US president-elect touts 'decades of experience' of longtime State Department official, who spearheaded Obama administration's early outreach to Iran

World's worst-hit country marks 3,900 new deaths Wednesday, with fast-spreading new variants spark fear

Country has been recording at least a million infections per week since early November; one in 1,000 Americans have died of disease

Man responsible named as Anthony Quinn Warner, with police saying they haven't determined a motive for early morning Christmas blast

Trump, who has spread misinformation about vaccines, said not to be getting inoculated yet, due to recommended delay after experimental treatment when he caught the virus

COVID spreading across the US; hospitalizations also on the rise in New York, Florida, California, Texas

As US hospitalizations top 100,000, CDC survey shows antibodies for COVID-19 in blood samples taken more than a month before America's first case was diagnosed

Stephen Morgan, accused of anti-Semitism in 2009 Connecticut shooting, says worker harmed him by telling media he's allowed to play violent video games

Federal officials also say total hate crimes have reached highest level in more than a decade, as ADL warns true number is likely much higher

John Hopkins University says 1,149 more deaths also recorded over past 24 hours, amid surge in new infections across country