An official in China’s foreign ministry defended his tweets questioning whether American soldiers introduced the coronavirus to Wuhan, in his first comments on the controversy over responsibility for the pandemic.

U.S. senators including Elizabeth Warren, the onetime presidential candidate, are pushing for details from Deutsche Bank AG about contacts with the family business of President Donald Trump, which has asked the German lender for leniency on some of its loans.

Queen Elizabeth II addressed Great Britain, the Commonwealth, and the world in a rare speech calling for unity in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

China has concealed the extent of the coronavirus outbreak in its country, under-reporting both total cases and deaths it’s suffered from the disease, the U.S. intelligence community concluded in a classified report to the White House, according to three U.S. officials.

Leading House Democrats criticized the conditions the U.S. Treasury Department is imposing in exchange for providing emergency payroll-assistance grants to airlines, saying it undermines an agreement on legislation passed last week.

An internal audit of Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer's expenses has found the outgoing party chief spent $18,000 a year on private parochial school for his children.

President Donald Trump said his administration expects the peak of deaths in the U.S. coronavirus outbreak to be reached in about two weeks, and that he would extend guidelines for Americans to distance themselves from one another until April 30.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the United States appears to have backed off on its plan to send soldiers to the Canada-U.S. border.

President Donald Trump signed the largest stimulus package in U.S. history on Friday, a US$2 trillion bill intended to rescue the coronavirus-battered economy.