WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is tying its authority to cancel student debt to the coronavirus pandemic and to a 2003 law aimed at providing help to members of the military. Legal challenges are expected. Skeptics of the administration's ability to act on its own, without new ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials in the Trump White House tried to pressure U.S. health experts into reauthorizing a discredited COVID-19 treatment, according to a congressional investigation that provides new evidence of that administration's efforts to override Food and Drug Administration ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 again in an apparent "rebound" case, after she tested negative for the virus over the weekend. President Joe Biden, who spent three days with his wife at their Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, vacation home, continues to test ...
GENEVA (AP) — The number of coronavirus deaths reported worldwide fell by 15% in the past week while new infections dropped by 9%, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. In its latest weekly assessment of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.N. health agency said there were 5.3 million new ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera is dropping its vaccination requirement for audiences next season but still will mandate the wearing of masks. The decision announced Tuesday differentiates the Met from Broadway theaters, which loosened restrictions in July by making mask-wearing ...
Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine was 73% effective in protecting children younger than 5 as omicron spread in the spring, the company announced Tuesday. Vaccinations for babies, toddlers and preschoolers opened in the U.S. in June after months of delay. Only about 6% of youngsters ages 6 months ...
