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Deadly diseases kept emerging in West Africa, but going undetected. Now a program spearheaded by two scientists hopes to catch the next emerging disease before it becomes a pandemic.

New modeling from the CDC shows that if measures aren't taken immediately, this outbreak could sicken more than 20,000 people in the next three months.

Community health programs in South Africa have been heavily impacted by U.S. cuts to global aid. At one organization which once employed over 30 workers, the four who remain tell of their experiences.

Residents of the capital's West Point neighborhood woke up to learn no one can enter or leave the area for 21 days — the time it takes to determine whether someone exposed to Ebola was infected.

Filmmakers Carter McCormick and Paula Sprenger recently wrapped up a month as artists-in-residence at Dry Tortugas National Park, 70 miles west of Key West. No phone, TV, Internet or other people.

The league had come under fire for the pay gap in its prize money. "I honestly didn't see it coming," said Carissa Moore, a three-time world champion.

Michael Lewis' fascinating new book argues that Donald Trump was utterly unprepared to lead the some 2 million federal employees — and that his appointees are often hostile to the agencies they lead.

In "Perilous Bodies," a new exhibit at the Ford Foundation Gallery, artists share their vision of the injustice, from the rickety boats of migrants to missiles that look like a flock of blackbirds.

Farai Chideya talks with Anne Farrow, co-author of the book Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery, which reveals the history of the Northern slave market, and the stories of many of those who were bought, sold and survived.

For the first time, the General Assembly will be required "to hold a debate on the situation" that sparks a veto in the Security Council within 10 working days.