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Asian shares are mostly higher as investors pin hopes on news that an experimental COVID-19 vaccine under development by Moderna and the U.S. National Institutes of Health revved up people’s immune systems just as desired

The U.S., Canada and Mexico are poised to extend their agreements to keep their shared borders closed to non-essential travel to Aug. 21, officials said.

The U.S. has asked its citizens to “exercise increased caution” in China due to a “heightened risk of arbitrary detention” — a claim slammed by Chinese state-backed media Global Times as a “blatant distortion of truth.”

A growing chorus of American officials have said in recent days that the intelligence suggesting Russians paid “bounties” to induce the Taliban to kill American service members in Afghanistan is less than conclusive.

The top U_S_ official on North Korea has accused a senior North Korean nuclear negotiator of being “locked in an old way of thinking.”

Exhausted American cities are facing yet another challenge in addition to the coronavirus and the street protests over the police killing of George Floyd.

The U.S. Supreme Court has handed another blow to the disputed Keystone XL pipeline from Canada by keeping in place a lower court ruling that blocked a key permit for the project.

Halfway through a very unsettling year, Americans are marking the 244th anniversary of their nation’s birth in a land of confusion.

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People in Algeria, Rwanda, Uruguay, China and Canada are now free to travel to parts of Europe on vacation. Travelers from the United States are not.

People have been dropping off donations for the Supporting Our Schools initiative.

NBC 10 Boston’s campaign to collect supplies for schools in need continues on Wednesday at the Frog Pond in Boston.

The European Union on Tuesday announced a list of nations whose citizens will be allowed to enter 31 European countries, but Americans have been refused entry for at least another two weeks due to soaring coronavirus infections in the U.S.

Texas and Florida have clamped down on bars in America’s biggest retreat yet as the nation’s daily number of confirmed coronavirus cases rose to an all-time high of 45,300.

As an alarming coronavirus resurgence sets records for confirmed cases and hospitalizations across the U.S. South and West, some governors are backtracking or at least pausing the reopening of their states.

European Union envoys are close to finalizing a list of countries whose citizens will be allowed to enter Europe again, possibly from late next week, EU diplomats confirmed Saturday. Americans are almost certain to be excluded in the short term due to the number of U.S. coronavirus cases.

From New York to the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, governments and businesses are ramping up precautions as coronavirus case numbers surge.

The United States has set a new highest daily total of confirmed coronavirus cases with at least 45,557 cases recorded Wednesday, NBC News reports.

European countries have reopened their borders after a three-month coronavirus shutdown, although international visitors are still being kept away