By Kate Sullivan, President Joe Biden on Thursday defended his administration’s new vaccine mandates and said Republican governors undermining the requirements are putting lives at risk. “We’re facing a lot of pushback, especially from some of the Republican governors. The governors of Florida and Texas are doing
By Maggie Fox and Madeline Holcombe, Advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration on Friday voted unanimously to recommend emergency use authorization of Pfizer’s booster shot six months after full vaccination in Americans 65 and older as well as those at
By Nicquel Terry Ellis, A mother’s claim that her children’s school was assigning Black students to certain classes has shaken up one Atlanta school community with some parents insisting the principal would never group students based on race. It’s also fueled a debate about
By Madeline Holcombe, The US Food and Drug Administration is meeting Friday about Covid-19 vaccine boosters, but the long-awaited discussion may not yield an answer as to whether all vaccinated Americans will get a third dose, experts said. “What I think we’re going to hear from
Analysis by Ariane de Vogue, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died a year ago this week, had been well aware that the conservatives on the Supreme Court were poised to take a right turn in areas concerning reproductive health and voting rights. But
By Simon Osuji, From profitable a number of Grammy awards to branching out from her ’90s lady group Future’s Baby and changing into probably the most common solo artists of all time, Beyoncé’s checklist of accolades goes on and on. The primary
By Raja Razek, The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled Thursday that voters in Minneapolis may decide on abolishing the police department in the upcoming municipal elections. The measure, if approved, would amend the city charter to replace the Minneapolis Police Department with a new
By Ariane de Vogue, On the verge of a new term in which the Supreme Court will wade back into the culture wars, Justice Clarence Thomas reflected Thursday on the role of the judiciary and warned against judges weighing in on controversial issues that
By Emma Tucker, The Justice Department announcement Tuesday that federal law enforcement officers will be banned from using neck restraints during arrests and using no-knock entries while executing warrants except in rare cases is part of an ongoing focus on police accountability at local,
By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Linh Tran, Sahar Akbarzai and Mirna Alsharif, Students in a southern Pennsylvania school district are battling the latest example of panic spreading over how history and race are taught in schools across the US. “I don’t think a moral
