U.S. nonprofits scramble for loans as need jumps, funds disappear
Domestic violence incidents are surging during coronavirus lockdowns, just as the largest U.S. network providing emergency housing for abused women and their children is running...
Nigeria to ease lockdowns in three states over six-week period
Nigeria will ease coronavirus lockdowns in three states over a six-week period from May 4, the head of the country’s task force on the virus...
Brazil to deploy troops to protect Amazon as deforestation surges
Brazil plans to deploy its armed forces to fight deforestation and fires in the Amazon jungle, Vice President Hamilton Mourão said on Wednesday, in an...
Twitter opens up data for researchers to study COVID-19 tweets
Twitter Inc will grant researchers and software developers access to a real-time data stream of tens of millions of daily public tweets about COVID-19, which...
Fear, sticker shock over health insurance greet laid-off workers
If you were laid off in April, the health insurance from your job may stop at the end of the month. Then what?...
Zimbabwe reopens tobacco auctions after delay
Zimbabwe farmers started selling their tobacco crop on Wednesday after the coronavirus outbreak delayed the opening of auctions, which provide vital foreign currency inflows, by...
A piece of the moon for sale: just $2.5 million
One of the world’s largest lunar meteorites goes on private sale at Christie’s on Thursday, valued at 2 million pounds ($2.49 million)....
Amazon turns to Chinese firm on U.S. blacklist to meet thermal camera needs
Amazon.com Inc has bought cameras to take temperatures of workers during the coronavirus pandemic from a firm the United States blacklisted over allegations it helped...
U.S. believes Chinese labs doing work under unknown security: Pompeo
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday said the United States believes there are many laboratories in China working on contagious pathogens, but does...
1,300 miles apart, twin ER doctors help fight COVID-19
For twin brothers Michael and Dennis D’Urso, medical residency was supposed to mean distance. But working 1,300 miles apart as ER doctors during the coronavirus...