The Trump administration has issued an advisory ruling calling gun shops “essential” businesses that should remain open during stay-at-home directives

Stocks are closing higher again on Wall Street Monday, led by health care stocks, bringing the market's surge over the past week to 17%

The Pentagon has ordered an additional 8,000 ventilators, with delivery of the first 1,400 by early May

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the number of reported coronavirus deaths in New York shot up by 253 in a single day to just over 1,200

New York's governor has put out an urgent plea for medical volunteers as coronavirus deaths in New York City mount and hospitals buckle in what authorities say could be a preview of what other cities across the U.S. could soon face

Virginia's governor has ordered all higher education institutions to stop any in-person instruction amid the coronavirus pandemic

President Donald Trump is expected to relax ambitious Obama-era vehicle mileage standards and raise the ceiling on damaging fossil fuel emissions for years to come, gutting one of the nation's single-biggest efforts against climate change

For grandparents all over the world, being protected from the coronavirus pandemic has meant a piercing distance from their loved ones

Yellowstone National Park has rounded up nearly 550 wild bison and most have been sent to be slaughtered as part of a bison population control program

The Russian capital has woken up to a lockdown obliging most people in the city of 13 million to stay home

State and local leaders are struggling to navigate inconsistent federal guidance and fierce political tribalism that is complicating their responses to the coronavirus outbreak

President Donald Trump has told the nation’s governors that modeling on the coronavirus projected substantially more deaths if the nation did not incorporate social distancing

John Prine is in stable condition after being placed on a ventilator while being treated for COVID-19-type symptoms, his wife, Fiona Whelan Prine said Monday

Spain has enforced even tighter stay-at-home rules for its 47 million people, as the country overtook China as the nation with the third-highest number of reported infections in the world, after the United States and Italy

For millions of seasonal allergy sufferers, the annual onset of watery eyes and scratchy throats is bumping up against the global spread of a new virus

With millions of people suddenly out of work and rent due at the first of the month, some tenants are vowing to go on a “rent strike” until the coronavirus pandemic subsides

Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina is resigning his congressional seat effective 5 p.m. Monday as he assumes the post of White House chief of Staff

An Orthodox Jewish organization says a man stabbed during a Hanukkah celebration north of New York City has died from his injuries three months after the attacks

Local organizers of Dubai's Expo 2020 have recommended postponing til next year the event over the new coronavirus pandemic

Shopkeepers in the city at the center of China’s virus outbreak are reopening but customers are scarce as authorities lift more of the anti-virus controls that kept tens of millions of people at home for two months

As the spread of the coronavirus sends more people into isolation, trips to beloved salons and barbershops for morale-boosting services and camaraderie are on hold

The pandemic that launched a massive, unplanned experiment with distance learning has created extraordinary hurdles for schoolchildren left behind by the digital divide

A Dutch museum that is currently closed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus says a painting by Vincent van Gogh was stolen in a smash-and-grab raid overnight

A Delaware man with a chronic lung disease is trying desperately to get back to the U.S. from the West Bank, where travel restrictions are in place because of the coronavirus

Observatories on Hawaii's tallest mountain have shut down operations in response to the governor's stay-at-home order aimed at preventing the spread of the coronavirus

As Zimbabwe enters lockdown, people in the economically shattered country are forced to choose between daily survival and measures to protect themselves from the coronavirus

Three days after a photo posted on Facebook showed an Arkansas doctor looking through a glass door to see his 1-year-old son crawl for the first time, the family's home was destroyed by a tornado

Health care workers are dreading the prospect of having to decide who to treat first as U.S. hospitals brace for a surge in coronavirus patients who need ventilators and other resources that could soon be in critically short supply

President Donald Trump is bracing the nation for a death toll that could exceed 100,000 people

President Donald Trump is bracing the nation for a coronavirus death toll that could exceed 100,000 people

North Korea says “reckless remarks” by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo make it clear that Washington has no intention of resuming nuclear talks

The coronavirus pandemic has put traditional presidential politics on hold as elected officials work furiously to save lives and rescue the economy

Of a world in coronavirus turmoil, they may know little or nothing

Before the Olympics were postponed, Japan appeared to have the coronavirus infection contained

Thailand's popular seaside resort island of Phuket has closed all land and sea entry and exit points until April 30 to try to limit the spread of COVID-19

The official statistics reported by health authorities around the world would seem to show that the United States has more coronavirus infections than any other country

The U.S. government's top infectious-disease expert says the country could see 100,000 to 200,000 deaths from the coronavirus outbreak

President Donald Trump has extended the voluntary U.S. shutdown for a month, bowing to public-health experts who told him the coronavirus pandemic could claim over 100,000 lives _ or more in the U.S. if not enough is done to fight it

New York has surpassed 1,000 deaths from the coronavirus outbreak, less than a month after the first case was detected in the state

Iran's president has lashed out at criticism of authorities' lagging response to the worst coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East

Andrea Napoli didn’t fit the usual profile of a coronavirus patient

Hundreds of people in Louisiana attended worship services at their church in defiance of the state's ban on gatherings due to COVID-19

Lonnie Franklin, the convicted serial killer known as the "Grim Sleeper" who preyed on the women of South Los Angeles for decades, has died in a California prison

Concerns about the coronavirus are changing the way democracy works in the U.S. In state capitols across the country, lawmakers have ditched decorum and sidestepped traditional public meeting requirements to abide by “social distancing" directives

Krzysztof Penderecki, an award-winning conductor and one of the world’s most popular contemporary classical music composers whose works have featured in Hollywood films like “The Shining” and “Shutter Island,” has died

Europe’s fractured union came under new pressure this weekend

U.S.-led coalition forces have pulled out of an Iraqi military base that nearly brought Washington into an open war with Iran

 With restaurants closed for all but takeout orders during the coronavirus outbreak, the owners of a pizzeria at the Jersey Shore could have shut down and laid off their 20 employees

The coronavirus is not keeping people in Sweden at home even while citizens in many parts of the world are sheltering in place

The state finance minister of Germany’s Hesse region, which includes Frankfurt, has been found dead