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And as summer nears, the question must be asked: Is it risky from a COVID-19 standpoint to go in a swimming pool?

The governor of Amazonas, Colombia, says it was impossible to cut the area off from Brazil, even as the virus spiked. Now the Colombian border town of Leticia is a coronavirus hot spot.

By popular demand, we've updated our guidelines for repair people in the home — and taken on new topics as well.

The investigation into the massive blast continues, a Lebanese judge says. The explosion has been traced to an estimated 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse.

A college student's bill for outpatient knee surgery is a whopper — $96K — but the most mysterious part is a $1,167 charge from a health care provider she didn't even know was in the operating room.

After explosions convulsed Beirut, here is a selection of photos showing Beirut residents in their destroyed house or workplace, along with a glimpse of their experiences, in their own words.

People are worried that the virus could be spread by air conditioning systems. Here's what researchers do — and don't yet — know.

We talk about the fashion of COVID-19 face masks with DIY designers Ryan Glen who sells bedazzled masks on Etsy, and Ohio principle Bryan Raach, whose mask is designed to make students feel safe.

The candle test is one way to assess (roughly) the effectiveness of a mask. If your mask passes the test, you can help it do an even better job with some simple hacks.

A U.S. firebombing campaign targeted Toyama and other Japanese cities, killing 180,000 before the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, write geographer Cary Karacas and historian David Fedman.