The government shutdown has reached a new record, and families across Oklahoma are feeling the ramifications of resources being taken away. Roughly 700,000 Oklahomans are now food insecure due to the ...

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South Sudan church leaders are among African clerics who are highlighting a painful “hunger pandemic” in their countries, as experts warn of aggravated food insecurity in regions due to coronavirus.

Not having enough food may have had a greater negative effect on mental health in the United States than unemployment or loss ...

Previous pandemics have demonstrated that more people could die from the indirect consequences of an outbreak than from the disease itself. As the fight against the pandemic is pushing millions into ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Outside a foreign currency exchange in Zimbabwe’s capital, hordes of people desperate for U.S. dollars are pushed up against each other. “That’s it, keep it tight,” some shout, ...

Business was good at the start of this year for Mariney Karemere, a Congolese refugee who makes and sells handbags in Uganda’s capital, Kampala. Her customers were the daily commuters now absent from ...

Amid a rapidly-spreading coronavirus outbreak that’s infected about a third of all people incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison, a group of COVID-19 positive prisoners declared a hunger strike this ...

Only half of US adults say they would receive a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine should it become available; diagnoses of colorectal cancer fell during March and April; slow uptake led to ...