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Surgeon General of the U.S. Jerome Adams, left, elbow-bumps Emergency Room technician Demetrius Mcalister after Mcalister got the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination
Health

Pfizer to supply US with additional 100M vaccines doses

The drugmakers said Wednesday that they expect to deliver all the doses by July 31.

5 years ago

President Trump threatened a hard-fought relief bill passed by Congress on Monday, calling it
NPR
Money

Trump slams COVID relief bill, asks for changes after bitter negotiations

Congressional leaders took seven months to negotiate the $900 billion package, which was passed with overwhelming majorities that could overturn a presidential veto.

5 years ago

A Marine stands outside the entrance to the West Wing of the White House, signifying the President is in the Oval Office, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Courts & Law

Trump pardons 15, commutes 5 sentences, including GOP allies

President Trump pardoned 15 people, including GOP allies, a 2016 campaign official ensnared in the Russia probe and former government contractors convicted in a massacre.

5 years ago

The U.S. Capitol at dawn in Washington, D.C.
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Politics & Policy

Congress acts to spare consumers from costly surprise medical bills

Congress has passed a long-debated measure to stop health care providers from billing patients for charges not covered by their insurance. Here's how the new protection works.

5 years ago

Cars are lined up at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles for coronavirus testing
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Health

Vaccines are coming, but the US still needs more testing to stop the surge

The U.S. conducts nearly 2 million coronavirus tests daily. A new analysis shows millions more are needed to protect the most vulnerable.

5 years ago

Mortician Cordarial O. Holloway, foreground left, funeral director Robert L. Albritten, foreground right, and funeral attendants Eddie Keith, background left, and Ronald Costello place a casket into a hearse
Health

US deaths in 2020 top 3 million, by far most ever counted

U.S. deaths increase most years. But the 2020 numbers amount to a jump of about 15%, and could go higher once all the deaths from this month are counted.

5 years ago

Dusk falls over the Capitol building
Politics & Policy

$900B COVID relief bill passed by Congress, sent to Trump

Lawmakers tacked on a $1.4 trillion catchall spending bill and thousands of pages of other end-of-session business to create a massive bundle of bipartisan legislation.

5 years ago

Registered nurse Kristina Shannon, from left, chaplain Andrea Cammarota, and ER charge nurse Cathy Carter watch as medical workers try to resuscitate a patient who tested positive for coronavirus in the emergency room
Politics & Policy

Highlights of $900 billion COVID-19 relief, wrapup bills

Highlights of the measure with overall funding amounts and specific amounts for some but not necessarily all initiatives.

5 years ago

A pharmacist fills a syringe to prepare a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for front-line health care workers in Torrance, Calif., Saturday.
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Health

Older people, some essential workers should get vaccines next, CDC panel says

A federal advisory committee voted to put adults 75 and over and frontline essential workers next in line for COVID-19 vaccines.

5 years ago

Travelers walk through the Salt Lake City International Airport
Health

US airport traffic rising despite holiday travel warnings

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued an advisory declaring “postponing travel and staying home is the best way to protect yourself and others from COVID."

5 years ago

Housing activists erect a
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Community

Why the CDC eviction ban isn’t really a ban: ‘I have nowhere to go’

Families are getting put out on the street despite an order to block evictions from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Advocates say the order needs to be extende

5 years ago

Boxes containing the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the McKesson distribution center
Health

2nd COVID-19 vaccine authorized in US ships out

Public health experts say the shots — and others in the pipeline — are the only way to stop a virus that has been spreading wildly.

5 years ago

The United States Capitol building.
Politics & Policy

Congress reaches deal on $900 billion COVID-19 relief package

The agreement would establish a temporary $300 per week supplemental jobless benefits and $600 direct stimulus payments to most Americans.

5 years ago

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., walks past reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Money

Fight over Fed powers stalls $900 billion aid plan

Lawmakers on both sides said a provision by Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., that would curb emergency Federal Reserve powers was the sticking point.

5 years ago

In this Nov. 13, 2020, file photo Army Gen. Gustave Perna, who is leading Operation Warp Speed, speaks during at an event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Politics & Policy

General sorry for ‘miscommunication’ over vaccine shipments

"I failed. I'm adjusting. I am fixing and we will move forward from there," Gen. Gustave Perna told reporters in a telephone briefing.

5 years ago

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