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Armenia said on Saturday it would use "all necessary means" to protect ethnic Armenians from attack by Azerbaijan, which said its forces had captured a string of villages in fighting over the mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. Ignoring a French attempt to mediate, the opposing sides pounded each other with rockets and missiles for a seventh day in the newest flare-up of a decades-old conflict that threatens to draw in Russia and Turkey. The death toll rose to at least 230 in the fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan that broke away from its control in the 1990s.

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Cunningham admitted to sending sexual text messages to a woman who is not his wife but said he will not drop out of the race against Sen. Thom Tillis.

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Zan Timtim doesn't think it's safe for her eighth-grade daughter to return to school in person during the coronavirus pandemic but also doesn't want her exposed to a remote learning program that misspelled and mispronounced the name of Queen Liliʻuokalani, the last monarch to rule the Hawaiian Kingdom. Timtim's daughter is Native Hawaiian and speaks Hawaiian fluently, “so to see that inaccuracy with the Hawaiian history side was really upsetting,” she said.

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Tens of thousands of people marched through the centre of the Belarusian capital Minsk on Sunday to demand that authorities free political prisoners, prompting police to turn water cannon on them. The march is the latest in a series of rallies in Belarus since an Aug. 9 election in which President Alexander Lukashenko claimed a landslide victory. More than 100,000 people rallied in Minsk, the opposition news channel Nexta said on the messaging app Telegram.

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Boris Johnson has insisted he was not helping the SNP break up the Union as the Scottish Tory leader challenged his English colleagues to "look in the mirror" and prove they are doing enough to bolster it. The Prime Minister said that Douglas Ross was "talking about those who don't value the Union in the way I do" when he criticised some English Tories and Cabinet ministers over their "defeatism and disinterest." Speaking as the Conservatives held their virtual party conference, he denied his style of leadership combined with his Brexit policy was driving Scotland and England apart. Mr Johnson also echoed his predecessor, Theresa May, by stating that "this is not the time" for another independence referendum, even if the SNP wins a majority in next year's Holyrood election. The Prime Minister argued that the country should instead focus on recovering from the coronavirus pandemic and reiterated that Nicola Sturgeon had promised the 2014 vote was a once-in-a-generation event.

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White House physicians announced the president is feeling well. But Trump is also taking dexamethasone, a steroid given to critical COVID-19 patients.

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President Trump released a video statement on Saturday from Walter Reed medical center, where he is being treated for COVID-19.

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The White House likely relied too heavily on testing as a coronavirus mitigation tool, experts said Sunday.Boston University's Dr. Nahid Bhadelia appeared on NBC's Meet the Press and told host Chuck Todd that when it comes to this pandemic "no one thing is a silver bullet" even a "pillar" like testing, which is a "diagnostic" tool. "You need to follow that up by having all those additional measures" like mask-wearing and social distancing — which reports have indicated were not taken as seriously as testing in the White House — so that "if someone does turn out to be positive, the others who may have been exposed to that person don't get sick," Bhadelia said.> Dr. @BhadeliaMD says White House’s reliance on regular testing reveals the importance of other measures. MTP> > Testing is “diagnostic ... The dose of virus that you get exposed to may decide your severity and not wearing a mask exposes you to a larger dose of the virus.” pic.twitter.com/now3F2w9TD> > — Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) October 4, 2020Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, appearing on CBS News' Face the Nation, agreed with that sentiment, telling host Margaret Brennan that the White House was "relying almost solely on testing as a way to protect" President Trump, who eventually contracted the virus. "They weren't taking any precautions beyond testing people who were going to be in contact with the president," Gottlieb said, adding that while the rapid test used by the White House "is a very good test when used appropriately," it, by nature, is likely to miss asymptomatic cases.Bhadelia did say, however, that routine testing still proved to be helpful for the White House since infections were seemingly detected early.More stories from theweek.com 7 insanely funny cartoons about the chaotic first debate White House doctor says he left out details of Trump's illness to reflect president's 'upbeat attitude' Biden campaign stands by decision to ax negative ads despite calls for reversal

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Agricultural officials in Washington state said Friday they're trying to find and destroy a nest of Asian giant hornets — also known as murder hornets.

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“We need to understand what will happen to our health, to the health of animals,” said surfer Anton Morozov.

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The closure plan, which will also affect universities, seminaries, libraries, museums, theatres, gyms, cafes and hair salons in the Iranian capital, came after Alireza Zali, head of the Tehran Coronavirus Taskforce, called for the shutdown to help control the epidemic. Zali warned in an interview on state television that if the spread of the epidemic continues at the current rate in Tehran, there would be a three- to five-fold increase in cases and a rise in the fatality rate to between 1.5% and 3%. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said anyone concealing a COVID-19 infection should face a severe penalty.

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As Carlos Aybar stood inside the Miami immigration office last Friday, holding up his right hand and reciting the words of the citizenship oath through a face mask, the Dominican native felt a big wave of relief.

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NEW YORK - State appeals court justices seemed sympathetic Friday to the idea that Manhattan prosecutors are seeking to try ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort twice for the same crime. Manafort was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison in March 2019 on federal charges that he hid millions of dollars in offshore accounts and then lied to get loans after income dried up from his work for ...

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"I thank God I still have the energy," Heriberto Carrillo Sr. said. "I like working outside in the mountains and using a chainsaw."

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Rashida Tlaib said they frequently faced death threats on Twitter.

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Sudan’s fragile interim government is sharply divided over normalizing relations with Israel, as it finds itself under intense pressure from the Trump administration to become the third Arab country to do so in short order — after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Sudan seemed like a natural target for the pressure campaign because of U.S. leverage — Khartoum's desperate efforts to be removed from a U.S. list of states sponsoring terrorism. Sudan can only get the international loans and aid that are essential for reviving its battered economy once that stain is removed.

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A Russian journalist has set herself on fire and died outside police headquarters in an apparent protest against months of official harassment. Irina Slavina, editor-in-chief of the Koza Press news website in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, died at the scene, her news outlet said. Just an hour before she died by suicide, she wrote on her Facebook page: “Blame my death on the Russian Federation.” Russia’s top investigative body on Friday confirmed Ms Slavina’s death and said they opened an official probe into self-immolation. A day earlier, police raided her home in connection with an investigation into a man linked to an organisation bankrolled by exiled Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Police seized her laptop, phone and notebooks, she wrote in a Facebook post: “They took away everything they could find. They left me with no means to work.”

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A federal judge has halted new North Carolina absentee voting rules that gave voters more leeway to fix witness problems and extended the period when elections boards could accept mailed-in ballots. The rules, issued last week in a settlement with voting rights advocates, were blocked by a temporary restraining order issued Saturday by U.S. District Judge James Dever, who raised concerns about changing rules after numerous ballots have already been cast. Saturday’s decision comes amid a tangle of litigation in state and federal court over absentee ballots in the key presidential battleground.

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Zimbabwean street vendor Memory Chauke did not get very far when she hopped over a fence into neighbouring South Africa on the first day its borders reopened after a six-month closure due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Bret Baier, Fox News chief political anchor and host of 'Special Report,' joins 'America's Newsroom' to weigh in on President Trump's positive COVID-19 test.

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Two GOP Senators who sit on the Judiciary Committee, which will hold hearings on President Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, announced Friday that they have tested positive for COVID-19.

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Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar was at pains to defend not only the administration’s response, but the president’s behavior.

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Newly released recordings of the grand jury proceedings in the Breonna Taylor case portray a wildly chaotic and dangerous shooting at the Louisville apartment complex in March, and a shellshocked boyfriend processing his girlfriend’s death.

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The decision came after numerous complaints from members of the public and lawmakers accusing NYPD officers of not wearing masks while on duty.

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After the test, she complained of headaches, light sensitivity, and a metallic taste in her mouth

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Fuad Adeyemi, an imam in Nigeria's capital Abuja, respects those who believe that a 22-year-old man accused of sharing a blasphemous message on WhatsApp should be punished. On the same day, the court sentenced a 13-year-old boy, Omar Farouq, to 10 years in prison, also for blasphemy. The sentences caused an international outcry and sparked a broader debate in Nigeria about the role of Islamic law in a country roughly evenly split between a predominantly Muslim north and mainly Christian south.

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Steve Bannon believes Tuesday's debate was a missed opportunity for Trump to make the case to people who are not already committed supporters. But he concedes, “Would I have liked a little more populism? Maybe."

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A terrifying carjacking went down for a Florida man right in front of his Windermere-area home Monday night.

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Normally bustling with people and commerce, downtown Louisville is now the site of very little activity. The small number of businesses that remained open during the pandemic feel even more rarefied since protests erupted last week over the decision in Breonna Taylor’s case. 

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SFPD says there is an active scene at Union Square, and that traffic will be impacted in the area.

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Germany expects the European Union to impose new sanctions against Russia over the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny with an internationally banned nerve agent, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Saturday. Navalny emerged from a coma in early September after suddenly falling ill during a flight in Siberia on Aug. 20 and later being airlifted to Berlin for treatment. German doctors say he was poisoned with Novichok, a Russian nerve agent.

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Chris Wallace, moderator of the first presidential debate, said that President Trump and his campaign staff arrived in Cleveland for Tuesday’s debate without enough time to be tested for coronavirus.

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Authorities deployed hundreds of law enforcement personnel, including six sniper teams and Border Patrol agents, during George Floyd’s June burial in suburban Houston, due in part to online rumors of possible protests and riots, according to documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas. Authorities prepared for the possibility of “violent protesting” and vandalism at the Pearland police department and municipal court building, which were near the cemetery, according to the documents first exposed by VICE News.

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One-fifth of Russians now approve of poisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, according to an opinion poll published on Friday, a figure more than twice as high as a year ago but one accompanied by a doubling of disapproval of his activities. A vocal opponent of President Vladimir Putin, Navalny, 44, fell ill on a domestic flight in August and was airlifted to a Berlin hospital. Russia says it has seen no evidence he was poisoned.

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The cruise industry has been decimated by COVID-19 after multiple outbreaks occurred at sea and the ships became death traps.

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President Trump’s positive test for COVID-19 may not spark any sudden moves by foreign adversaries, but the news will be another blow to U.S. prestige on the global stage, according to national security experts.

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A young Miami police officer who injured his foot chasing a suspect two weeks ago died Thursday evening after calling his mother and telling her he took medication and didn’t feel well.

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