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Homeless shelters handed out masks and schools cancelled activities as Baltimore residents endured another day of smoky air from wildfires in Canada.

Infectious disease doctor Abraar Karan says it's the question he's asked most often about SARS-CoV-2. So how does that happen? Here's his answer.

With high inflation and rising expenses, small businesses hope to lure shoppers with food, holidays cheer, instead of deep discounts.

Officials from UNESCO are meeting to decide if Venice, Italy, should be listed as an "endangered" world heritage site in part for climate-change-related reasons.

Author Ocean Vuong recommends four books on the immigrant experience — but he wants to de-center America in these stories: "Immigration is a species-wide legacy," he says, and always has been.

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for California to use its new congressional map for this year's midterm election. Voters approved it as a Democratic counterresponse to Texas' new GOP-friendly map.

With clothes cheaper than a latte, built for today's microtrends, Shein courts the same young women who launched the renaissance of thrifting and resale. Legal complaints about the company are many.

As employers including the federal government cut back on remote work, employees who never had any intention of working from an office push back and threaten to retire or resign.

Contestants gather in England for the Coopers Hill Cheese Rolling to chase a big wheel of cheese down a steep hill. Canadian Delaney Irving regained conscious to find out she won the woman's race.

The department needs extra time to fix a mistake that could have hurt lower-income borrowers, but the delay means all students will have to wait longer for their college aid offers.

Closing arguments are expected Friday in a trial against extremist Ammon Bundy. Idaho's largest hospital sued him for $7.5 million after armed protests he led prompted a major security response.

Mifepristone has been FDA-approved for abortion since 2000 and has been used by millions of people.