The champion of the world in the fight against Covid-19, without any real competition, is Vietnam. Despite a 900-mile border with China, Vietnam mobilized and halted the spread of the virus with a mere 355 cases, all of whom recovered. No one has died from Covid-19 in a nation of 100 million people.
Read moreA new chapter in the long and depressing history of politicizing disease is unfolding during the coronavirus pandemic, with political leaders around the world and their followers engaged in dangerous scapegoating of ideological, religious and ethnic enemies.
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Lawyers for British tabloid The Sun urged a U.K. judge on Thursday to throw out Johnny Depp’s libel claim against the paper because the film star allegedly failed to disclose evidence relating to his drug use.
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Any time a New York City police shooting leads to the injury or death of a civilian, the NYPD must publicly release footage from officers’ body-worn cameras within a month, Mayor Bill de Blasio ordered Tuesday.
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Nearly four years after reality star Kim Kardashian was tied up at gunpoint in Paris and robbed of a small fortune in gems, a trial for 12 suspects appeared a step closer Thursday after prosecutors asked for the case to go to court.
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Vast tracts of pristine rainforest on three continents went up in smoke last year, with an area roughly the size of Switzerland cut down or burned to make way for cattle and commercial crops, researchers said Tuesday.
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Confirmed coronavirus cases in Latin America have surged past 1 million, while hard-hit Britain and Russia eased lockdowns Monday, despite not having their outbreaks fully under control.
Read moreSan Jose-based blockchain services company BitClave will return $25.5 million it raised in an unregistered initial coin offering of digital asset securities, the SEC said Thursday.
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Promising news of a Covid-19 vaccine was not enough to keep markets rallying on Tuesday. MANHATTAN (CN) — Markets coughed
Read moreA brief published earlier this year said securities dealer Justin Keener was accused of fraud by the SEC. That statement was incorrect. Keener was accused of acting as an unregistered dealer of securities. He was not accused of fraud. Courthouse News fully regrets the error.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A journalism advocacy group has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a reporter in Memphis,
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Announcing a dozen new diagnostic testing sites in conjunction with New York City’s public hospital system, Mayor Bill de Blasio said that the capacity is not yet half where he wants to be.
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The Covid-19 virus is new to humanity, but pandemics are not. Nor is the probable evolutionary path of Covid-19 new, as a disease that jumped from animals to man. Evidence of such zoonotic plagues has been found in prehistory: more than 5,000 years ago in sites in China and Sweden.
Read moreFormer President Barack Obama will deliver a televised prime-time commencement address for the high school Class of 2020 during an hourlong event that will also feature LeBron James, Malala Yousafzai and Ben Platt, among others.
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Emigrants returning from the United States were once considered heroes in Guatemala, where the money they send back to their hometowns is a mainstay of the economy.
Read moreA short-lived term unlikely to have use in the future: that was how the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary viewed “anti-Semite,” recently uncovered archival documents show.
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From the Great Smoky Mountains to Hawaii volcanoes, the D.C. Circuit is clamping down on helicopter tours over national parks, ordering federal agencies to enforce regulations ignored for nearly two decades.
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Perhaps the strangest election in Ohio’s 217-year history concluded Tuesday night, as counties across the state submitted the results of a primary conducted almost entirely by mail-in ballots.
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Steven Donziger got a head start on home confinement when a federal judge ordered criminal charges that prosecutors declined to bring.
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