Supporters of a white nationalist hate group defaced brand-new memorials to George Floyd in New York and New Jersey this week, even as the nation awaits a sentence for Floyd’s…

Editor’s note: This article was initially published Oct. 8, 2020. His life began as the last embers of the civil rights movement were flickering out. Its horrific, videotaped end ignited…

Ethiopia’s Tigray region is facing a deepening hunger emergency, with about 350,000 people threatened by famine. It is the most severe starvation crisis in the world right now, and it…

The United Nations on Thursday accused Israel of flagrantly violating international law by expanding settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, saying settlements are illegal and urging the country’s…

Using data from long-running Harvard studies on nutrition, researchers looked at the health habits of 73,196 women in the U.S. over 34 years and 38,366 men in the U.S. over…

Extreme heat has killed more than 11,000 people across the US since 1979, and heat waves are only getting worse. A brutal heat wave is forecasted to hit the Pacific…

The WHO urged fully vaccinated people to continue to wear masks and practice other Covid-19 pandemic safety measures as the highly contagious delta variant spreads rapidly across the globe. "People…

751 unmarked graves. That’s the latest discovery at the site of a former residential school for Indigenous children in Canada. Another 215 bodies were found just last month. Native Americans are reeling at the…

Durham is showing what providing reparations for slavery could look like by actually trying to do it. The city’s budget for the next fiscal year includes $6 million that will…