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October 20, 2020

Tropical Storm Epsilon strengthens in the central Atlantic

Tropical Storm Epsilon strengthened Monday morning in the central Atlantic, the latest in what has been a very active ...

October 20, 2020

Harris returns to campaign trail with Fla. stops

Kamala Harris has returned to the campaign trail with rallies in Florida to mark the first day of voting in the Sunshine ...

October 19, 2020

Trump attacks Biden, Fauci over coronavirus

On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump repeatedly criticized Dr. Anthony Fauci and attacked his Democratic rival Joe ...

October 19, 2020

Trump, Biden battle for slim undecided voter pool

Polls show there are far fewer on-the-fence voters this year than the unusually high number in 2016, and the Trump and Biden ...

October 19, 2020

Chicago mayor sounds alarm on 2nd surge of virus

Mayor Lori Lightfoot warned Chicagoans that the city is experiencing another wave of the coronavirus pandemic, with confirmed ...

October 19, 2020

US to collect, return asteroid sample for 1st time

A spacecraft circling an ancient asteroid 200 million miles away will attempt to descend to its surface Tuesday.

October 19, 2020

US charges 6 Russians in vast hacking campaign

Six current and former Russian military officers sought to disrupt through computer hacking the French election, the Winter ...

October 19, 2020

Judge reinstates Wis. indoor capacity limit order

A Wisconsin judge has reimposed an order from Gov. Tony Evers’ administration limiting the number of people who can gather ...

October 19, 2020

Harris in Florida pledges 'a change is coming'

Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris kicked off her return to the campaign trail Monday at a drive-in car rally ...

October 19, 2020

Nokia to build moon's first 4G cell network for NASA program

Nokia says it has been tapped by NASA to build the first cellular communications network on the moon. The Finnish ...

October 19, 2020

COVID-19 overwhelms nursing staff in N Carolina

Seven months after the coronavirus pandemic began to overwhelm the American healthcare system, the nurses at UNC Hospital in ...

October 19, 2020

Parents build desks for kids in need

As remote schooling swept the nation, parents mobilized to build, collect and donate hundreds of desks for kids in their ...

October 19, 2020

Beekeepers pursue dream in very challenging year

James Cook and his wife, Samantha Jones, had already put plans to start their own beekeeping business in motion when the ...

October 19, 2020

UN hopes meeting will raise $1 billion for key Sahel nations

The U.N. humanitarian chief is hoping a major ministerial meeting Tuesday will not only raise $1 billion for the three ...

October 19, 2020

Plan to retrieve Titanic radio spurs debate on human remains

People have been diving to the Titanic's wreck for 35 years. No one has found human remains, according to the company that ...

October 18, 2020

Report: Damage from August wind storm in Midwest at $7.5B

Damage estimates from a rare wind storm that slammed Iowa and some other parts of the Midwest in August are growing, with the ...

October 17, 2020

Mike Pence headlines rally in keystone state

With barely two weeks left before Election Day, the battleground state of Pennsylvania is being flooded with visits by the ...

October 17, 2020

WH Press Sec: WH looking at surge in COVID numbers

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said that the White House is "routinely looking at COVID numbers" when asked ...

October 17, 2020

Trump changes course, approves California relief for 6 fires

President Donald Trump's administration abruptly reversed course and approved California's application for disaster relief ...

October 17, 2020

Montana judge blocks actions by Trump’s former land boss

A month after ousting the Trump administration’s public lands boss for being in the post unlawfully, a Montana judge on ...