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CORONAVIRUS


The latest on the disease, its effects, vaccines and steps to help keep you and your family safe.
This image provided by the Wolf Foundation shows Chinese architect Tiantian Xu, who won this year's prestigious Wolf Award for her work in rural China. (Wolf Foundation via AP)

US biochemist researching treatment of HIV and coronaviruses wins Israel's Wolf Prize

Read full article: US biochemist researching treatment of HIV and coronaviruses wins Israel's Wolf Prize

An American biochemist whose research has helped scientists make inroads on treating coronavirus and HIV has won this year’s Wolf Prize, a major Israeli award in the arts and sciences.

Susan Scarbro bowls while wearing a mask in Little River, S.C. on Jan. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Laura Bargfeld)

Meet the Americans who still take COVID-19 precautions seriously

Read full article: Meet the Americans who still take COVID-19 precautions seriously

People with immune system health problems continue to take precautions against COVID-19 five years into the pandemic.

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Working Well: Returning to the office can disrupt life. Here are some tips to navigate the changes

Read full article: Working Well: Returning to the office can disrupt life. Here are some tips to navigate the changes

Thousands of workers are facing an unsettling reality heading into 2025.

FILE - People rest after receiving the vaccination against the new coronavirus in the 'Austria Center Vienna' in Vienna, Austria, Friday, April 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Lisa Leutner, File)

Austrian woman is found guilty of fatally infecting her neighbor with COVID-19

Read full article: Austrian woman is found guilty of fatally infecting her neighbor with COVID-19

A woman in Austria has been found guilty of fatally infecting her neighbor with COVID-19 in 2021, her second pandemic-related conviction in a year, according to local media.

This photo released by the Olympic Broadcasting Services shows Canadian Singer Celine Dion performing on the Eiffel Tower during the opening ceremony for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, Friday, July 26, 2024. (Olympic Broadcasting Services via AP)

Celine Dion makes musical comeback at Paris Olympics with Eiffel Tower serenade

Read full article: Celine Dion makes musical comeback at Paris Olympics with Eiffel Tower serenade

Celine Dion made a triumphant return Friday with a very public performance, closing out the Paris Olympics’ opening ceremony from the Eiffel Tower.

COVID-19 COMEBACK, SUMMER 2024

COVID-19: The comeback nobody wanted

Read full article: COVID-19: The comeback nobody wanted

New sub-variants of COVID-19 are spreading, at worst — sending people to emergency rooms, at the least -- forcing people to stay inside or wear masks outside.

FILE - Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center nurse Maggie Bass, right, gives a COVID-19 vaccine to an unidentified person, Sept. 21, 2021, in Jackson, Miss. COVID-19 vaccines get updated each fall to match newer strains of the virus and government advisers on Wednesday, June 5, 2024, are urging that Americans' next shot target a strain called JN.1. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

FDA advisers urge targeting JN.1 strain in recipe for fall's COVID vaccines

Read full article: FDA advisers urge targeting JN.1 strain in recipe for fall's COVID vaccines

Government advisers say it’s time to update the recipe for the COVID-19 vaccines Americans will receive in the fall.

Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden pulls down his mask as he makes an unannounced stop at his childhood home on North Washington Avenue in the Green Ridge section of Scranton, Pa., to visit the current homeowner, Anne Kearns, Thursday, July 9, 2020. (Christopher Dolan/The Times-Tribune via AP)

Joe Biden wins Democratic primary in Puerto Rico

Read full article: Joe Biden wins Democratic primary in Puerto Rico

Joe Biden has won the Democratic presidential primary in Puerto Rico.

President Joe Biden arrives on Air Force One Wednesday March 20, 2024, at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Biden and Trump ask voters if they're 'better off' than they were 4 years ago. It's complicated

Read full article: Biden and Trump ask voters if they're 'better off' than they were 4 years ago. It's complicated

Both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden are posing the time-tested question “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”.

FILE - A Walgreens Pharmacy sign is seen, June 25, 2019, in Pittsburgh. Walgreens has been fined $275,000 by the state of Vermont as part of a settlement of complaints that some of national pharmacy chain's Vermont stores unexpectedly closed, had untenable working conditions for pharmacists, and made medication and vaccination errors during the coronavirus pandemic, the secretary of state announced Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Walgreens to pay $275,000 to settle allegations in Vermont about service during pandemic

Read full article: Walgreens to pay $275,000 to settle allegations in Vermont about service during pandemic

Walgreens has agreed to pay $275,000 to settle allegations about service in some of the national pharmacy chain's Vermont stores during the coronavirus pandemic.

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FILE - A flu vaccine is readied at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plans' Community Resource Center in Lynwood, Calif., on Friday, Oct. 28, 2022. Health officials say flu and COVID-19 infections are expected to accelerate in the coming weeks, Friday, Dec. 22, 2023, fueled by holiday travel and gatherings, low vaccination rates, and a new COVID variant that seems to spread more easily. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

Flu and COVID infections are rising and could get worse over the holidays, CDC says

Read full article: Flu and COVID infections are rising and could get worse over the holidays, CDC says

U.S. health officials say flu and COVID-19 infections are expected to ramp up in the coming weeks.

Bereaved families hold pictures of their loved ones as they stand outside the opening hearing of Module 2 of the UK Covid 19 Inquiry, in London, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. Bereaved families are coming together to protest the fact that in the module investigating core government decision making during the pandemic, only 1 bereaved family witness has been called to give evidence, out of the over 230,115 families bereaved by Covid 19. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Britain's COVID-19 response inquiry enters a second phase with political decisions in the spotlight

Read full article: Britain's COVID-19 response inquiry enters a second phase with political decisions in the spotlight

Britain's inquiry into the response to the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the nation has entered the second phase with political decision-making taking center stage.

President Joe Biden arrives with Capt. Larry Taylor, an Army pilot from the Vietnam War who risked his life to rescue a reconnaissance team that was about to be overrun by the enemy, to award him the Medal of Honor during a ceremony Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

To mask or not to mask? Biden goes both ways after first lady tests positive for COVID-19

Read full article: To mask or not to mask? Biden goes both ways after first lady tests positive for COVID-19

President Joe Biden turned up in a mask for the first time in months on Tuesday, a day after his wife tested positive for COVID-19.

Public health officials are tracking 3 new COVID-19 strains

COVID-19 cases are steadily rising in Florida

Read full article: COVID-19 cases are steadily rising in Florida

COVID-19 cases are steadily rising in Florida. The state Department of Health’s latest report confirms a 29.7% uptick in positive cases… that’s nearly a 7% increase from last week.

COVID-19

TELL US: Do you or does anyone in your family have COVID-19 right now?

Read full article: TELL US: Do you or does anyone in your family have COVID-19 right now?

There is a wave of COVID-19 spreading right now, and some people are getting it for the first time.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visits the Evelina Children's ward at St Thomas' hospital to take part in a NHS Big Tea celebration to mark the 75th anniversary of the NHS, in central London, Tuesday July 4, 2023.. (Jack Hill/Pool Photo via AP)

Condition critical? Britain's beloved but battered National Health Service turns 75

Read full article: Condition critical? Britain's beloved but battered National Health Service turns 75

The U.K. is celebrating the 75th birthday of its beloved but increasingly creaky National Health Service.

Loreli King holds up the pictures of her husband Vincent Marzello during a demonstrates as former Minister for Health, Matt Hancock arrives the Dorland House to give evidence at the Covid Inquiry in London, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

UK was ill-prepared for pandemic because resources were diverted to Brexit, ex-health chief says

Read full article: UK was ill-prepared for pandemic because resources were diverted to Brexit, ex-health chief says

Britain's former health secretary has told an official inquiry that the U.K. was ill-prepared for a pandemic partly because government resources had been diverted away from pandemic planning to brace for a possibly chaotic no-deal Brexit.

Tell us how the COVID-19 pandemic changed your life!

Now that the pandemic is ‘over,’ we want to know how it changed your life

Read full article: Now that the pandemic is ‘over,’ we want to know how it changed your life

The World Health organization declared earlier this month that the COVID-19 pandemic is no longer an emergency, putting a three-year end to the virus that killed at least 7 million people and turned the world upside down.

FILE - A man walks through the snow covered Mount Lebanon Cemetery in Mount Lebanon, Pa., on Monday, Jan. 23, 2023. U.S. deaths fell in 2022, as COVID-19 fatalities dropped by half from 2021 and the coronavirus dropped from being the nation's third leading cause of death to the fourth. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the 2022 numbers on Thursday, May 4, 2023, cautioning that they are preliminary and may change a little after further analysis. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

COVID dropped to 4th leading cause of death in US last year

Read full article: COVID dropped to 4th leading cause of death in US last year

U.S. deaths fell last year, and COVID-19 dropped to the No. 4 cause.

FILE - A passenger arrives from overseas at the arrivals hall of Haneda international airport in Tokyo, Nov. 8, 2021. Japan will lift its coronavirus border controls and no longer require entrants to show pre-departure negative tests and records of triple vaccinations beginning Saturday, April 28, 2023, as the countrys Golden Week holiday season begins and a large influx of foreign tourists are expected. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

Japan to lift COVID-19 border controls before holiday week

Read full article: Japan to lift COVID-19 border controls before holiday week

Japan will lift most of its coronavirus border controls, including a requirement that entrants show proof of three vaccinations or a pre-departure negative test, beginning Saturday as the country’s Golden Week holiday season begins and a large influx of foreign tourists is expected.

Numbers working from home tripled during pandemic

Numbers working from home tripled during pandemic, Census Bureau finds

Read full article: Numbers working from home tripled during pandemic, Census Bureau finds

The number of people working from home tripled during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report by the Census Bureau.

FILE - This undated photo made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a strain of Candida auris cultured in a petri dish at a CDC laboratory. In a CDC paper published by the Annals of Internal Medicine on Monday, March 20, 2023, U.S. cases of the dangerous fungus tripled over just three years, and more than half of states have now reported it. (Shawn Lockhart/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via AP, File)

Superbug fungus cases rose dramatically during pandemic

Read full article: Superbug fungus cases rose dramatically during pandemic

U.S. cases of a dangerous fungus tripled over just three years, and more than half of states have now reported it.

FILE - Raccoon dogs are seen at a cage in Tokyo's Ueno zoo Saturday, May 24, 2003. International scientists who examined previously unavailable genetic data from samples collected at a market close to where the first human cases of COVID-19 were detected in China said they found suggestions the pandemic originated from animals, not a lab. Other experts have not yet verified their analysis, which also has not appeared so far in a peer-reviewed journal. (AP Photo/Chika Tsukumo, File)

New COVID origins data point to raccoon dogs in China market

Read full article: New COVID origins data point to raccoon dogs in China market

The mystery to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic now has some new clues.

FILE - An entrance to the U.S. Naval Academy campus in Annapolis, Md., is seen Jan. 9, 2014. Reported sexual assaults at the U.S. military academies shot up during the 2021-22 school year, and one in five female students surveyed said they experienced unwanted sexual contact, the Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Sexual assault reports increase at US military academies

Read full article: Sexual assault reports increase at US military academies

Reported sexual assaults at the U.S. military academies shot up during the 2021-22 school year.

JOHNS HOPKINS COVID-19 TRACKING

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House Select Subcommittee holds hearing on investigating origins of COVID-19

Read full article: House Select Subcommittee holds hearing on investigating origins of COVID-19

The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic holds a hearing Wednesday titled “Investigating the Origins of COVID-19.”

An ironworker guides a beam during construction of a municipal building in Norristown, Pa., Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023. The strength of the American job market has consistently defied expectations throughout the economic tumult of the COVID years. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

US economy sending mixed signals: Here's what it all means

Read full article: US economy sending mixed signals: Here's what it all means

For a few weeks in late January and early February, the U.S. economy seemed to have reached a rare sweet spot.

FILE - Britain's Health Secretary Matt Hancock speaks during a coronavirus media briefing in Downing Street in London, Thursday, May 27, 2021. Britains former health minister Hancock denied wrongdoing on Wednesday, March 1, 2023, after a newspaper published extracts of private messages he sent in the first weeks of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, Pool, File)

UK health chief's leaked messages revive raw pandemic debate

Read full article: UK health chief's leaked messages revive raw pandemic debate

COVID-19 has shot back into the headlines in Britain through the leak of more than 100,000 private messages sent or received by the health minister as the government scrambled to respond to the new respiratory virus.

Exercise induced asthma or COVID-19?

Is it exercise induced asthma or COVID-19?

Read full article: Is it exercise induced asthma or COVID-19?

Coughing and shortness of breath are enough to put anyone on high alert for COVID-19 these days.

COVID-19 lab leak theory fuels divide within US intelligence community

COVID-19 lab leak theory fuels divide within US intelligence community

Read full article: COVID-19 lab leak theory fuels divide within US intelligence community

Eight U.S. government agencies are now investigating the source of COVID-19, and for the first time publicly, the FBI director is blaming the coronavirus on a leak from a lab in China.

FILE - Britain's Health Secretary Matt Hancock speaks during a coronavirus media briefing in Downing Street in London, Thursday, May 27, 2021. Britains former health minister Hancock denied wrongdoing on Wednesday, March 1, 2023, after a newspaper published extracts of private messages he sent in the first weeks of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, Pool, File)

Ex-UK health chief defends record after COVID messages leak

Read full article: Ex-UK health chief defends record after COVID messages leak

Britain’s former health minister is denying wrongdoing after a newspaper published extracts of private messages he sent in the first weeks of the coronavirus pandemic.

FILE - Two nurses put a ventilator on a patient in a COVID-19 unit at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Calif. Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. California's COVID-19 emergency declaration ends on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. Gov. Gavin Newsom first issued the emergency declaration on March 4, 2020. The emergency ends just as California officially passed 100,000 COVID-related deaths during the pandemic. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Final state emergencies winding down 3 years into pandemic

Read full article: Final state emergencies winding down 3 years into pandemic

California's coronavirus emergency declaration has ended.

FILE - This 2020 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, which cause COVID-19. A crucial question has eluded governments and health agencies since the COVID-19 pandemic began: Did the virus originate in animals or leak from a Chinese lab? Now, the U.S. Department of Energy has assessed with low confidence that it began with a lab leak although others in the U.S. intelligence community disagree. (Hannah A. Bullock, Azaibi Tamin/CDC via AP, File)

Coronavirus origins still a mystery 3 years into pandemic

Read full article: Coronavirus origins still a mystery 3 years into pandemic

Did the coronavirus originate in animals or leak from a Chinese lab.

US Department of Energy report says coronavirus most likely came from lab leak

US Department of Energy report says coronavirus most likely came from lab leak

Read full article: US Department of Energy report says coronavirus most likely came from lab leak

Three years after the first case of COVID-19 was reported in Wuhan, China, a classified report from the U.S. Department of Energy says the coronavirus most likely came from a laboratory leak in China.

FILE - Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022, in Washington. House Republicans kicked off an investigation Monday, Feb. 13, 2023, into the origins of COVID-19 by issuing a series of letters to current and former Biden administration officials for documents and testimony, including Fauci who until December served as Bidens chief medical adviser. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

GOP launches probe into COVID origins with letter to Fauci

Read full article: GOP launches probe into COVID origins with letter to Fauci

House Republicans have kicked off an investigation into the origins of COVID-19 by issuing a series of letters to current and former Biden administration officials for documents and testimony.

FILE - A help wanted sign is displayed at a restaurant in Arlington Heights, Ill., Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. On Thursday, the Labor Department reports on the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits last week. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

More Americans apply for jobless benefits last week

Read full article: More Americans apply for jobless benefits last week

More Americans filed for jobless benefits last week, but layoffs remain historically low despite the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate policy intended to cool the economy and bring down inflation.

Panel answers questions about COVID-19 booster shot during FDA meeting

Panel of experts answer questions about COVID-19 booster shot during FDA meeting

Read full article: Panel of experts answer questions about COVID-19 booster shot during FDA meeting

How often should Americans get their booster shot against COVID-19, and how important is the booster to you if you’ve already been infected with COVID-19? Those are questions a panel of experts set out to answer during an FDA meeting, the information will be passed on to the CDC.

A worker guides a bin into position at a construction site, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, in Miami. The Commerce Department issues its first of three estimates of how the U.S. economy performed in the fourth quarter of 2022. On Thursday, the Commerce Department issues its first of three estimates of how the U.S. economy performed in the fourth quarter of 2022.(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

EXPLAINER: How will we know if the U.S. is in recession?

Read full article: EXPLAINER: How will we know if the U.S. is in recession?

A second consecutive quarter of economic growth underscored Thursday that the nation isn’t in a recession despite high inflation and the Federal Reserve’s fastest pace of interest rate hikes in four decades.

Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to permanently ban COVID-19 restrictions in Florida

DeSantis wants to permanently ban COVID-19 restrictions in Florida

Read full article: DeSantis wants to permanently ban COVID-19 restrictions in Florida

Gov. Ron DeSantis is calling on state lawmakers to permanently ban COVID-19 mandates on masks and vaccines.

MIS-C after COVID-19 more severe than previously reported, study finds

Researchers identify underlying genetic similarities in children who had both COVID-19, MIS-C

Read full article: Researchers identify underlying genetic similarities in children who had both COVID-19, MIS-C

Although still relatively rare, MIS-C after COVID-19 has become more common and more severe than previously thought. A new study is raising critical questions.

Emergency room overcrowding has become a public health crisis, experts say

ER overcrowding has become a public health crisis, experts say

Read full article: ER overcrowding has become a public health crisis, experts say

Emergency Room overcrowding has been a health care problem for years, but now, health experts say it is reaching crisis levels.

Doctors expecting surge in illnesses like COVID-19, flu, RSV after holidays

Doctors expecting surge in illnesses like COVID-19, flu, RSV after holidays

Read full article: Doctors expecting surge in illnesses like COVID-19, flu, RSV after holidays

Across the country, doctors are expecting a surge in illnesses like COVID-19, the flu and RSV in the next few weeks following the holidays.

In this July 13, 2020 photo made available by Rosecastle at Deerwood assisted facility in Jacksonville, Fla,, Mary Daniels and her husband Steve, sit together in his room Monday, July 13, 2020. Mary went 114 days without seeing her husband who has early onset of Alzheimers, after the coronavirus forced the facility to ban all visitors. She took a job as a part-time dishwasher at the facility so that she is able to see her husband. (Rosecastle at Deerwood via AP)

Husband of caregiver, whose pandemic story inspired Gov. DeSantis, dies peacefully, his wife says

Read full article: Husband of caregiver, whose pandemic story inspired Gov. DeSantis, dies peacefully, his wife says

Their story captured the hearts of many people during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it inspired Gov. Ron DeSantis to find a solution for long-term care visitation in Florida.

The new Nathan Deal Judicial Center was deidcated to the former governor that bears it's name Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Amis)

Georgia court: State must honor pledge to delay executions

Read full article: Georgia court: State must honor pledge to delay executions

Georgia’s Supreme Court says a state pledge to not execute some inmates until certain conditions are met following the COVID-19 pandemic met is a binding contract that the state can’t ignore.

Jacksonville ER doctor: If there’s a COVID-19 spike, ‘we’re going to sound the alarm fairly quickly’

Jacksonville ER doctor: If there’s a COVID-19 spike, ‘we’re going to sound the alarm fairly quickly’

Read full article: Jacksonville ER doctor: If there’s a COVID-19 spike, ‘we’re going to sound the alarm fairly quickly’

As Northeast Florida sees colder temperatures this holiday season, COVID-19 cases are up across 90% of the country, according to the White House COVID-19 coordinator.

A hiring sign is displayed at a kitchen supply store in Rosemont, Ill., Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022. The Labor Department releases weekly report on unemployment benefits on Friday, Dec. 15. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Fewer Americans apply for jobless benefits last week

Read full article: Fewer Americans apply for jobless benefits last week

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week, a sign that the labor market remains strong even as the Federal Reserve continues to raise interest rates in an effort to cool the economy and slow inflation.

White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Ashish Jha speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

White House reveals winter COVID-19 plans, more free tests

Read full article: White House reveals winter COVID-19 plans, more free tests

The Biden administration is once more making some free COVID-19 tests available to all U.S. households as it unveils its contingency plans for potential coronavirus surges this winter.

FILE - A visitor sits on a bench to look artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg's "In America: Remember," a temporary art installation made up of white flags to commemorate Americans who have died of COVID-19, on the National Mall in Washington on Oct. 2, 2021. The number of U.S. deaths has dropped in 2022 after soaring for two years during the COVID-19 pandemic, but it still is much higher than the levels before the coronavirus hit. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

US deaths fell this year, but not to pre-COVID levels

Read full article: US deaths fell this year, but not to pre-COVID levels

The number of U.S. deaths has dropped this year, but there are still more than there were before the coronavirus hit.

Lingering loss of smell from COVID may indicate cognitive decline

COVID loss of smell: A sign of Alzheimer’s?

Read full article: COVID loss of smell: A sign of Alzheimer’s?

About 5% of COVID patients worldwide have reported a loss of smell that lasts longer than six months. While this side effect of the virus can be annoying, researchers are finding it might also be a predictor for cognitive decline in some people.

FILE - This Aug. 28, 2020, photo shows the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Ind. An unprecedented string of federal executions likely acted as a COVID-19 superspreader event, just as health experts warned could happen when the Trump administration insisted on resuming executions during a pandemic. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

The story so far: AP's investigation into federal prisons

Read full article: The story so far: AP's investigation into federal prisons

An ongoing Associated Press investigation has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Justice Department’s largest law enforcement agency, the federal Bureau of Prisons.

FILE - The New York Stock Exchange is seen in New York, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Asian shares slip after tech stock slump on Wall St

Read full article: Asian shares slip after tech stock slump on Wall St

Shares are mostly lower in Asia after Wall Street sagged under weakness in tech stocks.

The container ship Ever Libra (TW) is moored at the Port of Los Angeles on Monday, Nov. 21, 2022. The supply backlogs of the past two years -- and the delays, shortages and outrageous prices they brought with them -- have improved dramatically since summer. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

As supply chains unclog, consumers enjoy (tentative) relief

Read full article: As supply chains unclog, consumers enjoy (tentative) relief

The supply backlogs of the past two years — and the delays, shortages and outrageous prices that came with them — have improved dramatically since summer.

In this photo taken May 2022 and released by Leah Zhang, passengers some wearing protective overalls wait for their train at a train station in Shanghai. Over 26 million people in Shanghai were confined for two months in one of the country's strictest and most visible lockdowns. (Leah Zhang via AP)

Under China's 'zero COVID,' uncertainty reigns and unsettles

Read full article: Under China's 'zero COVID,' uncertainty reigns and unsettles

As coronavirus cases rose in Shanghai earlier this year and the city’s lockdown stretched from weeks to months, Leah Zhang’s feeling of suffocation grew.

Mark Hager, left, positions a camera with the help of Anthony Lucia, right, as captain Al Cottone watches the feed on a monitor from his boat, the Sabrina Maria, in Gloucester, Mass., May 11, 2022. Hager's Maine-based startup, New England Maritime Monitoring, is one of a bevy of companies seeking to help commercial vessels comply with new federal mandates aimed at protecting dwindling fish stocks. But taking the technology overseas, where the vast majority of seafood consumed in the U.S. is caught, is a steep challenge. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Could trawler cams help save world's dwindling fish stocks?

Read full article: Could trawler cams help save world's dwindling fish stocks?

Could trawler cams help save the world’s fish.

Dissident Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei poses for a photo in the garden of his country house in Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. Ai is taking heart from recent public protests in China over the authorities' strict COVID-19 policy, but he doesn't see them bringing about any significant political change. (AP Photo/Ana Brigida)

Dissident artist Weiwei says China unrest won't alter regime

Read full article: Dissident artist Weiwei says China unrest won't alter regime

Dissident Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei is taking heart from recent public protests in China over the authorities’ strict COVID-19 policy.

The mother and father of a four-month-old baby that urgently needs a heart operation leave the High Court in Auckland, New Zealand, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. The court on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022, ruled against the family who had refused blood transfusions for their baby son unless the blood came from donors who hadn't been vaccinated against COVID-19. (Michael Craig/New Zealand Herald via AP)

New Zealand court rules against anti-vax parents of ill baby

Read full article: New Zealand court rules against anti-vax parents of ill baby

A New Zealand court has temporarily taken away medical custody of a baby from his parents after they refused blood transfusions for him unless the blood comes from donors who are unvaccinated against COVID-19.

FILE - Street signs at the intersection of Wall and Broad Streets are shown in lower Manhattan, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

US futures point to continued slump this week on Wall Street

Read full article: US futures point to continued slump this week on Wall Street

Wall Street futures edged lower Wednesday ahead of new employment and wholesale price data with the Federal Reserve gauging its next step in its fight to cool inflation.

A resident pulls away a mask during COVID test in Beijing, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. In a sharp reversal, China has announced a series of measures rolling back some of the most draconian anti-COVID-19 restrictions. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China eases anti-COVID measures following protests

Read full article: China eases anti-COVID measures following protests

China has rolled back rules on isolating people with COVID-19 and dropped virus test requirements for some public places.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, greets by Prince Faisal bin Bandar bin Abdulaziz, Governor of Riyadh, after his arrival in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

China's Xi visits Saudi Arabia to cement Gulf Arab ties

Read full article: China's Xi visits Saudi Arabia to cement Gulf Arab ties

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has arrived in Saudi Arabia to attend meetings with oil-rich Gulf Arab nations crucial to his country’s energy supplies as Beijing tries to revive an economy battered by strict coronavirus measures.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., departs after speak during a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony honoring law enforcement officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Congress set to rescind COVID-19 vaccine mandate for troops

Read full article: Congress set to rescind COVID-19 vaccine mandate for troops

The COVID-19 vaccine mandate for members of the U.S. military would be rescinded under the annual defense bill heading for a vote this week in Congress.

FILE - Brazilian Pele attends the 2018 soccer World Cup draw at the Kremlin in Moscow, Dec. 1, 2017. Brazilian soccer great Pel was hospitalized in Sao Paulo to regulate the medication in his fight against a colon tumor, his daughter said on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. Kely Nascimento added that there was no emergency concerning her 82-year-old father's health. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Doctors say Pelé's health improving, remains in hospital

Read full article: Doctors say Pelé's health improving, remains in hospital

Doctors say Brazilian soccer great Pelé is improving.

FILE - A sign at the federal courthouse in Tacoma, Wash., is shown on April 6, 2016, to inform visitors of the federal government's REAL ID Act, which requires state driver's licenses and ID cards to have security enhancements and be issued to people who can prove they are legally in the United States. The deadline for obtaining the Real ID needed to board a domestic flight has been pushed back again, with the Department of Homeland Security citing the lingering impact of the COVID-19 pandemic for the slower-than-expected rollout. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

COVID's lingering impact prompts Real ID deadline extension

Read full article: COVID's lingering impact prompts Real ID deadline extension

The deadline for obtaining the Real ID needed to board a domestic flight has been pushed back again, with the Department of Homeland Security citing the lingering impact of the COVID-19 pandemic for the slower-than-expected rollout.

FILE - In this April 28, 2020, file photo Medical personnel attend a daily 7 p.m. applause in their honor outside NYU Langone Medical Center in New York. As more nurses leave their jobs in hospitals and health-care centers, foundations are pouring millions of dollars into efforts to ensure that more stay in the profession and get more out of the job than just the applause and pats on the back they got during the bleakest days of the pandemic. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Foundations, major donors tackle nation’s nursing shortage

Read full article: Foundations, major donors tackle nation’s nursing shortage

As more nurses leave their jobs in hospitals and health-care centers, foundations are pouring millions of dollars into efforts to ensure that more stay in the profession and get more out of the job than just the applause and pats on the back they got during the bleakest days of the pandemic.

FILE - A student visits a sensory room at Williams Elementary School, on Nov. 3, 2021, in Topeka, Kan. Schools contending with soaring student mental health needs and other challenges have been struggling to determine just how much the pandemic is to blame. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Many kids are struggling. Is special education the answer?

Read full article: Many kids are struggling. Is special education the answer?

Schools contending with soaring student mental health needs and other challenges have been struggling to determine just how much the pandemic is to blame.

People watch a live broadcast of the memorial service for late former Chinese President Jiang Zemin where Chinese President Xi Jinping makes a speech on screen at the Wangfujing shopping street in Beijing, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. A formal memorial service was held Tuesday at the Great Hall of the People, the seat of the ceremonial legislature in the center of Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Late Chinese leader Jiang hailed in memorial service

Read full article: Late Chinese leader Jiang hailed in memorial service

China's leaders have eulogized the late Jiang Zemin as a loyal Marxist-Leninist who oversaw their country's rapid economic rise while maintaining rigid Communist Party control over society.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, center, and Lt. Governor Jacqueline Coleman, left, look on as Secretary of State Michael Adams stamps the paperwork officially entering the race for reelection in Frankfort, Ky., Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. Fresh off attending an event trumpeting Kentucky's largest-ever economic development project, Democratic Gov. Beshear filed for reelection Monday. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Kentucky's Dem governor files for red-state reelection bid

Read full article: Kentucky's Dem governor files for red-state reelection bid

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has filed for reelection next year.

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Epidemiologist says it’s ‘extremely challenging’ to paint a full picture of COVID-19 cases

Read full article: Epidemiologist says it’s ‘extremely challenging’ to paint a full picture of COVID-19 cases

As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to rise across the county, there’s concern among health officials about how to accurately determine how fast the latest variant is spreading.

FILE - General view of the Khalifa International Stadium ahead the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between the Netherlands and the United States, in Doha, Qatar, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

EXPLAINER: What's post-World Cup future for Qatar's stadiums

Read full article: EXPLAINER: What's post-World Cup future for Qatar's stadiums

The World Cup stadium was designed to leave a minimal footprint in the Qatari sand.

This image released by the New York City Ballet shows principal dancer Sterling Hyltin taking her final bow with New York City Ballet after performing as the Sugarplum Fairy in George Balanchine's "The Nutcracker," in New York on Dec. 4, 2022. (Erin Baiano/New York City Ballet via AP)

Review: A Sugarplum Fairy waves a sweet 'Nutcracker' goodbye

Read full article: Review: A Sugarplum Fairy waves a sweet 'Nutcracker' goodbye

George Balanchine's “Nutcracker” is back in full swing at New York City Ballet, a year after a number of performances were canceled due to COVID-19, and two years after being sidelined entirely due to the pandemic.

FILE - Brazilian Pele attends the 2018 soccer World Cup draw at the Kremlin in Moscow, Dec. 1, 2017. Brazilian soccer great Pel was hospitalized in Sao Paulo to regulate the medication in his fight against a colon tumor, his daughter said on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. Kely Nascimento added that there was no emergency concerning her 82-year-old father's health. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Pelé to watch Brazil's World Cup match from the hospital

Read full article: Pelé to watch Brazil's World Cup match from the hospital

Brazilian soccer great Pelé says he will be cheering for the country's national team in its World Cup game against South Korea from the hospital.

FILE - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II waves to the crowd during the Platinum Jubilee Pageant at the Buckingham Palace in London, June 5, 2022, on the last of four days of celebrations to mark the Platinum Jubilee. Queen Elizabeth II's death in September 2022 was arguably the most high-profile death this year. In her 70 years on the British throne, she helped modernize the monarchy across decades of enormous social change, royal marriages and births, and family scandals. For most Britons, she was the only monarch they had ever known. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Pool)

Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2022

Read full article: Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2022

One would have to go back hundreds of years to find a monarch who reigned longer than Queen Elizabeth II.

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