alcohol sales, to enforce them as the disease nears a peak.

Many South Africans are failing to wear face masks in crowded spaces, attending large gatherings...Read more

ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- The woman who shot a video outside Sacred Heart Hospital in Allentown that shows a police officer putting his knee on a man's head and neck during an arrest said the man was screaming "Mira, mira!" -- Spanish for 'Look, look!'"

"That means he knew what was going on and he was screaming for someone like me to see," said the ...Read more

When a large coronavirus cluster was rumored to have begun among gay men partying in Seoul's most cosmopolitan nightlife district, city health officials opted for anonymity.

Anonymous testing was provided in clinics to counter the discrimination and stigma gay men in South Korea often experience -- which would have created a barrier authorities...Read more

The number of coronavirus cases in Indonesia exceeded 75,000 as infections in the two largest hotspots continued to accelerate after the government eased physical-distancing curbs more than a month ago.

There were 1,681 new cases in the 24 hours to midday Sunday, bringing the total to 75,699, authorities said, adding that 71 people succumbed to...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO -- The death toll from the coronavirus in California soared above 7,000 this weekend as the infection rate continued to worsen.

The rate at which coronavirus test results are coming back positive in California over the previous seven days has hit 7.97%. That's the highest number since April -- a continuing sign that the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Anita Chavez joined the hundreds of mourners at San Gabriel Mission Church on Saturday for what many considered a family wake without a body.

They came from across the region to survey the destruction after a fire that ripped through the church of the 249-year-old mission, one of California's most historic landmarks, sacred ...Read more