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The predictive value of cherry-picked data is generally low to insignificant.
Despite mocking the idea of climate change, President Donald Trump will preside over one of the country's sharpest drops in climate-damaging emissions on record.
Humor doesn't always translate from one culture to the next.
The dating of Easter goes back to the complicated origins of this holiday and how it has evolved over the centuries.
Convicted former drug company CEO Martin Shkreli, known as "Pharma Bro," wants to get out of prison so he can help research a treatment for the coronavirus, his lawyer said.
While the stimulus payment is technically a tax credit, its categorization as such was made only so the government could disperse payments using the IRS’ existing infrastructure.
The story of a Texas woman who reportedly shared a Facebook post claiming the coronavirus outbreak was a hoax — and later reportedly died from the virus — reminds us of the dangerous potential of misinformation.
The CDC is being extremely careful when deciding what it means to recover from COVID-19.
Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly had created a controversy by firing the captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt last week after he had raised concerns about COVID-19.
Glenn Fine, the acting Defense Department inspector general and a veteran watchdog, had been selected by peers to chair the special oversight board.
The city's 11 million residents will be permitted to leave without special authorization as long as a mandatory smartphone application shows they are healthy and have not been in recent contact with anyone confirmed to have the virus.
The 2001 terror attacks killed 2,753 people in New York City and 2,977 people overall.
White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham, who held the job for nine months, never held a single formal press briefing.
Snopes investigates the memes, rumors, jokes, and misinformation spreading on social media in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, cont.
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the first major world leader confirmed to have COVID-19, is not on a ventilator.
Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly had relieved Capt. Brett Crozier of command after the captain raised the alarm about the coronavirus-stricken USS Theodore Roosevelt.
Voters across the state, many without masks covering their faces, waited in line to cast ballots at crowded polling sites.
The Navy’s top leader accused the fired commander of the cornavirus-stricken USS Theodore Roosevelt of being “too naive or too stupid” to be in charge of an aircraft carrier.
Kaline, the Hall of Fame outfielder who played his entire 22-season career for Detroit, died Monday at his home in Michigan.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the state would lend 500 ventilators to the national stockpile for use by New York and other states experiencing a crush of coronavirus-related hospitalizations, even as he said the nation's most populous state needs to find more ventilators of its own.
The arrest of a Harvard professor fueled conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 coronavirus disease outbreak in 2020.
This claim has been around for years and makes no scientific sense whatsoever.
If only people recognized "predictions" before the calamitous events they supposedly anticipate.
As a new coronavirus spread in 2020, so did concerns about the United States' preparedness for a potential pandemic.
Critics have questioned the wisdom of exporting to China medical supplies that would soon be vitally needed in the U.S.
Critics have questioned the wisdom of exporting to China medical supplies that would soon be vitally needed in the U.S.
As the COVID-19 pandemic ratcheted up in the United States, so did partisan finger-pointing.
Trump's commentary on the new coronavirus came before the virus began killing patients in the U.S.
As a new coronavirus spread in 2020, so did concerns about the United States' preparedness for a potential pandemic.
The arrest of a Harvard professor fueled conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 coronavirus disease outbreak in 2020.
