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First World War letters shed light on Spanish flu that has parallels with COVID-19
Stirred by the onset of COVID-19, Jacqueline Carmichael combed through faded letters from the First World War for mentions of the Spanish flu, finding haunting similarities to today as lives were chan...
Nov 06, 2020
Biden sees path to 270; Trump attacks election integrity
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is testing how far he can go in using the trappings of presidential power to undermine confidence in this week's election against Joe Biden, as the Democrat gained ...
Nov 06, 2020
German police raid homes of people linked to Vienna attacker
BERLIN - German police have raided the homes and businesses of four people linked to the Islamic State sympathizer who carried out a deadly attack in Vienna this week. Federal police said Friday that ...
Nov 06, 2020
AP FACT CHECK: Trump fabricates election corruption
WASHINGTON - Citing "horror stories," President Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of fabricated accusations Thursday in an audacious attempt to undermine the legitimacy of the U.S. election. Standing b...
Nov 05, 2020
Asia Today: Court upholds state border closings in Australia
CANBERRA, Australia - Australia's highest court on Friday upheld a state's border closure and dismissed billionaire businessman Clive Palmer's argument that the pandemic measure was unconstitutional. ...
Nov 05, 2020
Australia inquiry says police should guard hotel quarantine
MELBOURNE, Australia - Overseas travellers should be quarantined in hotels guarded by police, an inquiry into an Australian city's bungled quarantine program reported on Friday. The Victoria state gov...
Nov 05, 2020
Blue Jays outfielder Teoscar Hernandez wins Silver Slugger Award
Toronto Blue Jays rightfelder Teoscar Hernandez has won a Silver Slugger Award for the first time in his career.The 28-year-old Hernandez broke out as one of the game's top sluggers in the shortened 2...
Nov 05, 2020
Poll watchers emerge as a flashpoint in battle over ballots
Election officials in key battleground states pushed back on claims by the Trump campaign that Republican poll watchers were being improperly denied access to observe the counting of ballots, saying T...
Nov 05, 2020
Australia accuses head of Chinese group of foreign meddling
CANBERRA, Australia - The leader of a Chinese community organization has become the first person to be charged under Australia's foreign interference laws that were passed two years ago, police said T...
Nov 05, 2020
Portland, Oregon rejects bid to cut $18M more from police
PORTLAND, Ore. - City commissioners in Portland, Oregon on Thursday rejected a budget amendment that would have slashed another $18 million from the Portland Police Bureau amid months of racial justic...
Nov 05, 2020