American and Taliban officials, including U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, are poised to sign a historic agreement to end their nearly 19-year-old conflict in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, as U.S. President Donald Trump called coronavirus concerns a “hoax,” 813 new cases were reported today in South Korea.

Having spread to 47 countries, the coronavirus outbreak is continuing to rattle global markets too. Meanwhile, 33 Turkish soldiers were killed late

Thursday in a Syrian government airstrike on the rebel-held province of Idlib.

President Donald Trump has put Vice President Mike Pence in charge of America’s

coronavirus response after facing criticism for not taking the threat seriously enough. Meanwhile, a

Miller brewing employee shot and killed five people, then himself at the company’s campus in

Milwaukee.

Sen. Bernie Sanders’ six remaining rivals for the Democratic nomination piled on during a South Carolina debate last night. Meanwhile, a top U.S.

health official warned yesterday that the country is far from immune to the outbreak.

Stocks are sliding as the coronavirus outbreak spreads farther

afield, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping more than 1,000 points

yesterday. Meanwhile, the global #MeToo movement scored a symbolic victory

yesterday as a Manhattan court convicted disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey

Weinstein of two sex crimes.

Outbreaks in Europe, the Middle East and Asia are fueling global

fears that coronavirus is taking root far beyond China. Meanwhile, India rolled out

the red carpet Monday for President Donald Trump’s first state visit to the South

Asian country.

Though falling in China, new coronavirus infections are up elsewhere as the outbreak continues its global spread. Meanwhile, tens of thousands

of Democratic voters will hit caucus sites across Nevada today in the first presidential contest out West.

U.S. lawmakers were reportedly warned last week by a top intelli- gence official that Moscow’s already meddling in the 2020 election in order to re- elect President Donald Trump. Meanwhile, South Korean Prime Minister Chung Se-kyun says his country has “entered an emergency phase” as more than 100 new infections cropped up since Wednesday.

Billionaire presidential contender Michael Bloomberg and Sen.

Bernie Sanders were on the receiving end of fiery attacks during yesterday’s Democratic debate in Las Vegas. Meanwhile, federal authorities say they’ve taken

over an investigation into an overnight rampage at two hookah bars in the German city of Hanau that left at least nine people dead and four injured.

President Donald Trump either pardoned or commuted the sentences of 11 people yesterday, most of them wealthy White men convicted of corruption, lying or fraud over the past few decades. Meanwhile, new coronavirus

infections in mainland China fell for the second straight day.