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It started months before Election Day with false claims on Facebook and Twitter that mail-in ballots cast for President Donald Trump had been chucked in dumpsters or rivers.

A correctional officer is facing a murder charge in connection with the death of an inmate at a state prison in central Florida earlier this year, authorities said Tuesday.

Health officials will work to set up temporary medical facilities where they might be needed as the United States grapples with a surge in coronavirus hospitalizations and record infections, according to a top Trump administration health official.

Norway will exempt United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) delegates from coronavirus quarantine when they arrive next month to receive this year's Nobel Peace Prize, ensuring that the live ceremony can go ahead, the government said on Tuesday.

The European Commission will approve on Wednesday a contract for the supply of the COVID19 vaccine being developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, its President Ursula von der Leyen said.

Uber Technologies Inc on Tuesday said it would roll out a new feature in the United States that will allow customers to reserve scheduled rides up to 30 days in advance.

Britain proposed a ban on online advertising of unhealthy foods on Tuesday, as part of its efforts to tackle obesity and improve public health a mission it says has been made more urgent by the COVID19 pandemic.

A Vatican report into disgraced exU.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick points to failings by popes, Vatican officials and senior U.S. clerics who let him rise through the Catholic ranks despite repeated allegations of sexual misconduct.

The Kremlin on Tuesday said there was no agreement about the deployment of Turkish peacekeepers in NagornoKarabakh, after a ceasefire deal was signed in an effort to halt more than a month of bloodshed in the region.

An alleged highranking member of the Mexican drug cartel BeltranLeyva was brought to Chicago to face charges that he helped manufacture and import cocaine into the United States, federal prosecutors revealed Monday.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has enthusiastically taken up President Donald Trump's efforts to contest the results of the presidential election, asking for online donations to help us bring it home for the president, but it appears the donations are set...

Another U.S.built facility at a naval base in Cambodia has been demolished, U.S. researchers said on Monday, citing recent satellite imagery.

Major powers, including allies, criticised the United States for its human rights record on Monday during a U.N. review, citing the use of the death penalty, police violence against African Americans and the separation of migrant children from their famil...

U.S. Attorney General William Barr spoke with Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard last week to try to lower bilateral tension arising from the U.S. arrest of a former Mexican defense minister on drugs charges, two Mexican sources said on Monday.

Azerbaijan's armed forces were edging closer to NagornoKarabakh's seat of power on Monday after proclaiming victory in the battle for the enclave's secondlargest city.

The country's disease control agency said it was supporting authorities in Enugu and Delta states after "reports of a sudden spike in cases and deaths in some communities in both states".