Opinion: The next pandemic threat demands action now

With two human cases of bird flu identified, health officials need to get ahead of a threat that some scientists fear could become next pandemic, writes Jaime M. Yassif. Read More

Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous

The Chinese government froze meaningful efforts to trace the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, despite publicly declaring that it supported an open scientific inquiry, an AP investigation has found ... Read More

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Her latest film focuses on an elementary school. Hank Silver, a timber framer based in Massachusetts, is one of a handful of foreigners who are helping to rebuild the Paris cathedral after the ... Read More

Covid-19

The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the coronavirus SARS ... highest transmissibility amongst all COVID variants so far. The new Omicron variant is expected to infect 60 per cent of people in China ... Read More

Stocks end the day higher even as blowout jobs report pushes some Fed officials to consider another rate hike

The March jobs report showed the US economy added 303,000 positions and the unemployment rate fell to 3.8%. That far surpasses expectations for 205,000 jobs to be added and underscores the ongoing ... Read More

Why young people are throwing PowerPoint parties

PowerPoint parties task a group of friends with presenting a silly slideshow on niche interests, secret pastimes and frequently hilarious takes. Read More

COVID-19: Coverage of the pandemic from MPR News

Tim Walz announced the state’s first COVID-19 school closings. Students who entered high school in 2020 saw their entire experience shaped by the pandemic. Those graduating this spring say their ... Read More

Health improvements occurred worldwide since 2010 despite COVID-19 pandemic, but progress was uneven: Study

Rates of early death and poor health caused by HIV/AIDS and diarrhea have been cut in half since 2010, and the rate of disease burden caused by injuries has dropped by a quarter in the same time ... Read More

Opinion: The next pandemic threat demands action now

But with growing evidence of potential mammal-to-mammal spread just weeks after the new ... world need to take H5N1 seriously and demonstrate that we’ve learned the lessons of the Covid-19 ... Read More

World News

The United Nations and others said donors should resume support for UNRWA after a review found that Israel hadn’t backed up claims that many agency workers are members of terrorist groups. The ... Read More

Stocks end the day higher even as blowout jobs report pushes some Fed officials to consider another rate hike

The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic quickly ... Secretary Julie Su told CNN Friday that the March jobs report shows that the US is the “strongest economy in the world.” ... Read More