With the dark winter months looming, there’s one glimmer of hope in the fight against the COVID-19 crisis. Two, to be exact. Vaccine candidates from Pfizer, and its German partner BioNTech, and Moderna have shown to be 95 percent effective in ongoing trials. The promising results have prompted Pfizer to seek approval from the Federal...

Police and activists clashed in South Africa Friday during a protest against a graduation party allegedly organized for “whites only.” Nearly 2,000 members of the Economic Freedom Fighters, a radical left political party, rallied around Brackenfell High School in Cape Town as police fired tear gas and water cannons at the crowd, Al Jazeera reported....

A look at the latest national political stories for Friday, November 20.

A Brooklyn deputy borough president and former Brooklyn Democratic Party boss were part of a large, mask-less indoor crowd that celebrated Carlo Scissura of the New York Building Congress.

A Los Angeles police sergeant who was repeatedly reprimanded over social media posts, including those about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and rapper Nipsey Hussle, has accused his superiors of punishing based on his political beliefs.

Gov. Cuomo wants to show you the challenges of directing the state’s fight against a pandemic that has so far killed more than 34,000 New Yorkers and put the rest of us in face masks. “Closing down is not a press release; it’s the most complex government policy we have ever instituted," he writes in his new book, 'American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.'

WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci assured the public on Thursday that a coronavirus vaccine would be safe and effective and called for an end to suggestions that the development was rushed for political purposes. “The process of the speed did not compromise at all safety, nor did it compromise scientific integrity,” Fauci said Thursday at...

Police arrested three former Hong Kong opposition lawmakers Wednesday for disrupting legislative meetings earlier this year, as China continues to dismantle the city’s guarantees of political autonomy. Eddie Chu, Raymond Chan and Ted Hui were each arrested by Hong Kong police Wednesday morning for splashing pungent liquids and other items during meetings in Hong Kong’s...

Amid the continuous COVID-19 crisis, Giant Food supermarkets has made a giant error in judgment.

This may be Bill Belichick’s most unexpected play call ever. The New England Patriots head coach stepped off the gridiron and into the political field Wednesday, as he demanded the US take action in the recent dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia. The comments came as he was asked about how Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher...

The First Family will spend Thanksgiving at the White House as President Trump hunkers down for what he wants the public to think is an epic fight for his political life.

Hospitals in Austin, Texas, are taking in non-COVID patients from El Paso to ease the burden on the city’s overwhelmed medical facilities amid a massive surge in coronavirus hospitalizations. “We have patients in our hospitals right now from El Paso because there wasn’t room for them in El Paso,” Austin Mayor Steve Adler said during...

As the US prepares for the second round of stimulus checks for the year — this time at $600 — developed countries around the world have been maintaining beefed up relief efforts. While the United States saw a nearly six-months-long political stalemate before the divided House and Senate leadership were finally forced back to the...

FRESNO, Calif. — A self-proclaimed pedophilia advocate who once ran for political office in Virginia has been arrested by authorities who said they caught him flying across the country earlier this week with a 12-year-old girl he had persuaded to run away from her California home. Nathan Larson, 40, made the girl wear a long-haired...

Democrats said Republicans are trying to insert the Federal Reserve-related provision into the stimulus to kneecap President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration.

Trump is putting pressure on Republicans to try one last time to flip the results when Congress convenes on Jan. 6 to count the Electoral College votes.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo huddled virtually with labor leaders to discuss the gravity of New York’s pandemic-fueled fiscal crisis as he and lawmakers struggle to close a massive hole in next year’s budget. “The governor’s message was, ‘Things are dire. I’m going to need your help,'” a union source said of Wednesday’s secret chat. The labor...

“Emergency food providers need additional food to meet the unprecedented demand in communities nationwide,” said N.Y. lawmakers

The policy change was aimed at preventing a repeat of the crisis when hospitals were overwhelmed by COVID patients earlier this year.

Disaster film “Greenland” gets a scary amount right about what it feels like to be ambushed by a worldwide crisis and feel absolutely helpless.

The victim’s condition was not immediately known.

Grab your metal detector! For several months gold and silver jewelry, ornaments, and golden nuggets have started washing up on the shore of a small Venezuelan fishing village that had been devastated by the country’s economic crisis and COVID-19. Yolman Lares was the first to find treasure on the beach in Guaca in September when...

Anthony Weiner — whose online and sexting scandals destroyed his political career and landed him in prison — is now promoting his company's ability to live-chat with customers.

The United States saw its deadliest week since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic — with a 44 percent rise in fatalities compared to the week prior, according to new data.  A total of 15,966 Americans died from the coronavirus in the seven-day period between Dec. 3 and Dec. 9, according to data compiled by...

It is the stuff of a James Bond blockbuster: a young, attractive woman lures a rising political star into a romantic web, all the while collecting critical information to trickle back to her handler or big bosses back home. Axios revealed this week that more than six years ago Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., began a relationship with a woman...

As violence against indigenous women and men continues unabated, the U.S. Department of Justice is halfway through a two-year program to develop national standards to address the crisis.

“I’ve been the go-to crisis manager. I know how to get it done," said Garcia.

​The father and brother of Rep. Eric Swalwell unfriended the suspected Chinese spy who got close to the California Democrat and other elected officials in a bid to infiltrate the US political system. Eric Swalwell, the congressman’s father, and Joshua, his brother, had remained friends on Facebook with Christine Fang, also known as Fang Fang,...

The 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference will be held in person and mostly indoors in February, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report Tuesday. The annual gathering of conservatives is set to take place from Feb. 25-28 at the Hyatt Regency in Orlando, Florida, Fox News reported. “CPAC believes that Florida is the right state to...

Many of the entries on the 2020 edition of “The Yale Book of Quotations” relate to the coronavirus crisis.