Xi sets the tone for the next five years.

President Emmanuel Macron of France called a knife attack that killed three people at Notre-Dame basilica in Nice Thursday an “Islamist terrorist attack.”

Kelly Dodd is one of the stars of “The Real Housewives of Orange County,” a show in its 15th season that follows the travails of six women in Southern California.

In today’s edition of the Morning newsletter, David Leonhardt writes:

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With business travel all but stopped, city hotels and tourist organizations have made a full-court press to attract local and nearby leisure travelers with bottom-barrel rates and extra perks.

A police officer in the Philippines was killed this week after a fighting rooster slashed him during a raid on an illegal cockfighting den to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Global markets showed signs of stabilizing on Thursday, one day after a Wall Street swoon was prompted by worries about the relentless spread of the coronavirus.

As an immense new surge in coronavirus cases sweeps the United States, President Trump is closing his re-election campaign by continuing to declare before large and largely maskless crowds that the virus is vanishing.

Already battling devastating floods, the country was hit by one of its biggest storms in decades.