KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — In the Florida Keys, businesses come and go. Customers are fickle and profit sometimes doesn't match rent. But when a restaurant this past week announced it was closing because it can't keep enough employees on the payroll, it quickly caught the attention of boozy, ...
Health and Human Services spokesman Jake Leon said Thursday: “Updated COVID-19 Omicron booster vaccines are now available and recommended for everybody 12 years of age or older who has, at a minimum, completed a COVID-19 primary vaccine series. These updated booster vaccines are safe and will ...
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced Thursday that the state of emergency sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic will end Oct. 31, nearly three years after the Democratic governor first issued the order. "I'm confident now that we have reached a significant milestone in the ...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York state is dropping its mask requirement on public transportation thanks in part to the availability of new booster shots targeting the most common strain of COVID-19, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday. Masks will be encouraged but not required on buses and trains ...
For the first time since COVID-19 brought air travel to a standstill, the number of people streaming through U.S. airport-security checkpoints over a holiday weekend exceeded pre-pandemic levels. The summer travel season ended on a busy note as more than 8.7 million people passed through ...
BERLIN (AP) — The German government plans to drop a requirement for people to wear masks on flights to and from the country, though the health minister said Tuesday that it could be reimposed if coronavirus cases rise sharply. The rules mandating masks on flights run through Sept. 23, and ...
