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Around the margins, a darker story flourishes. Trebek was born in Sudbury, Ontario, in 1940, to Ukrainian immigrants, warm and loving people, if they were not fit for each other. His father drank. Trebek’s early years were filled with poverty, instability and disease, but he presents his typical cloudless charity: …

President Donald Trump warned Tuesday that the coronavirus pandemic in the United States is likely to “get worse before it gets better.” “That’s something I don’t like to say about things, but that’s the way it is, it’s what we have,” he said during a White House briefing on the …

LM Otero / Associated Press the The University Interscholastic League has delayed the start of high school soccer for the two largest Texas conferences due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Class 6A and 5A schools were originally scheduled to begin practices on August 3, but will have to wait until September …

The world is remembering Robin Williams. The comedian and actor who died in 2014 would have turned 69 on July 21. Fans commemorate the birthday of the Oscar winner with online tributes and celebrate his many memorable performances in movies like Society of the Dead Poets, Mrs. Doubtfireand good morning …

Vials of blood. Photo: Getty Images / Science Photo Library As scientists around the world have rushed to understand COVID-19, the general public has been inundated with a series of preliminary studies and subsequent recommendations, some of which have been conflicting, leaving us with “coronavirus whiplash.” . A recent source …