In a striking speech before thousands of North Koreans, leader Kim Jong-un’s sister said he suffered a fever while guiding the country to victory over the coronavirus. She blamed rival South Korea for the outbreak and vowed “deadly” retaliation.
A Republican former U.S. attorney general is pleading with his fellow Americans: cool down the ill-informed speculation threatening to engulf the country’s politics. The police search at Donald Trump’s Florida residence has prompted a surge in inflammatory rhetoric.
A hostage standoff where an armed man demanded a Beirut bank let him withdraw his trapped savings has ended with the man’s surrender and no injuries. It was the latest painful episode in Lebanon’s economic crisis, now in its third year as cash-strapped banks slap strict limits on withdrawals…
Russian hockey player Ivan Fedotov has been accused of trying to evade military service by signing an NHL contract.
Top congressional and White House officials emerged from gruelling negotiations at the Capitol over the nearly $2 trillion coronavirus rescue package saying they expected to reach a deal Tuesday.