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The World Health Organization is is "absolutely critical to the world's efforts to win the war against COVID-19," U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said, after President Trump said he will halt funding to the agency. Here, a WHO staff member inspects a coronaviruus quarantine facility at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip in March.

'As Dangerous As It Sounds': Reactions To U.S. Plan To Defund WHO During A Pandemic

Philanthropist Bill Gates and others warn against undercutting the World Health Organization during a crisis that's being compared to World War II and the Great Depression.

The FCC said Tuesday that the false alert of a ballistic missile sent in Hawaii on Jan. 13 occurred when the worker in charge of alerts confused a drill for a real missile emergency. A highway sign in Honolulu corrects the error.

Worker Who Sent Hawaii False Alert Thought Missile Attack Was Imminent

A drill during a shift change included the words "This is not a drill," a Federal Communications Commission report finds. According to reports, the worker has been fired and two officials have quit.

India's New Budget: Nuts To Cashew Lovers, Relief For Shoe Fans

To win support among the poor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has issued a massive new budget that lends a hand to low-income folks and takes cash away from the wealthy.

Police officers in Ferguson, Mo., during a protest in 2014. Advocates want the Justice Department to step up its oversight of law enforcement in the incoming administration.

Advocates Push For Resurrection Of DOJ Civil Rights Division Under Biden

Critics say President Trump constrained the Civil Rights Division from being as effective as it should. Business could look very different under the new incoming administration.

Eight inches of snow on Friday and early Saturday helped extinguish the wildfires that prompted the evacuation of more than 30,000 people in suburban Colorado.

Snow puts out Colorado wildfires with 3 people missing and nearly 1,000 homes burned

Local officials said three people were still unaccounted for after the most destructive wildfires in Colorado history. Authorities also raised the count of homes destroyed to nearly 1,000.

Labor issues put a squeeze on America's $50 billion ski industry

Ski industry conglomerate Vail Resorts is pushing back against criticism over staff pay and other operational struggles due to labor issues made worse by the omicron surge.

Singer Alicia Keys performing at Madison Square Garden in New York City, a few months after the 9/11 attacks in 2001.

The Library of Congress is preserving these major historical recordings for posterity

The Library of Congress adds 25 new recordings to a national registry every year to be preserved for posterity. The 2022 list includes an album by Alicia Keys and historical broadcasts from WNYC.

Bankruptcy Affects More Than Patriot Coal's Retired Miners

Retired miners are converging on St. Louis Tuesday for a union rally to protest a proposed cut in health benefits. Patriot Coal is in bankruptcy and has asked a federal judge to allow it to shed most of the health coverage for nearly 10,000 retired miners. But most of those miners never worked a day for Patriot.

Indonesia Quake Toll Crosses 1,000

Rescue workers are trying to find survivors from Wednesday's earthquake that hit Indonesia, killing more than 1,000 people. BBC reporter Rachel Harvey, who is in Padang, a city of 900,000 people, says parts of the city are unaffected while other parts are devastated.

The polls underestimated Trump's support -- again. Here's why

President-elect Donald Trump has long presented pollsters with a challenge. Here's what polling underestimated and what it accurately foreshadowed in this election.

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