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A federal judge has sentenced a Colorado funeral home owner who stashed nearly 190 decomposing bodies to 20 years in prison on federal fraud charges.

The world’s most desperate countries are falling further and further behind, their plight worsened by conflicts that are growing deadlier and more frequent.

Young people graduating from college this spring and summer are facing one of the toughest job markets in more than a decade.

U.S. health officials have expanded warnings about a rare heart side effect associated with the two leading COVID-19 vaccines.

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Americans’ view of the economy worsened in June, wiping out much of the previous month’s gain which followed a string of declines that had dragged consumer confidence to its lowest level since the COVID-19 pandemic five years ago.

A new COVID-19 variant may be causing “razor blade” sore throats in people who get it.

The World Health Organization's member countries have approved an agreement to better prevent, prepare for and respond to future pandemics in the wake of the devastation wrought by the coronavirus.

An American biochemist whose research has helped scientists make inroads on treating coronavirus and HIV has won this year’s Wolf Prize, a major Israeli award in the arts and sciences.

People with immune system health problems continue to take precautions against COVID-19 five years into the pandemic.

Thousands of workers are facing an unsettling reality heading into 2025.

A woman in Austria has been found guilty of fatally infecting her neighbor with COVID-19 in 2021, her second pandemic-related conviction in a year, according to local media.

Celine Dion made a triumphant return Friday with a very public performance, closing out the Paris Olympics’ opening ceremony from the Eiffel Tower.

New sub-variants of COVID-19 are spreading, at worst — sending people to emergency rooms, at the least -- forcing people to stay inside or wear masks outside.

Government advisers say it’s time to update the recipe for the COVID-19 vaccines Americans will receive in the fall.

COVID-19 cases are steadily rising in Florida. The state Department of Health’s latest report confirms a 29.7% uptick in positive cases… that’s nearly a 7% increase from last week.

There is a wave of COVID-19 spreading right now, and some people are getting it for the first time.

The U.K. is celebrating the 75th birthday of its beloved but increasingly creaky National Health Service.

Britain's former health secretary has told an official inquiry that the U.K. was ill-prepared for a pandemic partly because government resources had been diverted away from pandemic planning to brace for a possibly chaotic no-deal Brexit.

The World Health organization declared earlier this month that the COVID-19 pandemic is no longer an emergency, putting a three-year end to the virus that killed at least 7 million people and turned the world upside down.

U.S. deaths fell last year, and COVID-19 dropped to the No. 4 cause.

Japan will lift most of its coronavirus border controls, including a requirement that entrants show proof of three vaccinations or a pre-departure negative test, beginning Saturday as the country’s Golden Week holiday season begins and a large influx of foreign tourists is expected.

The number of people working from home tripled during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report by the Census Bureau.

U.S. cases of a dangerous fungus tripled over just three years, and more than half of states have now reported it.

The mystery to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic now has some new clues.

Reported sexual assaults at the U.S. military academies shot up during the 2021-22 school year.

The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic holds a hearing Wednesday titled “Investigating the Origins of COVID-19.”

For a few weeks in late January and early February, the U.S. economy seemed to have reached a rare sweet spot.

COVID-19 has shot back into the headlines in Britain through the leak of more than 100,000 private messages sent or received by the health minister as the government scrambled to respond to the new respiratory virus.

Coughing and shortness of breath are enough to put anyone on high alert for COVID-19 these days.

Eight U.S. government agencies are now investigating the source of COVID-19, and for the first time publicly, the FBI director is blaming the coronavirus on a leak from a lab in China.

Britain’s former health minister is denying wrongdoing after a newspaper published extracts of private messages he sent in the first weeks of the coronavirus pandemic.

California's coronavirus emergency declaration has ended.

Did the coronavirus originate in animals or leak from a Chinese lab.

Three years after the first case of COVID-19 was reported in Wuhan, China, a classified report from the U.S. Department of Energy says the coronavirus most likely came from a laboratory leak in China.

House Republicans have kicked off an investigation into the origins of COVID-19 by issuing a series of letters to current and former Biden administration officials for documents and testimony.

More Americans filed for jobless benefits last week, but layoffs remain historically low despite the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate policy intended to cool the economy and bring down inflation.

How often should Americans get their booster shot against COVID-19, and how important is the booster to you if you’ve already been infected with COVID-19? Those are questions a panel of experts set out to answer during an FDA meeting, the information will be passed on to the CDC.

A second consecutive quarter of economic growth underscored Thursday that the nation isn’t in a recession despite high inflation and the Federal Reserve’s fastest pace of interest rate hikes in four decades.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is calling on state lawmakers to permanently ban COVID-19 mandates on masks and vaccines.

Although still relatively rare, MIS-C after COVID-19 has become more common and more severe than previously thought. A new study is raising critical questions.

Emergency Room overcrowding has been a health care problem for years, but now, health experts say it is reaching crisis levels.

Across the country, doctors are expecting a surge in illnesses like COVID-19, the flu and RSV in the next few weeks following the holidays.

Their story captured the hearts of many people during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it inspired Gov. Ron DeSantis to find a solution for long-term care visitation in Florida.

Georgia’s Supreme Court says a state pledge to not execute some inmates until certain conditions are met following the COVID-19 pandemic met is a binding contract that the state can’t ignore.

As Northeast Florida sees colder temperatures this holiday season, COVID-19 cases are up across 90% of the country, according to the White House COVID-19 coordinator.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week, a sign that the labor market remains strong even as the Federal Reserve continues to raise interest rates in an effort to cool the economy and slow inflation.

The Biden administration is once more making some free COVID-19 tests available to all U.S. households as it unveils its contingency plans for potential coronavirus surges this winter.

The number of U.S. deaths has dropped this year, but there are still more than there were before the coronavirus hit.

About 5% of COVID patients worldwide have reported a loss of smell that lasts longer than six months. While this side effect of the virus can be annoying, researchers are finding it might also be a predictor for cognitive decline in some people.

An ongoing Associated Press investigation has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Justice Department’s largest law enforcement agency, the federal Bureau of Prisons.

Shares are mostly lower in Asia after Wall Street sagged under weakness in tech stocks.

The supply backlogs of the past two years — and the delays, shortages and outrageous prices that came with them — have improved dramatically since summer.

As coronavirus cases rose in Shanghai earlier this year and the city’s lockdown stretched from weeks to months, Leah Zhang’s feeling of suffocation grew.

Could trawler cams help save the world’s fish.