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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is 'strongly' advising Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving and not to spend the holiday with people from outside their household amid a nationwide surge of COVID-19.  The recommendation from the nation's top public health agency on Thursday is some of the firmest guidance yet from the government on curtailing traditional gatherings to fight the outbreak.    The travel advice is a 'strong recommendation' and not a requirement, CDC official Henry Walke said, adding that the agency was giving the advice after the majority of states experienced a surge in coronavirus cases in recent weeks.  Daily cases, which are currently on the rise in all 50 states, increased to 170,000 on Thursday. Daily deaths surged to 1,800 and hospitalizations reached yet another record high of 79,000 patients.  'We're alarmed with the exponential increase in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths,' Walke said.   Nationwide infections,

Heartbreaking images taken today show the coffins of a mother and her two sons who died of oronavirus within days of one another as they are laid to rest. Masked mourners lined the streets of Pentre, South Wales, to pay their respects to Gladys Lewis, 74, and her sons Dean, 44, and Darren, 42. Gladys, who had 13 grandchildren, died at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital on October 29. Dean was found unresponsive at his home in nearby Treorchy the following day and pronounced dead shortly after. His younger brother Darren died at the same hospital as his mother, on November 2, following treatment in intensive care. All three had tested positive for coronavirus before they died, and their death certificates state Covid-19 as the cause. Their family arranged for all three funerals to take place at the same time so they could be together.  While the Lewis' family sat inside St Peter's Church for the service, mourners socially distanced outside as they listened to the funeral through loud

Iran has fired up advanced uranium centrifuges installed at its underground Natanz site a day after it emerged Donald Trump asked for options on attacking the facility. Tehran is pumping nuclear fuel into high-tech IR-2m machines at Natanz, in contravention of an international deal to only use first generation IR-1 machines, a UN report revealed today. Trump held an Oval Office meeting last week where he was 'talked out of' launching strikes on Iran after a previous UN report showed a massive increase in nuclear stockpiles in breach of the Obama-era pact which Trump abandoned in 2018. Defence sources told The New York Times that Trump asked for options on a bombardment - likely to have targeted Iran's foremost nuclear facility, Natanz.  Last week's report by the International Atomic Energy Agency showed an interlinked cluster of IR-2ms had been moved underground into Natanz. But significantly, that report said no fuel had yet been added.  Tuesday's report, revealed

The proposed settlement in the Flint water crisis where residents were harmed by lead-tainted water is now $641million -  and the state plans to borrow $600million for the payout. The city of Flint was plagued with a severe water crisis in 2014 when water from the Flint River scraped lead from aging pipes and fixtures and contaminated the water supply and exposed over 100,000 residents to elevated lead levels. The contamination came after workers followed state environmental officials' advice not to use anti-corrosive additives, but without those treatments, the water supply became poisonous.   Settlement documents filed in US District Court on Tuesday detail how the state, the city of Flint, McLaren Regional Medical Center and Rowe Professional Services plan to pay out their portions of the deal. It also reveals that Michigan intends to borrow $600million through a settlement entity which will obtain a loan from the Michigan Strategic Fund, according to Michigan Live. The settleme

James Stunt today claimed diamonds given to him by a member of the Royal Family were among gems stolen in a £30million raid on his safe. Mr Stunt, 38, told Southwark Crown Court the theft from his £10million Belgravia mews home in December 2017 was 'one of the largest in UK history'. His former security guard, Justinas Ivaskevicius, 34, is on trial accused of stealing a 16.18-carat fancy yellow diamond ring valued at £515,000. But Mr Stunt, who months earlier had split from Petra Ecclestone - daughter of former F1 tycoon Bernie - in an acrimonious divorce after six years of marriage, said other more valuable items were also stolen from his safe. Giving evidence, he said: 'I lost diamonds, some gifted to me. I'm not going to say from who in this court because it was a deceased member of the Royal Family.' Jurors were shown pictures of the contents of the safe, which included two blue diamonds, a pink diamond, a large white diamond, six 1kg gold bars, the yellow diamo

Former President Barack Obama's A Promised Land sold nearly 890,000 copies in the US and Canada in its first 24 hours, putting it on track to be the best selling presidential memoir in modern history. The first-day sales, a record for Penguin Random House, includes pre-orders, e-books and audio. 'We are thrilled with the first day sales,' said David Drake, publisher of the Penguin Random House imprint Crown. 'They reflect the widespread excitement that readers have for President Obama's highly anticipated and extraordinarily written book.' The only book by a former White House resident to come close to the early pace of A Promised Land is the memoir by Obama's wife, former first lady Michelle Obama, whose Becoming sold 725,000 copies in North America its first day and has topped 10 million worldwide since its release in 2018.  Becoming is still so in demand that Crown, which publishes both Obamas and reportedly paid around $60million for their books, has ye