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This is the January 2021 archive of breaking news about the coronavirus pandemic.

Heather Shkliarov warns that her Belarusian American husband's health is in "immediate danger" following his late-July arrest by security forces of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.

In an internal memo this week, the National Marine Fisheries Service bars references to the coronavirus pandemic without preapproval. It suggests alternatives such as "in these extraordinary times."

Health officials say they're not ready to determine if the data are statistically significant yet, but there's a positive trend. They say people should still practice social distance and wear masks.

President Trump vehemently denied the Atlantic report, which cited unnamed sources describing offensive comments he has made about America's war dead and wounded veterans.

Prosecutors announce the charges Monday, nearly two decades after the Run-DMC DJ was shot and killed in a studio in New York City.

The DOJ calls this "the government's largest-ever seizure of cryptocurrency in the terrorism context." It also seizes websites ISIS allegedly used to sell fake face masks during the pandemic.

Kenosha residents are experiencing pain and fear, according to the Urban League president, in a city with a history of Black oppression.

The digital dictionary updated some 15,000 entries, including adding 650 entirely new words from popular culture. Many of the revisions deal with topics related to identity, like race and gender.

We're listening to new music from Belladon, Puerto, AC Braxton, Soft Kill and the Beirut-based Postcards.