Tiger Woods faces a difficult road to recovery, doctors say

Medical experts predict that Tiger Woods will have a difficult road to recovery following his crash in Los Angeles this week. The 45-year-old golf legend suffered “serious injuries” to his lower right leg and ankle, which required emergency surgery. The injuries caused “comminuted open fractures” to his tibia and fibula bones, More...

Military families are increasingly turning to food banks during the pandemic
Members of the U.S. military are increasingly turning to food banks to feed their families. Some families said they couldn’t last a week without visiting the food pantries. Desiree Alvarez, her 3-year-old More...

Rescue animals offer comfort to children with disabilities
Last Updated Feb 24, 2021 7:18 PM EST Leander, Texas — Some superheroes need a sidekick. For 5-year-old Harper, it’s Halo, a white fluffy dog with one leg and an unlimited supply of love. “She More...

Sports arenas begin reopening in New York City
Tuesday was a turning point for New York City, the epicenter of the first deadly wave of COVID-19. Fans are allowed in sports arenas for the first time in nearly a year. The New York policy allows 10% capacity More...

U.S. tops 500,000 COVID-19 deaths
More than half a million people in the United States have now died from COVID-19, according to data from Johns Hopkins University — a devastating milestone one year into the pandemic, which has upended so More...

Biden commemorates 500,000 U.S. lives lost to COVID-19
Hours after the U.S. crossed the threshold of 500,000 deaths from COVID-19, President Biden commemorated the lives lost over the past year on Monday night. No other country has lost more lives to the yearlong More...

Widows find support in one another after losing husbands to coronavirus
To fully comprehend the loss of so many lives to COVID-19, it helps to see the faces, to learn the names of the dead and to hear from some of the loved ones they left behind. Some of the women widowed by the More...

Overcoming COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy – CBS News
Sometimes a cliché is just right. The Sandtown neighborhood of West Baltimore, for example, does look like a war zone. Most of the residents are African American, and what that means, not just here but nationally, More...

South Carolina House passes bill restricting most abortions
The South Carolina House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a bill banning nearly all abortions, following the lead of other states with similar measures that would go into effect if the U.S. Supreme Court were More...

COVID-19 is pushing struggling rural hospitals to the brink
Hospitals in rural communities across the U.S. have long faced financial woes, with dozens of cash-strapped facilities closing over the past decade. But COVID-19 is threatening to close many more small hospitals More...