National

This is the sixth vaccine candidate to join Operation Warp Speed's portfolio, and the largest vaccine deal to date.

Philadelphia Flyers coach Alain Vigneault hopes the return of hockey can represent one small step in a return to normalcy.

Fauci's public message in recent days has been that Americans can't afford a devil-may-care attitude toward COVID-19 and need to double down on basic measures.

A St. Louis County prosecutor says Darren Wilson will not face criminal charges for the 2014 killing. Wesley Bell says he can't prove a crime was committed.

"Naming it the John Lewis Voting Rights Act — that is a fine tribute," former President Barack Obama said. "But John wouldn't want us to stop there."

NASA’s Perseverance rode a mighty Atlas V rocket into a clear morning sky in the world’s third and final Mars launch of the summer.

The administration awarded a contract for a COVID-19 database to TeleTracking Technologies using a process reserved for innovative research.

A campaign led by doctors, health researchers and other health experts calls to shut down parts of the country again in order to get the pandemic under control.

The president does not have the power himself to move the date of the election, which was set by an 1845 federal law.

The coronavirus triggered the sharpest economic contraction in modern history in the second quarter as the pandemic hammered the economy, the Commerce Dept. said Thursday.

Experts say the flood of bad information is dangerously undermining efforts to slow the virus, which has been blamed for about 150,000 deaths in the U.S.

One Postal Service worker told NPR that the USPS used to take pride that every piece of mail went out by the end of the day. Now, the worker says, that's changed.

These studies are among a growing number of experiments involving convalescent plasma, both as preventive measures and as treatments for COVID-19.

Because of COVID-19, the Census Bureau says it can no longer deliver 2020 census results by the current legal deadlines and need four-month extensions.

Shut-off moratoriums imposed at the start of the pandemic are beginning to expire. Customers and utilities face a backlog of missed bills that may be passed on to ratepayers.