Associated Press

Pennsylvania has begun to organize “strike teams” of extra workers for hospitals and nursing homes struggling with surging COVID-19-related caseloads and staffing shortages.

Governors across the U.S. took sweeping action during earlier surges of COVID-19, but are taking a much different approach during the record-setting omicron outbreak.

Sidney Poitier, the groundbreaking actor who transformed how Black people were portrayed on screen, has died at 94.

The two-dose Moderna vaccine is open to Americans 18 and older.

For people of color, the attack was more than a violent challenge to a free and fair election — it was an eerily familiar display of white supremacist violence.

Biden used the anniversary of the attack Thursday to warn that America’s system of government remains under urgent threat.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has agreed, recommending that younger teens — and those 16 and 17 — should get a Pfizer booster five months after their last sho

Keith Plessy, whose great-great-grandfather was Plessy’s cousin, called the event “truly a blessed day for our ancestors … and for children not yet born.”

In interviews with The Associated Press a year later, many of the lawmakers recall that they thought they were going to die.

The case was tarnished by detectives who allegedly offered a witness sex and drugs at police headquarters in exchange for false testimony.

U.S. health officials also clarified that the guidance applies to school kids as well as adults.

Biden has only occasionally emphasized the gravity of the threat to democracy from the Jan. 6 insurrection and the repeated lie that the 2020 election was stolen.