After being hit with an "Avoid non-essential travel" warning by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention because of the coronavirus, the eastern Caribbean island of St. Lucia recently got some good news: it was moved to the "No Health Warning" list.

"The key here is confidence," St. Lucia Prime Minister Allen Chastanet told the Miami...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. - The sickest coronavirus patients can live for weeks with a gripping headache, profound nausea, burning lungs, malaise, cough and waves of pain in their bones. They may be tethered to a breathing machine.

But eight months into the pandemic, fewer are dying.

New data reveals that while patients are still being rushed to ...Read more

President Donald Trump, who seems intent on announcing a COVID-19 vaccine before Election Day, could legally authorize a vaccine over the objections of experts, officials at the Food and Drug Administration and even vaccine manufacturers, who have pledged not to release any vaccine unless it's proved safe and effective.

In podcasts, public ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. - If it seemed like the most pivotal point in Kamala Harris' quest to help Democrats win the White House was a looming debate with Vice President Mike Pence, that may all have changed Friday evening.

Now Harris, 55, faces what are almost certainly the most challenging, consequential moments of her political career in the coming...Read more

LOS ANGELES - Plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit are seeking a temporary restraining order and injunction to limit the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's use of nonlethal force at protests, claiming it has employed rubber bullets, tear gas and other chemical agents indiscriminately against peaceful protestors, journalists and legal ...Read more

LOS ANGELES - The share of Californians who tested positive for COVID-19 in the last week dipped below 3% for the first time, a sign that the Golden State is finally starting to beat back the spread of the coronavirus, officials said Monday.

Just 3.1% of Californians who were tested over the last two weeks received a positive result, and that ...Read more

Despite a growth spurt during quite a cold winter in the far north, Arctic sea ice has fallen to its second-lowest extent in 42 years of satellite observations, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reported Monday.

"The year 2020 will stand as an exclamation point on the downward trend in Arctic sea ice extent," said Mark Serreze, the center's...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. - North Carolina will be included in the 10-year moratorium on offshore drilling that President Donald Trump originally extended only from Florida to South Carolina, U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis said in a news release and video announcement Monday.

News of the moratorium came as welcome news to environmentalists who had criticized Trump ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday night altered the national political landscape heading into an already hotly contested November election.

Underneath the public mourning this weekend simmered a litany of political calculations that began as soon as Ginsburg's death was announced. Her death ...Read more

WASHINGTON - California Sen. Dianne Feinstein has not ruled out the possibility of expanding the Supreme Court if Republicans fill the late Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat before the November election, she said in an interview Monday.

Some Democrats are urging that path if President Donald Trump loses to Joe Biden in November, but ...Read more

There are as many words for green in the Irish language as reasons President Donald Trump does not deserve a second term. Foremost to me, as an appointee of his administration, are his weak security policies.

Trump voters are patriots who oppose our adversaries and support our military. They might ask whether they made a good-faith mistake four...Read more

New federal guidelines that acknowledged the role of aerosols in the spread of COVID-19 were removed Monday from the website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which said they had been posted by mistake.

The updated information about coronavirus-laden aerosols, which came to the attention of independent scientists on Sunday, was...Read more