National Lifestyle

Thousands of scientists around the world are working on problems raised by the COVID-19 pandemic.

A routine trip to the grocery store can be complicated by a boatload of questions in the age of COVID-19.

Can you get COVID-19 by handling cardboard or plastic items from the grocery store? What about from the bag of fast food you picked up at the drive-thru window? The Canadian Press talked to a variety of experts to weigh in on these and other question

Sewers across the country are joining the fight against COVID-19 by fashioning fabric masks in an effort to bolster the supply of personal protective equipment.

NEW ORLEANS — There were the great fires of 1788 and 1794 and the multiple yellow fever outbreaks of the 1800s. Hurricane Betsy hit in 1965, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and the memories linger in New Orleans like remnants of a bad dream.

WASHINGTON — Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows: ABC's “This Week" — White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow; Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-La.; former White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert.

It's becoming an increasingly ambiguous scenario: the elevator door opens and someone is already inside.

The Santa Fe Plaza is empty. So are the narrow streets of the adobe-laden historic district in the heart of Albuquerque. The ski lifts are idle, the galleries are shuttered, and the fate of the summer art market season is uncertain.

NEW YORK — The caskets are often closed these days, the chairs for mourners largely empty at the Gerard J. Neufeld Inc. funeral home.

TORONTO — The Canadian Opera Company is dropping the rest of its 2019/2020 season amid the COVID-19 outbreak. General director Alexander Neef says the move was taken to protect its audiences, artists and staff from infection by the novel coronavirus.