Abraham Lincoln arrived at the New Salem grist mill along the Sangamon River aboard a flatboat that was sinking. Lincoln had ...

The pursuit of pandemic relief funds that fell into the hands of fraudsters remains a priority for some members of Congress.

With the acute phase of the Covid-19 pandemic fading even as the coronavirus persists and evolves, a new normal is taking shape around the world. “It still feels kind of incomplete,” said ...

Five years ago this week, the World Health Organization called the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. In the United States, officials declared a national emergency, triggering travel bans for non-U.S ...

Five years ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Whether it still is depends on who you ask. There are no clear criteria to mark the end of a pandemic ...

In 1781, the planet Uranus was discovered by British astronomer William Herschel. In 1868, the Republican-dominated U.S. Senate began impeachment proceedings against U.S. President Andrew Johnson, a ...

During the first 9 months of the pandemic, Americans reported rates of depression and anxiety six times higher than in 2019, Boston College researchers find Confirming anecdotal evidence that the ...

Tuesday marks the milestone of five years since the World Health Organization labeled COVID-19 a pandemic. Some of the first people to feel the impact were health were healthcare workers in ...