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SAINT HELENA | Saint Helena, known as the place of Napoleon Bonaparte's exile and death, is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean, about 1,500 miles off the coast of Africa. Saint Helena has a population of about 6,077 and as of Nov. 11, the World Health Organization is reporting that the nation has zero cases of coronavirus.

COVID-19 keeps spreading death where vaccines haven’t reached

March 29, 2021 at 11:02 a.m.

If you're living in Israel, the U.S. or the U.K., where vaccination programs are rolling out with remarkable speed, glimpses of a post-pandemic future are starting to appear: Schools have...

Trump’s social media platform to debut in 3 to 4 months, former adviser says

March 29, 2021 at 7:45 a.m.

Donald Trump's planned social media platform "will debut in three to four months," the former president's onetime campaign manager and senior adviser said. "We're going to have a platform where...

A testing firm found that some hand sanitizers bought during the pandemic contained high levels of benzene, a chemical known to cause cancer.

Some hand sanitizers used to fight COVID-19 found to be tainted with cancer-causing chemical

March 24, 2021 at 2:30 p.m.

Some widely available hand sanitizers that American consumers snapped up last year to ward off coronavirus infection contain high levels of a chemical known to cause cancer, a testing firm's...

Supporters and members of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union demonstrate March 13, 2021, outside the warehouse where Amazon workers are voting whether to join the union in Bessemer, Alabama. Amazon is facing increasing labor unrest in the United States.

‘Taking on a behemoth like Amazon is going to take an army.’ Labor unions, inspired by Alabama drive, are joining the fight nationwide.

March 22, 2021 at 1:49 p.m.

Inspired by the high-profile campaign to unionize an Amazon.com fulfillment center in Alabama, workers in Baltimore, New Orleans, Portland, Denver and Southern California have begun exploring ways to form unions...

The Chicago River flows through downtown after it was dyed green in celebration of St. Patrick's Day on March 13, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. The dyeing of the river, a St. Patrick's Day tradition in the city, was cancelled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was reported to be cancelled this year but the city approved a last-minute early-morning clandestine dyeing to keep the usual spectators at bay. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Spring party season, relaxing of mask rules creates fear of COVID-19 resurgence in US

March 17, 2021 at 10:59 a.m.

The convergence of St. Patrick's Day, spring break and the sunset of mask mandates is creating fresh fear of a COVID-19 resurgence in the U.S., even as cases drop and...

22. Western Wildfires - California, Oregon, Washington Firestorms (2020) | Total cost (inflation-adjusted): $16.5 billion - Total deaths: 46 - Begin date: Aug. 1, 2020 - End date: Dec. 30, 2020

Record-breaking wildfires made North American air worse in 2020

March 17, 2021 at 10:59 a.m.

The devastating wildfires that torched a record 4.3 million acres in the U.S. in 2020 made North America the only region in the world where air quality was worse than...

Paul Manafort, center, arrives in court June 27, 2019, in New York. Manafort, Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, is being sued in March 2021 by the Federal Savings Bank of Chicago, which is seeking to foreclose upon his New York mansion.

Paul Manafort sued by Chicago bank seeking to foreclose on mansion owned by former Trump campaign chairman

March 17, 2021 at 9:37 a.m.

The Chicago bank that lent millions of dollars to Paul Manafort under its founder and former longtime chief executive has now sued the former Trump campaign chairman and his wife,...

A vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is drawn into a syringe Dec. 14, 2020, at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa.

COVID-19 vaccines for children: When can kids get shots? Do they even need them?

March 15, 2021 at 1:58 p.m.

Children have fared better than adults in the coronavirus pandemic, a fact that makes the development of vaccines for them a unique effort in the annals of medical science. Historically,...

As US loads up on extra COVID-19 shots, a vaccine gap grows worldwide

March 11, 2021 at 6:44 a.m.

President Joe Biden has ordered almost enough COVID-19 vaccine to fully inoculate every American adult twice, expanding production as he faces both uncertainty about domestic needs and calls from shot-starved...

In 1949, French essayist, political theorist, and intellectual Simone de Beauvoir published her most famous and influential work on the oppression of women. De Beauvoir attempted to explain why women are oppressed in society and argued that political advancements like the right to vote meant nothing to women who don't have the means to support themselves in other ways. Its English translation (published in 1953) was long considered deeply flawed, but that didn't stop the work from becoming required reading for feminists and scholars around the world.

Moms drop out of work most in states where kids learn from home

March 10, 2021 at 10:02 a.m.

Women have dropped out of the U.S. workforce at a faster pace in states where most students are learning from home, risking a reversal of decades of gendered advancement. Before...

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