Tens of thousands took to the streets to speak out against enduring racial injustices that had defined the United States ...

These are the methods we used to determine how many people might have lived if gun violence didn't spike during the COVID-19 ...

The true origin of the pandemic may not be known for many years — if ever. How many people died from COVID-19? Probably more than 20 million. The World Health Organization has said member ...

His tenure as Indiana’s 51st head of state was most notably defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, however. Even so, Holcomb said he hopes to be revered as “more than just a COVID governor.” ...

It decreased to 3.5% before the COVID-19 pandemic, and peaked at 14.9% in April 2020. When Joe Biden took office in January 2021, the unemployment rate was 6.4%; it has gradually declined to the ...

The 168-page suit, filed earlier this month by a group of City Council members, questions why the 2020 George Floyd protests were ... the Big Apple’s first COVID-19 case was confirmed on March ...

After a relatively slow start to the respiratory virus season, Covid-19 levels in the United States began ramping up just ahead of the winter holidays. In previous years, Covid-19 levels have ...

To put a disease that's ravaging ecosystems around the world into context, biologist Roland Knapp describes it like COVID-19 — if COVID-19 had a 99 per cent mortality rate. "If we can imagine ...

Before joining Raw Story, Brad Reed spent eight years writing about technology at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet ...

After Louisiana reported the first "severe" case of bird flu, however, Osterholm urged federal officials to prepare for a possible pandemic. Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House COVID-19 response ...