Jul 21 WATCH: White House COVID coordinator faces questions after Biden tests positive By Associated Press The president tested positive on Thursday and is isolating with “very mild symptoms," the White House said, as new variants of the highly contagious virus challenge the nation's efforts to get back to normal. Continue reading
Jul 19 Army cuts expected force size amid unprecedented shortfall of recruits By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press The Army is significantly cutting the total number of soldiers it expects to have in the force over the next two years, as the U.S. military faces what a top general calls "unprecedented challenges" in bringing in new recruits. Continue reading
Jul 19 WATCH: Jan. 6 Committee hearings - Day 8 By Associated Press The House Jan. 6 committee closed out its set of summer hearings with its most detailed focus yet on the investigation’s main target: former President Donald Trump. Continue reading
Jul 19 Rep. Bennie Thompson, Jan. 6 panel chairman, has COVID By Farnoush Amiri, Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press The chairman of the House Jan. 6 committee has tested positive for COVID-19, but the panel will still hold its prime-time hearing on Thursday. Continue reading
Jul 13 Why the U.S. inflation surge is accelerating, and when it may ease By Paul Wiseman, Associated Press Inflation's relentless surge didn't merely persist in June. It accelerated. For the 12 months ending in June, the government's consumer price index rocketed 9.1 percent, the fastest year-over-year jump since 1981. Continue reading
Jul 13 Watch 6:48 New COVID variant BA.5 prompts higher infections and reinfections A new coronavirus variant called BA.5 is fueling yet another wave of COVID infections across the globe. This week, the CDC said BA.5 is now the dominant strain in the U.S. accounting for more than 60 percent of cases. It… Continue watching
Jul 12 WATCH: White House issues warning as new COVID variants rapidly spread across the country By Zeke Miller, Associated Press The Biden administration called on people to exercise renewed caution about COVID-19, emphasizing the importance of getting booster shots and wearing masks indoors as two new highly transmissible variants are spreading across the country. Continue reading
Jul 07 Watch 8:19 White House COVID coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha on the rise in new variants With vaccinations, boosters and drugs, COVID has become a far less deadly risk for most Americans than earlier in the pandemic. But COVID still presents numerous problems, particularly for some of the most vulnerable people, with an average of more… Continue watching
Jul 06 FDA allows pharmacists to prescribe Pfizer's COVID-19 pill By Matthew Perrone, Tom Murphy, Associated Press Pharmacists can prescribe the leading COVID-19 pill directly to patients under a new U.S. policy announced Wednesday that's intended to expand use of Pfizer's drug Paxlovid. Continue reading
Jul 06 Shanghai and Beijing order new rounds of mandatory COVID testing By Associated Press Residents of parts of Shanghai and Beijing have been ordered to undergo further rounds of COVID-19 testing following the discovery of new cases in the two cities. Continue reading