Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces killed more than 6,000 people in three days during an October attack on El Fasher, the U.N. Human Rights Office reports.

Finding rhinoviruses, which cause the common cold, in preserved medical specimens and analysing their RNA genome could let us ...

Sunbeams through the windows illuminate floating dust motes—and, imperceptibly, microdroplets of mucus carrying the measles virus, expelled from an infected but asymptomatic child who is hopping and ...

For the first time, deadly H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed as the cause of a wildlife die-off in Antarctica, killing more than 50 skuas during the 2023–2024 summers. Researchers on an Antarctic ...

James Van Der Beek, Catherine O'Hara, Bob Weir and more were among the icons who died in 2026. In honor of those we lost, look back at the legends gone too soon ...

Because measles is so contagious, experts say that vaccination rates need to be above about 95 percent to stem the spread of ...

On Long Island, the number of people who died of COVID-19-related causes fell from about 410 in 2024 to about 220 in 2025.

A woman gets emotional around a makeshift memorial honoring Renee Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE officer the day before, near the site of the shooting in Minneapolis, on January 8, 2026. Credit: ...

While we collectively did our best to overcome the so-called "winter vomiting disease," a terrifying measles outbreak once described as having "no end in sight" continued to impact the public in ...

Michigan had 31 worker deaths in 2024 and 36 in 2023. This story has been updated with new information. Michigan workplace safety officials on Wednesday, Jan. 14, announced the first workplace ...

Thousands have been reported dead in the protests that have rocked Iran for nearly three weeks. It can be difficult to find a single, definitive figure because few international news organizations are ...