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Overseas spectators will not be permitted at the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers announced Saturday. The games were postponed to 2021 in March 2020 due to the onset of the pandemic. A large majority of the Japanese public opposes foreign spectators, with up to 80% saying the games should be postponed or canceled. Organizers have promised refunds

At a rally in Florida, President Trump hinted that he would fire Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading expert on infectious diseases, after the presidential election.

Trump and Fauci have clashed numerous times, with Fauci criticizing Trump's large in-person rallies, and with Trump emphasizing a more positive outlook than Fauci for this winter in regard to the COVID-19 coronavirus

This week, President Joe Biden reaches 100 days in office. Presidents have been measured by the 100-day milestone since Franklin D. Roosevelt laid much of the groundwork for what would become the New Deal during his first 100 days. Since taking office, Biden has signed 11 bills into law and issued 42 executive orders -- the most executive orders since Roosevelt in 1933. Biden also reversed 62

The United States saw a spike in initial unemployment claims last week despite record economic growth in the third quarter of 2020 amid election fallout and a COVID-19 coronavirus surge. The Labor Department (DOL) reported 742,000 new jobless claims last week, up 31,000 from the previous week. This number is three times higher than weekly average of 210,000 in the first two months of 2020, but