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Kimia Alizadeh of Iran celebrates after winning a bronze medal in taekwondo at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She says she is defecting from Iran to escape oppression.

Iran's Only Female Olympic Medalist Says She Has Defected

Kimia Alizadeh, who won a bronze medal for taekwondo at the 2016 summer Olympics, described her decision to leave Iran as difficult, but necessary.

Physical and occupational therapists carry bags of personal protective equipment on their way to the room of a COVID-19 patient in a Stamford Hospital intensive care unit in Stamford, Conn., on April 24. This "prone team" turns over COVID-19 to help them breathe.

Hospital ICUs Are Adapting To COVID-19 At 'Light Speed'

With COVID-19 becoming a critical focus in hospital intensive care units, nurses, doctors and other caregivers have had to shift gears to protect staff and save patients.

President Bill Clinton delivers the State of the Union address in January 1999 as his Senate impeachment trial was underway. Despite impeachment, Clinton was successful in working with Congress on legislation.

How Trump Breaks With Clinton And Nixon On Governing While Under Investigation

President Trump is so determined to pressure his antagonists to relent that he suddenly seems ready to renounce the governing obligations of his own office.

A photo provided Nov. 14 shows migrants on board the container ship Nivin, which rescued more than 90 migrants from a raft in the Mediterranean more than a week ago. Many of those migrants refused to disembark in Libya; they were forcibly removed from the ship on Tuesday.

Migrants Forced Off Ship After They Refused To Return To Libya

Migrants rescued in the Mediterranean Sea refused to return to Libya, saying they'd been tortured. After more than a week, Libyan coast guards boarded the ship and put the migrants in detention.

A family photo shows Ernestine Mann. She moved into the Arbor Terrace at Cascade assisted living facility in 2019. Mann was one of the residents who died of COVID-19 earlier this year when there was an outbreak at the facility.

In Atlanta, A Wave Of Coronavirus Deaths And The Questions Left In Its Wake

At least 17 residents at an assisted living home in Atlanta died of COVID-19 this spring. It is the company's only home in Georgia in a black neighborhood and the only one to suffer a severe outbreak.

A sign outside Raglan Public House in Ocean Beach, May 18, 2020.

How San Diego Restaurants Are Prepping For Dine-In Customers

Going out to eat in the coronavirus era will be a very different experience, with spaced out tables, temperature checks for staff and perhaps giant stuffed animals.

Resources For Music Businesses And Industry Workers In Need Amidst The Pandemic

Small businesses and those working behind the scenes in music have been affected dramatically by the ongoing outbreak — here are some options for help on alleviating these new financial burdens.

VIDEO: How The Novel Coronavirus Hijacks Our Defenses

It's just a bit of genetic material wrapped in protein and fat. But the virus behind COVID-19 can wreak havoc deep inside human lungs when it triggers the immune system to go into overdrive.

Garlic sits in bins before being processed at the processing plant.

In Garlic Capital, Tariffs And Immigration Crackdown Have Mixed Impacts

Gilroy, Calif., is known as the garlic capital of the world. Two Trump administration policies — one on trade, the other on immigration — are affecting the town in starkly different ways.

The California State Capitol in the early evening in Sacramento, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016.

‘It’s Inexcusable’: Dozens Of California Government Agencies Failed To Provide Sexual Harassment Training To Nearly 1,800 Supervisors

A CapRadio investigation found that, in 2018, nearly 60 percent of agencies surveyed by the State Personnel Board did not provide this training, up from 25 percent in 2016.

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