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An area in the city's Tenderloin neighborhood known for a historic LGBT uprising is now officially a Transgender Cultural District.

After a two-hour meeting Friday with the leader of Myanmar's military junta, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announces that "all aid workers" are now being allowed into the country to help with the cyclone recovery effort. The development comes with quite a few questions, including where these aid workers will be allowed.

A quiet and reclusive elderly lady died in the British coastal town of Torquay the other day. She had no known relatives and no friends, so local authorities entered her home. They found papers and medals that revealed that she was far from the typical pensioner. Eileen Nearne -- aka Agent Rose, one of only a few dozen female spies dispatched by Britain into occupied France in World War II to work with the French Resistance.

Can healthy people take a cue from outdoor workers and endurance athletes, and train their bodies to become more comfortable in hot, muggy summer weather?

Along with the words and phrases that still ring out 239 years later are less noticed turns of phrase. They say a lot about the messages Thomas Jefferson and the other Founding Fathers wanted to send.

Recovery is moving along slowly in the wake of last week's deadly wildfires in Maui. One challenge is getting medical care to those who need it. One doctor is trying to do all he can.

The U.S. has started requiring all travelers from China to test negative for COVID, even though many experts think it won't help much.

The president held another meeting on the subject of school safety after 17 people were killed last week in a shooting at a Florida high school.

In the town of Oakdale, La., the government shutdown has far-reaching effects, from restaurants to barber shops, all the way up to the mayor's office.

The nation still sees more than 20,000 new cases on average a day, a number that's barely budged for weeks. Forecasters say we're looking at tens of thousands more deaths this summer.