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Thousands of Afghans who worked with U.S. forces were promised a U.S. visa in return. With American troops all but gone, it's unclear how the Biden administration will be able to keep that promise.

China is battling coronavirus outbreaks in six cities. More than 20 million people are in some form of lockdown.

Findings from a new study help answer questions about why some people get more severe and transmissible HIV than others — and serve as a reminder that viruses don't always weaken over time.

"We see a really clear association between how these maps were drawn in the '30s and the air pollution disparities today," says an author of a study on the effects of the discriminatory policy.

Kalush Orchestra's Oleh Psiuk told NPR that representing Ukraine on the world stage was a huge responsibility. He hopes people will continue to support his country.

With gas prices passing $3 a gallon, accusations of price-gouging are common. But what exactly is price-gouging? How is it defined? And are the oil companies guilty of it?

On a normal day, exhibits at the FGCU's University Archives and Special Collections are hushed affairs, with students or visitors wandering between presentations. That changed one afternoon in April, when a wide ranging group of women converged to experience the exhibit for themselves.

Syria vehemently denounces the United Nations' report on that country's role in the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Anthony Shadid, Middle East correspondent for The Washington Post, has details of Damascus' response.

After visiting Nyarugusu refugee camp in Tanzania, two trainees in medicine and public health at Johns Hopkins reflect on disparities in the quality of medical and surgical care provided to refugees.

Birth control pills are available in the U.S. only with a prescription. Now a drugmaker is asking the FDA to approve a progestin-only contraceptive that would be available without one at pharmacies.