GORDON BAY, Canada — Three months ago, Canada, which has no domestic manufacturer of COVID-19 vaccines, lagged far behind the United States in immunizations. Only 3% […]
Native Americans press for the reburial of ancestors
Curtis Zunigha remembers shedding tears when he heard the age of one Native American whose remains were part of a reburial ceremony in Ohio several […]
Afghan refugees arrive in U.S., thousands still in peril
WASHINGTON — The first group of Afghan interpreters and contractors who aided U.S. military and diplomatic missions was expected to arrive in the U.S. overnight Thursday. […]
Pandemic-era Latin America: Inequality, despair, upheaval
IQUITOS, Peru — When the pandemic began to ravage this jungle city, Marlon Ashanga loaded his wife, two kids and virus-stricken father into a canoe and […]
A former schoolteacher who champions the poor, Peru’s new president takes office amid deep divisions
LIMA — It was one of the most improbable electoral victories in recent Latin American political history. Pedro Castillo, a 51-year-old former rural elementary school teacher […]
U.S. coronavirus cases may be double the official tally
By early March 2021, roughly 65 million people in the U.S. — or one out of every five people — had been infected by the […]