2020-06-08 Will Temperature Checks Help Protect Workers?
Businesses in the United States are opening up after closures ordered by health and other officials because of the coronavirus…
2020-06-07 History Lessons of 1968 and Other Years
The streets were on fire as National Guard troops moved into cities across the United States. The cries were full…
2020-06-06 DNA Helps Scholars Understand Dead Sea Scrolls
An international team of scientists has successfully decoded ancient DNA from animal skin on which some of the Dead Sea…
2020-06-06 Scientists Find Mammoth Bones Near Mexico City
Huge bones have been discovered in a place 50 kilometers north of Mexico City where a new airport is being…
2020-06-04 France Launches Contact-Tracing App Despite Privacy Concerns
France is launching an official software application, or app, aimed at containing new outbreaks of the novel coronavirus. The app’s…
2020-06-05 One Hundred Year Later, Hungarians Still Feel World War One Injustice
For Laszlo Petrik, any talk of the Treaty of Trianon stirs up strong feelings. Petrik is an ethnic Hungarian who…
2020-06-03 Police Chokeholds Reviewed Around the World
George Floyd died on May 25 after an American police officer pressed his leg on Floyd’s neck for several minutes…
2020-06-02 Vanishing Jobs for Young Could Create ‘Lockdown Generation’
Until recently, Bashar Ali Naim worked at a small store in Baghdad. He earned about $480 each week. Three months…
2020-05-31 US Meatpacking Industry Faces Immigrant Worker Shortage
When Martha Kebede’s adult sons moved from Ethiopia to join her in the United States this year, they had few…
2020-06-01 The Good and Bad of Lockdown
Starting in early 2020, governments around the world ordered lockdowns, closures and other social distancing rules to slow the spread…
2020-05-31 Coronavirus Delays US Citizenship Process for Thousands
The coronavirus crisis could be preventing thousands of people from completing the final steps to receive U.S. citizenship, activist groups…
2020-05-29 In Virus Crisis, People Find Purpose in Helping Others
In April, as the new coronavirus was attacking New York City, Susan Jones learned her older brother had been diagnosed…
2020-05-30 Coronavirus Crisis Forces Restaurants to Get Creative
Dining at a table where clear plastic surrounds each diner might look and sound futuristic, but it could be one…
2020-05-27 Contest Makes Handwashing Fun for Children
Parents around the world often urge children over and over – wash your hands! This advice was already common before…