In May, as the United Kingdom began to emerge from one of the world's longest and most stringent lockdowns, Kitty Grew started doing dry-runs of the commute from her home in north London to her office ...

Demonstrations erupted across China in the past week over the country's strict COVID-19 policies. Dr. Anthony Fauci said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that China's approach has been "rather draconian." On ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman lights a candle during a vigil at USC Tuesday night for people suffering under stringent COVID-19 lockdowns in China.

Long before Covid struck, economists detected a deadly pattern in the impact of natural disasters: if the executive branch of government used the emergency to claim sweeping new powers over the ...

A woman lights a candle during a vigil at USC Tuesday night for people suffering under stringent COVID-19 lockdowns in China. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times) Zi Yuen has been taking her lunch breaks ...