David Penepent walked into the back chapel of a funeral home in Queens on Thursday and surveyed a scene unthinkable before the coronavirus epidemic. Thirty people had been laid out in the chilled room, the bodies held in boxes made of cardboard and... >>>

© COADIC GUIREC / BESTIMAGE Bernard Montiel "destroyed" by his last moments with his mother: "She is better now" Three years later the death of his mother, Bernard Montiel confided in his last moments. Suffering from Alzheimer's disease, she no... >>>

Tissue samples from people who died in Santa Clara County, Calif., tested positive for the virus, local officials said. The nation’s first confirmed deaths were previously believed to have occurred in Washington state in late February.Tissue samples >>>

Health officials said Tuesday that new autopsy results show a patient in Santa Clara, Calif., died of COVID-19 on Feb. 6, several weeks before the United States declared its first novel coronavirus death. The finding suggests that the virus was... >>>

Donald Trump clarified the contours of the decree on the temporary suspension of immigration to the country, explaining giving priority to American workers. © afp.com/SAUL LOEB This suspension will not apply to temporary work visas but only to... >>>

Warmer weather means Lake Mille Lacs in Minnesota is starting to thaw, and as it does ice waves are slowly crashing into homes on the shore.   © Steven Johnson/Johnson's Portside Wind is pushing the ice onto the shore of Lake Mille Lacs in... >>>

MIAMI - More than half of the detainees inside an immigration detention center in Miami-Dade County have been exposed to COVID-19, U.S. government officials said in a federal court filing Tuesday. IIn a sworn statement filed in Miami federal court,... >>>

Staff at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, clapped as the two were reunited after 25 days."Can I touch?" Nolasco asked the doctors and nurses at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, on Tuesday, after Isabella Michelle was... >>>

SAN DIEGO - The American Civil Liberties Union is asking a federal judge to order the release of immigrant detainees from two California border facilities amid the coronavirus crisis. In a class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday, the ACLU of San Diego... >>>

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — The picturesque northern New Mexico birthplace of Mexican American civil rights icon Dolores Huerta and the site of one of the worst mining disasters in U.S. history is up for sale. The Dawson Elk Valley Ranch, where the town >>>

What does it mean to be a good Earthling?Then, on April 22, 1970, 10 percent of America took to the streets for the first Earth Day. It was an unprecedented demonstration on behalf of nature, a declaration that people could not thrive unless the... >>>

There are more covid-19 cases per capita in the Bronx than any other New York borough.Ozuna has four kids at home, ages 1 to 19, and she needed the basics: rice, chicken, baby formula. But a life in the Bronx has taught her how elusive the basics... >>>

William Garrison was 16 years old when he was convicted of murder.On April 12, she said a parole agent inspected her suburban Detroit residence and deemed it a suitable place for 60-year-old William Garrison to... >>>

SAN DIEGO - The Navy is preparing to announce the findings of its investigation into how a letter from the captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt describing a COVID-19 outbreak on the ship was leaked to the news media. Adm. Mike Gilday, chief of... >>>

Thousands of alleged email addresses and passwords linked to prominent organizations battling the coronavirus pandemic have been dumped on the Internet, where they almost immediately were used to foment hacking attempts and harassment by far-right... >>>