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During the first months of this year, we have seen once again how fragile is our global world, how great the danger of sliding into chaos. The COVID-19 pandemic is facing all countries with a common threat, and no country can cope with it alone. The immediate challenge today is to defeat this new, vicious…

As a former heart-transplant surgeon and former U.S. Senator, I understand the frustrations many on the front lines of this pandemic are experiencing. Here are three things those doctors and nurses—dedicated but tired, anxious and feeling betrayed by government—wish policymakers would do: First, strengthen supply chains of personal protective equipment (PPE) and diagnostic tests. We…

The COVID-19 pandemic is a stark reminder of just how interconnected the world is. The disease has cut a broad swath across the globe, from Europe to Asia, to North and South America, and to Africa. Infections continue to rise in developed and developing countries, rendering distinctions of wealth, poverty, nationality, race and class meaningless.…

The Know My Name author calls for kindness and tolerance.

Apple is seeking to boost sales while consumers wait for the launch of new high-end models with 5G later this year

Ben Cayer and Mindy Brock share a home, a profession and, now, a mission

Since she graduated high school, Kayla Stetzel, a 26-year-old law student living in Chicago, hadn’t spent any significant time in her father’s house in Indiana. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Not wanting to spend months alone in her small city apartment, Stetzel decided to move back in with her father—and inadvertently found herself reliving her…

Michigan has at least 27,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 1,768 deaths — third-most in the U.S.

Apartment owners say they're struggling, too, as bills pile up while tenants don't pay rent.

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, roughly 1 in 6 U.S. workers, some 26 million people, worked either partly or fully from home. Now that number has grown significantly, as states are requiring non-essential employees to stay home. If you’re one of these people, you may be noticing new aches and pains that you did…

Captain Tom Moore set himself a target of raising £1,000. He's raised a thousand times that (and more)

Consider this for perspective: with 107,263 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across the five boroughs as of April 14., if New York City were a sovereign nation, it would be the sixth worst-hit country by the coronavirus. The city accounts for nearly 18% of all cases in the United States, which leads the world in infections…

No longer content to filter his ideas and experiences through Black-ish’s Johnson clan, Barris stars as a version of himself: a successful producer drifting around his large glass-and-concrete home, alternately oblivious to and bickering with his wife (Rashida Jones) and their six kids.

"When we’re divided, the virus exploits the cracks between us," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is getting high marks for his no-nonsense approach to the coronavirus crisis gripping the country. The Republican rang the alarm early, didn’t wait for Washington to notice and took dramatic steps to shut down much of his state before the pandemic could overrun it. In turn, DeWine seems to have headed…

On March 14, Kevin Hommema, an aerosol scientist at Battelle, a Columbus, Ohio-based research and development nonprofit, sent an email to his boss with a new idea: What if Battelle repurposed an older chemical decontamination technique to help health care providers decontaminate and reuse N95 masks that were in short supply across the nation? Hommema…

It's a socially-distanced trip down memory lane

Warren becomes the last of the former vice president's major Democratic presidential rivals to formally back him

(ATLANTA) — A polarizing Democratic state lawmaker in Georgia broke party ranks on Tuesday to endorse President Donald Trump’s reelection. State Rep. Vernon Jones, who represents portions of metro Atlanta’s DeKalb and Rockdale counties, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he’s supporting Trump because of the Republican president’s handling of the economy and his criminal justice…

During a wildfire, thousands of firefighters must work in close quarters for weeks at a time

Until we end COVID-19 transmission across the planet, we are likely to keep getting multiple COVID-19 “waves”— that is, rolling, recurrent outbreaks. While no public health expert has a foolproof crystal ball, this scenario of repeated waves means that the likely contours of the next one to two years are now coming into clearer view.…

The decision has drawn condemnation from all quarters

About one in every five people in Africa, nearly 250 million, already didn’t have enough food before the virus outbreak

Prosecutors said the four men planned to carry out an attack in Germany, including on U.S. Air Force bases

The Federal Aviation Administration says pilots should steer clear until more studies can be done