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COVID-19 cases are at an all-time high in the U.S. And for the first time in almost two months, The White House Coronavirus Task Force had a televised...
Just two months ago, the Northeast was the epicenter of the pandemic in the U.S. On Wednesday, there were just 581 new reported cases of the coronavir...
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the WHO, started Wednesday's coronavirus briefing on a somber note: By next week there will be a t...
Wearing a face mask, with hand sanitizer and Lysol wipes close at hand, Dr. Anthony Fauci testified before the House Tuesday, to explain why the U.S....
Florida passed a grim milestone: 100,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases. The latest numbers include a lot of people in their 20s and 30s. Some officials are...
COVID-19 cases are on the rise in some states — and more testing isn't the only explanation.Find out how cases are in your community. Today is Junetee...
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration's plan to end DACA — Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals — was "arbitrary and capric...
While President Trump wants to celebrate an uptick in retail sales as states reopen, there's still a long way to go before the economy is back on trac...
There's a cost to staying home, too. Julianne Holt-Lunstad, a neuroscientist and social psychologist at Brigham Young University, explains the toll th...
Nationwide, numbers were never trending downward in any big way. Now in some states that are reopening, they are going up. Oregon and Arizona are two...
All week we've been hearing about rising cases in states around the country. The stock market reacted on Thursday, in part after Federal Reserve offic...
Many states that reopened a few weeks ago are seeing spikes in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. In Arizona, officials say if cases continue to...
The numbers aren't really changing. 20,000 new cases a day, and more than 800 dead. Experts warn that by fall, in America, the death count could rise...
George Floyd's killing by police sparked protests around the world. Because of the coronavirus, attendance at Floyd's Houston funeral was limited and...
After a nearly three-month lockdown and over 20,000 coronavirus-related deaths, New York City is taking its first steps to reopen parts of its economy...
Editor's note: In this episode, we mispronounced the name of professor Sven-Eric Jordt.It looks like another weekend of protests across the country. A...
It's been 96 days since the first person in America was reported to have died of COVID-19. And for the first time, the federal government will require...
Eight states and the District of Columbia went to the polls Tuesday. More mail-in ballots and fewer in-person polling places caused long delays in som...
The more we learn about the coronavirus, the clearer it becomes that it's disproportionately affecting communities of color. And as protests continue...