This real-time tracker focuses attention on the U.S. and provides continuously updated state-level case counts for COVID-19 coronavirus in the United States, including numbers of deaths and recovered patients.
Architecture for the tracker was developed by the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE), drawing on data from the CDC, World Health Organization, and other sources.
You can also view the real-time...
The situation of the coronavirus outbreak is changing fast. And news and information about the disease can be overwhelming, not least of which are the many new, confusing, and technical terms being used about the outbreak. Understanding these terms is essential to helping people stay informed and safe—and we take seriously our role in defining and explaining them for...
U.S. President Donald Trump offered his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin help in putting out vast wildfires that are raging in Siberia, the Kremlin said late on Wednesday, a move it said Putin took as a sign that battered ties can be restored.
The Kremlin said the two leaders had spoken by phone at Washington’s initiative, hours after Putin ordered the...
Eleven thousand scientists in 153 countries have declared a climate emergency and warned that “untold human suffering” is unavoidable without huge shifts in the way we live.
The letter is based on climate science that was first established in 1979 at the first World Climate Conference held in Geneva. For decades multiple global bodies have agreed urgent action is needed but greenhouse gas emissions continue...
The FBI has charged a Colorado white supremacist in a plot to blow up a Pueblo synagogue, according to recently unsealed federal documents.
An affidavit filed Saturday in U.S. District Court in Colorado says that on Friday, Richard Holzer met with an undercover agent, bringing explosives he intended to use on Temple Emanuel with him.
The undercover agent mentioned the prospect of...
On Sunday, President Trump claimed that California Governor Gavin Newsom had done “a terrible job of forest management”.
He added:
“I told him from the first day we met that he must “clean” his forest floors regardless of what his bosses, the environmentalists, DEMAND of him. Must also do burns and cut fire stoppers…”
Trump has repeatedly threatened federal funding for California...
A Halloween party on Oct. 25 at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building featured candy, paper airplanes and — concerning for some attendees — a station where children were encouraged to help “Build the Wall” with their own personalized bricks.
Photos of the children’s mural with the paper wall were provided to Yahoo News.
The party, which took place inside the office...
President Donald Trump said, “We’re building a wall in Colorado” when talking about border wall progress on Wednesday afternoon. Trump was speaking in Pittsburgh at the Shale Insight Conference when he made the comments.
“And we’re building a wall on the border of New Mexico and we’re building a wall in Colorado, we’re building a beautiful wall, a big one...
President Trump was happy to see House Republicans storm a closed-door hearing in protest of House Democrats' impeachment inquiry, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said Thursday.
"I’m glad they did it. The Dems have been doing everything behind closed doors and in secret and so it’s about time somebody made a very bold stand, which is I guess a sit-in, which is what they did. And...
With a single telephone call, Donald Trump betrayed the presidency in ways almost unimaginable until that moment. During the call, he attempted to pressure a foreign leader to help him smear and destroy both a chief political opponent and that opponent’s political party to benefit himself in a presidential election. This offense differs from all his other transgressions, venal...