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Terrance Whitten rests in the shade at Pan Pacific Park on Friday in Los Angeles. The 67-year-old has been waiting in the queue for nine days to get into a hotel room. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)Not long after L.A. County reported more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases on…

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Saturday that 299 people died due to the coronavirus on Friday. That marked a slight uptick from 289 deaths the day before – the first day in weeks that the single-day death toll had dropped below 300. "The number that I watch everyday, which is…

The city says one person was found dead this morning following a fire at a homeless encampment in Rosedale. In a news release issued this morning, the City of Toronto said firefighters were called to a fire at an encampment near Mount Pleasant Road and Bloor Street East shortly before…

The US has long faced a shortage of mental healthcare, particularly for people with serious illnesses such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The need for mental healthcare is increasing as people face grief, anxiety, and depression tied to the coronavirus pandemic, but fewer visits to counselors are happening because people are…

Image copyright Rtbf Image caption The cafeteria in the new shelter, which overlooks a park A European Parliament building in Brussels is housing 100 homeless women - many of them victims of domestic abuse - who have been severely affected by Belgium's coronavirus lockdown.The Helmut Kohl building, an office block…

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) answers reporters’ questions during a news conference with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) at the U.S. Capitol, April 30, 2020 in Washington, DC. Photo: Chip Somodevilla (GettyClassrooms are deserted and parents are grappling with exceptional challenges under the nationwide lockdown. None face…

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Llewellyn Barnes outside his home - a shipping container located on a golf course in South AfricaLlewellyn Barnes was so poor growing up he would use the broken leg of a stool to hit bottle corks as practice for golf, the sport he loved. Hardship has been a constant for…

By Mark Kaufman2020-04-29 15:00:46 UTC Right now, it's poised to be a potent Atlantic hurricane season. Though the Atlantic cyclone season begins in June and usually doesn't ramp up until August, environmental conditions in the ocean currently point to an above-normal season, meaning more storms. A number of storm researchers…

Image copyright Mary Jayaseelan The last time Mary Jayaseelan spoke to her husband Rajesh, he was about to be hooked up to a ventilator in a Covid ward. Rajesh was being treated in Northwick Park Hospital in London, the city where he worked as an Uber driver for most of…