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And while social media giants like Facebook and Twitter have come under intense scrutiny for hosting misinformation, private messaging services like Telegram, South Korea’s Kakao, the China-based WeChat and the largest–WhatsApp–have been more difficult to monitor because they host private,

(Reuters) – British scientists said on Thursday they had identified a gene in the human body that doubles the risk of dying due to COVID-19, providing new insight into how the illness affects patients and possibly help in developing specific

The optimism expressed by young people aged 13 to 29 in a new poll from the PBS NewsHour and Generation Lab comes even as many of them point to the multiple ways they believe climate change will affect their personal

Defense minister says all investigations and prosecutions of sexual offenses in the military will be handled now by civilian law enforcement.

Environmentalists applaud the plan by Ecuador and others to create a vast area off-limits to industrial fishing, but enforcement will be a challenge.

Tanzania denied the existence of the pandemic for months, even as thousands likely died. The country is a clue to its hidden global toll; “This is one of the government’s coronavirus cemeteries, but we’re not allowed to call it that.”

NPR’s Audie Cornish speaks with Sarah Stillman, staff writer at The New Yorker, who spent the past year with some of the growing number of migrant laborers who follow climate disasters for work.

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A citizen journalist jailed for her coverage of China’s initial response to Covid in Wuhan is close to death after going on hunger strike, her family said, prompting renewed calls from rights groups for her immediate release. Zhang Zhan, 38,

In many ways, Eternals is unlike the 25 movies that came before it in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It has a cosmic scope, an Academy Award-winning director in Chloé Zhao, and a cast of all-new characters. However, it is still