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“The data is clear: If you are unvaccinated, you’re at risk of getting seriously ill or dying or spreading it,” Biden said from the White House.

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New Jersey met its goal of fully vaccinating more than 4.7 million people two weeks early, Gov. Phil Murphy said Friday.

Covid-19 variant delta, first identified in India, is becoming the dominant variant of the disease worldwide, the WHO’s chief scientist said Friday.

A Supreme Court decision siding with a religious adoption agency in a case about LGBTQ rights comes against a bigger cultural war playing out in the states.

Dr. Scott Gottlieb warned about the potential long-term effects of Covid and pointed to a new study that suggests brain tissue is being destroyed.

U.S. stock futures fell sharply Friday as the Dow looked to be set up for its first five-session losing streak since January.

Ireland, known for its low tax rates, wants a compromise over global taxation, the country’s finance minister told CNBC.

In December, the Trump administration slapped sanctions on Turkey for buying the S-400 missile system, a move typically not seen among NATO allies.

The U.S. Embassy in Kabul was placed on lockdown Thursday as Covid cases surge in Afghanistan.

Wells Fargo Securities’ Michael Schumacher expects Covid-19 vaccines to accelerate economic activity and push yields higher in 2021.

Federal health officials keep pushing for more Americans to get vaccinated as the delta variant accounts for a bigger share of new cases in the United States.

About 65% of U.S. adults are at least partially vaccinated. Roughly 13.6 million would have to get their first shot over the next 18 days to meet Biden’s goal.

Juneteenth National Independence Day is the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis castigated the Biden administration for what he called “a disaster and an emergency” at the nation’s border with Mexico and said Wednesday that he would send law enforcement to Texas and Arizona, whose Republican governors have appealed to other states for help.

The U.S. is investing $3.2 billion to advance the development of antiviral pills to treat Covid-19 and other viruses that have pandemic potential.

The Supreme Court ruled against Texas and other Republican-led states seeking to strike down the Affordable Care Act in its latest high court test.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that Philadelphia violated the First Amendment by refusing to contract with Catholic Social Services.

The first tropical system of the Atlantic hurricane season is forecast to make landfall in the U.S. this week, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Congress is moving to rein in presidential war powers nearly a decade after the Iraq War ended.