While Black people and Latinos account for more than 50% of Covid-19 cases nationwide, so far they make up at least 15% of participants in the nation’s first large-scale clinical trial of a coronavirus vaccine tests, according to data obtained by CNN from a government official. That could potentially delay …

NAIROBI, Kenya – The captain of the ship that ran aground in Mauritius and ran about 1,000 tons of oil in the Indian Ocean has been arrested, his lawyer said on Tuesday. The captain, Sunil Kumar Nandeshwar, was arrested in a district court in the country’s capital, Port Louis, on …

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks at her weekly press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA, on August 13, 2020. Ting Shen | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images A group of House Democrats is urging speaker Nancy Pelosi to vote on a bill to extend additional unemployment …

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Mars is pockmarked with absolutely massive lava tubes, with ceilings as high as the Empire State Building, new research shows. And the moon hosts even more gargantuan tubes, with heights doubling Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, and “skylights” as large as football fields. These gifted, underground …