MOSCOW -- Belarusian police violently cracked down on protests that erupted in major cities on Sunday night, as state media said longtime President Alexander Lukashenko was poised to win a sixth consecutive term in power.

Over 50 people were detained in Minsk and more than 120 had been detained nationwide, human rights organization Viasna said....Read more

LOS ANGELES -- A guard at San Quentin State Prison died Sunday morning of complications from COVID-19.

Sgt. Gilbert Polanco, an Army veteran, was admitted to a San Jose hospital in early July and was on life support, ABC7 News reported. Polanco had worked at San Quentin since 1988.

There have been 261 confirmed cases of COVID-19 among staff ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles County public health officials on Sunday reported 1,789 new cases of the coronavirus and 10 related deaths but said the numbers still did not include a pending backlog of lab reports that could cause a spike in new cases.

Young residents continue to account for an outsize share of the new cases, officials said. Of the...Read more

The coronavirus pandemic is forcing India's children out of school and into farms and factories to work, worsening a child-labor problem that was already one of the direst in the world.

Sixteen-year-old Maheshwari Munkalapally and her 15-year-old sister stopped attending lessons when virtually the entire economy was brought to a halt during the...Read more

NEWBURY PARK, Calif. -- Minor scuffles erupted Sunday morning between rival demonstrators outside Godspeak Calvary Chapel in Newbury Park, which welcomed congregants in defiance of a judge's order forbidding indoor services as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus.

Some protesters carried signs reading, "This church endangers all" ...Read more

Puerto Rico will partially redo a key gubernatorial primary election next Sunday after ballots failed to arrive at some polling centers in a timely manner.

Gov. Wanda Vazquez, who is facing a challenge from within her New Progressive Party, said no results would be released until everyone gets an opportunity to vote.

Vazquez is facing her ...Read more

A day after President Donald Trump took executive action to offer $400 per week in supplemental unemployment benefits, including 25% he said should be kicked in from state coffers, governors are pushing back.

The leaders of states including New York and Michigan said Trump's plan ignores the cash-strapped reality of most states, which have deep...Read more

WASHINGTON -- As the United States surpassed 5 million confirmed coronavirus cases, President Trump's senior aides on Sunday defended his handling of intertwined economic and public health crises, declaring that Democrats would bear the blame for millions of Americans' financial distress if lawmakers challenged Trump's controversial new ...Read more

President Donald Trump's move to halt the collection of taxes that fund America's main support programs for the elderly spurred a wave of political opposition and threatens to generate tension between employers and workers.

Trump in a memorandum on Saturday instructed the deferral of payroll tax collections for some workers. The taxes are paid ...Read more

National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien vowed to protect the 2020 U.S. election from foreign interference, whether they back President Donald Trump or challenger Joe Biden, saying any country that interferes risks "severe consequences."

"Whether it's China or Russia or Iran, we're not going to put up with it," O'Brien said on CBS's "Face the ...Read more

Microsoft Corp. founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said it's "mind-blowing" that the U.S. government hasn't improved COVID-19 testing that he described as slow and lacking fair access.

"You're paying billions of dollars in this very inequitable way to get the most worthless test results of any country in the world," Gates said on...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- A massive vegetation fire continues to burn more than a week after it broke out in Riverside County but firefighters are getting a handle on the blaze as their focus shifts from protecting homes to stopping the fire's growth, officials said.

The Apple fire had burned 32,412 acres, destroyed four homes and was 40% contained as of ...Read more

World leaders pledged hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to help support Lebanon and rebuild Beirut after the deadly blasts last week that destroyed a huge swathe of the city.

Leaders from more than two dozen countries participated in a virtual donors conference Sunday co-hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron and the United Nations. ...Read more

CHICAGO -- For months, memes have appeared to show Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot watching for crowds and threatening to close parts of the city if residents don't abide orders and closures during the coronavirus pandemic.

But on Saturday, Lightfoot herself -- not just a Photoshopped picture of her, like those used in such memes -- apparently had...Read more