It may not be the leading worry for most Americans right now, but amid the anxiety over coronavirus, another kind of concern is quietly growing in the United States: how to deal with the coming presidential election. First among all questions is the big one: Is it possible that the Nov. 3 election itself could…

Canadian passengers on the Coral Princess cruise ship nearing Fort Lauderdale, Fla., worry how they’ll get home after at least a dozen COVID-19 cases have been diagnosed on board. Their fears are stoked by the recent experience of the Zaandam, a Holland America Line cruise ship that struggled to secure permission to dock in Fort…

The U.S. Navy relieved the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt’s captain of his command on Thursday, punishing him for the leak of a scathing letter he sent to superiors that sought stronger measures for curbing a coronavirus outbreak aboard the ship. The removal of Captain Brett Crozier was announced by acting U.S. Navy Secretary Thomas Modly, who said the senior officer of…

A significant number of Canadian military trainers have been redeployed out of Iraq to Kuwait as the federal government temporarily “contracts” the size of its overseas missions in response to the pandemic, a senior defence source told CBC News. The military is calling it a “repositioning of forces” because, at the moment, the COVID-19 outbreak has left fewer…

U.S. President Donald Trump’s “15 Days to Slow the Spread” coronavirus guidelines — mostly advice to stay home if you’re sick and avoid social gatherings — would have expired by now had he not extended them to April 30.   “We have reason to believe that it’s working,” Vice-President Mike Pence announced at Tuesday’s COVID-19 briefing. He held…

For the first time since coronavirus infections exploded in the small town of Lodi, Lombardy, the northern Italian region that would become the epicentre of the European outbreak, a remarkable site has appeared in the hospital there: a few empty beds. Health-care workers continue to issue strong warnings that Italy is far from being out of the woods,…