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Tempura/iStock (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.8 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 919,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering. About 64.4% of the population in the United States is fully vaccinated against […]

(NEW YORK) — A Charlotte, North Carolina, city bus driver has died after being shot while at the wheel and on his route with passengers aboard in what police are investigating as a possible road rage incident, authorities said. Ethan Rivera, 41, a driver for the Charlotte Area Transit System, died at a hospital Saturday […]

(NEW YORK) — The deaths of two young aspiring rappers last week have reinvigorated the debate about drill music, a popular subgenre of rap, and its connection to violence. Jayquan McKenley, an 18-year-old aspiring rapper from the Bronx known as CHII WVTTZ, was shot and killed Sunday morning while leaving a recording studio in the Brooklyn […]

(NEW YORK) — The world’s biodiversity is constantly being threatened by warming temperatures and extreme changes in climate and weather patterns. And while that “doom and gloom” is the typical discourse surrounding how climate change is affecting biodiversity, another interesting aspect of the warming temperatures is how different species have been adapting over the decades, as […]

(NEW YORK) — In the five years since Utah passed the strictest legislation in the country on blood alcohol driving limits, there have been fewer traffic deaths overall in the state and lower driver alcohol involvement, a federal study found. A law that lowered the state’s legal blood alcohol concentration limit to .05 from .08, the […]

Tim Drivas Photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A South Korean diplomat was punched in the face in New York City on Wednesday night during what police described as an “unprovoked” attack. Officers responded to a 911 call about an assault in the area of Fifth Avenue and West 35th Street in Midtown Manhattan at around […]

(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — COVID-19 has made tens of thousands of children orphans, and, in some cases, they’re left with little resources to help them with their burdens. A bill introduced in the California Legislature last month seeks to give children who are in this situation some hope for a better future, and one children welfare […]

(NEW YORK) — As cities across the country work to meet clean energy goals in the coming years, a critical focus is being placed on public and affordable housing. There are more than 1.2 million public housing units across the country, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Many of these buildings have […]

(NEW YORK) — The deaths of two young aspiring rappers last week have reinvigorated the debate about drill music, a popular subgenre of rap, and its connection to violence. Jayquan McKenley, an 18-year-old aspiring rapper from the Bronx known as CHII WVTTZ, was shot and killed Sunday morning while leaving a recording studio in the […]

(PHOENIX) — Five Phoenix police officers were shot and injured, and a woman was shot and killed during an early morning barricade situation, the department said. All of the police officers’ injuries were non-life-threatening, police said. The incident began when officers were called to a home where a woman was reported shot, Phoenix police said. […]