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The women representing Team USA, including six team members and four alternates, pose last month after the U.S. Gymnastics Olympic trials in St. Louis. Kara Eaker, an alternate, has tested positive for the coronavirus, her gym says.

An Alternate For U.S. Olympic Women's Gymnastics Tests Positive For Coronavirus

6:09pm July 19, 2021

by Merrit Kennedy

Kara Eaker is the athlete who tested positive, her mother and her gym in Missouri confirmed on Monday. The women's team is continuing to prepare for the Games, according to USA Gymnastics.

The numerals in this illustration show the main mutation sites of the delta variant of the coronavirus, which is likely the most contagious version. Here, the virus's spike protein (red) binds to a receptor on a human cell (blue).

The Delta Variant Isn't Just Hyper-Contagious. It Also Grows More Rapidly Inside You

4:14pm July 08, 2021

by Michaeleen Doucleff

New research from China suggests people infected with the delta variant have, on average, about 1,000 times more virus in their respiratory tracts than those infected with the original strain.

A Ryanair jet that carried opposition figure Roman Protasevich was diverted to Minsk, Belarus, after a bomb threat. Protasevich, who ran a channel on a messaging app used to organize demonstrations against authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, was

The EU Bans Belarus Airlines And Reroutes Flights Around Its Airspace

9:25am June 04, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

The move, affecting about 400 flights per day, is a reaction to the shocking arrest of a journalist last month after Belarusian officials forced his plane Greece-to-Lithuania flight to land in Minsk.

People mourn the victims of a massacre allegedly perpetrated by Eritrean Soldiers, at the house of Beyenesh Tekleyohannes, in the village of Dengolat, North of Mekele, the capital of Tigray. The U.S. announced visa and aid restrictions to Ethiopia due to

U.S. Imposes Restrictions On Ethiopia And Eritrea Over Tigray Conflict

6:11am May 24, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

The conflict in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region began in early November. Thousands have died and close to 2 million people are reported to have been displaced.

The State Department has updated its policy regarding granting citizenship to children born via in vitro fertilization or surrogacy. Its earlier rules denied citizenship to those children unless they had direct genetic ties to their parent who was a U.S.

U.S. Ends Policy Of Denying Citizenship To Children Born Via IVF Or Surrogacy

10:42am May 19, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

The State Department says its updated policy "takes into account the realities of modern families" and advances in reproductive technology.

Left: A drawing of a human with a cow head holding a needle menacingly toward a child as he administers a tainted smallpox vaccination was meant to sow distrust of smallpox vaccines. Right: Protesters against COVID-19 vaccinations hold a rally in Sydney i

PHOTOS: Vaccine History Repeats Itself — Sometimes

7:13pm May 14, 2021

From the first vaccine (for smallpox) the questions have been the same. How do we transport it? Who's next to get it? Why so much hesitancy? The answers can be similar — or dramatically different.

Migrants and asylum seekers are seen after spending the night in one of the car lanes off the San Ysidro Crossing Port on the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana on April 24, 2021. A group of migrants asked U.S. migration authorities to allo

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As More Migrants Arrive, U.S. Expands Efforts To Identify And Admit Most Vulnerable

4:11pm May 12, 2021

More migrants are granted humanitarian exceptions to a pandemic public health order that effectively closed the Southern border. U.S. officials are working with NGOs to identify the most vulnerable.

Traffic on I-95 passes oil storage tanks owned by the Colonial Pipeline Co. in Linden, N.J. An cybersecurity attack has shut down Colonial Pipeline, a major transporter of gasoline along the East Coast.

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Cybersecurity Attack Shuts Down A Top U.S. Gasoline Pipeline

1:15pm May 08, 2021

by Marisa Peñaloza

An attack shuts down Colonial Pipeline, a major transporter of gasoline along the East Coast. A security analyst says the event shows the vulnerability of key elements of the nation's infrastructure.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (second from left) speaks as U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (left), South Korean Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong (second from right), and South Korean Defense Minister Suh Wook, right, listen during the joint pr

U.S. Officials Reassure S. Korea On Visit, But Differences Emerge On N. Korea Policy

11:58am March 18, 2021

by Anthony Kuhn

The trip showed different policy approaches between the U.S. and allies such as South Korea and Japan to two big issues: North Korea's growing nuclear arsenal and China's growing assertiveness.

Growth of coronavirus cases around the world (as of March 14)

Coronavirus World Map: We've Now Passed The 100 Million Mark For Infections

8:21am March 16, 2021

A map of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths around the world. The respiratory disease has spread rapidly across six continents and has killed at least 2 million globally.