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If a candidate goes into the convention with doubts about his or her viability, chaos can ensue. Here’s what history suggests could happen.

Some 12.8 million students across Japan were told to stay home for weeks, Saudi Arabia cut travel to Islam’s holiest sites.

An employee opened fire at Milwaukee’s Molson Coors complex, killing five fellow workers before taking his own life, police said.

Shortly after Trump spoke, the CDC announced a worrisome development: Another person in the U.S. is infected — someone in California who doesn't appear to have traveled abroad or been exposed to another patient.

The World Health Organization, meanwhile, reported that the number of new cases reported outside China on Tuesday exceeded the number of new cases inside the country for the first time.

Trump will hold a White House press conference with experts from the CDC. Watch live here.

Sixty-five years after Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi, Congress has designated lynching as a hate crime under federal law.

Syracuse University is going to close a study abroad program in Italy because of the spread of the new coronavirus.

More than 20 people were killed and 189 injured in three days of clashes in New Delhi that coincided with President Trump’s first state visit to India.

Michael Hertz, whose design firm produced one of the most consulted maps in human history, has died in New York. He was 87. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/nyregion/michael-hertz-dead.html

A National Guard soldier is set to become the Army’s first female Green Beret in coming weeks, following the Pentagon’s opening of all combat and Special Operations jobs to women in 2016. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/us/politics/first-women-special-forces-green-berets.html

Rep. Jim Clyburn's endorsement could provide a much-needed boost for former vice president Joe Biden heading into South Carolina's primary.

The man accused of dropping his granddaughter from the 11th floor of a cruise ship window in Puerto Rico last year accepted a plea deal.

By Joe Mario Pedersen

Feb 26, 2020

A ship with more than 4,500 passengers was not allowed to dock in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands after it was discovered a crew member was unwell.