MAY 4, 2020
Omandurar Medical College hospital pictured in Chennai, India, on May 3, 2020. - Arun SANKAR / AFP
Scientists have identified an antibody in a lab that they say can prevent the novel coronavirus from infecting cells. The team hopes the antibody could be used to create treatments for COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus.
Since the coronavirus...
MAY 4, 2020
MOSCOW, RUSSIA - MAY 2, 2020: A view of the Moscow Kremlin's towers and the Moskva City Moscow International Business Center (MIBC). Russian President Vladimir Putin has expanded non-working period till May 11, 2020 to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. Mikhail Metzel/TASS (Photo by Mikhail MetzelTASS via Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Homeland...
MAY 4, 2020
FILE PHOTO: Containers of Chinese companies China Shipping and COSCO (China Ocean Shipping Company) are loaded on a container as it is leaving the port in Hamburg
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Trump administration is "turbocharging" an initiative to remove global industrial supply chains from China as it weighs new tariffs to punish Beijing for its handling of the...
MAY 3, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump participates in a live Fox News Channel virtual town hall called "America Together: Returning to Work" about the response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic being broadcast from inside the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, U.S. May 3, 2020. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
President Trump on Sunday sought to reassure Americans that it is safe for...
MAY 3, 2020
A young girl holds a guitar as a musician performs for local residents, in Enfield, England, on May 3.
ROME, ITALY — While millions of people took advantage of easing coronavirus lockdowns to enjoy spring weather, some of the world's most populous countries reported worrisome new peaks in infections Sunday, including India, which saw its biggest single-day jump...
MAY 3, 2020
WASHINGTON. D.C. — U.S. officials believe China covered up the extent of the coronavirus outbreak — and how contagious the disease is — to stock up on medical supplies needed to respond to it, intelligence documents show.
FILE - In this April 29, 2020, file photo Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at a news conference...
MAY 3, 2020
In 2012, I quit my job in investment banking and retired at 34. A few years later, my wife also left her job and joined me in early retirement. We had a net worth of about $3 million.
For nearly eight years, we saw our passive income streams (mostly from dividend-paying stocks, interest from savings, municipal bonds and...
MAY 3, 2020
Temperature screening at City Hall in Seoul, South Korea.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: An earlier version of a photo caption misspelled the name of a restaurant in Hong Kong. It is Le Garçon Saigon, not Le Gascon Saigon.
Worshipers at one of Seoul’s largest Catholic churches must refrain from singing hymns or saying...
MAY 3, 2020
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - North and South Korea exchanged gunfire around the South's guard post early on Sunday, raising tension a day after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ended an almost three-week absence from public life with state media showing him visiting a factory.
In a photo taken on May 28, 2018 the skyline of North Korea...
MAY 2, 2020
President Trump walks away from the podium to play a video during a briefing on the coronavirus pandemic at the White House on April 13. - Jabin Botsford/WashPost
The epidemiological models under review in the White House Situation Room in late March were bracing. In a best-case scenario, they showed the novel coronavirus was likely to kill between 100,000...
