President Trump and Melania Trump test positive for COVID-19, will begin quarantine process
President Trump said that he and his wife Melania had tested positive for COVID-19 and were going into quarantine, upending the race for the White House reuters.com/article/us-hea…
U.S. stock futures extended losses after President Trump said he and his wife had tested positive for the coronavirus, weeks ahead of elections reuters.com/article/us-glo…
Oil prices extended losses to fall around 2%, while a U.S. stimulus package eluded negotiators amid ongoing worries about demand reuters.com/article/us-glo…
The U.S. dollar jumped and the safe-haven yen hit its highest level of the week after Trump said he tested positive for COVID-19 reuters.com/article/us-glo…
Vice President Pence and his wife Karen test negative for COVID-19
President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence will work from separate residences, a senior White House official told @Reutersreut.rs/36ucKZA
President Trump's youngest son, Barron, tests negative for the coronavirus reut.rs/3ndr0Mo
President Trump, who played down the threat of the coronavirus for months, and Melania have tested positive following the diagnosis of close aide Hope Hicks.
The factors that make Trump more vulnerable to COVID-19 reut.rs/3jnijN2
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris both test negative for COVID-19
Senator Mike Lee tests positive for COVID-19.
He says he will remain isolated for 10 days and would be back to work in time to consider the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett reut.rs/30tCP7l
French paramedic Seifelislam Benadda had just dropped off a patient at hospital on July 1, he said, when police informed him he was prohibited from leaving his hometown in the Paris suburbs, saying he was a potential threat to the Olympic Games 1/8 reut.rs/3WhFJrY
For the next nine days, instead of driving his ambulance, the 28-year-old checked in at the Nogent-sur-Marne police station at midday and fought to overturn the administrative measure, which alleged he posed a terrorist risk 2/8
As part of a vast security operation for the Paris Games authorities have turned to powers passed under a 2017 anti-terror law, placing 155 people under surveillance measures that strictly limit their movement and oblige them to register daily with police 3/8
Four decades ago, the United States deployed cruise and Pershing II nuclear missiles in Europe to counter Soviet SS-20s - a move that stoked Cold War tensions but led within years to a historic disarmament deal 1/10 reut.rs/3W97ZNj
'We can be proud of planting this sapling, which may one day grow into a mighty tree of peace,' Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev told US President Ronald Reagan in December 1987 as they agreed to dismantle the rival systems under a new treaty 2/10
The treaty scrapped all ground-based shorter-range and intermediate-range (INF) nuclear and conventional weapons - those with ranges between 500 km and 5,500 km 3/10
Israel intensified its bombardment of Rafah in Gaza's south and over a dozen members of one family were killed in an air strike, residents said, as the ruined Palestinian enclave's health ministry announced 29,313 deaths in the war so far 1/6 reut.rs/3wrVZgR
In Jerusalem, Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz cited 'promising early signs of progress' on a new deal to release hostages held by Hamas militants in Gaza amid talks conducted by the United States, Egypt and Qatar to secure a pause in the war 2/6
The Israeli army said it had stepped up operations in Khan Younis, a city just north of Rafah. It made no mention of attacks on Rafah itself in its daily summary of events in Gaza and did not immediately respond to a request for comment 3/6
View of Buckingham Palace following King Charles' cancer diagnosis reut.rs/486lbGw
King Charles has been diagnosed with a form of cancer and will postpone public engagements to undergo treatment, Buckingham Palace said, but added he remained ‘wholly positive’ about the scare less than 18 months into his reign
Israeli shelling killed 14 Palestinians in Khan Younis in a southern coastal area of the Gaza Strip packed with people who had fled attacks in other parts of the enclave, Gaza health ministry officials said 1/8 reut.rs/48luYtg
The dead included nine children, an official told @Reuters.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on the attack although it had separately reported fighting and air strikes against Hamas militants in the Khan Younis area 2/8
Gaza residents also said Israeli planes and tanks bombarded three refugee camps in the center of the shattered enclave in heavier attacks than in previous days 3/8
After a school shooting in Tennessee, they recorded the frustrations of parents and state legislators whose cries for gun control were silenced 1/8 reut.rs/41DFBFj
In one photo, it’s almost possible to hear Representative Justin Pearson’s measured tones as he stands in prayer with one hand raised at the Capitol following a legislative session that failed to change any gun laws 2/8
In March, a former student at the Covenant School in Nashville killed three children and three staff members. Pearson and fellow Representative Justin Jones, both Black Democrats, were briefly expelled for leading a gun control protest on the House of Representatives floor 3/8