NEW YORK – Just a couple of weeks ago, New York City seemed like a relative bright spot in the U.S. coronavirus struggle. Now it’s a hotspot, confronting a dizzying spike in cases, scramble for testing, quandary over a major event and exhausting sense of déjà vu.
As the pandemic rages on and a workforce crisis continues, nursing home advocates want Kansas lawmak ers to start regulating nurse staffing agencies, claiming price gouging amid supply and demand imbalances.
The St. Louis Park Public Schools in suburban Minneapolis held in-person learning all semester, with no school closures for COVID-19 infections despite the spread of the delta variant.
KABUL, Afghanistan – Hundreds of protesters marched through the streets of Kabul toward the shuttered U.S. Embassy on Tuesday, urging the release of Afghanistan’s frozen assets.
MOSCOW – The Russian president on Tuesday reiterated his demand for guarantees from the U.S. and its allies that NATO will not expand eastwards, blaming the West for “tensions that are building up in Europe.”
U.S. population growth dipped to its lowest rate since the nation’s founding during the first year of the pandemic as the coronavirus curtailed immigration, delayed pregnancies and killed hundreds of thousands of U.S. residents, according to figures released Tuesday.
FDA approves first injectable drug to prevent HIV A new injectable treatment for HIV pre-exposure prevention, or PrEP, has been approved by the Federal Drug Administration. The drug, Apretude, is approved for at-risk adults and adolescents who weigh at least 77 pounds to reduce the risk of sexually acquired HIV.
Horses trot down Main Street as the 2021 Frost Fest parade begins. PHOTOS BY HAILEY CHAPMAN / HAYS DAILY NEWS Breathe Coffee House staff roll through the parade in a Christmas-themed coffee cart.
NEW YORK – Emarilis Velazquez is paying higher prices on everything from food to clothing. Her monthly grocery bill has ballooned from $650 to almost $850 in recent months.
Moderna said Monday that a booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine should offer protection against the rapidly spreading omicron variant. Moderna said lab tests showed the half-dose booster shot increased by 37 times the level of so-called neutralizing antibodies able to fight omicron.