A panel of experts commissioned by the World Health Organization has criticized China and other countries for not moving to stem the initial outbreak of the coronavirus earlier, and questioned whether the UN health agency should have labelled it a pandemic sooner.
President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine to be his assistant secretary of health, leaving her poised to become the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
New York Mets general manager Jared Porter was fired Tuesday after sending graphic, uninvited text messages and images to a female reporter in 2016 when he was working for the Chicago Cubs in their front office.
The U.S. capital is gripped with trepidation. Fear of violence has upended Washington before Wednesday's presidential inauguration as residents of the city, and the country, grapple with an unnerving question: Was the Capitol attack a one-off, or the beginning of a new era of political violence?
The servers provided a temporary home to TheDonald, a forum for right-wing extremists, after it was shut down by Reddit over racist, violent content and as other tech companies cracked down on hate speech.
