Coronavirus

COVID-19 symptoms left President Joe Biden with a deep, raspy voice and persistent cough as he met Friday via videoconference with his top economic team, but he tried to strike a reassuring tone, declaring, “I feel much better than I sound.”.

President Joe Biden is reporting a runny nose, fatigue and an occasional dry cough from his COVID-19 infection.

An outside auditor will review the New York state government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

President Joe Biden says he's “doing great” after testing positive for COVID-19.

Global stock markets are mostly higher after strong U.S. jobs data cleared the way for more interest rate hikes and China reported Monday that its exports rose by double digits.

Asian stock markets are mixed after strong U.S. jobs data cleared the way for more interest rate hikes and China reported Monday that its exports rose by double digits.

In Portland, Oregon, the police chief recently pulled detectives from cold case and assault units to backfill the homicide unit, which is overwhelmed by a spike in gun violence.

A year has passed since President Joe Biden ended the war in Afghanistan.

The capital of China’s Hainan province has locked down its residents for 13 hours as a COVID-19 outbreak grows on the tropical island during the summer school holidays.

Hong Kong will reduce the mandatory hotel quarantine for overseas arrivals to three days from a week.

Ending his most recent COVID-19 isolation, President Joe Biden has left the White House for the first time since becoming infected last month.

Over five decades in Washington, Joe Biden knew that the way to influence was to be in the room where it happens.

While Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear was consoling families displaced by historic flooding in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, Republicans at the state’s premier political event on the other side of the state were campaigning to oust him from office in 2023.

Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is facing a hefty price tag for his lies about the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre — $49.3 million in damages and counting — for claiming the nation’s deadliest school shooting was a hoax.

President Joe Biden's doctor says the 79-year-old president has tested negative for COVID-19 but will continue to isolate at the White House until a second negative test.

Some 80,000 tourists are stranded in the southern Chinese beach resort of Sanya, after authorities declared it a COVID-19 hot spot and imposed a lockdown.

Spain is struggling to curtail Europe's leading monkeypox outbreak since the disease spread beyond Africa.

Whit Merrifield says he is vaccinated for COVID-19 and will be cleared to play for Toronto when the Blue Jays return to Canada.

Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from the upcoming hard-court tournament in Montreal because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19 and therefore not allowed to enter Canada.

New York state health officials have issued a more urgent call for unvaccinated children and adults to get inoculated against polio, citing new evidence of possible “community spread” of the virus.

The day before Kansas voters rejected a ballot question that could have eroded abortion rights, many people in the state reported receiving anonymous text messages with misleading information about the vote.

Germany's annual Oktoberfest festival is finally on again for this fall, following a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Jill Biden barnstormed the country during her debut year as first lady as if on a one-woman mission to help her husband's administration tackle the problem of the moment.

New coronavirus cases fell 9% globally last week while deaths remained stable.

Better-than-expected COVID-19 vaccine sales pushed Moderna past Wall Street’s second-quarter forecasts.

Country superstar Dolly Parton is among the 2022 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy recipients.

Nintendo’s profit in the April-June quarter rose 28% from a year earlier on healthy demand for its games, although console sales were dented by a shortage of semiconductors.

Top Southeast Asian diplomats meeting in Cambodia’s capital are intensifying efforts to stop the escalating violence in Myanmar.

President Joe Biden will soon be signing into law a major bill to revive the U.S. computer chip sector.

The United Nations chief is warning that “humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation.”.

Across the U.S., COVID-19 relief money is helping to subsidize growing numbers of big-city schools with small numbers of students.

The Major League Baseball trade deadline is always a stressful time of year for the league's 30 general managers.

President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 for the second straight day, in what appears to be a rare case of “rebound” following treatment with an anti-viral drug.

A major U.N. meeting on the landmark Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty is about to begin after a long delay due to the coronavirus pandemic.

After exiting isolation following a negative test Wednesday, President Joe Biden once again tested positive for COVID-19 Saturday.

President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 again, slightly more than three days after he was cleared to exit coronavirus isolation.

Novak Djokovic is holding out hope that he’ll be able to compete at the U.S. Open despite not being vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Hundreds of tourism projects nationwide are collectively getting about $2.4 billion in federal coronavirus relief funding.

One month into his presidency, Joe Biden made clear his distaste for even naming the man he'd ousted from the Oval Office.

Public health officials warn that moves by rich countries to buy large quantities of monkeypox vaccine could leave millions of people in Africa unprotected against a more dangerous version of the disease.