The Indian Ocean island of Mauritius has declared a “state of emergency” after a ship owned by Japan that ran aground off the coast days ago started playing with tons of fuel. Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth announced the development late Friday when satellite images showed a dark glass scattered in …

Teachers from across the country have reflected on what they are learning and how they are learning it in the wake of George Floyd’s death and the national protests that followed. Some lessons to remember: the deniers assume that it was simply “the norm” that Presidents George Washington and Thomas …

How contagious is someone who has contracted COVID-19 – showing no symptoms yet – and what makes them asymptomatic while other people suffer so terribly from the disease? This study, published this week in the medical journal JAMA Internal Medicine, provides one theory for the first question. It isolated 303 …

By Julian Grace, WRAL anchor / reporter Durham, NC – How can consumers know how much protection their face coverage really offers? A new study from Duke University seeks to answer this whole question. The study conducted at Duke will help not only in the Triangle, but across the country. …

When she’s old enough, Philadelphia Eagles receiver Marquise Goodwin will teach his daughter, Marae, to put family first. He will say that she should prioritize the people she loves most when making decisions. He will share his own choice, made five months after she was born: He will sit out …