CORONAVIRUS

Germany’s health minister warned Friday that the country is seeing a steady rise in COVID-19 cases as it goes into the fall and urged older people to get a second booster shot tweaked to protect against new variants.

This year’s Nobel Prize season approaches as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shattered decades of almost uninterrupted peace in Europe and raised the risks of a nuclear disaster.

A former vice governor of China’s sprawling Tibet region has been indicted on charges of accepting bribes.

The new director of the federal Bureau of Prisons vows that “the buck stops" with her when it comes to fixing the crisis-plagued agency.

Michael Curry, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, says he has tested positive for COVID-19.

The economy shrank in the first half of this year, underscoring fears of a broad-based slowdown that could lead to a recession.

Six Republican-led states are suing the Biden administration to try and halt its plan to forgive student loan debt for millions of Americans.

States are spending billions of dollars of federal pandemic relief funds on infrastructure projects such as roads, bridges and public buildings.

Nearly a dozen candidates are running in Brazil’s presidential election but only two stand a chance of reaching a runoff: former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and incumbent Jair Bolsonaro.

Fans going to the World Cup in Qatar must show a negative COVID-19 test when they arrive as part of the host nation’s rules to combat COVID-19.

Vice President Kamala Harris and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will host a forum to highlight how coronavirus pandemic relief dollars have helped support Black- and minority-owned businesses.

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The Supreme Court says it will continue providing live audio broadcasts of arguments in cases.

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro enlisted the help of soccer star Neymar on a campaign stop Wednesday, just four days before the country’s general elections.

COVID cases, test positivity rates and occupancy of U-M's isolation housing are all trending downward.

Sen. Joe Manchin has abandoned his push to speed up the permitting process for energy projects.

Canada is dropping all COVID-19 related requirements to enter the country by land, air or sea, at the end of the month, including testing, vaccination and isolation requirements.

Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank have voted to fire its president, Mauricio Claver-Carone.

The United Arab Emirates, home to global business and travel hub Dubai, will ease masking requirements imposed over the coronavirus pandemic.

President Joe Biden has announced a new initiative that would eventually allow consumers to see a more complete price on airline tickets before they buy them.

Pfizer is asking the Food and Drug Administration to expand use of its updated COVID-19 booster shot to children ages 5 to 11.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development says Russia’s war in Ukraine and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are dragging down global economic growth more than expected and driving up inflation that will stay high into next year.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz's spokesman says the German leader has tested positive for the coronavirus.

Apple Inc. has announced it will make its iPhone 14 in India.

South Korea says North Korea and China have resumed their freight train service following a five-month hiatus.

The United Nations was established on one simple notion above all others — that working together is better than going it alone.

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. wants to “reintroduce the Philippines” to the world.

While the coronavirus pandemic was not the main focus of the U.N. General Assembly, the conversations were still happening on the sidelines.

The Biden administration is ramping up diplomatic efforts to press China to end provocative actions against Taiwan and keep it from active support for Russia's war against Ukraine.

In-person voting for the midterm elections has started in Minnesota, South Dakota, Virginia and Wyoming, in a landscape that has changed since the pandemic drove a shift to mail balloting in the 2020 presidential contest.

An Iowa man has been convicted of charges that he led a crowd of rioters in chasing a U.S. Capitol police officer up a staircase and accosting other officers guarding the Senate.