Associated Press

Beginning Monday, only vehicles and their occupants will be allowed. Travel is suspended for pedestrians and passengers with bicycles.

Across the U.S., the surge has swamped hospitals and left nurses and other health care workers shorthanded and burned out.

Death threats are on the rise, and local and state election officials are being hounded into hiding.

With COVID-19 surging from coast to coast, the number of hospitalized patients has more than doubled over the past month, pushing health care workers to the breaking point.

Biden said the developing coronavirus aid package "wouldn’t be the answer, but it would be the immediate help for a lot of things.”

The head of the United Nations is calling on countries to end what he calls a war on nature and instead embrace a future without carbon pollution triggering global warming.

U.S. health officials say staying home for the upcoming winter holidays is the best way to stay safe and protect others.

Gambling executives, analysts and lawmakers agree that the lure of new tax revenue could prove irresistible to cash-strapped state governments facing large COVID-19 deficits.

Most of the information in the court order is redacted, including the identity of the people whom prosecutors are investigating and whom the proposed pardon might be for.

Some panel members and other experts had also grown concerned by comments from Trump administration officials that suggested differing vaccine priorities.

They maintain that Pennsylvania’s expansive vote-by-mail law is unconstitutional because it required a constitutional amendment to authorize its provisions.

His comments come despite President Donald Trump's repeated claims that the election was stolen, and his refusal to concede his loss to President-Elect Joe Biden.