By Elizabeth Cohen, Last December, when advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration met to consider whether the agency should authorize Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine, it was generally understood that the answer would be yes. Nine months later, those advisers are meeting to discuss booster shots, and the situation is very different. It won’t be
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By Eric Bradner and Dan Merica, California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom delivered a decisive answer to the question of whether voters would penalize those who enacted strict policies aimed at slowing the coronavirus pandemic, triumphing over an effort to recall him Tuesday. Newsom faced the first recall election in California in 18 years. At one point, weeks before the
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By Betsy Klein, The Presidents’ club is teaming up to aid in a massive, bipartisan effort to welcome and support Afghan refugees that is being launched Tuesday. Former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama — along with former first ladies Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush and Michelle Obama — are serving as honorary co-chairs for the
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By Paul LeBlanc, Four US gymnastics stars will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday during a hearing about the FBI’s handling of the sex abuse investigation of former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar. Testimony from the elite gymnasts — Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Maggie Nichols and Aly Raisman — follows a scathing report this
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By Manu Raju, Senate Democrats are proposing new legislation to overhaul voting laws after months of discussions to get all 50 of their members behind a single bill, allowing their caucus to speak with one voice on the issue even though it stands virtually no chance of becoming law. The proposal — announced in a
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By Ariel Edwards-Levy and Jennifer Agiesta, Americans have grown more supportive of coronavirus vaccine mandates for workers, students, and in everyday public life, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. The shift comes amid renewed worries about the pandemic and a continued partisan divide over the efforts to combat it. The public is split about
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by Simon Osuji, The mere thought nearly overwhelms Eddie George with emotion when he considers the meaning of Sunday’s date in his college football career. “I’ve thought about that quite a bit,” George said to •. “It’s funny how God works, right?” George was named football coach at Tennessee State in April. He replaced Ron
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By Deidre McPhillips, Black and Hispanic people in the United States are more likely to catch Covid-19, and they’re more likely to be hospitalized or even die of it. But both groups are still missing out on testing and vaccination in many states, according to new data compiled by Johns Hopkins University and shared exclusively
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By Steve Almasy and Kiely Westhoff, A weeklong series of protests has begun on some of the biggest college campuses in Georgia, a state where less than 50% of residents are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 and the governor has left mask mandates to local officials. The protesters are demanding mask mandates at all Georgia state-funded universities, with
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By Artemis Moshtaghian and Madeline Holcombe, Seventeen Catholic and Baptist medical professionals who say they oppose getting the Covid-19 vaccine for religious reasons are seeking to prevent New York State from enforcing its vaccine mandate, according to a federal complaint filed in New York on Monday. The professionals — nine doctors, five nurses, a nuclear medicine technologist, a
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