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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks to the media about the Situation regarding the new Coronavirus, during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)
Health

Health experts: Human-to-human spread of new virus worrying

For a second day, the number of coronavirus infections grew dramatically.

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As more cases continue to be confirmed, health officials and medical works in Wuhan, China, and throughout the country ramp up efforts to contain the spread. (Dake Kang/AP Photo)
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Health

Coronavirus update: What’s new in the evolving outbreak

Saturday's Lunar New Year celebrations were dampened in China by fears over the coronavirus outbreak and travel restrictions affecting 46 million people.

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Lion dancers from the Philadelphia Suns perform in front of the Chinese Friendship Gate in Chinatown celebrating the Lunar New Year. (Jonathan Wilson for WHYY)
Community

Return of the Rat: Chinese Lunar New Year honors the trickster

As the Chinese Lunar Calendar cycles to its #1 zodiac sign, rats will look cute this year.

7 years ago

In this Jan. 23, 2020, file photo, a policeman uses a digital thermometer to take a driver's temperature at a checkpoint at a highway toll gate in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province. Cutting off access to entire cities with millions of residents to stop a new virus outbreak is a step few countries other than China would consider, but it is made possible by the ruling Communist Party's extensive social controls and experience fighting the 2002-03 outbreak of SARS. (Chinatopix via AP)
Health

Social controls, SARS experience help China close off cities

Cutting off access to entire cities with millions of residents to stop a new virus outbreak is a step few countries other than China would consider.

7 years ago

Defense Secretary Mark Esper arrives to brief members of the Senate on the details of the threat that prompted the U.S. to kill Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/ Jacquelyn Martin)
Politics & Policy

Pentagon: 34 US troops had brain injuries from Iran’s strike

Seventeen of the 34 are still under medical observation, according to Jonathan Hoffman, the chief Pentagon spokesman.

7 years ago

J. Joseph Kim, co-founder and CEO of Inovio Pharmaceuticals. (Rich Myers)
Health
Philadelphia Business Journal

Montco biopharm firm gets $9M grant to battle China’s new coronavirus

Inovio Pharmaceuticals received a grant to support development of a vaccine against the recently emerged strain of coronavirus.

7 years ago

The Titanic set out from Southampton, England, in 1912 — and infamously dragged more than 1,500 of its passengers and crew to their deaths not long afterward. Now the underwater wreckage of the historic vessel is getting some new protections. (Central Press/Getty Images)
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Politics & Policy

Titanic wreckage now protected under U.S.-U.K. deal that was nearly sunk

British Maritime Minister Nusrat Ghani lauded a 2003 treaty that sat unratified for years but, after approval by the U.S., has recently been dredged from its would-be grave.

7 years ago

Female regent honeyeater in Capertee National Park, New South Wales, Australia. There are only 300 to 400 of the birds left in the wild, says Ross Crates, an ecologist at Australia National Universit. (David Stowe/via AP Photo)
Community

Scientists seek rare species survivors amid Australia flames

Australia’s unprecedented wildfires season has so far charred 40,000 square miles (104,000 square kilometers) of brushland, rainforests, and national parks.

7 years ago

In this Tuesday, July 10, 2018 file photo Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, and Meghan the Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry watch a flypast of Royal Air Force aircraft pass over Buckingham Palace in London. (Matt Dunham/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

William, Harry issue statement amid UK royal family rift

Princes William and Harry have issued a statement challenging the accuracy of a newspaper report describing a severe strain on the relationship between the two brothers.

7 years ago

A woman attending a candlelight vigil to remember the victims of the Ukraine plane crash, talks to a policeman, at the gate of Amri Kabir University in Tehran, Iran.  (Mona Hoobehfekr/ISNA via AP)
Community

Iran braces for protests after admitting plane shootdown

Iran's security forces deployed across the capital on Sunday, expecting more protests after its Revolutionary Guard admitted to accidentally shooting down a passenger plane.

7 years ago

President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020, in Toledo, Ohio. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

White House considering dramatic expansion of travel ban

The White House is considering dramatically expanding its much-litigated travel ban to additional countries amid a renewed election-year focus on immigration.

7 years ago

Firefighters conduct property protection patrols at the Dunn Road Fire on Friday in Mount Adrah, Australia. (Sam Mooy/Getty Images)
NPR
Community

With their land in flames, aboriginals warn fires show deep problems in Australia

Before Britain started sending convicts to the continent in the 1700s, aboriginal Australians used fire to manage brushlands and forests across the continent.

7 years ago

In this aerial photo Monday, Dec. 30, 2019, wildfires rage under plumes of smoke in Bairnsdale, Australia. (Glen Morey via AP, File)
Radio Times
Science

Is Australia’s fire the world’s future?

We look at the bushfires raging in Australia and discuss the role climate change is playing on wildfire severity and frequency around the globe.

Air Date: January 10, 2020 10:00 am

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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., right, speaks with Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, a member of the panel, who criticized a security briefing on Iran Wednesday by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other top officials, saying it was
Politics & Policy

House approves measure to restrain Trump’s actions on Iran

The war powers resolution is not binding on Trump and would not require his signature.

7 years ago

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., arrives to meet with other House Democrats on the morning following Iranian attacks on bases in Iraq housing U.S. troops, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Watch live: House to vote on restraining Trump’s actions against Iran

The Democratic war powers resolution seems certain to pass over solid Republican opposition.

7 years ago

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