As New York City deals with a mounting coronavirus death toll and dwindling morgue space, the city has shortened the amount of time it will hold unclaimed remains before they are buried in the city’s public cemetery. Under the new policy, the medical examiner’s office will keep bodies in storage for just 14 days before…

Joe Biden faces the most important decision of his five-decade political career: choosing a vice-president. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee expects to name a committee to vet potential running mates next week, according to three Democrats with knowledge of the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal plans. Biden, a former…

When Queen Elizabeth recently broadcast a message of reassurance to the British people in the age of COVID-19, not surprisingly perhaps, she invoked that old wartime spirit many Britons still relate to.   She referenced her own experiences during the Second World War and a broadcast she made from Windsor Castle as a young princess to…

“It was always going to be Joe Biden,” said U.S. campaign professional Joe Trippi, who has advised Democrats for decades. Trippi stayed out of the primary campaign this season, but he’s seen enough of them to know that there’s always a gut-check moment when he says Democrats ask themselves this hard question before committing their…

The latest: Federal officials urged people to stick with public health measures aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19 as they offered their first look at national projections into how the outbreak could unfold on Thursday — the same day that recorded case numbers in Canada topped 20,000. Several provinces, including hard-hit Ontario and Quebec, have already released their own…

New York state reported a record number of coronavirus deaths for a third consecutive day, though its trends on hospitalizations were more hopeful. The state’s death toll from the pandemic grew by 799 to 7,067 people, a significant portion of all American deaths. The U.S. has recorded 15,774 deaths, according to the coronavirus resource centre of Johns…