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The nation's top infectious disease expert on Sunday did not rule out supporting a temporary national lockdown of the country's restaurants and bars in order to curb the spread of coronavirus, saying he'd like to see a "dramatic" reduction in activity in order to fight the disease.

From behind the big oak desk in the Oval Office, the most solemn setting in times of national emergency, President Donald Trump somberly addressed the public.

Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders enter their first one-on-one debate Sunday night under unprecedented circumstances.

A woman at an Australian supermarket allegedly pulls a knife on a man in a confrontation over toilet paper. A Singaporean student of Chinese ethnicity is beaten up on the streets of London and left with a fractured face. Protesters on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion welcome cruise passengers by hurling abuse and rocks at them.

Three human traffickers have been sentenced in a Turkish court to 125 years each in prison over the tragic drowning in 2015 of Syrian toddler Alan Kurdi, who was pictured lying face down on a beach in a harrowing photo that became the symbol of the refugee crisis.

Americans are waking up to a country under a national emergency.

President Donald Trump announced Saturday at a press briefing at the White House that he has been tested for coronavirus.

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A military base in Iraq has been hit by a second rocket attack in a week, injuring three coalition troops and two Iraqi troops, a US army official said.

When Republican lawmakers this week abruptly canceled a plan to subpoena a former Ukrainian official in their investigations into the energy firm that hired former Vice President Joe Biden's son, they said it was to allow more time for senators to receive additional briefings.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders won the Northern Mariana Islands Democratic caucuses Saturday.

Companies have spent the years since the global financial crisis binging on debt. Now, as the coronavirus pandemic threatens to push the world into recession, the bill could come due — exacerbating damage to the economy and feeding a meltdown in financial markets.

CNN's Brianna Keilar speaks to a woman whose actions went viral after she stopped to help a tearful elderly couple grocery shop.

From Venice to Beijing to Bethlehem, places that are usually packed with visitors are now unusually quiet as people practice "social distancing" to help limit the spread of coronavirus.

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus is causing political misery for some of the most powerful people on earth. It has, however, left one world leader in a uniquely difficult position.

Former Vice President Joe Biden's first "virtual town hall" was a technical calamity.

It was 3 a.m. one January morning when Alex Zhang began an hours' long cycle to a Wuhan hospital for emergency supplies of medicine to treat his potentially life-threatening HIV infections.

Bill Gates is stepping down from the boards of Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway.

President Donald Trump issued a federal emergency declaration Friday afternoon over the coronavirus outbreak following a week of cancellations, suspensions and growing case numbers that unsettled Americans nationwide.

President Donald Trump is likely to make an emergency declaration on Friday afternoon, a move that would free up more federal resources to combat coronavirus, according to two people familiar with the decision.

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This is a fact: Over the weekend, at Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump came into contact with a Brazilian press aide who was diagnosed Thursday with coronavirus.

As Covid-19 spreads with alacrity around the world, billion-dollar sports leagues have been brought to a halt.

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A prominent Chinese official claims the United States military could have brought the novel coronavirus to China -- and it did not originate in the city of Wuhan, as thought.

Australia's home affairs minister confirmed Friday that he tested positive for the novel coronavirus, less than a week after meeting with Attorney General William Barr, senior White House adviser Ivanka Trump and other White House officials.

Can you contract the novel coronavirus from your pet? How effective are face masks? CNN's Kristie Lu Stout asks two experts some of the most common questions and claims about the virus.

The global stock sell-off is not letting up Friday.

More and more of the world is working from home as the novel coronavirus spreads -- and so is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Canada's leader is currently trying to run his country in self-isolation after his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, tested positive for coronavirus.

A Seattle woman who says she had the coronavirus and is recovering has one "big takeaway" to share: Don't panic.

During a CNN town hall, doctors answered your questions about the novel coronavirus, quarantines, hand sanitizer and more.

Before there were any cases of novel coronavirus confirmed in South Korea, one of the country's biotech firms had begun preparing to make testing kits to identify the disease.

As the coronavirus pandemic gripped the country over the last several weeks, television viewers — especially those supportive of President Donald Trump —- had one place they could go to for some sense of solace: Fox News.

What you may not know about coronavirus -- the disease that has reached pandemic proportions -- is that one of the times you are most vulnerable to contracting it is while you're sleeping. Here is how this can happen, and what you can do about it.

As the novel coronavirus began spreading around the world this year, one common refrain from skeptics of the emergency measures being put in place to stop the outbreak was that it was just like the flu -- dangerous to sensitive groups but routine and not something to get into lockdown over.

US-led coalition airstrikes are underway against multiple Iranian-backed militia sites in Iraq, according to a US official.

After an intense round of questioning during a House Oversight Committee hearing, Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) convinced Centers for Disease Control Director Robert Redfield to say "yes" to free coronavirus testing regardless of insurance.

Hours after the coronavirus was declared a global pandemic, Americans were flooded with announcements from what seemed like every corner of the country.

Rory Stewart, former cabinet minister and candidate for London Mayor, discusses the UK government's response to the coronavirus.