US & World

With most of the country operating under stay-at-home orders, drivers are spending less time on the road — which means fewer accidents and…

Africa’s ailing presidents and powerful elites have been known to jet out to seek treatment abroad, instead of investing in healthcare in their…

Spain’s health minister warned that the country is not in a “de-escalation phase” even as his government prepares measures to…

The Chinese government has issued a new draft list of livestock that can be farmed for meat in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic, which is…

There is a man at the center of this story, but it is really about three women. One went on to become a US senator and run for president, twice,…

Two separate research projects suggest that the novel coronavirus may have been circulating in New York City earlier than thought and the earliest…

Activist Phyllis Lyon, who spent more than 50 years fighting for LGBTQ rights, died of natural causes. She was 95. California Gov. Gavin Newsom…

Microsoft is giving its workers an additional three months of paid parental leave to deal with extended school closures due to the coronavirus…

Microsoft is giving its workers an additional three months of paid parental leave to deal with extended school closures due to the coronavirus…

When I was a young boy, I witnessed unrelenting verbal abuse and saw the results of the physical harm inflicted on my mother, Margaret. The…

When the coronavirus first emerged, it seemed like a distant threat to Brazil and the country’s sprawling and impoverished favelas. But as the…

As the coronavirus pandemic intensified, Leilani Jordan insisted on going to her job as a clerk at a Maryland grocery so she could help seniors, her…

US spy agencies were tracking the rise of the novel coronavirus as early as November, weeks before that information was included in President Donald…

Within weeks of the Grand Princess cruise ship arriving off the California coast — an early harbinger of the coming coronavirus pandemic…

Before the coronavirus pandemic, Jennifer Knox would walk into her bar and soak in the sounds of people chatting while sipping on their drinks and…

Even though Wednesday was another day that brought a record number of deaths reported from coronavirus in the United States, there was a glimmer of…

Divers found the body of 8-year-old Gideon McKean, a great-grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, on Wednesday afternoon, police said. They discovered the…

Charlotte Figi, a child with a catastrophic type of epilepsy who went on to inspire a CBD movement, passed away Tuesday at age 13. Charlotte had…

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons’ Investigation and Identification Team (IIT) has concluded the Syrian government…

Small business owners feel they’re in a race for their livelihoods. When they learned $349 billion in forgivable loans would be paid out on a…