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Republicans are blasting President Joe Biden, threatening lawsuits and going as far as to call for civil disobedience to block his new vaccination mandates

The on-again, off-again ban imposed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to prevent mandating masks for Florida school students is back in force

An Atlanta zoo says several members of its troop of western lowland gorillas have tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19

Republicans are blasting President Joe Biden, threatening lawsuits and going as far as to call for civil disobedience to block his new vaccination mandates

Alaska Gov_ Mike Dunleavy said President Joe Biden’s effort to require millions of U_S_ workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is “ill conceived, divisive, and un-American.”

New U.S. studies show COVID-19 vaccines remain highly effective against hospitalizations and death

A panel of federal judges has reversed course and block a Tennessee restriction that outlaws abortions because of a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome, or because of the race or gender of the fetus

The new federal vaccine requirement for large companies has raised concerns over whether it will now be even harder to retain workers or find new ones

Hoping to prevent another school year from being upended by the pandemic, President Joe Biden visited a Washington middle school Friday to promote his new plan to require vaccinations for up to 100 million Americans

Republicans are blasting President Joe Biden, threatening lawsuits and going as far as to call for civil disobedience and even his impeachment

The Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine chief is pledging to rapidly evaluate COVID-19 vaccines for younger kids — as soon as the studies are in

The Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine chief is pledging to rapidly evaluate COVID-19 vaccines for younger kids — as soon as the studies are in

The Los Angeles Unified School District has ordered all students ages 12 and older to be vaccinated against the coronavirus

In the closing days of the recall effort that could remove Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, his campaign has found a familiar foil that’s as big as Texas

North Macedonia’s health minister has resigned nearly two days after a fire tore through a COVID-19 field hospital killing 12 patients and two visiting relatives

A leading scientist says booster shots may be unnecessary for many people.

Two decades after the collapse of the World Trade Center, people are still coming forward to report illnesses that might be related to toxic dust that billowed over the city after the terror attack

District employees are also required to be vaccinated by Nov. 1.

Denmark’s high vaccination rate has enabled the Scandinavian country to become one of the first European Union nations to lift all domestic COVID-19 restrictions

Anyone could be forgiven for forgetting a pandemic ever happened on Australia’s west coast

The drugmaker Endo International is the latest company to settle a New York case over opioids

President Joe Biden has unveiled a new strategy to confront the COVID-19 surge that’s being driven by the spread of the delta variant

The Justice Department is suing Texas over a new state law that bans most abortions, arguing that it was enacted “in open defiance of the Constitution.”

Republican lawmakers in Kentucky have voted in a special session to scrap a statewide mask mandate in schools

President Joe Biden has announced sweeping new federal vaccine requirements affecting as many as 100 million Americans in an all-out effort to curb the surging COVID-19 delta variant

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey says President Joe Biden is overreaching with his new requirement for employees of large businesses to be vaccinated or regularly tested for COVID-19

The Los Angeles board of education has voted to require students 12 and older to be vaccinated against the coronavirus to attend in-person classes in the nation’s second-largest school district

Students 12 and up must receive their first vaccine dose by Jan. 10, 2022.

The Justice Department is suing Texas over a new state law that bans most abortions, arguing that it was enacted “in open defiance of the Constitution.”

Juul is the largest maker of e-cigarette products in the country.

California public schools and colleges would have to stock their restrooms with free menstrual products under legislation sent to Gov. Gavin Newsom

California would bar police from using certain face-down holds that have led to multiple unintended deaths under a measure headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom

Susana Dueñas could hardly believe the news: Mexico’s Supreme Court had decided that abortion could not be considered a crime

Biden says most Americans 'frustrated' by 80M unvaccinated, says they are hurting nation as he announces new mandates

Federal health officials have delayed a high-stakes decision on whether to permit bestselling vaping brand Juul to stay on the market

Federal investigators say confusion over proper procedures at a Massachusetts Veterans Affairs hospital allowed a dead veteran to go unnoticed in a stairwell for more than a month after he was reported missing

Twenty Democratic attorneys general have voiced their support for a lawsuit challenging South Carolina’s new abortion law

Indiana’s ban on telemedicine consultations between doctors and women seeking abortions and several other abortion restrictions are back in force after a federal appeals court set aside a judge’s ruling that they were unconstitutional

President Joe Biden has unveiled a new strategy to confront the COVID-19 surge that’s being driven by the spread of the delta variant

Roughly 11,000 kids in Coeur d’Alene were getting ready for their first day of school when Idaho public health officials announced this week that northern hospitals were so crowded with coronavirus patients that they would be allowed to ration health care

White House: Biden announcing new COVID vaccine requirements affecting as many as 100M at large firms, health facilities

Justice Dept. files lawsuit against Texas, arguing new abortion law was enacted 'in open defiance of the Constitution'

FDA delays decision on top-seller Juul, orders thousands of other electronic cigarettes off the US market

North Macedonia’s government has declared three days of mourning after a deadly overnight fire in a COVID-19 field hospital left 14 people dead and 12 injured

France will offer free birth control to all women up to age 25 starting next year

The highly anticipated fraud trial of fallen Silicon Valley star Elizabeth Holmes began Wednesday with dueling portraits of the former entrepreneur sketched by prosecutors and defense lawyers

Minnesota Sen_ Amy Klobuchar says she has been treated for breast cancer and the treatment “went well.”

Japan has extended a coronavirus state of emergency in Tokyo and 18 other areas until the end of September as health care systems remain under severe strain, although new infections have slowed slightly

As one of the most powerful hurricanes in the nation’s history barreled into Louisiana, a pair of hospitals squarely in its path braced for the worst

AP source: Biden requiring COVID vaccine for federal workers, contractors in stepped-up effort to combat delta variant