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The nation's largest counterterrorism exercise begins Monday, and it will consist of a mock chemical attack in Connecticut and a biological attack in New Jersey. The five-day drill will test the readiness of federal, state, local and international officials. It's the third such drill, and those who participated in the last one two years ago say it provided some useful lessons.

Probes of the nation's insurance industry widen, as California joins New York in investigating insurance sales practices. California's insurance commissioner plans to ban brokers from steering customers to certain policies in exchange for hidden commissions. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.

MetroHealth System announced Wednesday it is implementing a technology that can sterilize approximately 50,000 N95 and KN95 respirator facemasks per day to help with healthcare workers’ personal protective equipment (PPE) shortages. An early intention of the technology was to sterilize ambulances during the Ebola crisis, said MetroHealth’s Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Amy Ray. The technology uses concentrated hydrogen peroxide in a contained area.

"The entire Rochester Police Department command staff has announced their retirement," Mayor Lovely A. Warren said Tuesday.

The administration claims the U.N. population agency supports China's "coercive" abortion policies. UNFPA calls the claim "erroneous."

President Trump told the U.N. that the U.S. won't succumb to a global bureaucracy. But other leaders said that working together could solve crises and conflicts.

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals — starting with an end to poverty — were set in 2015. At the halfway mark, the world is reeling from crises. Progress is stunted. Do the goals still help?

The United Nations Security Council today approved Portugal's former prime minister Antonio Guterres as the next UN secretary-general, replacing Ban Ki Moon.

The tests are traumatic and unreliable, the United Nations said in a statement this week. In Afghanistan, there's a campaign to bring the practice to a halt.

"I never thought it would be this bad," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says of the number of U.S. states where the coronavirus numbers have worsened.