If the world seems to you a little nastier and more confrontational than it was just a few years ago, you're not alone. Many Americans say the world is a ruder place than it was before the COVID-19 ...

A mask lies on a sidewalk. It’s hard to believe it's been five years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2020, the disease has killed more than 1.2 million Americans—more than in any other ...

The results show the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which plunged the world into economic and health care turmoil amid the unprecedented breakout in 2020, and it left the majority of the U.S. with a ...

Michael Osterholm, left, and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, right, at a briefing during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 in St. Paul, Minn. Michael Osterholm, left, and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, right, ...

Editor’s note: This story is a look back at some of the biggest headlines of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. See a full timeline here. Five years ago, the World Health Organization declared the ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, there was a moment when some people thought it could be a unifying time for the U.S., like the way Americans came together in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, ...

The number of deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic was so large that it ended up impacting the nation’s Social Security fund — which had a net increase of $205 billion. That’s according to a study out ...

Five years ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Whether it still is depends on who you ask. There are no clear criteria to mark the end of a pandemic, ...