Coronavirus USA Updates: FDA head self-quarantines after exposure reportedly to Pence aid
Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn will self-quarantine for 14 days after he came into contact with an individual who tested positive for...
Coronavirus USA Updates: TSA to require employees to wear ‘facial protection’ at screening checkpoints
After more than two months into the coronavirus pandemic, the Transportation Security Administration announced all employees must wear "facial protection" at screening checkpoints.
The...
Coronavirus USA Updates: Test and trace program in NYC outlined
New York City will be able to test 20,000 people per day by the end of May through the new testing and tracing...
Coronavirus USA Updates: Federal report details ‘immediate jeopardy’ situation at NJ nursing home
A New Jersey nursing home where 17 bodies were discovered in a makeshift morgue “was not in substantial compliance” with infection control regulations,...
Coronavirus USA Updates: FDA authorizes first diagnostic test using at-home collection of saliva
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized the first diagnostic test that uses saliva collected at home.
The agency announced Friday it issued...
Coronavirus USA Updates: irst ICE detainee dies from COVID-19 at California facility
A 57-year-old man who was being held at Otay Mesa Detention Center, a federal immigration detention center in San Diego, died Wednesday morning from...
Coronavirus Updates: China downgrades all areas to low-risk for COVID-19
China has downgraded all areas of the world's most populous country from high- to low-risk for the novel coronavirus.
Mi Feng, a spokesperson for China's...
Coronavirus USA Updates: McDonald’s employees will have ‘full recovery’ from shooting
McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski said the two employees who were shot at one of the fast-food chain's locations in Oklahoma City are doing...
Coronavirus USA Updates: COVID-19 death toll tops 20,000 in New York state
The death toll from the novel coronavirus in New York state has surpassed 20,000.
The northeastern U.S. state reported 952 new deaths from COVID-19...
Coronavirus USA Updates: Maryland announces plan to ease restrictions
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced Wednesday that he is easing some COVID-related restrictions beginning Thursday, and that the state may begin the first official...
Brain works backwards to retrieve memories (New Study)
When we remember a past event, the human brain reconstructs that experience in reverse order, according to a study which could help assess the...
Activist Amal Fathy jailed for sexual harassment video
A court in Egypt has given human rights activist Amal Fathy a two-year-suspended sentence and a fine for "spreading fake news".
She has been in...
Nepal to ban solo climbers on Mount Everest (Report)
Nepal bans blind people and double amputees from climbing Mount Everest.
For serious climbers, scaling the peaks of Nepal might be an ambitious new year's...
Birna Brjansdottir Murder: Iceland mourns as body of missing woman is...
Iceland was in shock after Birna Brjansdottir missing for eight days was found dead on a beach, sparking a rare murder case that has...
Coronavirus USA Updates: Texas reports single highest daily rate increase of...
The latest number of of coronavirus cases in Texas jumped by 1,801 in a single day, the highest daily rate since the state started...
