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GE workers who normally make jet engines say their facilities are sitting idle while the country faces a dire ventilator shortage.

While a small portion of the jump can be attributed to 9 cases being confirmed in the Gaza Strip, the main cause of the increase is the ordered return of thousands of Palestinian laborers from Israel back to the West Bank.

Why do we fail in protecting our own people’s health and well-being while we squander more than a trillion dollars each year – with the assent of both Republicans and Democrats – on maintaining a failed and futile military empire across the world?

Texas and Ohio have ordered a stop to abortions, saying they’re not essential medical services. Other states will follow. Right-wing forces are using the pandemic as a pretext to crack down dramatically on abortion rights. We can’t let them.

MFK Fisher's How to Cook a Wolf is a hopeful message on how to survive during wartime when food supply lines were disrupted, fuel was scarce, and people stocked "blackout shelves" in case of a bombing.

Clinical and design considerations will be published online; goal is to support rapid scale-up of device production to alleviate hospital shortages.

As Democrats fret about their own prospects, many fail to recognize the president’s fundamental weakness.

Calling on city and landlords to provide relief amid coronavirus pandemic: ‘The hammer is going to drop’

Can a fragile media ecosystem survive the pandemic?

Eight countries, representing around one-quarter of all humanity, say that Washington’s actions are undermining their response to the COVID–19 pandemic sweeping the planet.