COVID-19 cases in the United States are at an 8-week high, with early signs of a rise even in the Northeast, as questions continued to swirl about President Donald Trump's health and the extent of spread linked to the White House.Cases rise in 28 statesThe United States reported 56,191 cases yesterday, according to Johns Hopkins tracking, marking an 8-week high, CNBC said in its analysis, noting that new cases have been rising over the past 4 days.

Only two states—Alabama and Hawaii—are reporting declines, with 28 showing upward trends and 20 holding steady, CNN reported.Meanwhile, an analysis from the New York Times said cases are creeping upward in the Northeast, a former hot spot that won praise for driving down its cases to very low

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New Zealand deputy PM mocks COVID-19 denier: ‘Sorry sunshine, wrong place’

New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters mocked a coronavirus skeptic while taking questions on Monday, swiftly smacking down the man’s conspiratorial ideas about COVID-19.The incident was captured on video while Peters, head of the New Zealand First Party, was campaigning for re-election at a public meeting in Tauranga.The man, who spoke with a North American accent, stood up in the audience and challenged Peters to prove that the coronavirus exists.“Where is your evidence that there is a virus that causes this disease?” he demanded.“Sit down,” Peters interjected.

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First lady lashes out at reports about friend who tell-all

DORAL, Fla. – Melania Trump lashed out Friday at “self-serving adults” for focusing on her falling out with a friend and adviser, writing that the attention paid to “salacious claims” about the broken relationship comes at the expense of her work on behalf of children.Mrs. Trump also sharply criticized Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, the former friend and aide who recently wrote a tell-all book about the friendship, her role in helping produce President Donald Trump's inauguration and her work helping the first lady set up her office.“We all know that more often than not, information that could be helpful to children is lost in the noise made by self-serving adults,” the first lady said in a blog post.

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Chris Christie, Still Recovering From COVID, Urges Trump to Fully Embrace Masks

Chris Christie on Friday morning gave his first interview since leaving the hospital where he was in the ICU for seven days while battling COVID-19. The ABC contributor told Good Morning America'sGeorge Stephanopoulos that he is a changed man.

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Study finds 4 drugs have little to no effect on COVID-19

GENEVA : The world's largest randomized trial of COVID-19 treatments found “conclusive evidence" that remdesivir, a drug used to treat U.S. President Donald Trump when he fell ill, has little or no effect on severe cases, the U.N.

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QAnon supporters behind canceled fundraiser give Trump $1M

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump recently accepted $1 million in campaign contributions from a couple whose vocal support for the QAnon conspiracy theory led to the cancellation of a fundraiser they were supposed to host for Vice President Mike Pence last month. The couple, Caryn and Michael Borland, have shared QAnon memes and retweeted posts from QAnon accounts, The Associated Press reported in September, which led to the cancellation of a Montana fundraiser.

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Trump shares fake story from satire website claiming Twitter shut down to help Biden

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Friday shared a fake story on Twitter from a satirical website that mockingly claimed Twitter shut down its network to slow the spread of negative news regarding Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.The article was published by The Babylon Bee — which bills itself as “the world’s best satire site” and uses the tagline, “fake news you can trust.”Trump shared the article, titled “Twitter Shuts Down Entire Network To Slow Spread Of Negative Biden News,” early Friday on his Twitter account.“Wow, this has never been done in history. This includes his really bad interview last night.

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Remdesivir among 4 drugs with 'little or no effect' on COVID-19 survival, WHO study says

GENEVA - The world's largest randomized trial of COVID-19 treatments found “conclusive evidence” that remdesivir, a drug used to treat U.S. President Donald Trump when he fell ill, has little or no effect on severe cases, the U.N.

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Trump appears to admit to $400M debt, calls it ‘a peanut’

U.S. President Donald Trump appeared to confirm he owes $400 million dollars to unknown sources during a town hall television event on Thursday. Trump said he doesn’t owe the money to Russia or any “sinister people.”

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Fact check: A look at claims Trump, Biden made during competing town halls

Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden faced inquisitive voters on separate stages in different cities in a substitute for the debate that was meant to be. Biden admits elements of past U.S.

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Trump Dodges COVID-19 Testing Question, Biden Denounces White House's Handling of Virus in Town Halls

President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden squared off, in a way, Thursday night, their scuttled second debate replaced by dueling televised town halls that showcased striking differences in temperament, views on racial justice and approaches to the pandemic that has reshaped the nation. Trump was defensive about his administration's handling of the coronavirus, which has claimed more than 215,000 American lives, and evasive when when pressed about whether he took a required COVID-19 test before his first debate with Biden.

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Savannah Guthrie Addresses NBC Controversy, Pushes Trump on COVID-19 Testing in Contentious Town Hall Opener

Todayco-anchor Savannah Guthrie kicked off Thursday night's NBC town hall in Miami with President Donald Trump addressing the scheduling chaos and controversy around the debate-turned-solo event. "We want to say right off the top this is not how things were supposed to go tonight," theTodayco-anchor said at the top of the debate.

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Coronavirus vaccine: Pfizer may ask for emergency approval in late November

COVID-19 vaccine it is developing with German partner BioNTech in late November, making it unlikely a vaccine will be available before U.S. elections as President Donald Trump has promised.The regulatory filing for the vaccine could come as soon as safety data is available, possibly in the third week of November, Pfizer said, lifting the company’s shares and the broader U.S.

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WHO: Study finds 4 drugs have little to no effect on COVID

GENEVA – The U.N. health agency says the world's largest randomized trial of COVID-19 treatments found “conclusive evidence” that remdesivir, a drug used to treat U.S.

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Trump, Biden go at it — from a distance — in town halls

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden squared off, in a way, in dueling televised town halls that showcased striking differences in temperament, views on racial justice and approaches to a pandemic that has reshaped the nation.Coming just two and a half weeks before Election Day, the events Thursday night offered crystalizing contrasts and a national, if divided, audience.

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Imposing coronavirus lockdown unconstitutional: Trump

Donald Trump, who tested positive for COVID-19 early this month, has said that as a president he cannot remain locked in a basement and he has to meet people despite the risks.Trump, responding to a question at a townhall organised by the NBC News, also defended not wearing a mask as much as his own administration’s public health experts recommend and said that lockdowns imposed by various states across the country to curb the coronavirus cases were "unconstitutional".He said he is not averse to wearing a mask, but “people with masks are catching it all the time."“As a president, I have to be out there. I can’t be in a basement.

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Gilead contests WHO study that cast doubts on remdesivir's covid-19 benefits

"Solidarity" trial resultsThe WHO said on Thursday its "Solidarity" trial had concluded that remdesivir appeared to have little or no effect on 28-day mortality or length of hospital stays among patients with the respiratory disease.Used to treat TrumpThe antiviral medication was one of the drugs used to treat U.S. President Donald Trump's coronavirus infection, and has been shown in previous studies to have cut time to recovery.

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Chris Christie says ‘I was wrong’ not to wear mask at White House amid coronavirus

Chris Christie said Thursday that he was wrong not to wear a mask at the White House, after he and U.S. President Donald Trump both came down with the coronavirus.Christie, in a statement, said he has recovered from COVID-19 after a weeklong stay in a hospital’s intensive care unit.

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Trump insists pandemic almost over, Biden says he did 'nothing'

US President Donald Trump delivered a combative defence at a town hall style event last night, while his Democratic rival Joe Biden - offering a glaring contrast in style in a rival town hall - accused him of doing "nothing" to end the pandemic.

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Trump acknowledges he may owe $400 million to unknown sources during town hall

Donald Trump acknowledged that he may owe $400 million to unknown sources during a town hall television event on Thursday.The amount was originally revealed after a New York Times investigation that also claims Trump paid around $750 in taxes in the 2016 and 2017 tax years and no taxes for 10 of the last 15 years. ‘I don’t want to pay taxes,’ Trump says while disputing NYT report in debate with Biden “When you look at the amount of money, $400 million is a peanut, it is extremely underlevered (sic),” Trump told NBC host Savannah Guthrie.

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US Presidential debate: Trump pushes Biden on his son Hunter and dealings with Burisma

U.S. President Donald Trump pushed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Tuesday during the first U.S.

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President Trump returning to Central Florida

OCALA, Fla. – Final preparations are underway at the Ocala International Airport ahead of President Donald Trump’s campaign rally on Thursday.The event marks the second time the president has visited Central Florida this week. On Monday, Trump held a campaign rally in Sanford.News 6 political expert Jim Clark said that the president is attempting to energize his base to ensure voter turn out.“He needs a huge turnout,” Clark said. “He needs to get people to go to the polls.

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Savannah Guthrie Presses President Trump on COVID-19 Diagnosis at Town Hall

QAnon, pressing him and not letting him evade answering. The town hall was a replacement of sorts for the debate Mr.

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President says he will accept results of 'honest election'

President Trump and moderator Savannah Guthrie after an NBC News town hall event at the Perez Art Museum in Miami on October 15. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images) MIAMI, Fla. - President Donald Trump appeared on NBC from Miami Thursday for a town hall after backing out of plans for a virtual presidential faceoff following his COVID-19 diagnosis.Savannah Guthrie hosted the event, during which the president discussed his recovery from the coronavirus, how he would react to election results, and when he last received a negative COVID-19 test result.Trump, less than two weeks after being diagnosed with COVID-19, dodged directly answering whether he took a test the day of the first debate with former Vice President Joe Biden, Sept.

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Former NJ Gov. Chris Christie says he was wrong not to wear mask at White House

(Photo by Joshua Roberts/Getty Images) WASHINGTON - Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Thursday that he was wrong not to wear a mask at the White House after he and President Donald Trump both came down with the coronavirus.Christie, in a statement, said he has recovered from COVID-19 after a week-long stay in a hospital's intensive care unit.

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Biden, Trump squabble over coronavirus response in dueling town halls

Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday, as the two candidates held dueling televised town halls after their second planned debate was canceled.The prime-time split-screen showdown offered a stark reminder of how deeply unusual this year's campaign has been amid a coronavirus pandemic that has infected nearly 8 million Americans, including the president himself. Millions have already voted early ahead of Election Day on Nov.

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President Donald Trump says he did an “amazing job” handling coronavirus

Trump said Thursday he did an “amazing job" handling the coronavirus pandemic and defended his retweets of conspiracy theories while Democrat Joe Biden at the same moment was faulting the president’s leadership on the pandemic and stewardship of the economy.The two candidates -- who appeared in dueling televised town halls Thursday night -- contrasted sharply in style and substance, with Biden giving what amounted to a public policy seminar while Trump discussed topics including the far-right conspiracy theory movement QAnon’s views on pedophilia.“We saved 2 million people," Trump said on NBC in Miami, as he praised his handling of the coronavirus, which has killed more than 217,000 in the U.S.

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Trump holds rally in N.C. as early voting begins

U.S. President Donald Trump held a rally in North Carolina on Thursday, just as the polls for early voting opened.

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Remdesivir did not cut hospital stay or mortality in COVID-19 patients: WHO

remdesivir had little or no effect on COVID-19 patients' length of hospital stay or chances of survival, a clinical trial by the World Health Organization (WHO) has found.The antiviral medication, among the first to be used as a treatment for COVID-19, was one of the drugs recently used to treat U.S.

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Nebraska Sen. Sasse rips Trump over COVID-19, foreign policy

WASHINGTON – Republican U.S. Sen.

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Whoopi Goldberg Joy Behar Doubt Donald Trump Ever Had COVID-19: ‘He’s A Liar’ — Watch

Whoopi Goldberg, 64, and Joy Behar, 78, are now wondering if Donald Trump, 74, lied about his COVID-19 diagnosis. Despite testing positive for the virus on Oct. 1, Trump left the hospital just four days later and resumed his campaign rallies on Oct. 12. So, Whoopi went out on a limb on the Oct. 15 episode of The View to admit, “The more he talks, the less I think he had it, personally.”

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Trump's election-eve drug discounts for seniors get snagged

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s plan to mail millions of seniors a $200 prescription savings card has hit legal and budget roadblocks, making it unlikely the government can carry it out before Election Day. Democratic lawmakers have raised questions about whether the administration has the authority to order on its own billions of dollars in Medicare spending for what the Democrats say are political reasons.

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Tiffany Trump Faces Backlash For Throwing Lavish Birthday Party Amid Pandemic: ‘Bye Tiffany’

As the number of COVID-19 deaths nears 16,000 in Florida, Tiffany Trump celebrated her birthday with multiple lavish, massive birthday parties across Miami. President Donald Trump‘s daughter partied the night away on October 11 with a group of friends, popping bottles of champagne, dancing, and even sharing a birthday cake decorated with her Instagrams. #ByeTiffany started trending on Twitter on October 15 after a PAC called MeidasTouch produced a video targeting the First Daughter for celebrating as Americans’ lives were ruined by coronavirus.

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Coronavirus: Trump extends ‘best wishes’ to Kamala Harris’ staff after 2 test positive

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday extended his “best wishes” to Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her staff after her communications director and a flight crew member tested positive for COVID-19.

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Campaigns, festivals held as more Floridians test positive for COVID-19

Facebook page.Vice President Mike Pence will also be in South Florida on Thursday campaigning ahead of the November election.Nearly 2 million voters have already cast their ballots from a distance, and presidential candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden continue to make sweeping attempts to spend the few days campaigning in Florida before early voting kicks off.The coronavirus pandemic brought a push for mail-in ballots, citing a safe option for those concerned with contracting the virus. As of Wednesday morning, 1,916,920 Floridians have returned their mail-in ballots, according to the U.S.

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Why Trump’s covid-19 antibody cocktail won’t be widely available

Donald Trump credited for his swift coronavirus recovery won’t become widely available because it’s impossible to make enough for everyone who might need it, according to the Swiss pharmaceutical giant working on scaling up production.“We’ll never be able to produce enough," said Bill Anderson, drugs chief at Roche Holding AG, which is working together with US biotech Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. on the project.

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Melania Trump Says Barron Trump Tested Positive for COVID-19, Now Negative

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Dueling town halls for Trump, Biden after debate plan nixed

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden will compete for TV audiences in dueling town hall meetings instead of meeting face-to-face for their second debate as originally planned.The two will take questions in different cities on different networks Thursday night: Trump on NBC from Miami, Biden on ABC from Philadelphia.

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Rambling Donald Trump insists Covid-19 is 'China virus' as 'to me corona means Italy'

Donald Trump said "to me corona means Italy" before calling it the "China virus" as he detailed his own fight with the killer bug.

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White House staff infected with coronavirus begin returning to work, spurning masks

coronavirus spread through the White House, staffers have begun trickling back to the West Wing, saying they only had mild symptoms and again spurning the use of masks despite criticism that they have been careless about the outbreak.With U.S. President Donald Trump declaring himself immune after his own bout with COVID-19 required hospitalization, his aides at the White House, his re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee are steadily recovering from a sickness that sidelined many of them just weeks before the Nov.

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AP Explains: Trump seizes on dubious Biden-Ukraine story

WASHINGTON – Looking to undermine rival Joe Biden 20 days before the election, President Donald Trump’s campaign has seized on a tabloid story offering bizarre twists to a familiar line of attack: Biden’s relationship with Ukraine. But the story in the New York Post raises more questions than answers, including about the authenticity of an email at the center of the story.

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First lady Melania Trump says son Barron was positive for Covid-19, now negative

Melania Trump says her 14-year-old son, Barron, had tested positive for the coronavirus but has since tested negative.The White House initially said he had tested negative, after both of his parents tested positive earlier this month.The first lady said Wednesday that subsequent testing showed Barron had also come down with COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.He has since tested negative, she said, as have both she and President Donald Trump.After she and the president received their positive results Oct. 1, Mrs.

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Trump and Biden vying for battleground North Carolina

With the U.S. presidential election just weeks away, both Donald Trump and Joe Biden are honing in on a battleground state.

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Melania Trump Reveals Barron Tested Positive For COVID-19 As Donald Continues To Falsely Claim Immunity

Let’s make one thing clear: as the coronavirus crisis wears on, no one has done more damage in the United States — and possibly the world — than President Donald Trump.

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Donald Trump's son Barron tested positive for Covid-19 after his parents caught virus

Donald Trump's 14-year-old son Barron has tested positive for COVID-19 but exhibited no symptoms. First Lady Melania Trump told how the youngster contracted the virus after both of his parents tested positive.

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Barron Trump Tested Positive for COVID-19 Earlier This Month

COVID-19 earlier this month, first lady Melania Trump announced in a personal essay posted on the White House website. The 14-year-old has since tested negative, as have the first lady and the president, since the two contracted the virus earlier this month. Mr.

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Donald Trump stifles coughs as he struggles through speech recovering from Covid-19

Donald Trump stifled a cough as he gave a speech with a noticeably raspy voice during a White House speech today.

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'Totally Under Control' Directors on White House Corruption and Trump's COVID Diagnosis (Exclusive)

Donald Trump, an oft-repeated turn of phrase the president used in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic to describe his administration's handling of it. The day Gibney finished the film, months after the virus arrived in the U.S.

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Trump's son Barron, 14, recovers after testing positive for Covid-19

President Donald Trump's teenage son Barron contracted Covid-19 after both his parents tested positive, First Lady Melania has revealed.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

As US COVID-19 cases climb, Trump scraps weekend travel

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