A House investigations panel says financial technology firms “abdicated” their responsibility to screen out fraud in applications for a federal program designed to help small businesses stay open and keep workers employed during the pandemic

The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday approved a nearly $700 million plan to remove all lead water pipes in the Denver region, saying the local water utility’s approach for reducing lead levels is succeedings and making swift progress

Word of anti-lockdown protests in China spread on domestic social media for a short period last weekend, thanks to a rare pause in the cat-and-mouse game that goes on between millions of Chinese internet users and the country’s gargantuan censorship machine

More Chinese cities are easing anti-virus restrictions and police are patrolling their streets as the government tries to defuse public anger over some of the world’s most stringent COVID measures

Official figures show that thousands of patients each week are languishing in ambulances outside overflowing British hospitals

Africa’s top public health body says the continent is set to receive its first batch of mpox vaccines as a donation from South Korea

When peace returns to Ukraine, many thousands of its combatants will likely return from the battlefields bearing psychological scars

Emboldened by the results of November’s midterms, abortion rights supporters say they are preparing for even bigger fights in state legislatures and pivotal elections to come

With his death, former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin leaves behind a very different China than the one he tried to shape