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Facebook says it's working to limit the spread of misinformation and potentially harmful content about the coronavirus as bogus claims about the ongoing outbreak circulate online. Kang-Xing Jin, Faceb...

NEW YORK - A key accuser in Harvey Weinstein's rape trial testified Friday that he made a series of unwelcome advances, once trying to kiss her as she tried to fight him off, then telling her she coul...

WASHINGTON - Jay Sekulow, one of President Donald Trump's lead attorneys during the impeachment trial, is being paid for his legal work through a rented $80-a-month mailbox a block away from the White...

NEW YORK - In Bangladesh's biggest airport, workers held up digital thermometers to passengers' heads. A beeping alarm sounded as a passenger walking through a thermal scanner registered a fever. On a...

BEIJING - Carrying permits demanding "fast passage," truck drivers rushed a 560-ton shipment of disinfectant from eastern China to Wuhan, the locked-down city of 11 million people at the centre of a v...

MOBILE, Ala. - A 2-year-old accidentally fatally shot himself inside a motel room, police in Alabama said. The child's mother, Dynesha Harris, 29, and a man, Tony Fowler, 25, were both charged with ma...

WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee will oppose calling more witnesses in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, all but dashing Democratic efforts to hear more testimony an...

TOKYO - The Japanese Foreign Ministry is urging its citizens not to travel to China because of the possibility of the further spread of a new virus. Japan had previously warned people not to travel to...

BEIJING - China's foreign ministry said Friday it will send charter flights to bring home residents of virus-afflicted region from overseas. The one-sentence statement gave few details, but said those...

BEIJING - China is reporting 9,692 confirmed cases of a new virus with a death toll of 213, as the World Health Organization declared the outbreak that has spread to more than a dozen countries a glob...