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The World Health Organization is sharing posts like these to debunk widely circulated rumors about the coronavirus on its social media.

Fake Facts Are Flying About Coronavirus. Now There's A Plan To Debunk Them

Rumors and untruths are spreading online — from conspiracy theories about the origin of the virus to outlandish treatments.

Top Facebook Official: Our Aim Is To Make Lying On The Platform 'More Difficult'

Facebook's head of security policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, said that the company is working harder than ever to counteract efforts to interfere in the 2020 presidential election.

A Studio At Your Fingertips: 5 Apps Teachers Are Using To Make Student Podcasts

We checked in with educators to see what tools their students are using to create entries for NPR's Student Podcast Challenge.

Top government leaders told NPR that federal agencies are years behind where they could have been if Chinese cybertheft had been openly addressed earlier.

As China Hacked, U.S. Businesses Turned A Blind Eye

The U.S. has largely failed to stop Chinese cybertheft of U.S. companies, but the companies themselves led the charge in keeping it under wraps.

Fedencia Nacar David holds her photo for an application to work as a maid. She was 15. A year before, a Japanese soldier sliced her ear and threatened to behead her if she didn't go to a garrison with him; she was raped over 10 days. "It still hurts," she says. "I was innocent. Why did that happen to me?" She kept her past from her children until "comfort women" began speaking out in the 1990s.

PHOTOS: Why These World War II Sex Slaves Are Still Demanding Justice

The Japanese army forced some 200,000 women into sexual slavery during World War II. They were known as "comfort women." This special report tells the stories of the survivors in the Philippines.

With new infections rising all over the country, states are struggling to slow the spread and testing can barely keep up. People line up outside a Covid-19 testing site in New York on November 11, 2020.

Are More Lockdowns Inevitable, Or Can Other Measures Stop The Surge?

The U.S. added more than 1 million cases in the past week. More than 85,000 people are hospitalized. Some states may have no choice but to lock down again. Others are trying a targeted approach.

Marines of the 5th and 7th regiments who hurled back a surprise onslaught by three Chinese communist divisions wait to withdraw from the Chosin Reservoir area circa December 1950.

'God ... Let Us Survive': Remembering Korean War's Chosin Battle And Evacuation

Seventy years on, war participants are drawing starkly differing conclusions from the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. The decisive conflict's lasting legacy is still visible on the Korean Peninsula.

School Counselors Have A Message For Kids: 'It's OK To Not Be OK'

Closed Schools Are Creating More Trauma For Students

School counselors say the coronavirus pandemic has so destabilized kids' lives that the result is genuinely traumatic. And closed schools make it harder for counselors to help.

Dr. Francesca Mangiatordi, who leads the emergency department at Cremona Hospital in Northern Italy.

FRONTLINE: Inside Italy's Covid War

Airs Tuesday, May 19, 2020 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV + Thursday, May 21 at 10 p.m. on KPBS 2 + PBS Video

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announces the company's climate initiative Thursday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

Amazon Makes 'Climate Pledge' As Workers Plan Walkout

Amazon's plans include being carbon-neutral by 2040 and buying 100,000 electric delivery vans. It faced outcry from workers, hundreds of whom planned to join the Global Climate Strike on Friday.

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