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WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Joe Biden is making his first appearance with newly chosen running mate Kamala Harris. The former primary rivals will appear together Wednesday at a high school in Biden’s Delaware hometown to discuss their shared vision for how to defeat President Donald Trump and then lead the country through a pandemic, its…

Wilmington, DE (AP) — Joe Biden has chosen California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate, making history by selecting a Black woman for a major party's presidential ticket for the first time in history. It's a move that fulfills the wish of Democrats clamoring to see a woman of color on the ticket. The…

It took six months for the world to reach 10 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus. It took just over six weeks for that number to double. The worldwide count of known COVID-19 infections climbed past 20 million on Monday, more than half of them from the U.S., India and Brazil. That's according to the…

Washington D.C. (AP) — Authorities say a uniformed Secret Service officer shot and wounded a man during a confrontation near the White House that led to President Donald Trump being abruptly escorted out of a briefing room during a televised news conference. The chief of the Secret Service Uniformed Division, Tom Sullivan, says the White…

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s police commissioner says more than 100 people were arrested following a night of looting and unrest that left 13 officers injured and caused damage in the city’s upscale Magnificent Mile shopping district and other parts of the city. Police Superintendent David Brown says it “was not an organized protest” but instead…