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NEW YORK — Federal health officials announced new rules to eventually help cruise ships sail again in U.S. waters. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says companies must demonstrate procedures for testing, quarantining and isolating passengers and crew. Ship

Sean Connery, the charismatic Scottish actor who rose to international superstardom as the suave and fearless secret agent James Bond and then abandoned the role to carve out an Oscar-winning career in other rugged roles, has died. He was 90.

IZMIR, Turkey — Three young children and their mother were rescued alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in western Turkey on Saturday, some 23 hours after a powerful earthquake in the Aegean Sea killed at least 30 people

Millions of dollars are flowing into state legislative races. Redistricting and the coronavirus are expected to be top of the policy agenda in 2021 and party control could mean everything. (Image credit: Charlie Neibergall/AP)

Athens announces partial closures and curfews to combat soaring infections; Johnson expected to announce new rules this week

Trump and Biden hit the Midwest as Texas shatters early voter turnout records  CBS News Who is voting? Who is winning? Early vote only offers clues  Yahoo News Texas’ 2020 early voting surpasses total turnout in 2016 election  CNN Trust our electoral system.

Sylvia Plath was one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. In 1956, while on a Fulbright Fellowship at Cambridge University, she married the British poet Ted Hughes after a whirlwind courtship. They were both ambitious, and hoped

Amid protests, French president tells Al-Jazeera violence over caricatures cannot be justified

Boris Johnson is reportedly considering plunging England into a second lockdown next week, making the country the latest in Europe to impose new national restrictions.

A map of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths around the world. The respiratory disease has spread rapidly across six continents and has killed at least 1 million globally. (Image credit: NPR)