National News
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848Monthly Payments to Families With Children to Begin
Experts estimate the payments will cut child poverty by nearly half, an achievement with no precedent.
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1.0KMore Power Lines or Rooftop Solar Panels: The Fight Over Energy’s Future
The choices that lawmakers, energy businesses and individuals make in the next few years could lock in an energy system that lasts...
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794World’s Reported Covid Death Toll Passes 4 Million
The loss is roughly equivalent to the population of Los Angeles, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns...
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738CDC Issues New School Guidance, with Emphasis on Full Reopening
Schools urged to fully reopen in the fall, even if they cannot take all of the recommended steps to curb the spread...
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838House, Setting a Marker for Talks, Passes $715 Billion Infrastructure Bill
The House on Thursday approved a five-year, $715 billion transportation and drinking water bill.
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1.0KFBI Investigates Aptos Man with Ties to Giuliani
The FBI was at the Aptos home of a man with ties to New York attorney Rudy Giuliani for a “court-authorized law...
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798Derek Chauvin Receives 22 1/2 Years for Murder of George Floyd
Derek Chauvin, the former police officer convicted of murder in the death of George Floyd, was sentenced Friday to 22 1/2 years...
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853Biden and Senators Reach Broad Infrastructure Deal
President Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of centrist senators reached a deal on Thursday for $1.2 trillion in investments to rebuild...
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972Desperate for COVID Care, Unauthorized Immigrants Resort to Unproven Drugs
Unproven remedies have appealed to people in low-income immigrant communities in places where COVID-19 rates have been high but access to health...
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1.2KEx-Officer Found Guilty of Murdering George Floyd
Local mayors ask community to move toward justice and healing
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1.3KEPA to Review Attacks on Science Under Trump
List of decisions where staff say scientific integrity was violated is expected to reach about 90 items
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1.3KNational Agriculture Day to be Observed March 23
Virtual events planned nationwide
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1.2KSo You’re Vaccinated Against Covid. Now What?
Ill-advised behavior or a mutant strain of the virus could still ignite another surge
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1.2KHow Covid Survivors Are Finding Their Way Into Politics
Many people with lives upended by Covid-19 have turned to political action
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1.7KAdvanced Cancers Are Emerging, Doctors Warn, Citing Pandemic Drop in Screenings
Hundreds of thousands fewer cancer screenings were performed last year than in 2019
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1.3KCan Vaccination and Infection Rates Add Up to Reach Covid Herd Immunity?
There seems to be hope that the pandemic’s end may be in sight
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1.1KWhere’s My Stimulus Payment? Maybe in Your Account (Finally!)
Some 90 million payments are landing in bank accounts via direct deposit
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1.2KBiden Tells Nation There Is Hope After a Devastating Year
President Joe Biden promised all adults would be eligible for a vaccine by May 1
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1.2KFor Covid ‘Long Haulers,’ Battling for Disability Benefits Adds Aggravation to Exhaustion
Many Covid “long haulers” have no laboratory proof of infection
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1.1KMore Contagious Variant Is Spreading Fast in U.S., Even as Overall Cases Level Off
More contagious variant has likely grown to account for more than 20% of new U.S. cases
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1.1KBiden Signs Stimulus Bill Ahead of Prime-Time Address
Relief package includes direct payments of $1,400 per individual
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1.2KOne Year In: How Covid’s Toll Compares With Other Causes of Death
Covid-19 has become country’s third-leading cause of death
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1.1KU.S. Releases New COVID-19 Guidance for Nursing Homes, Permitting Indoor Visits
Guests can go inside regardless of vaccination status
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1.0KFully Vaccinated People Can Have Small Gatherings Indoors, CDC Says
CDC says fully vaccinated people may visit indoors with unvaccinated people
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990A Leading Critic of Big Tech Will Join the White House
During his campaign, Biden said he would be open to breaking up big tech companies
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1.2KTreasury to Invest $9 Billion in Minority Communities
Effort aims to address how fallout from pandemic is exacerbating U.S. inequality
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1.2KWhy Vaccines In Use Elsewhere Are Still on Hold in America
Critics say the Food and Drug Administration is moving too slowly
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1.8KPeople Who Have Had COVID Should Get Single Vaccine Dose, Studies Suggest
New study may offer clues on how to make a single vaccine for all coronavirus variants
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1.5KStates Are Expanding Access to Vaccines. The Supply Isn’t Keeping Up.
State officials ready to administer more shots every day—if they could get them
