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May 31 (UPI) -- The number of deaths and cases in two Latin American nations -- Brazil and Mexico -- are climbing exponentially as other places in the world, including Europe and Asia, are reporting data at a fraction from weeks ago.

May 31 (UPI) -- The same dome of heat that resulted in record-breaking temperatures across the West last week will shift eastward, bringing along summerlike conditions just in time for the start of meteorological summer.

May 31 (UPI) -- A swath of stormy weather will trace the periphery of a heat wave in parts of the U.S. this week. Residents all the way from the northern Plains to the mid-Atlantic and perhaps even the Northeast will have to be on the lookout for the unsettled weather.

On May 31, 1859, construction concluded and bells rang out for the first time from London's Big Ben clock tower.

May 30 (UPI) -- New York Gov. Cuomo said Saturday he signed a bill giving death benefits to families of frontline workers who died while fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.

May 30 (UPI) -- Since mid-April, most Americans have said they believe the country is in a recession or depression, a new poll shows.

May 30 (UPI) -- Protests -- some violent and in defiance of curfews -- erupted again across the United States on Saturday night in the wake of the death of an unarmed man, George Floyd, in Minnesota earlier in the week.

May 30 (UPI) -- Israeli police fatally shot an unarmed Palestinian man headed to school for people with disabilities in East Jerusalem on Saturday.

May 30 (UPI) -- Protests erupted in more than a dozen cities across the United States overnight as activists called for justice for the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

May 30 (UPI) -- Google announced Saturday that it will delay the unveiling of its new Android 11 operating system.

May 30 (UPI) -- Latin America is poised to become the next epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a disease expert, as the rate of new deaths and cases decline in the United States and Europe.

May 30 (UPI) -- Forecasters are focused on a brewing tropical system in the East Pacific, and depending on the path the system takes, it could be one for the record books.

May 30 (UPI) -- The Supreme Court has ruled against a church's challenge to California's executive order limiting church crowds amid the coronavirus pandemic.

On May 30, 1971, the unmanned U.S. space probe Mariner 9 was launched on a mission to gather scientific data on Mars.

An already active Atlantic hurricane season -- which hasn't officially begun yet -- could take a turn for the record books with a new disturbance that looks poised to strengthen. The season officially begins Monday.

May 29 (UPI) -- A Minneapolis police officer who was fired after being videotaped kneeling on the neck of George Floyd -- who died during the arrest -- has been arrested and charged with murder.