Blog Verité

A map of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths around the world. The respiratory disease has spread rapidly across six continents and has killed thousands of people. (Image credit: NPR)

It’s a wealthy nation with a robust health care system. So why does Chile have one of the highest coronavirus infection rates per capita of any country in the world? (Image credit: Marcelo Hernandez/Getty Images)

Americans never saw it coming. Hardly anyone in Philadelphia, the nation’s temporary capital, noticed the first to die in the summer of 1793, a few weeks after the celebration of Independence Day: a few foreigners, an oyster seller in the

The most eloquent retort to Donald Trump’s favorite slogan—Make America Great Again—was first published in Esquire’s July 1936 issue, a decade before the President’s birth. Though its title is similarly nostalgic, Langston Hughes’ poem “Let America Be America Again” expresses

Union says members will not supply any services next Monday in protest of workload, low wages and constant danger; accuses Finance Ministry of indifference

Not for most people, though babies and toddlers should not wear them; expert says no reason to fear decreased oxygen

Hundreds of elephants have died mysteriously in Botswana’s famed Okavango Delta, the head of the wildlife department said Thursday, ruling out poaching as the tusks were found intact. The landlocked southern African country has the world’s largest elephant population, estimated

Calcalist: Amid uncertainty stemming from the coronavirus pandemic, Amdocs, which is dependent on US sales, is ‘strategically assessing its workforce’

New Zealand froze payments to America’s Cup organizers Thursday as officials investigate fraud claims in the lead-up to next year’s prestigious yachting regatta in Auckland. Government officials said they had suspended payments to America’s Cup Events Limited, the private company

Offering values the firm at $1.6 billion; Lemonade replaces home insurance agents with bots