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Students around the world suffered historic setbacks in reading and math during the COVID-19 pandemic, with declines in test scores so widespread that the United States climbed in global rankings simply by falling behind less sharply, a new study finds.
The Biden administration is giving states and municipalities more flexibility to hoard money from a $100 billion pot of unspent pandemic relief through 2024 after billions have been spent on golf courses, lottery prizes in New Mexico for people vaccinated for COVID-19 and legal services for asylum-seekers in Illinois.
In a lawsuit filed Thursday in state district court in Lubbock County, state Attorney General Ken Paxton accused Pfizer of promoting the vaccine and its boosters by making "unsupported claims."
Anthony Fauci, former chief White House medical adviser, is expected to testify before Congress early next year as part of Republicans' yearslong investigation into the origins of COVID-19 and the U.S. response to the disease.
U.S. life expectancy increased by 1.1 years last year while suicides rose to a record high, according to provisional federal data.
First this fall, another round with COVID-19 shuttered Stephen Colbert's "The Late Show." Now the show is again sidelined as the host recovers from a burst appendix.
Sen. Rand Paul, who has publicly criticized Dr. Anthony Fauci over the origins of COVID-19 and his advocacy of lockdowns and mandates, goes even further in a new book, blaming Dr. Fauci for funding the creation of the virus with U.S. dollars and lying about it to Congress.
The Army, facing the most dire military recruiting crisis since the end of the draft more than 50 years ago, is reaching out to former soldiers who were discharged for refusing an order to get the COVID-19 vaccine at the height of the pandemic.
Regardless of where COVID-19 came from, post-pandemic America looks a lot more like Asia, with people voluntarily wearing surgical masks as they go about their daily routines.
Congress is about to face major decisions on how seriously it wants to go after fraudsters who stole hundreds of billions of dollars in government assistance during the coronavirus pandemic -- and whether it wants to arm agencies to prevent a repeat in the future.
Americans can order more free COVID-19 tests online for home delivery.
NewsGuard, which ranks news sites to counter what it deems misinformation, including stories that question COVID-19 vaccine safety and efficacy, received significant funding from a firm that represents some of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies.
Germany's highest court on Wednesday annulled a government decision to repurpose 60 billion euros ($65 billion) originally meant to cushion the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic for measures to help combat climate change and modernize the country. The ruling created a significant new problem for Chancellor Olaf Scholz's quarrelsome coalition.
The federal landlord agency says it can deliver a "telework dividend" and slash government's office space by as much as 30% over the coming years, saving billions of dollars a year, but it will take an initial investment from Congress to get it done.
More than 1 million international students attended U.S. universities last year, the most since 2019-20, as surging numbers of graduate students from India helped end a pandemic-era slump in foreign enrollment.
The length of time that women outlive men in the U.S. has grown by a year due to rising deaths from COVID-19 and drug overdoses, a new study has found.
Republican Rep. Brad Wenstrup, who leads the House GOP's investigation of the origins of COVID-19, says he won't seek reelection next year.
A very smart 15-year-old said amid the coronavirus lockdowns in America that face masking is like a small child hiding beneath a blanket as protection against a monster in the closet. In other words: Good luck with that. And yet this, from MSN : "Bay Area reinstates COVID mask orders in healthcare settings."
The rate of infants dying stillborn in the uterus fell by 5% last year after holding steady during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new federal data.
The state of Tennessee has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle a federal lawsuit by its former vaccine leader over her firing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Recent research shows that face masks reduce public transmission of COVID-19 and suggests widespread indoor masking during pandemics caused by airborne viruses, a new study says.
The former top aide to ex-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday painted a picture of widespread chaos and dysfunction in the U.K. government during the coronavirus pandemic.
The COVID-19 treatments millions of Americans have taken for free from the federal government will enter the private market next week with a hefty price tag.
A month after federal officials recommended new versions of COVID-19 vaccines, 7% of U.S. adults and 2% of children have gotten a shot.
A federal grand jury has indicted a West Virginia state health office manager on charges that he approved more than $34 million in coronavirus pandemic relief payments to a private firm without verifying that the vendor provided goods and services it was under contract to deliver.
An inspector general has opened an investigation into telework policies that have turned some government offices into ghost towns, raising big questions about how agencies deliver services.
President Biden's pick to lead the National Institutes of Health pledged Wednesday to restore trust in the research agency by highlighting the "doctor-patient relationship" after a pandemic marked by government directives and to cooperate with Congress on efforts to explore the origins of COVID-19.
Threads' ban on health-related search items will be repealed soon, according to company management.
Shares of Pfizer are in retreat on the first day of trading after the drug company said sales of its COVID-19 vaccine and its coronavirus treatment are weaker than it had expected and cut revenue projections by $9 billion for the year.
The House panel investigating the coronavirus announced Friday it has served a subpoena on the National Institutes of Health to get records that could show a "coverup" intended to protect Dr. Anthony Fauci from scrutiny as he shaped the country's response to the pandemic.
The government is pleading for Americans to get another COVID-19 shot this fall, but President Biden's messaging has shifted.
The Labor Department's pandemic relief "first week" unemployment benefits program has been shut down for two years, but the department is hoarding nearly $5 billion in allocations.
Less than half of all adolescents with clinical depression during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic received mental health treatment as lockdowns kept them home, a study has found.
A $40 million investment will help several African manufacturers produce new messenger RNA vaccines on the continent where people were last in line to receive jabs during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Monday.
As soon as the federal pandemic relief started arriving at America's schools, so did the relentless calls.
Massachusetts doctors are experiencing burnout at higher rates since COVID-19 overwhelmed their medical practices and hospitals, new research has found.
U.S. regulators on Tuesday authorized another option for fall COVID-19 vaccination, updated shots made by Novavax.
It's the end of an era for a once-critical pandemic document: The ubiquitous white COVID-19 vaccination cards are being phased out.
California has repealed a misinformation law that restricted the advice doctors could give patients about COVID-19, bowing to mounting legal pressure.
The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded Monday to two scientists whose work led to the mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
The Nobel Prize committee said Monday it will honor two scientists whose findings laid the groundwork for messenger-RNA vaccines that were used to fight COVID-19.
Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
The Biden administration has filed federal lawsuits against two employers that denied religious accommodation to workers seeking an exemption from COVID-19 vaccine requirements.
Updated COVID-19 vaccines may be getting a little easier for adults to find but they're still frustratingly scarce for young children. Health officials said Thursday the kid shots have started shipping - and reminded most everyone to get a fall flu shot too.
The administration is now detaining 35,000 illegal immigrants, the most since President Biden took office, according to new data released Tuesday that shows Homeland Security increasingly turning to Trump-style get-tough measures to respond to the record border surge.
About 18 million U.S. adults and 1 million children have had long COVID, with middle-aged Hispanic women in rural areas the most likely to be infected, new federal data shows.
President Biden received his updated COVID-19 shot out of public view because he has a busy schedule and they wanted to get it done, the White House said Monday.
Literacy experts say it's time for parents to get kids reading again as they catch up from two years of pandemic-related learning losses.
President Joe Biden has gotten the updated COVID-19 vaccine and annual flu shot, the White House said Saturday.
Some people seeking the newest COVID-19 vaccine are running into high demand, insurance headaches and supply delays coast to coast.
The Biden administration says it is relaunching a website that allows people to order free COVID-19 tests and have them shipped to their homes.
A new coronavirus study from Estonia involving a pool of 329,496 adults found -- in the words of one researcher -- "natural immunity offers stronger and longer-lasting protection against infection, symptoms and hospitalization" than COVID shots. Umm. Du'oh. No duh. We've known that for some time.
An autumn chill always precedes the annual period of cold-weather maladies.
Democracy depends on transparency. But as we look back at the coronavirus pandemic, Americans remain in the dark about what went on behind the scenes in the early days of the COVID-19 panic.
