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In this May 24, 2021 file photo, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the WHO, speaks at WHO headquarters, in Geneva, Switzerland. The WHO is asking China to be more transparent as scientists search for the origins of the coronavirus.

China Has Rejected A WHO Plan For Further Investigation Into The Origins Of COVID-19

Chinese officials say they cannot support a second phase of a study into the origins of the pandemic, including new investigation into the theory that the virus might have leaked from a Chinese lab.

John Coates, president of the Australian Olympic Committee, has come under fire for his remarks to Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, ordering her to attend the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics.

Australia's Male Olympics Chief Lectured A Female Premier. It Didn't Go Over Well

"You are going to the opening ceremony," Australian Olympics chief John Coates told Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk. "None of you are staying behind and hiding in your rooms."

A gavel sits on a judge's bench. On top of that photo, the words "WGLT Courts" appears.

Piano Teacher, Choir Director Faces Child Pornography, Rape Charges

A Normal man who worked as a piano teacher remains jailed on more than 100 counts of child pornography and criminal sexual assault of a minor.

Chuck E. Weiss

The Los Angeles music scene is known for its dedication to producing the latest trends, which inevitably leads to a backlog of has-beens and never-weres. Liane Hansen speaks with one musician who's maintained a healthy hipness quotient, even after almost thirty years of performing for L.A.'s cultural elite - Chuck E. Weiss. {Chuck E. Weiss's new CD,Old Souls and Wolf Tickets, is available on Rykodisc/Slow River Records, catalog #57.}

María Lara sits in her bedroom in the Bedford and Victoria Station apartment complex in Langley Park, Md., a densely populated, low-income suburb of Washington, D.C.

Housing Conditions In This Low-Income Neighborhood Pushed Tenants To Sue The Landlord

According to the complaint filed this week in U.S. District Court, living conditions for families in an apartment complex in suburban Maryland include rodent infestation and toxic mold.

Death Toll Expected To Climb In South Korea Ferry Disaster

Dozens of boats, helicopters and divers scrambled Wednesday to rescue more than 470 people after a ferry sank off South Korea's southern coast. Among those on the boat, 325 high school students.

Historian John Barry pushed a lawsuit alleging that oil and gas companies destroyed land that once served as a buffer protecting New Orleans from hurricanes.

As La. Coast Recedes, Battle Rages Over Who Should Pay

A flood protection authority is suing to try to hold the oil and gas industries responsible for Louisiana's land crisis. But policymakers are trying to stop the lawsuit, saying it's bad for business.

Pat Leiggi (right) of the Museum of the Rockies prepares to move a leg bone of the T. rex at the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.

A T. Rex Treks To Washington For A Shot At Fame

The Smithsonian is set to unpack something it's never had before: a rare, nearly complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton. It's a gift from a Montana museum that says this T. rex deserves to be famous.

A U.S. Marines helicopter hovers over the Atlantic ocean during an attempt to retrieve astronaut Gus Grissom's Liberty Bell 7, which sank 15,000 feet shortly after splashdown on July 21, 1961.

A New Analysis May Have Just Solved A Decades-Old Mystery Of The Space Race

The second Mercury mission was going according to plan until the Liberty Bell 7 capsule sank in the ocean. NASA exonerated astronaut Gus Grissom, and two researchers now say they know what happened.

Suspected Muslim Extremists Step Up Attacks In Nigeria

Schoolgirls were kidnapped in Nigeria Tuesday. The suspects are believed to be with a radical group blamed for a bombing Monday. Kelly McEvers talks to Michelle Faul of The Associated Press.

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