Shopkeepers in the city where China’s virus outbreak began were reopening Monday, but customers were scarce after authorities lifted more of the anti-virus controls that kept tens of millions of people at home for two months. “I’m so excited, I want to cry,” said a woman on one of Wuhan’s major shopping streets, the Chuhe…

The Germans have a pretty good idea of how and when COVID-19 arrived in their country. The first 16 infections were all traced to a Shanghai-based employee of a German auto parts maker, who paid a visit to company headquarters in Bavaria on Jan. 19. Authorities were notified on Jan. 27, the day after she…

Bracing the nation for a grim death toll, U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday extended a voluntary national shutdown for a month, bowing to public health experts who told him the COVID-19 pandemic could claim over 100,000 lives in the U.S., perhaps significantly more, if not enough is done to fight it. It was a stark…

As Americans hunker down for another weekend, President Donald Trump faces a critical choice. The U.S. has topped 120,000 coronavirus cases, the most in the world and by late Monday, the White House campaign of “15 days to stop the spread” will end, leaving an unpredictable president with a critical decision to extend, tighten or loosen…

A medical evacuation plane exploded in a ball of flames during takeoff on Sunday in the Philippine capital, killing all eight passengers and crew on board, officials said. The plane, which was carrying six Filipino crew members, an American and a Canadian, was bound for Japan on a medical mission when it caught fire near…

A medical evacuation plane exploded in a ball of flames during takeoff on Sunday in the Philippine capital, killing all eight passengers and crew on board, officials said. Manila airport general manager Ed Monreal says the plane, which was carrying six crew members and two passengers, was on a medical mission to bring a patient…