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Medical researchers say that within a few years there will be major breakthroughs in blood testing technology that uses immune system response and genetic analysis to identify disease quickly and cheaply.Image Alliance | Image Alliance |…

Wilkins also stressed the economic risk of holding debts like Mississippi's. The racist subordination of nearly half of the state's population represented "an endless economic weight that must reduce the fiscal attractiveness of the…

LOS ANGELES - A surreal 93rd Academy Awards, a televised stage show about films that mainly go online, began on Sunday with Regina King, a former Academy Award winner and director of One Night in Miami, who performed for Dinner strutted…

And now the United States is facing a pandemic that has disproportionately sickened and killed many Americans of color who are over-represented in the essential workforce and yet less likely to have access to medical care. As the federal…

Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York State, speaks at a press conference in New York City on September 8, 2020.Spencer Platt | Getty ImagesA group of 250 CEOs and executives sent a letter to the New York governor and lawmaker raising "alarm"…

By Sammi Katz and Olivia McGiffIt is an undoubtedly difficult time for the hospitality industry. Every day a different restaurant closes the shutters, another bar pulls its steel gate down for good. Since its invention, a kind of watering…

Wall Street analysts could not have predicted that a new strain of the coronavirus discovered in the UK and South Africa on Monday would cause the S&P 500 to refuel before it hits the market in future stores, even if the US government…

The F.B.I. found one in the junk drawer at the Santa Monica hide-out of the notorious mobster Whitey Bulger, which goes to show that gangsters are just like everybody else.There’s probably one or two clipped your car’s visor, and there…

Assistant Nurse Katie McIntosh gives Vivien McKay, Clinical Nurse Manager at Western General Hospital, the first of two Pfizer / BioNTech COVID-19 stitches on the first day of the largest vaccination program in UK history in Edinburgh,…