New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he will have an announcement next week on high schools, the last tranche of the public education system whose students are still in remote learning. Maine and Arizona will ease restrictions. Vaccine hesitancy in...

The Biden administration has notified facilities caring for migrant children that they can open back up to pre-Covid-19 levels, acknowledging "extraordinary circumstances" due to a rising number of minors crossing the US-Mexico border, according to a...

Jobless Americans would get a smaller weekly boost to unemployment benefits but receive those payments for an additional month under a last-minute revision of the Senate's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package on Friday.

They read like scenes from a disaster movie, vignettes of a natural world slipping into decay. In the tropical wet rainforests of far north Queensland, outside Cairns, an estimated 23,000 spectacled flying foxes – one-third of Australia’s total population...

White House and Detroit officials tried to limit fallout after Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan initially declined to accept an allocation of Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine. The move is at odds with federal health officials' recommendations and the Biden...

Rodney Collins, Malcolm X's nephew, nominated the Boston home through the Massachusetts Historical Commission. It's the only surviving property associated with the former civil rights leader who moved to Boston as a 16-year-old in 1941 to live under the...