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The Cruise Lines International Association is announcing that ships will not be sailing from U.S. ports throughout the summer, extending a pause put in place because of the coronavirus pandemic

ABC News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jen Ashton with the latest news on the coronavirus.

ABC News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jen Ashton, Dr. Neha Chaudhary and Dr. Monica Goldson answer questions on the minds of many parents.

The Trump administration is moving forward with a rule that rolls back health care protections for transgender people, even after a Supreme Court ruling this week that protects the LGBT community from sex discrimination on the job

Oklahoma’s new cases of the novel coronavirus have continued to skyrocket as the state reported its second-biggest daily increase in its case load

President Donald Trump’s push to resume big rallies comes despite concern that he's putting the public's health at risk

Social bubbles expand social interaction and contain risk by limiting exposure.

Russian opposition-leaning radio station Echo Moskvy and its website editor have been fined the equivalent of $3,745 for the posting of a political analyst who questioned Russia’s coronavirus statistics

As the coronavirus spreads deeper across America, it is ravaging through Latino communities from the mid-Atlantic to the Southwest, infecting them at alarmingly high rates and amplifying the inequalities they live with

The emergencies chief of the World Health Organization confirmed the U.N. agency has received genetic sequences from China regarding Beijing’s latest outbreak and said it appears the virus came from Europe

The emergencies chief of the World Health Organization confirmed the U.N. agency has received genetic sequences from China regarding Beijing’s latest outbreak and said it appears the virus came from Europe

Cyprus government officials say random coronavirus tests will be carried out on a proportion of travelers arriving to the east Mediterranean island nation as an added layer of protection against the virus’ spread

South Korea has reported 49 cases of COVID-19 as the virus continues to spread in the densely populated capital area where half of the country’s 51 million people live

Spanish authorities say they seized 3.8 metric tons of cocaine in just over a month at Valencia's port as drug smugglers presumed police would be off-guard during the COVID-19 pandemic

Nursing homes residents account for nearly 1 in 10 of all the coronavirus cases in the United States and more than a quarter of the deaths

It claims its COVID-19 vaccine candidate is proving to be effective on humans.

Britain has lowered its coronavirus threat level by one notch Friday and become the latest country to claim it’s getting a national outbreak under control

'Unfortunately, this is how it is for Latinos,' advocate says.

The coronavirus continues to spread in South Korea, particularly in the densely populated Seoul metropolitan region, which is home to half the country's 51 million people

California will send every registered voter a mail-in ballot for the November election

Despite the heat, the growing risk of the coronavirus and a lukewarm reception from local officials, backers of Donald Trump are already camped out outside an arena in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where the president will hold his first campaign rally in months

The coronavirus continues to spread in South Korea, particularly in the densely populated Seoul metropolitan region, which is home to half the country's 51 million people

ABC’s Will Carr discusses the rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations in Alabama and how residents in Montgomery are reacting to a new mask rule in the city.

California is now requiring people to wear masks in most indoor settings and outdoors when distancing isn’t possible under a new statewide order

Mexico has posted another record one-day increase in confirmed oronavirus cases, with 5,662

As the number of COVID-19 cases climbed in Beijing in recent days, officials identified more than 350,000 people who needed to be tested. I was one of them. After word first emerged of a cluster of cases at a sprawling wholesale market in the Chinese capital, I had gone to the area to take photographs. Although I never entered the Xinfadi market and only took photos from nearby streets, unknown to me, I had been flagged as a potential vector for the virus. My phone rang on Wednesday afternoon. An official from my neighborhood’s community association informed me that I should shortly report to the gates of a nearby sports stadium to be bused to a coronavirus testing site. The caller did not know my name, but they knew that someone associated with my cellphone number had been in the vicinity of the market. I may have been tracked through my cellphone. A Beijing city official said Wednesday that 355,000 people have been identifed for testing via big data, but he did not specify...

A judge has approved an agreement in which the city and county of Los Angeles will provide housing for nearly 7,000 homeless people living near freeways

The Trump administration has rejected imposing federal drinking-water limits for a chemical used in fireworks and other explosives and linked to brain damage in newborns

Heather Tanana, founder of Utah tribal COVID-19 relief, discussed her work helping Native American communities hit with COVID-19 suffering from food and water insecurity.

ABC News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jen Ashton discussed the correlation between vitamin D and COVID-19 infections and what we know about the Texas woman who tested positive a second time.

Mayor Kate Gallego of Phoenix, Arizona, discussed what she thinks is contributing to the surge and what she’s doing to stop the spread.

ABC News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jen Ashton with the latest news on the coronavirus.

Britain is scrapping plans to launch its own coronavirus contact tracing smartphone app because of technical problems and will now work on building one using technology supplied by Apple and Google

Turkish authorities have made the wearing of masks mandatory in three major cities to curb the spread of COVID-19 following an uptick in confirmed cases since the country allowed the reopening of many businesses

The daily number of deaths from COVID-19 in the United States has been falling, but experts warn the trend may reverse as states reopen and people drop their guards

But ... a dangerous second wave of infections in the fall is possible.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says restaurants will be allowed to open with outdoor seating on Monday as the city enters the second phase of easing coronavirus restrictions

The daily number of deaths from COVID-19 in the United States has been falling, but experts warn the trend may reverse as states reopen and people drop their guards

Michigan’s elections board has ordered a second look at whether an anti-abortion group collected enough signatures to put veto-proof legislation before the Republican-led Legislature to ban a second-trimester procedure

Germany’s agriculture minister says that conditions at a slaughterhouse where hundreds of workers tested positive for COVID-19 were untenable and backed an official investigation into the outbreak

Vice President Mike Pence says the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic is “a cause for celebration,” but a new poll finds more than half of Americans calling it fair or poor

The outbreak, which began in China, has sickened over 8.3 million worldwide.

An anti-poverty coalition is scheduled to hold a virtual march as part of the Poor People’s Campaign to highlight the plight of struggling U.S. residents

A company targeted by the Food and Drug Administration for selling unauthorized coronavirus antibody tests says it has responded to U.S. regulators' concerns

China’s capital has reported a decline in newly confirmed cases of coronavirus, with a public health expert saying a recent outbreak in the city was under control and the number of new cases should drop in the coming days

Europe is grappling with local spikes in coronavirus infections as the continent’s lockdown restrictions eased

As work intensifies on potential coronavirus vaccines, rich countries are placing advance orders for the inevitably limited supply to guarantee their citizens are immunized first

"We do not have evidence that pregnant women are more likely to get COVID-19."

Experts say we're still in the first wave of the virus.

A Colorado couple accused of killing their 11-year-old son by forcing him to drink large amounts of water are facing several charges, including child abuse and first-degree murder