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Scientists wanted to explore a suspected connection between the regular consumption of highly processed junk food and shrinking telomeres.
Hong Kong began a voluntary masstesting program for coronavirus Tuesday as part of a strategy to break the chain of transmission in the city's third outbreak of the disease.
President Donald Trump on Monday urged a federal appeals court not to let Manhattan's top prosecutor have his tax returns, saying "the deck was clearly stacked against" him, and said he would ask the Supreme Court to intervene if necessary.
Zoom Video Communications Inc raised its annual revenue forecast by more than 30% after comfortably beating quarterly estimates on Monday as it converts more of its huge free user base to paid subscriptions.
Highflying shares of Apple Inc and Tesla Inc surged again on Monday as stock splits took effect and attracted more buying from investors.
Facebook Inc said on Monday it is partnering with external researchers to examine the impact of the social media site on society during the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
Trump and his campaign team meanwhile believe that the more the national discourse is about anything other than the virus, the better it is for the president. They have seized upon the recent unrest in Portland and Kenosha, Wisconsin, leaning hard into a defense of law and order while suggesting that Biden is powerless to stop extremists.
The shooting created tension in Portland's Muslim community. Some called it a hate crime by a white man against a Black Muslim man. The confrontation happened when the 22-year-old Muse, who was dating Cardilli's 17-year-old sister, refused to leave the Portland home at the request of her parents, witnesses testified. Pandemonium broke out, and Cardilli retrieved a handgun from his room.
Tedros cited four key points that countries, communities and individuals should focus on: preventing & amplifying events; as the virus thrives on clusters; protecting vulnerable groups; people taking steps individually to protect themselves; and finding, isolating, testing and caring for cases, while tracing and quarantining their contacts.
Joe Biden opened the first week of the generalelection campaign with a morning flight to a mustwin battleground state where he delivered a blistering speech against his rival, President Donald Trump. He dropped off pizzas at a local firehouse, took photos with firstresponders and swung by a private fundraiser headlined by Cher before catching a return flight home.
President Donald Trump has pulled most of his advertising from TV over the past week, ceding the airwaves to Democratic rival Joe Biden, who is currently outspending him by more than 10to1, advertising data shows.
A powerful typhoon was blowing over Japan's southernmost islands early Tuesday on course for Japan's main southern island and later the Korean Peninsula.
Authorities promised Monday to erect a barricade around Mexico Citys second oldest church after a weekend fire damaged the tower, choir, an organ and stained glass.
The Trump administration plans to lift endangered species protections for gray wolves across most of the nation by the end of the year, the director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Monday.
The federal Bureau of Prisons will begin allowing inmates to have visitors again in October, almost seven months after visits were suspended at the 122 federal prisons across the U.S., according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press.
Argentina said Monday that private creditors have massively accepted an offer to restructure $65 billion in debt, allowing it to avoid another default and messy legal battle in international courts.
An American consultant pleaded guilty Monday in an illicit lobbying effort to get the Trump administration to drop an investigation into the multibilliondollar looting of a Malaysian state investment fund, and to arrange for the return of a Chinese dissident living in the U.S.
Guinean President Alpha Conde's party announced on state television late Monday that he will seek another term in office, becoming the second West African leader this month to say term limits don't apply when there is a new constitution in place.
The U.S. Navy said one of its aircraft crashed Monday afternoon on Virginia's Eastern Shore, but the two pilots and two crew members onboard were able to safely bail out.
Two Katyusha rockets fell near Baghdad airport on Sunday but caused no casualties, the Iraqi military said, the third such attack on sensitive sites in the capital this week.
The number of deaths caused by the novel coronavirus rose by 1,006 to 182,149 people, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Sunday, reporting a total of 5,934,824 cases, an increase of 44,292 from its previous count.
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Google Pay is gradually rolling out the ability for users to add debit and credit cards to the payments app, moving beyond the UPI-only payment interface that the app offers.
If you are in USA, T-Mobile’s promotional offer will pay you back for your new iPhone 11 Pro over a period of two years.
Shares in wireless carrier SoftBank Corp fell 3% on Monday after parent SoftBank Group Corp said it would sell up to 22% of the telco's shares, which could slash its holding in the carrier to 40%.
PUBG, or Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, will be available for free for all Sony PS Plus subscribers, alongside Street Fighter V.
Mexicos Navy said Sunday it has named the first woman to command a coast guard cutter, the largest command yet for a female in the Mexican service.
North Macedonias parliament approved a new leftwing coalition government late on Sunday.
Suspected militants attacked Pakistani troops amid a search operation in a former Taliban and alQaida stronghold in the northwest near the Afghan border, triggering a shootout that killed three soldiers, the army said Sunday.
Fights broke out in downtown Portland Saturday night as a large caravan of supporters of President Donald Trump drove through the city, clashing with counterprotesters.
China's new rules around tech exports mean ByteDance's sale of TikTok's U.S. operations could need Beijing's approval, a Chinese trade expert told state media, a requirement that would complicate the forced and politically charged divestment.
New coronavirus cases in Australia's state of Victoria returned to the triple digits on Sunday, while neighbouring New Zealand said it would ease curbs slightly in its largest city, hit by a resurgence of infections.
Mainland China reported nine new confirmed cases of coronavirus on Saturday, all them imported, the National Health Commission said on Sunday, meaning there were no locally transmitted infections for a record 14th straight day.
South Korea reported its 17th day of tripledigit rises in coronavirus infections on Sunday, as restrictions on onsite dining at restaurants, pubs and bakeries in the densely populated Seoul area take effect.
The virus has already killed a member of the Marubo and a member of the Tikuna indigenous people living in the remote Javari Valley, and more than 450 people have been infected.
Several thousand women marched in the capital of Belarus on Saturday waving flags, flowers and balloons in the latest in a series of antigovernment protests that have gripped the country since a disputed presidential election this month.
Berlin police broke up a mass protest against coronavirus curbs on Saturday and arrested 300 in the German capital after demonstrators failed to keep their distance and wear masks as instructed.
The main Syrian opposition called on major powers on Saturday to help clinch a nationwide ceasefire in coming months to pave the way for a political transition after nearly a decade of war.
Authorities in Istanbul announced curbs on weddings and other ceremonies in Turkey's largest city on Saturday as the number of daily coronavirus cases and deaths hit their highest level nationwide in more than two months.
The United States' top intelligence office told lawmakers it will end inperson briefings on election security because it is worried about potential leaks, officials said on Saturday.
A Katyusha rocket landed in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, causing damage to an empty building and no casualties, Iraqi police sources said on Saturday.
Trump will meet police in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Tuesday and 'survey damage from recent riots' triggered by Blake's shooting last weekend
President Donald Trump on Saturday toured areas hit by Hurricane Laura in Louisiana and in Texas receiving briefings on emergency operations and relief efforts.
The case is proceeding amid renewed fury over police violence against African Americans, galvanized by the shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin this week.
Brazil will officially announce on Tuesday the extension of an aid payment program designed to help people weather the economic damage of the novel coronavirus pandemic, a government official said on Saturday.
For Ricardo Moraes, a veteran photographer who for 11 years has documented for Reuters life in Rio de Janeiro's often dangerous cinderblock slums known as "favelas", work began at about 6 a.m. on Thursday, when he heard a radio report of a hostage situation in Sao Carlos, a sprawling tangle of hillside homes near the city center.
Montenegrins go to the polls on Sunday in a parliamentary election that looks too close to call, with neither the longruling proWestern party nor a rival proRussian alliance tipped to win a majority of seats.
Belarus has revoked the accreditations of some journalists working for foreign media and covering antigovernment protests that erupted after a disputed presidential election, news organisations and a journalist association said on Saturday.
President Donald Trump will travel to Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, amid fury over the police shooting of Jacob Blake in the back, which left the 29yearold Black man paralyzed.
Victoria, Australia posted 114 new cases of coronavirus on Sunday, a day after they fell to 94 which had put them below triple digits for the first time in nearly two months.