Free Backpacks Given To School Children in Dorchester

14 hours ago | Boston Herald

BOSTON SUNDAY 0809: Elizabeth Caisey Community Life Service Coordinator, works loading one of two hundred backpacks filled with school supplies that were being given out to...
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Investing In Jamaica's Smallholder Farmers' Climate Resilience Could Double Agricultural Production

15 hours ago | Forbes

Jamaica's 154,000 smallholder farmers are the backbone of the agriculture sector and are vital to the Caribbean country's sustainable development. As the most vulnerable group...
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Goya CEO Robert Unanue saved by his sisters from getting canned

16 hours ago | New York Post

All CEOs should have sisters like these. Goya Foods' President Trump-loving CEO nearly lost his job last month as members of the family-owned business sought to inject new...
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LA breweries, wineries say they should be allowed to reopen if restaurants can

17 hours ago | ABC

Restaurants that serve alcohol can remain open in Los Angeles County, but wineries that serve food cannot. Business owners are calling for fairness in the rules.
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Composting Has Been Scrapped. These New Yorkers Picked Up the Slack

20 hours ago | NY Times

People like Vivian Lin, who quit her job at an architecture firm to start a composting business, have helped fill the void after the city suspended curbside organic waste...
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1 Teen Dead, at Least 20 Injured After Shooting at D.C. Party

21 hours ago | Time | 3 articles

A dispute that erupted into gun fire at an apparent outdoor party in Washington, D.C., early Sunday left one person dead and some 20 others injured, including an off-duty...
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N.Korea brings aid supplies to border town under lockdown -state media

1 day ago | National Post

SEOUL - North Korea's ruling party has delivered special aid packages of food and medical equipment to residents of Kaesong, near the border with the South, after imposing a...
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Chicago Riverwalk offers things to see, eat and do while adhering to health guidelines

1 day ago | WGN TV

CHICAGO - The Chicago Riverwalk is open and all the old favorites are there following city health guidelines. The Northman has plenty of seating and serves food and local...
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Salmonella outbreak linked to onions expands to hundreds of people sickened in 43 states

1 day ago | WCVB

"If you don't know where your onions are from, don't eat, serve, or sell them or any food prepared with them," the CDC said Friday.
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Salmonella outbreak linked to onions expands to hundreds of people sickened in 43 states

1 day ago | WTAE | 2 articles

"If you don't know where your onions are from, don't eat, serve, or sell them or any food prepared with them," the CDC said Friday.
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Disney World to reduce theme park hours in September

Operating hours at all Central Florida parks are changing. Read more ...

Houses explode in Baltimore, killing 1 and trapping others, fire union says

BALTIMORE - One person has died and others were reportedly trapped after an explosion Monday morning in Maryland, according to the Baltimore Firefighters Union IAFF Local... Read more ...

What you need to know about COVID-19: More than 97,000 kids tested positive...

A report, published by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association, said in the last two weeks of July, there was a 40% increase in child cases... Read more ...

McDonald's sues ousted CEO, alleging he destroyed evidence of employee...

McDonald's says it's suing Stephen Easterbrook, the CEO it ousted last year over an inappropriate relationship with an employee, alleging Monday that he covered up... Read more ...

Nearly 100,000 children in the U.S. tested positive for COVID-19 last 2...

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai predicted that he would be arrested under...

Jimmy Lai, one of Hong Kong's most prominent pro-democracy voices, arrested under China's new national security law on Monday. Lai, who partly owns the publisher of the... Read more ...

Israeli jeweler makes $1.5m gold coronavirus mask

An Israeli jewelry company is working on what it says will be the world's most expensive coronavirus mask, a gold, diamond-encrusted face covering with a price tag of $1.5 million. Read more ...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine entered a pact to buy thousands of COVID-19 antigen...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine tested positive for COVID-19 on August 6, but subsequent tests came back negative. Speaking to CNN, the Republican governor said the experience points to... Read more ...

Coronavirus in Kansas City: Tracking COVID-19 curve of cases, deaths

We're tracking the curve of coronavirus cases and coronavirus-related deaths that have occurred in Missouri and Kansas. Read more ...

Lebanon's entire government resigns over Beirut blast, minister says

Lebanon health minister on Monday said “the whole government resigned” in the wake of last week's massive explosion, which claimed at least 220 lives and injured about 6,000... Read more ...