Lockdowns. Social distancing. Shuttered schools and businesses. The COVID-19 pandemic and its sweeping disruptions set off a stampede of “what it’s doing to us” research, focused largely on ...

An Aug. 16 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of the World Health Organization's Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, beneath the headline of an article in The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's no secret that, after years of declining crime rates, crimes against people and property spiked in 2020 and for a period ...

"Attention parents: Our school has been placed on lockdown." A message parents never want to receive. Unfortunately, school lockdowns have become frequent nationwide, regardless of the community. A ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the intersection of people, risk, leadership and performance. As business leaders mark the fifth anniversary of COVID-19 ...

Ross, Julia, and Amanda, three very successful young professionals living in Manhattan, all died of drug overdoses four years ago, in March 2021. The Wall Street Journal reported on their deaths as a ...

As many as 30% of children and teens across the world were nearsighted in 2023, a new study has revealed. Diagnoses of nearsightedness (myopia) are expected to worsen over the next two decades, ...

A recent study reported the somewhat alarming observation that the social disruptions of COVID lockdowns caused significant changes in teenagers’ brains. Using MRI data, researchers at the University ...

Multiple schools in Modesto have been placed on lockdown as officers investigate a suspicious package, the Modesto Police ...

A suspicious package in Modesto prompted school lockdowns, which were lifted after police deemed the item safe.

A heavy police presence on Shipping Avenue and Elizabeth Street in Coconut Grove on Friday morning, Aug. 22, 2025, after reports of a stolen car in the Gables led to a police chase and three Grove ...