May 20 (UPI) -- One person died and two others suffered from smoke inhalation exposure when an industrial building fire in Hollywood Thursday night damaged a large two-story building that included several recording studios.

May 20 (UPI) -- Scorching summer heat, prolonged droughts and wildfire outbreaks will ramp up the risk of power outages across Texas, California and the central and upper Midwest, an assessment from the nation's grid monitor shows.

May 20 (UPI) -- A U.S. presidential delegation traveled to the Southeast Asian island country of Timor-Leste to attend the inauguration of President Jose Ramos-Horta and ceremonies marking its restoration of independence.

Giving antibiotics to a woman just before a cesarean delivery does not increase her baby's risk of asthma or eczema, a new British study says.

May 20 (UPI) -- For the first time in Sri Lanka's history, the economically ailing nation has defaulted on its debts amid an ongoing financial and political crisis exacerbated by the Ukrainian war and COVID-19 pandemic.

May 20 (UPI) -- As Russia's attack on Ukraine rages on and the world still grapples with COVID-19, a recent slide in the value of the euro has brought it near parity with the U.S. dollar, the latest market figures revealed.

May 20 (UPI) -- Canada announced that it is prohibiting products and services made by China's Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE from use on its 5G cellular networks.

May 20 (UPI) -- White House officials will host a panel to talk about the Biden administration's tracking of the U.S. economy late Friday morning at an event put on by the Center for American Progress.

May 20 (UPI) -- The victim of a deadly shooting this week at a Murfreesboro, Tenn., college has been identified, and a 17-year-old suspect has been taken into custody, police say.

May 20 (UPI) -- Health officials in New York City said they are investigating a possible monkeypox infection as Canada confirms its first-ever cases of the disease.