Royalty, politicians and celebrities have all stepped over the threshold of this Westminster townhouse for sale. Guests over the years have ranged from Queen Alexandra to Marilyn Monroe, the latter being a dinner guest of theatrical impresario Hugh 'Binkie' Beaumont who lived at the property for many years after the …...Read More

Serena Williams and Meghan Markle may well have formed a close bond behind closed doors - but as far as the public is concerned, the tennis pro would rather everyone forget that she even knows the Duchess of Sussex's name. The 39-year-old tennis pro gave her 'really good friend' a …...Read More

Covid-19 deaths in England and Wales spike by 55% with 215 victims last week - but are still only a fraction of the 8,800 recorded during the darkest seven-day spell of the crisis in April and account for just 2% of fatalities from all causes...Read More

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday mostly reinstated a South Carolina law that requires absentee ballots to be accompanied by a witness’s signature. Lower courts had blocked the law, saying it interfered with the right to vote during a pandemic. The Supreme Court made an exception for ballots cast …...Read More

Three workers were killed and one was injured after a stairwell collapsed on Monday afternoon in a building that was under construction in Houston, the authorities said. The Houston Fire Department’s technical rescue team responded to the accident, the department said in a statement. The injured worker was taken to …...Read More

A former police chief in Bridgeport, Conn., and another former top city official pleaded guilty on Monday to rigging the hiring process to ensure that the chief got his job in 2018. The former chief, Armando J. Perez, and David Dunn, a former acting personnel director, each pleaded guilty to …...Read More

The last time Kamala Harris stepped onto a debate stage, her Democratic primary campaign was sputtering to a close — running out of money, trailing badly in the polls and fading as a force on policy issues. She ranked sixth in speaking time at that November 2019 debate; she dropped …...Read More

Mr. Trump pressured his doctors to release him from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in suburban Maryland, but it did not indicate that he had escaped jeopardy, only that he could be treated at the White House, where he has 24-hour medical care. Dr. Sean P. Conley, the White …...Read More

Advertisement Joe Biden led a chorus of condemnation last night after Donald Trump told Americans not to be 'afraid' of a virus which has killed 200,000 people and whipped off his face mask for a photo-op despite appearing to have trouble breathing on his return to the White House. Trump …...Read More

[Read our live updates on President Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis.] WASHINGTON — Top White House officials are blocking strict new federal guidelines for the emergency release of a coronavirus vaccine, objecting to a provision that would almost certainly guarantee that no vaccine could be authorized before the election on Nov. 3, …...Read More