Bloomberg Army personnel and rescue workers sifted through mountains of rubble from a massive explosion that flattened Lebanon’s main port, looking for survivors from a blast that roared through the capital, Beirut, killing at least 100 people and wounding thousands more. Authorities appealed to other countries for emergency aid as concerns over food supply in the import-dependent nation mounted. Officials ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said the coronavirus pandemic is “going away,” as the US continues to see tens of thousands of new daily cases and recorded 1,380 deaths. “This thing’s going away. It will go away like things go away,” Trump said in a telephone interview with Fox News. He said the US is in “very good shape” while touting ...

Bloomberg The rapid speed at which researchers are developing coronavirus vaccines doesn’t mean that safety is being sacrificed, said Anthony Fauci, the US government’s top infectious-disease expert. “The rapidity with which we are moving relates more to technological advances with how you can make a vaccine even before you start testing it,” Fauci, the head of the National Institute of ...