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On the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, nurses and doctors are caring for the living. But there is another front line of those caring for the dead. They fear they can also get infected and die.

Philip Foglia, an Italian-American civic leader who spear-headed campaigns to honor Mother Cabrini and preserve Christopher Columbus statues in the city, died Tuesday after contracting the coronavirus. Foglia, 69, was ra...

Humanitarian groups urge military and rebels to heed UN's call for a global ceasefire amid the coronavirus emergency.

Writers and technicians labor feverishly while the clock ticks. The crowd starts to gather around 5 p.m. It's a hot ticket. No one wants to be late. Backstage, the temperamental star suddenly arrives. One can imagine him...

President Trump said Tuesday he doesn’t know whether North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is sick but wished him luck with any potential ailments. “I can only say this: I wish him well,” Trump said when questioned about...

Stephen Hawking's family has donated the famed physicist's ventilator to a hospital in Cambridge to help treat coronavirus patients, according to a report. Hawking’s daughter Lucy said the Royal Papworth Hospital was �...

Thirty perverts targeting the surge of kids online because of school shutdowns were busted in a Virginia sting operation called "Operation COVID Crackdown," authorities said.

Republicans lawmakers in Wisconson are attempting to block the state's coronavirus lockdown. The state legislature filed a lawsuit in State Supreme Court Tuesday seeking a temporary injunction against Democratic Governor...

A Florida man wanted on several arrest warrants tried to deter authorities by taping a shoddy sign to his front door that claimed he had coronavirus, authorities said. Deputies from the Putnam County Sheriff's Office enc...

The tweet comes a week after vessels from Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps Navy came close to US ships in the Gulf.

Owners of many small, independent restaurants were passed over by a federal loan program. Now they fear that a new round may not solve their problems.

As coronavirus stalks the globe, sapping attention, budgets and government personnel, U.S. enemies may be testing resolve.       

Fox News is exercising some caution when it comes to the malaria drug it's been hyping for weeks. Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, the network's hosts have repeated the idea -- without proof -- that the drug hydroxyc...

A veteran Detroit nurse was fired for speaking out on staffing ratios and poor conditions at a hospital amid the coronavirus pandemic, a new lawsuit claims. In court papers filed Monday, Kenisa Barkai, 38, alleges her Ma...

A Nigerian woman has given birth to twins, a boy, and a girl at the age of 68.

The university asked the Trump administration to give the $8.6 million it had been allocated to other Massachusetts colleges that were "struggling" in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak.

Earth is estimated to be 4.5 billion years old, but understanding when it evolved from a sizzling hot ball to a planet that could host life is a little more difficult.

Doctors are reporting a sharp increase in the number of government officials and business leaders seeking treatment in local hospitals.

Americans are Zooming and Slacking into work instead of driving. But digital technologies have a carbon footprint, too.

On this Earth Day, sea turtles are thriving on Florida beaches and the air in Los Angeles is cleaner than it has been in years. It's not exactly a cause for celebration, though -- these events are the result of the coron...

The Senate passed a $484 billion relief package, after Democrats and Trump administration officials finalized an agreement.

If adopted, a single government-run server will store a list that maps every pseudonym to its real user's identity.