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New York state joined California on Friday in ordering nearly all residents to stay home, as governors watched with growing alarm as southern Europe buckled under the strain of the coronavirus outbrea...

TAMPA, Fla. - A new look for the NFL: Tom Brady in Tampa Bay pewter and red rather than Patriots red, white and blue. The six-time Super Bowl champion quarterback signed a two-year, $60 million contra...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. surgeon general on Thursday urged healthy Americans, especially younger ones, to donate blood as supplies dwindle amid the coronavirus outbreak."Social distancing does not have t...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration has upgraded its already dire warning to Americans against all international travel as the coronavirus outbreak spreads.The State Department on Thursday issued a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A NASA astronaut who's about to leave the planet for six months will blast off without any family or fanfare because of the coronavirus.Chris Cassidy said Thursday that he won't...

One store advertised hand sanitizer at $60 a bottle. Another was accused of hawking it at $1 a squirt. Chain stores offered $26 thermometers and face masks at the "everyday low price" of $39.95 a pair...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration said Thursday it is seeking $3 billion from Congress to top up the country's strategic petroleum reserves, potentially propping up U.S. oil producers after crude ...

ROME - The death toll in Italy from the coronavirus overtook China's on Thursday, and infections in the United States climbed past 10,000, in a stark illustration of how the crisis has pivoted toward ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. military is pausing the movement of any new troops into Afghanistan and is quarantining 1,500 troops and civilians who recently arrived to avoid any possible spread of the corona...

WASHINGTON - Iran has granted a medical furlough to a U.S. Navy veteran who has been imprisoned in Iran for more than a year, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Thursday. Michael White of Imperi...