Health News

October 20, 2020

DOJ announces center to help cops, offers aid to Minneapolis

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it has put $3 million toward the creation of a national center that ...

October 20, 2020

UK to infect healthy volunteers in vaccine research trial

Danica Marcos wants to be infected with COVID-19. While other people are wearing masks and staying home to avoid the disease, ...

October 20, 2020

Older workers face higher unemployment than midcareer peers

For the first time in nearly 50 years, older workers are facing higher unemployment than midcareer workers, according to a ...

October 20, 2020

European nations mixed in their response to virus spikes

Countries across Europe are battling coronavirus infection spikes with new lockdowns, curfews, face mask orders and virus ...

October 20, 2020

Deadline looms as differences narrow on COVID relief aid

It's deadline day for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on COVID-19 relief, with the contours ...

October 20, 2020

Stocks moving higher on Wall Street following solid earnings

Stocks are moving higher in afternoon trading on Wall Street Tuesday following a batch of solid earnings reports from U.S.

October 20, 2020

The Latest: Johnson to impose restrictions on Manchester

LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he’ll impose the highest level of coronavirus restrictions on the Greater ...

October 20, 2020

Funeral homes offer limousine rides to the polls nationwide

Some voters could ride in style to the polls on Election Day courtesy of funeral home limousines offered to chauffer older ...

October 20, 2020

From 'role models' to sex workers: Kenya's child labor rises

The teenage girls cannot remember how many men they have had to sleep with in the seven months since COVID-19 closed their ...

October 20, 2020

Pixie post: Fairy letters offer advice, respite in Virginia

With the coronavirus lockdown and school out for the summer, 9-year-old Maya Gebler’s social world had shrunk to her ...

October 20, 2020

Opposition push to set up probe could force Canada election

Justin Trudeau’s minority Liberal government said Monday an opposition push for an anti-corruption committee will trigger a ...

October 20, 2020

AP finds most arrested in protests aren't leftist radicals

President Donald Trump portrays the hundreds of people arrested nationwide in protests against racial injustice as violent ...

October 20, 2020

Finland's national carrier cuts over 10% of workforce

Finland's national carrier said Tuesday it will cut 700 jobs - over 10% of its workforce - by the end of March next year due ...

October 20, 2020

AP-NORC/USAFacts poll: US trust in COVID-19 information down

Americans have lost trust across the board in the people and institutions informing them about the coronavirus since the ...

October 20, 2020

Election 2020 Today: Trump burns funds, GOP gets out vote

Here’s what’s happening Tuesday in Election 2020, 14 days until Election Day: HOW TO VOTE: AP’s state-by-state interactive ...

October 20, 2020

How Trump plowed through $1 billion, losing cash advantage

President Donald Trump’s sprawling political operation has raised well over $1 billion since he took the White House in 2017 ...

October 20, 2020

Chinese drugmaker setting up vaccine production lines

A state-owned Chinese drugmaker is setting up production lines to supply 1 billion doses of two possible coronavirus vaccines ...

October 20, 2020

Intel to sell NAND business to SKorean rival for $9 billion

Intel has agreed to a $9 billion deal to sell most of its memory business to South Korea’s SK Hynix as it moves toward more ...

October 20, 2020

What are the treatment options for COVID-19?

What are the treatment options for COVID-19? There are several, and which one is best depends on how sick someone is.