(CNN)Italy has been put under a dramatic total lockdown, as the coronavirus spreads in the country. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced that he is extending restrictions already in place in the north. “All the measure MORE
Actor Max Von Sydow, who appeared in films and TV series including The Exorcist, Flash Gordon and Game of Thrones, has died at the age of 90. His family announced “with a broken heart and MORE
A conservative anti-LGBTQ group has called for the boycott of an upcoming Marvel Studios movie because it features an openly gay superhero. The Eternals is said to an include a kiss between superhero Phastos and MORE
The Illinois Republican Party has launched a major campaign to try and convince voters not to back a neo-Nazi to represent the party in an upcoming district election. Holocaust denier and former member of the MORE
President Donald Trump said Thursday at a Fox News Town Hall he has no plans to replace Vice President Mike Pence as the two were friends. Trump named Pence as one of his closest friends MORE
Stocks plunged on Thursday, more than halving their massive relief rally in the previous session, as markets remained choppy in the face of the fast-spreading coronavirus. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 820 points, or MORE
Senator Bernie Sanders vowed to drop out of the presidential race if former Vice President Joe Biden ends up with a plurality of pledged delegates heading into the Democratic convention in July. Sanders made the MORE
The Federal Reserve announced an emergency rate cut Tuesday of half a percentage point in response to the growing economic threat from the novel coronavirus. The move was the first such cut since December 2008, MORE
Chris Matthews, one of the longest-tenured voices at MSNBC, announced his retirement during Monday’s night’s airing of his talk show, “Hardball.” Matthews, 74, said he and MSNBC had mutually agreed to part ways. The decision MORE
New York has confirmed its “first positive case of novel coronavirus—or COVID-19,” according to Governor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday. In a statement, Cuomo said the patient is a woman in her late thirties who had MORE
A senior political analyst said President Donald Trump’s call for two Supreme Court justices to recuse themselves from all cases related to him was a step toward the “perhaps inevitable moment” when he would defy MORE
Stocks fell sharply on Monday as the number of coronavirus cases outside China surged, stoking fears of a prolonged global economic slowdown from the virus spreading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average traded 979 points lower MORE
Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg has secured a spot on the stage of Wednesday’s Democratic primary debate, with a poll released today giving the billionaire the final push he needed to qualify. Until MORE
President Donald Trump claimed that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi didn’t want impeachment and is now living out her “worst nightmare” in an interview with Fox News during the Super Bowl LIV pre-game show on Sunday. MORE
The American proposal to enforce additional duties of up to 100 percent on French products such as wine and cheese in retaliation for a “discriminatory” tech tax law is “unacceptable,” the country’s economy and finance MORE
Speaker Nancy Pelosi ridiculed President Donald Trump for attacking the credibility of former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch or the whistleblower during testimony, cautioning him that such a move is a direct challenge to MORE
Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick told friends and allies in phone calls on Wednesday that he has made a decision to run for president, two people familiar with the matter say. Plans for the timing MORE
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Tuesday defended President Donald Trump’s July call with the leader of Ukraine, but said that “it’s never a good practice for us to ask a MORE
Donald Trump Jr. has drawn backlash from military veterans after his new book compared his family’s experience during the run-up to his father’s election to those who died in service of the United States. Writing MORE
The National Rifle Association (NRA) on Wednesday issued its first public response to the Democratic sweep of Virginia’s General Assembly the night before, invoking former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the unusually prominent MORE
Scientists in the U.S. have created an artificial sunflower less than 0.04 inches wide that can bend towards a light source and harvest solar energy. The flowers, dubbed SunBOTs, were found to be about 400 MORE
Australia’s top women soccer players will now earn the same as their male counterparts after a landmark deal Wednesday that aimed to close the gender pay gap between the country’s national teams. The women’s Westfield MORE
In a significant reversal, a top US diplomat revised his testimony to impeachment investigators to admit a quid pro quo linking US aid to Ukraine with an investigation into President Donald Trump’s political rival. US MORE
More than a decade ago, Donald Trump made phone calls from his cellphone to a former candidate on “The Apprentice” around the same time that she says he sexually assaulted her, according to phone records MORE
President Donald Trump has suggested that America’s marriages are benefiting from his economic policies to the extent that people have regained respect for their partners. Speaking at a rally in Lexington, Kentucky on Monday night, MORE