Long Island Newsday: World

The biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built — a car-size vehicle bristling with cameras, microphones, drills and lasers — blasted off Thursday as part of an ambitious, long-range project to bring the first Martian rock samples back to Earth to be analyzed for evidence of ancient life.

Money laundering is not a good idea, as a South Korean found out when he or she put banknotes in a washing machine to remove possible traces of the coronavirus

St. Bernards are known for helping to rescue distressed travelers in the mountains, but on Sunday the tables were turned in northern England

Trump gave up on the Jacksonville portion of the GOP convention, conceding it's "not the right time" for a large gathering, and a payroll tax cut he wanted in the stimulus.

The Justice Department announced criminal charges against hackers it says worked with the Chinese government to target firms developing vaccines for the coronavirus.

Trump ended his resistance to coronavirus-curbing strategies during a briefing where he acknowledged the crisis could "get worse before it gets better."

China said "malicious slander" is behind an order by the U.S. government to close its consulate in Houston and maintained that its officials have never operated outside ordinary diplomatic norms.

Trump is betting on his televised coronavirus briefings, which ended after ridicule the last time around, as a game changer for his sagging poll numbers.

Trump is already suggesting he might not accept the November election results because he believes without evidence that expanded mail-in voting could be rigged.

Besides double-digit deficits in polls, Trump's uphill battles include the coronavirus, an eroding base, no second-term agenda and voters who've had it with him.