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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is proposing to shut down schools and non-essential businesses in nine zip codes in Brooklyn and Queens, which have had high positivity rates in recent days.

The scientists' work led to a test to protect blood transfusion recipients from hepatitis C and drugs to treat the infection that have saved millions of lives, according to the Nobel Assembly.

The community is so small that it doesn't have a mayor. An Airbnb host turned his rental into a lair that he's calling Hell on Earth. Guests who stay there in October get the title: Mayor of Hell.

The record-breaking wildfires in California have burned more than 4 million acres this year. That is more than double the previous record. And fire season is far from over.

"All of Louisiana needs to prepare," says Gov. John Bel Edwards. Delta, which is headed first for Cuba and Mexico, is part of a storm season that exhausted the usual list of alphabetized names.

Even regular testing is no substitute for routine mask-wearing and social distancing along with quarantining for those who've been exposed to the coronavirus, experts say.

Mayor Lovely Warren was indicted last week on felony charges. She has recently faced unrelated calls to resign over her handling of the Daniel Prude case.

A new database from U.N. Women and UNDP looks at how 206 countries and territories are responding to women's needs during the pandemic. And the results are mixed.

The new project will fund efforts to create new monuments, as well as contextualize or relocate existing ones, to tell a "more inclusive story of our history."

There's a long history of military doctors treating U.S. presidents. This does create the unusual situation where the president, as commander-in-chief, is the doctor's ultimate boss.