Deaths Top 154,000; Indonesia Workers Plan Rallies: Virus Update – Bloomberg

(CNN)President Donald Trump met with top political aides at the White House on Thursday, a source familiar with the meeting tells CNN, as numerous public polls show the Republican leader significantly underperforming his 2016 pace in key battleground states, raising fears of defeat in November.Campaign manager Brad Parscale, deputy campaign manager Bill Stepien, pollster Tony…

The NBA’s Board of Governors has approved a 22-team format for restarting the league season in late July at the Disney campus near Orlando, Florida, another major step toward getting teams back onto the court and playing games again.The format calls for each team playing eight games to determine playoff seeding plus the possible utilization…

LONDON — In possibly the most significant development in years in a missing person case that has haunted Britain, German prosecutors said Thursday they believe Madeleine McCann is dead and a 43-year-old man serving prison time in Kiel, Germany, is a key suspect.McCann was three years old on May 3, 2007 when she disappeared from…

The European Central Bank announced Thursday it will increase its Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme by 600 billion euros ($672 billion) as it attempts to bolster the economy following the coronavirus crisis. The amount comes on top of 750 billion euros of government bond purchases the ECB announced in March, taking the total to 1.35 trillion euros. The central bank also said…