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The scam artists are going after the recently issued stimulus checks. They’re also looking to take advantage of people’s goodwill via fraudulent fundraisers and their desperation …

While a vaccine for COVID-19 won’t be available for the next several months and into 2021, hospitals and labs around the world are racing to find the best effective treatment for supportive care to buy time for patients’ survival. Some of the most tal…

As a clearer picture emerges of COVID-19’s decidedly deadly toll on black Americans, leaders are demanding a reckoning of the systemic policies they say have made many African Americans far more vulnerable to the virus, including inequity in access to…

A group representing the homeless is asking to use the Athletes Village for next year’s Tokyo Olympics as a shelter during the coronavirus pandemic.

President Donald Trump’s guidelines for states to reopen their economies had the hallmarks of a permission structure. But what he really created was a blame structure.

Laura Herd says she sleeps better because her state’s governor, Michigan Democrat Gretchen Whitmer, imposed one of the nation’s strictest stay-at-home orders to combat the coronavirus pandemic. President Donald Trump’s actions are another story.

Socially distanced crews in New York and California are keeping horse racing on television in the U.S. during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Navy’s top admiral will soon decide the fate of the ship captain who was fired after pleading for commanders to move faster to safeguard his coronavirus-infected crew on the USS Theodore Roosevelt.

The NFL draft is annually one of the most ambitious productions that ESPN does. Next week’s coverage might go down as THE most ambitious in the network’s 40-year history.

Governments around the world are wrestling with when and how to lift economically painful virus-control measures as unemployment rises and rent payments come due.