White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday that the Food and Drug Administration’s recommended pause on the use of Johnson & Johnson‘s Covid-19 vaccine will give U.S. health regulators the time they need to thoroughly investigate how six women developed a rare blood clotting disorder that left one dead. Fauci said officials […]
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1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, watch as CH-47 Chinook helicopters circle above during a dust storm at Forward Operating Base Kushamond, Afghanistan, July 17, during preparation for an air assault mission. U.S. Army photo WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden will withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan by September, […]
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The Moderna MRNA, -1.08% 0A45, -2.63% COVID-19 vaccine will start to be used in England from Tuesday, providing an alternative to the AstraZeneca AZN, -1.04% AZN, -0.96% vaccine for people aged under 30. The U.K.’s vaccine advisory committee, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), last week recommended that 18 to 29-year-olds be given a […]
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A FedEx employee loads up deliveries in San Francisco. Getty Images A progressive group pushing Congress to raise the corporate tax rate is launching an ad campaign targeting FedEx and Nike, two large American companies with light federal tax bills. Tax March, which held dozens of demonstrations in 2017 calling on former President Donald Trump […]
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies before the Senate Banking Committee hearing on “The Quarterly CARES Act Report to Congress” on Capitol Hill in Washington, December 1, 2020. Susan Walsh | Pool | Reuters The U.S. economy is at a turning point thanks to government support and a speedy campaign to inoculate Americans against Covid-19, […]
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President Joe Biden during remarks on the American Jobs Plan in the South Court Auditorium at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on April 7, 2021. Demetrius Freeman | The Washington Post | Getty Images President Joe Biden on Sunday declared the settlement between two Korean battery makers a victory for U.S. efforts to build a strong […]
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The Internal Revenue Service says it will automatically readjust tax returns and issue extra refunds for people who already filed their taxes before a valuable jobless benefit tax break came along in March. The IRS says it doesn’t require taxpayers to send in amended returns under the circumstances. Those payments will start going out in […]
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Wealthy countries have received the vast majority of the world’s supply of Covid-19 vaccine doses, while poor countries have obtained less than 1%, the World Health Organization said at a press briefing Friday. Of the 700 million vaccine doses that have been distributed across the globe, “over 87% have gone to high-income or upper- and […]
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Congressional investigators released emails and documents Friday that show Department of Health and Human Services appointees under former President Donald Trump regularly bragged about their efforts to alter staff scientists’ reports on the coronavirus. Officials tried to rewrite the weekly scientific reports so Trump could use the data to support his political positions on wearing […]
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LONDON — The House of Windsor has lost its patriarch. Prince Philip, the Greece-born royal who as the husband of Queen Elizabeth II was the longest-serving consort to a British sovereign, died Friday. He was 99. “His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle,” the royal family announced. “Further announcements will be […]
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