Only six days after the academic year started, the University of Alabama has reported more than 566 coronavirus cases on campus.

The numbers do not include the previously announced 310 students who tested positive before Aug. 19 when they returned at the Tuscaloosa campus.

University of Alabama President Stuart R. Bell urged all students and faculty members to practice social distancing, wear masks, and limit social gatherings. Bell highlighted that violators could be suspended from school.

In an email to all the college students, Bell wrote that the administration and university management's primary goal is to finish the fall semester together. ''The margin

Two participants and two staffers working at the Republic National Convention in Charlotte, NC, have tested positive for the novel virus, the Mecklenburg County officials confirmed Friday.

They were isolated, and all people they were in contact with had been traced and alerted. It is unclear whether they showed any symptoms or not.

Charlotte officials already raised concerns over the lack of social distancing at the event. Videos on social media showed that very few attendees were wearing masks. Also, many delegates posed together for photographs, ignoring the social distancing recommendations.

However, the Republican party took some precautions. They used some special badges

Following several unexplained incidents observed by the US Military, the Pentagon has announced it is creating a task force that will investigate UFOs. Termed The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force was just launched in early August. Officials say the task force will provide a boost in efforts by the Naval Intelligence office.

The Defense Department said of the forming of the new task force that is in hope to: “improve its understanding of and gain insight into, the nature and origins of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP)'s (the newest term for UFO's). The task force's mission is to detect, analyze, and catalog

House Democrat Rep. Joaquin Castro, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, has opened an investigation into US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's decision to address the Republic National Convention.

In a letter to Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun, Castro opined that Pompeo's appearance is "highly unusual," unprecedented, and arguably legal. "American people deserve a full investigation," Castro wrote.

The nation's first diplomat is currently traveling overseas. He is on an official trip to the Middle East to strengthen the US-backed deal to normalize bilateral relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.

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A day after criticizing President Trump, California Governor Gavin Newsom asked Washington for' 'major disaster declaration" amid massive wildfires.In his Democratic National Convention video on Thursday, Newsom said that the President had threatened California and all the 40 million Americans living there to defund the state's efforts on wildfire suppression as they "had not raked enough leaves."

"You've got to clean your floors," President Trump said on Thursday, blaming "years" of leaves and broken trees that have not been cleaned by the local authorities.

Despite the mutual public allegations, on Friday, Gov. Newsom admitted that the working relationship between his office and

From an empty classroom at Brandywine High School in Wilmington, Delaware, where she used to teach English before, Jill Biden closed out the second night of the Democratic National Convention with a personal speech dedicated to her husband, Joe Biden.

Jill Biden described him as a loving and dedicated father. He managed to rebuild his family after the passing of his first wife, Neilia, and their 1-year-daughter, Naomi, in a car accident in 1972, Jill Biden said.

In her view, her husband possesses the qualities to "heal a deeply divided nation." Rebuilding a family and rebuilding a country requires love, understanding, resilience,

President Trump has refused to condemn Russia over the poisoning of Putin's opponent Alexey Navalny, saying that Washington had not yet seen any proof.

According to the US President, what has happened to Navalny is ''tragic,'' and we should look at it ''very seriously.''

Trump also opined that everyone is always mentioning Russia, but in his view, China is a nation that we should be talking about much more than Russia.

Earlier this week, German chancellor, Angela Merkel, revealed test results conducted at a military laboratory, proving that the Kremlin critic had been poisoned with a nerve agent called Novichok. In her words,