CORONAVIRUS

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.

Louisville activists who put in long hours protesting the death of Breonna Taylor at the hands of police say they felt relief this week when federal officials charged four officers.

President Joe Biden has signed legislation intended to curb fraud in pandemic relief programs.

The University of Michigan has cut ties with embattled hockey coach Mel Pearson.

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.

Shanshan Feng was planning to retire after 10 years of professional golf.

President Joe Biden’s “loose cough” has returned as he faces a rebound case of COVID-19, his doctor said Tuesday, though he “continues to feel well.”.

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

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.

North Korea has reported no new fever cases for the first time since it abruptly admitted to its first domestic COVID-19 outbreak and placed its 26 million people under more draconian restrictions in May.

California's public health officer says officials are pressing for more vaccine and closely monitoring the spread of the monkeypox virus.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is taking aim at what he calls the “Biden recession” and spreading blame to Democrat Stacey Abrams while at the same time arguing his own state's economy is good.

As of Friday, Virginia is reporting 1,954,716 cases of the coronavirus across the Commonwealth since March 2020.

Navajo voters are narrowing the list of candidates for tribal president Tuesday in the primary election.

U.S. regulators say they are no longer considering authorizing second COVID-19 booster shots for all adults under 50 this summer.

Sony has reported its profit edged up 3% in the last quarter, weathering production setbacks from COVID-19 lockdowns in Shanghai and a trend away from video games as pandemic restrictions eased elsewhere.

Stocks are finishing higher on Wall Street Friday as investors closed out the best month for the S&P 500 since November 2020.

Andrew Benintendi wouldn’t say whether he will get vaccinated for COVID-19 now that he’s with the first-place New York Yankees rather than the last-place Kansas City Royals.

The mayor of San Francisco announced a state of emergency Thursday over the growing number of monkeypox cases.

President Joe Biden and his administration are going all out to play down a sobering new economic report.

Los Angeles County has dropped a plan to impose a universal indoor mask mandate this week as COVID-19 infections and rates of hospitalizations have stabilized.

Amazon has reported its second-consecutive quarterly loss but its revenue topped Wall Street expectations, sending its stock sharply higher.

President Joe Biden’s administration is launching a renewed push for COVID-19 booster shots for those eligible, pointing to the enhanced protections they offer against severe illness as the highly-transmissible BA.

As of Thursday, Virginia is reporting 1,950,818 cases of the coronavirus across the Commonwealth since March 2020.

China’s leaders have effectively acknowledged the struggling economy won’t hit its official 5.5% growth target this year.

Africa's public health agency says the continent still does not have a single dose of the monkeypox vaccine even though it’s the only continent to have documented deaths from the disease that’s newly declared a global emergency.

A British judge has jailed for life a man who killed his grandfather in the first crown court sentencing to be televised in Britain.

Turning around South Carolina's chronically dangerous juvenile prisons is now the job of a prosecutor who sent some of those children to jail.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has warned he’s ready to use his nuclear weapons in potential military conflicts with the United States and South Korea.

Dr. Anthony Fauci and his tumultuous experience during the COVID-19 pandemic are the focus of a PBS documentary.

Hard-won progress against HIV has stalled, putting millions of lives at risk.

Health regulators say nearly 800,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine will soon be available for U.S. distribution.

President Joe Biden made his first public appearance after testing negative for the coronavirus Wednesday morning.

As of Wednesday, Virginia is reporting 1,947,686 cases of the coronavirus across the Commonwealth since March 2020.

A U.S. House investigation has found that gun manufacturers have taken in more than $1 billion from selling AR-15-style guns over the past decade.

The U.S. economy is caught in an awkward, painful place.

President Joe Biden has emerged from five days of isolation after contracting the coronavirus, telling Americans that “COVID isn’t gone” but saying serious illness can be avoided with vaccines, booster shots and treatments.

The European Union’s commissioner for health is urging the bloc’s governments to step up their efforts to tackle the expanding monkeypox outbreak.

Two new studies provide more evidence that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a Wuhan, China market where live animals were sold.