President Trump on Wednesday threatened to halt federal funding to Michigan and Nevada over the distribution of absentee ballots in those swing states amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak that has left more than 90,000 Americans dead.

China's fur trade will continue, though, and farmers can still raise wild animals for medicine, entertainment, or research.

The only man ever convicted in a U.S. court for a role in the Sept. 11 attacks now says he is renouncing terrorism, al-Qaida and the Islamic State. Zacarias Moussaoui is serving a life sentence at a federal prison in Colorado after narrowly escaping the death penalty at his 2006 trial. Instead, prosecutors pinned responsibility on Moussaoui because they said he could have prevented the attacks if he had not lied to the FBI about his knowledge of al-Qaida and its efforts to attack the U.S. when he was arrested in August 2001.

The CDC says COVID-19 "does not spread easily" on contaminated surfaces or objects, nor by animal-to-human contact, or vice versa.

Expert William Haseltine says countries easing lockdowns should rely on contact tracing and isolation to control the coronavirus spread.

The money will be provided to minority and women-owned businesses through the Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program.

The former soldier and his son are detained for allegedly helping the ex-Nissan boss flee Japan.

China said on Thursday U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is "blackmailing" the Hong Kong government with the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act and that Washington's recent actions amount to blatant interference on China's internal affairs. Pompeo said on Wednesday the recent treatment of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong makes it harder to assess whether the territory remains highly autonomous from China, a requirement for special treatments the city gets under American law.

Taiwan will not accept Chinese rule or attempts to “downgrade” its status as a democracy, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Wednesday in an inauguration speech that also celebrated the island’s internationally recognised success in managing the coronavirus. President Tsai won a second term in the presidential election in January, in a landslide that was widely seen as an assertion of Taiwanese identity and rejection of Beijing’s attempts to intimidate and isolate Taiwan on the global stage. Her speech was firm but conciliatory, offering an olive branch to Beijing that Taipei was ready to peacefully negotiate a path through ongoing tensions on an equal footing but would not tolerate being undermined. “Both sides have a duty to find a way to coexist over the long term and prevent the intensification of antagonism and differences,” she said. Beijing deeply mistrusts President Tsai, suspecting that her ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) may attempt to push for independence, and it has refused to engage with her government since it first took power in 2016, ramping up economic, military and diplomatic pressure on the island of 24 million.

During a Yahoo News virtual town hall, the former vice president tore into President Trump’s refusal to wear a protective mask despite the recommendations of health experts and WH protocols for West Wing staffers.