One million Australian families to get free childcare as part of coronavirus response
About one million families in Australia will have access to free childcare in response to the coronavirus outbreak, the country’s Prime…
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Here’s a look at what states are exempting religious gatherings from stay at home orders
Officials from the health care and federal and state governments have promoted social distancing as a powerful tool in the fight against coronavirus.…
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Here’s a look at what states are exempting religious gatherings from stay at home orders
Officials from the health care and federal and state governments have promoted social distancing as a powerful tool in the fight against coronavirus.…
Continue Reading South Africa gathered homeless people into a sports stadium. Here too, coronavirus divides rich from poor
The policeman raised his bullhorn to shout instructions, backed up by a group of soldiers piling out of an armored personnel carrier. “Go home.…
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5 things to know for April 2: Coronavirus, health, guns, NASA, Daniel Pearl
The Democratic convention is a little more than 100 days away. Joe Biden says it’s difficult to imagine it will go on as planned, given…
Continue Reading 5 things to know for April 2: Coronavirus, health, guns, NASA, Daniel Pearl
The Democratic convention is a little more than 100 days away. Joe Biden says it’s difficult to imagine it will go on as planned, given…
Continue Reading Life found in rocks beneath the ocean floor give scientists hope of finding life on Mars
When scientists find microbial life thriving in some of the most extreme environments on Earth, it gives them hope that they may be able to find life…
Continue Reading Malaysian government apologizes after advising wives to avoid ‘nagging’ during coronavirus lockdown
The Malaysian government was forced to apologize after its Women’s Development Department published a series of sexist “tips” to…
Continue Reading Pakistan court overturns convictions in killing of American journalist Daniel Pearl
A local court in Pakistan on Thursday overturned the death sentence and murder convictions of four men believed to be involved in the killing of US…
Continue Reading Cruise ships with hundreds of sick passengers to arrive off Florida coast early Thursday
A pair of cruise ships carrying more than 200 guests and crew with flu-like symptoms, including eight passengers who tested positive for Covid-19,…
Continue Reading Lori Loughlin and 13 other defendants move to dismiss charges in college admissions scandal
Attorneys for parents in the college admissions scandal case, including Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli, filed a collection of…
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Before a Washington mother died of coronavirus, her six children used a walkie-talkie to say goodbye
Just weeks ago, Sundee Rutter was told she was beating breast cancer. But suddenly she was dying of a different disease, and her six children were…
Continue Reading FBI sees spike in gun sale background checks amid coronavirus pandemic
The FBI reported a 41% surge in background checks by individuals attempting to purchase firearms in the United States last month, according to newly…
Continue Reading 2 dead from coronavirus, 45 ill after March choir rehearsal
Two people have died from Covid-19 and 45 people are ill after a March 10 choir practice in Washington state, health officials said. Of the some 60…
Continue Reading FEMA sends EMTs and paramedics to New York City to help amid coronavirus crisis
The Federal Emergency Management Agency sent hundreds of ambulances, EMTs and paramedics to New York City this week to help assist FDNY amid the…
Continue Reading In Panama, coronavirus lockdown means separating men and women
Panama is taking a new — if somewhat unorthodox — measure to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus: separation of the sexes. Starting on…
Continue Reading Ellis Marsalis Jr., pianist, educator and patriarch of legendary musical family, dies of complications from coronavirus
Ellis Marsalis Jr., a New Orleans jazz legend, educator and father of four musical sons died on Wednesday, Ellis Marsalis Center for Music Director…
Continue Reading The Philippines is sending its nurses to the frontline underprotected. Now medics are dying, others risk spreading the virus
Every day, Filipina nurse April Abrias walks six miles to monitor 30 patients who are suspected to have the novel coronavirus in a rural province…
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Los Angeles mayor urges everyone in his city to wear face masks
LOS ANGELES, California — Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has recommended that the city’s 4 million people wear masks when going outside amid the…
Continue Reading When will you get your stimulus cash, and how?
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. government is preparing to send out direct payments to help individuals amid the coronavirus pandemic, but those who need…
Continue Reading Asia may have been right about coronavirus and face masks, and the rest of the world is coming around
In the coming weeks, if they have not already, your government is likely to begin advising you to wear a face mask to protect against coronavirus.…
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Trump resists calling for nationwide stay-at-home as U.S. virus cases top 200,000
WASHINGTON, DC — The number of U.S. coronavirus cases surged by more than 14,000 in just a few hours Wednesday as the death toll topped 4,600. As of…
Continue Reading NYU Langone tells emergency doctors to consider who gets intubated, WSJ reports
A March 28 email from the NYU Langone Health Department of Emergency Medicine Chair told physicians to “think more critically about who we…
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Los Angeles engineer allegedly steals train, crashing it near hospital ship Mercy
LOS ANGELES, California — A train engineer intentionally drove a speeding locomotive off a track at the Port of Los Angeles because he was…
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Coronavirus is dividing blue cities from their red states
The struggle to contain the coronavirus pandemic has opened a new front in the long-running conflict between blue cities and red states. Across a…
Continue Reading More than 60 residents of an Italian elder care home died in a month
More than a third of residents in an elder care home near Milan died in less than a month during the coronavirus pandemic, a spokesperson for the…
Continue Reading A sociologist known for walking every block of New York City has died of coronavirus
William Helmreich, a prominent sociologist perhaps best known for walking every block of New York City, died Saturday morning of coronavirus, his…
Continue Reading Coronavirus has police everywhere scrambling to respond as their forces are reduced
Serving and trying to protect against a threat we can’t see, law enforcement officials around the country are grappling with policing during…
Continue Reading More than 12,000 people want to be part of NASA’s next class of astronauts
NASA received an out-of-this-world number of applicants in this last month for its new class of astronauts. More than 12,000 people from every corner…
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