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Dr. Anthony Fauci said Friday that the coronavirus has hit the U.S. "very severely" and that the country needs "to get better control over things" in order to reopen the economy and head toward normality.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced Friday that the city will pause its reopening plan "indefinitely" and will close indoor malls and non-essential offices as the coronavirus continues to spread throughout the state.

President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Bar have been criticized for federal law enforcement violently clearing Lafayette Square of people protesting on the heels of George Floyd's killing.

Sweden did not go into lockdown, instead issuing recommendations about social distancing and working from home while allowing many schools and businesses to stay open.

The nation's governors and dozens of Democratic senators are calling on the Trump administration to delay or reverse its decision to shift control of "critical" coronavirus hospital data away from the CDC.

The coronavirus pandemic has millions of Americans shut out of public pools this summer, and that has opened up a huge opportunity for one small start-up. Swimply has been compared with Airbnb and VRBO, because it's employs a similar strategy, only for pools.

Inaction from world leaders will leave the coronavirus free to circle the globe and "undo decades of development, and it will create decades worth of tragic and exportable problems," U.N. Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock said Friday.

The heatwave will put people most vulnerable to contracting the coronavirus at heightened risk of illness from high heat and humidity.

Google next month will begin prohibiting publisher content about health crises that contradicts scientific consensus from running ads through its platforms, or ads that contain that content.

The memo from Secretary of Defense Mark Esper lists authorized flags that may be displayed. The Confederate flag is not named.

By making Ted Sarandos his co-CEO, Reed Hastings is further emphasizing that Netflix is more of an entertainment giant than a technology company.

Jamaal Bowman, a progressive candidate running in his first ever political campaign, has defeated longtime Rep. Eliot Engel in the New York Democratic primary, according to an Associated Press tally.

NASA plans to return astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on board SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft in about two weeks.

Tennessee native Shawn Dromgoole was afraid to leave his front porch after the death of George Floyd in May. He turned his fear into a national movement with the support of neighbors and other social activists.

FEMA is sending 14 refrigerated trucks to the state next week — on top of the eight that were already sent — to serve as temporary mortuaries.

Most transmission of the coronavirus is coming from people who are asymptomatic and never develop any signs of the virus, a top official from the Department of Health and Human Services said Friday.

The U.S. has reported more than 65,400 new cases on average over the past seven days, up nearly 22% compared with a week ago.

On the current climate change trajectory, 2020 will likely be among the hottest years ever. The number of air conditioning units worldwide is expected to quadruple by mid-century.

"It's the community that defeats this virus not the government," Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said Friday.

White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci urged young Americans to not take the coronavirus lightly, saying doing so could propagate the pandemic.