At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, health experts warned of a ticking time bomb in Africa as many feared that the coronavirus would overwhelm the continent’s fragile health care systems, resulting in massive fatalities. But nearly eight months after the first confirmed case on the continent, African countries appear to be coping. With around 1.5 million cases at the time of publication, and 37,000 deaths, researchers are now looking to uncover the lessons behind the continent’s quiet successes. One notable case is Senegal, the West African country with roughly 7 doctors for every 100,000 people. Despite its relatively limited resources, it was ranked second out of 36 countries on Foreign Policy’s COVID-19 Global Response Index, which looks at how national leaders are responding to the pandemic. Beaten to the top spot only by New Zealand, it scored high marks for providing fact-based communication and for the public health directives introduced in the country.

The dark satire’s second season has illuminated the rotten core of superheroism, and cast our collective obsession with it in an unflattering light.

Prince George plant will grind ancient cedar and hemlock into pellets to be burned for fuel overseas, destroying forest that’s home to endangered caribou and vast stores of carbon

State and local politicians are faced with a lot of bad options during the pandemic, but they don't have to cut jobs and services.

The puss caterpillar may look cute and harmless. It is not.

A Black man who was fatally shot by a white police officer in a small East Texas city had offered a handshake to the officer, asking if he was “doing good,” as the officer arrived at a convenience store to check out a report of a fight, according to a court document released Wednesday. Wolfe City police Officer Shaun Lucas has been charged with murder in the weekend death of 31-year-old Jonathan Price, whose funeral will be held Saturday at the high school football field in the city of about 1,500 people located about 70 miles (113 kilometers) northeast of Dallas.

Authorities in Indonesia’s capital on Saturday were cleaning up burned-out cars, government offices and bus shelters that were set ablaze by protesters enraged over a new law they say will cripple labor rights and harm the environment. Protests in many Indonesian cities turned violent Thursday. At least 20 bus stops and other transit facilities were destroyed in Jakarta, causing 55 billion rupiah ($3.7 million) in damage, said Jakarta Gov. Anies Baswedan. Calm has largely returned after the government warned protesters it won’t tolerate any further destruction and attacks on police and communities.

Three Pennsylvania man who pleaded guilty to having sex hundreds of times with horses, goats, dogs and a cow need to keep serving their decades-long prison sentences, a state appeals court has decided.

The worker was trying to move a sign that was too close to the road when "he was cut by razor blades that had been attached to the bottom edge of the sign," the sheriff's office said.

Six total factors, including speed, helmet, oxygen, and flight control problems, led to this summer’s loss of an Air Force Lightning II.

A performative post-election ban won’t solve anything. But cutting off the platform’s data-driven rage machine will.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is being kept under close watch by doctors as he enters his second week in the hospital battling the coronavirus, making his case the most serious among senior Republicans in contact with President Donald Trump while he may have been carrying the virus. Most senior Republicans in Trump's circle either are convalescing at home or still waiting to find out if they have been infected. Christie told CNN that doctors prescribed the anti-viral treatment remdesivir, the same drug the President authorized for emergency use and then took personally while hospitalized. Meanwhile, others who were around Trump over the past two weeks are now scrambling to figure out if they will be the latest to get sick with the virus. At the same time, they're working -- with varying degrees of caution -- to propagate Trump's political message without spreading his illness along with it.

Historical revisionism, under Putin, knows no bounds. Yuri Dmitriev, a tenacious researcher and activist who campaigned to create a memorial to the victims of Stalinist terror in Karelia, a province in Russia’s far northwest, has just been condemned by a court in Karelia to thirteen years in a prison camp. For this man of sixty-four, this is practically a death sentence. Dmitriev’s father had revealed to him that his own father, Yuri’s grandfather, had been shot by Stalin’s secret police in 1938; and Yuri found his vocation as a researcher—in archives, but also in the cemetery-forests of Karelia. “I wanted to find out about the fate of those people,” Dmitriev told me.

Trump will resume public events this weekend, beginning with an outdoor speech at the White House, an administration official said. The president has also scheduled a campaign rally in Florida on Monday night. Trump will address a previously scheduled event Saturday afternoon organized by conservative Black activist Candace Owens. Trump will speak to supporters from the balcony as they gather on the South Lawn. White House aides said social distancing and masks will be encouraged but not required.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday said his agency was working as fast as it could to release Hillary Clinton’s missing emails after President Trump lashed his cabinet member for not making them public.

Witches have been casting spells on the president since he was inaugurated. His COVID-19 diagnosis fell on a suspiciously auspicious date.

In January 2016, attorney Paul Letourneau arranged to meet his newest client one evening at Sea Dog Brewing Co., a local brewpub in southern Maine. She had a drug arrest, a shaky relationship and was struggling to hold onto her nursing license. Letourneau ordered a beer. They settled into a booth. Suddenly, his phone rang. His daughter was having car trouble, he told her. He asked the woman to wait for him. He’d be back in a second. As Letourneau walked out, Leah Kerwin watched him with unease. She was out on bail. She wasn’t supposed to be drinking alcohol. And here she was, meeting him alone in a mostly empty bar. After waiting 10 minutes, Kerwin decided to leave. Just as she reached her car in the parking lot, Letourneau pulled into the spot next to her, she said. He jumped out and strode over — standing so close that she could smell the beer on his breath. Come back inside for another drink, she remembered him asking. She knew it was the last time she wanted to be alone with her lawyer.

Twitter on Friday announced several steps it is taking to combat misinformation about the 2020 election as Election Day gets closer.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told a Kentucky event on Friday that a coronavirus stimulus deal is "unlikely in the next three weeks," per the Washington Post's Erica Werner. Our thought bubble: Two sources close to Senate leadership said President Trump is desperate, has zero leverage to push them to support a bill crafted by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and congressional Republicans aren’t inclined to wrap themselves any tighter to a sinking ship. What they're saying: "You’re never going to get a deal out of Pelosi that Republicans can support. So do you really want to divide your party within days of an election?" said a source close to Senate leadership about McConnell's calculations.

The Joe Biden campaign is on Twitch, but it doesn’t want to have some uncomfortable conversations.