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"We're used to treating hot spells as a chance to go play in the sun," said a top government scientist. "Our lifestyles and our infrastructure are not adapted to what is coming."

Public health experts know what it takes to control a disease outbreak: access to testing and vaccines. But in the last two months of the monkeypox outbreak, the response has not met the need.

The heat wave scorching Europe is part of a larger global trend this summer of extreme weather. Policymakers, especially in the U.S., are so far failing to take steps to avoid a more dire future.

Ferocious wildfires are burning in Spain and France, which evacuated thousands of people and scrambled water-bombing planes and firefighters. Officials and scientists cited climate change as a factor.

A 22-year-old man who was legally carrying a firearm at the mall shot and killed the gunman, police say. A gunman began firing at the Greenwood Park Mall shortly before it closed on Sunday.

A report from WHO and UNICEF states that last year, 25 million children missed out on one or more "lifesaving vaccines" — for diseases like tuberculosis, diphtheria, tetanus, polio and yellow fever.

Firefighters struggled on Sunday to contain wildfires raging out of control in France and Spain as Europe wilts under an unusually extreme heat wave.

Mental health advocates hope the new hotline will make it easier to get support if you're in crisis or helping someone who is. Here's how it works and what could stand in its way.

The city of San Diego will require its police officers to seek or obtain a warrant to hold or search seized cell phones, per a settlement announced Wednesday stemming from a lawsuit that alleged San Diego police seized a protester's phone and refused to return it.

Residents in Akron, Ohio have struggled to understand why a 25-year-old with no criminal record was fatally shot by police. On Monday, the state attorney general said the officers won't be indicted.