The world’s leading authority on food insecurity said on Thursday that the situation in Gaza had improved since famine swept parts of the Palestinian territory last year.

Satellite images analyzed Wednesday appear to show mass burials in el-Fasher, Sudan, after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces seized the area.

The leading international authority on food crises says the “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in Gaza" and it predicts “widespread death” without immediate action.

U.N. officials, aid groups and experts have warned for months that Palestinians in Gaza are on the brink of famine without formally declaring one.

The first Black chair of Iowa’s Democratic Party says he received a series of racist messages, including a lynching threat, after writing a newspaper op-ed criticizing former President Donald Trump and the state Republican officials who stood with him at a recent rally in Des Moines.

Researchers fight to bring the rare rusty patched bumblebee back from the brink of extinction. HAMPTON, Ill. - A research team in the Quad Cities is fighting to bring a native bumblebee back from the brink of extinction. Fish and Wildlife Service has a list of plants the rusty patched bumblebee likes to feed off of. They're also studying the bee population and documenting how it changes over the years. He hopes the population of the rusty patched bumblebee found at Niabi Zoo earlier this start a new colony at Illiniwek.