If this coronavirus pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that we must prepare for the next one, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned Wednesday.

Between 83,000 and 190,000 people could die of COVID-19 in Africa, with 29 million to 44 million infected, in the coronavirus pandemic’s first year if containment measures do not work, the African regional office of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday.

France's former 94-year-old president Valery Giscard d'Estaing is accused of sexually assaulting a German reporter.

Google parent Alphabet has scrapped its plans to develop a futuristic “Smart City” on the Toronto waterfront over privacy concerns and economic uncertainty brought on by the coronavirus pandemic

The heartwarming reunion, which clearly made little Mila Sneddon's day, took the young girl completely by surprise.

The cocktail includes three antiviral drugs and a different drug that boosts natural immune system chemicals.

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More scandal in the Orange County Sheriff's Department shows the department — like all sheriff's departments — should have independent civilian oversight.

After weeks of dithering, Trump finally seems to have gotten the message that Americans are desperate for more than empty assurances on coronavirus.

Congress can and should do more to combat a coronavirus downturn — including a $1,000 UBI check to every citizen.

With coronavirus on the rampage, perhaps the people who don't believe in vaccinations will rethink their irresponsible position.

Just when President Trump started to rise to the challenge of leading a nation through the coronavirus pandemic, he slips back to his old, tired tricks.

We're all in this together. It's far better for society if folks choose to help their fellow humans rather than rip the last roll of toilet paper from their hands.

Ideally, business owners and individuals will make the right decisions in the face of coronavirus. But then, there will always be companies like Tesla.

California's order might seem like a big deal. But what we don't know about this virus, which is a lot, means the risk of inaction is too high.

Amid a public health emergency, it's unconscionable for California to allow dozens of state-owned homes to stay empty.

With 40 million kids home from school, what's being done to make sure students are learning?

President Trump and Congress should keep climate change in mind as they prepare economic aid packages for businesses and industries.

This past weekend was an epic fail for public health. Southern Californians crowded hiking trails and beaches, and otherwise ignored social distancing orders..

It's not the government takeover that many Californians wanted for the fire-starting utility, but the deal Gavin Newsom struck with PG&E should help.

One Trump's smartest moves was to make Dr. Anthony Fauci a part of his coronavirus task force. Let's keep him there.

A pandemic threatens participation in the ultimate act of citizenship.

Some states are using the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to cut off abortion access. That's unacceptable.

With officials meeting virtually amid the coronavirus, the government must ensure that the public still has sufficient opportunity to participate.

There's never a good time for a pandemic, but it's hard to imagine a worse time than in the middle of the decennial census.

A federal judge was right to order the Trump administration to move faster to release detained migrant children from conditions that put them at risk for COVID-19.

The last thing L.A. County needs during a coronavirus pandemic is a turf battle between the sheriff and the Board of Supervisors.

What's worse than power shutoffs during the coronavirus quarantine? An unplanned outage that sparks a wildfire.

It's especially galling that the Trump Administration chooses this very moment, in a pandemic, to rollback car emission standards.

Communing online is a necessity during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Some of the most effective strategies at containing the coronavirus are also the most intrusive. Can we adopt them without damaging our liberties?

The governor's announcement made it sound like renters had true protections, meaning many tenants could unwittingly end up setting themselves up for eviction.

Judges aren't wizards who can see the future, so it's absurd to grant them legal power to brand any juveniles as incorrigible.

The 1918 pandemic has lessons for the 2020. Namely, we got through it. And social distancing works.

The justices give police the OK to stop drivers with nothing more than the barest fig leaf of a reason: that the car owner's license has been revoked.

This may well be the nation's "hardest, saddest" week yet of the coronavirus pandemic. But it may not be the last "worst" week.

Supervisors didn't permit public comment at their March 31 meeting, then failed to act publicly before admonishing the sheriff about his public statements.

As COVID-19 spreads across the United States, only a few areas are breaking down the numbers of infections and deaths by racial and ethnic groups.

Hotel rooms are what homeless people need now

Sanders leaves the presidential race with some major accomplishments.

Who needs the federal government when you have the world's fifth-largest economy taking charge?

There's no place and precious little time for this kind of shameless obstructionism during a pandemic that is particularly ravaging older impoverished people already racked with medical problems — like the ones who would have been cared for at the Ayres Hotel.

The coronavirus outbreak is exposing weaknesses in our planning for such disasters, and offers a chance to rethink how we do many things.

Psychiatrist Kenneth Rosenberg's film brings together many strands of American dysfunction: mental healthcare, incarceration, homelessness, policing, race. It provides few answers but helps us ask the right questions.

The Supreme Court allows livestreaming of oral arguments. The next step should be cameras.

Trump is correct that the decision is a very tough call. But it will be made by mayors and governors, not federal officials.

The coronavirus epidemic has superheated the issues confronting colleges and their students in ways that will reverberate for years, if not forever.

Mountain lions in southern California are endangered by rat poison and development. Time to protect them.

The federal stimulus checks go to people with Social Security numbers, leaving out millions who work in the U.S. without permission, but who pay taxes.

Christy Smith is the voice we need in California's 25th Congressional District to help guide the nation through the coronavirus crisis.