A map of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths around the world. The respiratory disease has spread rapidly across six continents and has killed at least 1 million globally.

Historians in Italy compare Wednesday's events to the rise of fascism. "Violence is incompatible with the exercise of democratic rights and freedoms," Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said.

A 52-year-old man pled guilty to causing at least $1,000 worth of damage in Yellowstone National Park in search of the Forrest Fenn treasure.

The move is likely to increase tensions during President Trump's final weeks in office. Separately, Iran seized a South Korean oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, South Korea said Monday.

In less than two months, the country doubled its total number of infections, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

The president-elect's transition team is pushing back against Twitter's decision, which is a reversal from the last presidential transition.

"I feel like healing is coming," New York critical care nurse Sandra Lindsay said after receiving her shot. "I hope this marks the beginning to the end of a very painful time in our history."

Texas lawmakers voted to remove the word "Negro" from geographic features in 1991. But a federal board blocked the proposed name changes, and since then, almost none of them have been changed.

Experts say low-risk people in the U.S. will likely be immunized before many high-risk people in poor countries.

The medicine is one of the few to win regulatory approval as a treatment for the disease, but has fallen out of favor with the health authority.

The state is the first in U.S. to reach the grim benchmark as the nation faces a widespread surge in infections.

In the past week, the U.S. has blown past record levels of infection that were seen in the summer, when new cases topped 77,000 in July.

It's the latest in a series of U.S.-India military agreements designed to counter China's growing power in the Indo-Pacific region.

The country joins the European Union and other countries that have pledged to reduce their carbon footprint to zero over the next few decades.

Despite the high numbers of cases, most of the world's population is still vulnerable to getting infected and this pandemic is far from over, the WHO's head of emergencies Dr. Michael Ryan says.