NEW YORK TIMES

The number of confirmed coronavirus infections on the ship reached 621 on Wednesday as 79 new cases were announced. It is the largest outbreak of the virus outside the epicenter in China.

Prosecutors said Rod Blagojevich had tried to sell or trade to the highest bidder the Senate seat that Barack Obama was vacating to become the president.

Manchester City’s chief executive and its coach struck a defiant note in the team’s first public comments on a two-year ban from the Champions League.

Both in private and in public, it was clear that Trump did not want to cede any political spotlight to Democrats on the debate stage. “You know, we have internal polls that say we beat every candidate,” the president told the crowd at his hotel, a theme he sounded all day.

Julian Assange’s legal team told a court in London on Wednesday that Donald Trump had made the offer in 2017 through Dana Rohrabacher, who at the time was a Republican congressman from California.

Chinese officials have “demanded that The Wall Street Journal recognize the seriousness of the error, openly and formally apologize, and investigate and punish those responsible.

Richard Grenell, who has pushed to advance gay rights in his current post, would apparently also be the first openly gay Cabinet member.

Ben Affleck has not talked much about his alcoholism since completing the third stint in rehab in 2018. But the arrival of his upcoming film The Way Back has made the subject impossible to avoid.

There had already been a crash as the final lap began, but because it did not affect the leaders, no yellow flag came out, and the race steamed toward the finish.

The accusation of self-dealing by former RUSADA executives is just the latest scandal involving the agency, which in recent years has been accused of manipulating or covering up failed drug tests by Russian athletes and then working to sabotage an investigation into its conduct by global anti-doping regulators.

This week, after more than a year being ravaged by strong seas and powerful storms, the ship’s voyage came to an end when it crashed onto the rocky shores of Ballycotton, a tiny fishing village on the south coast of Ireland.

Under Erdogan’s increasingly authoritarian rule, Kavala’s case has come to symbolize the arbitrary injustice being meted out by the government across the country since the 2016 coup attempt.

For the past few years, authorities in the Xinjiang region have placed hundreds of thousands of Uighurs, Kazakhs and other predominantly Muslim minority groups into indoctrination camps in the most sweeping mass detentions since the Mao era.

Trump’s reelection would represent a fundamental change, said François Heisbourg, a French analyst. “Eight years in political terms is an era, not an error. And it would undermine the reality of American democracy.”

The Communist Party has never liked or trusted civil society. It is suspicious of any organization that could potentially pose a challenge to its rule, including big private enterprises. The party wants nothing to stand between its government and China’s 1.4 billion people.

Afghanistan election results: Abdullah and several other candidates have disputed roughly 300,000 votes from a low turnout of about 1.8 million.

According to Wednesday’s figures, the number of those confirmed to have died from the virus in China surpassed 2,000, and the total number of reported infections rose to 74,185.

Recent high-resolution photographs of the star suggest that it is changing shape.

In December, a spacecraft named Hope was motionless in the middle of a large clean room on the campus of the University of Colorado, mounted securely on a stand.

The US Embassy in Tokyo had said that cruise ship passengers carrying the coronavirus would not be allowed to board evacuation flights, but the decision was apparently reversed at the last minute.