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Articles by Tom Howell Jr.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine an update on the ongoing Federal response to COVID-19, Thursday, June 16, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

CDC signs off on reformulated COVID-19 booster

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention endorsed Thursday the reformulated COVID-19 booster shots authorized by U.S. regulators one day prior, clearing the way for people to seek another shot before a potential winter surge.

September 1, 2022
New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks during a news conference about upcoming “Gun Free Zone" implementation at Times Square, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Guns are off-limits in ‘sensitive zone’ of Times Square, new signs warn

Visitors to New York City will see signs in Times Square advertising it as a "sensitive location" where people cannot carry guns, Mayor Eric Adams said Wednesday as Democrats manage the fallout from a Supreme Court decision that said blue states went too far in restricting concealed carry.

August 31, 2022
A pharmacist injects a patient with a booster dosage of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in Lawrence, Mass., on Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2021. U.S. regulators have authorized updated COVID-19 boosters, the first to directly target today's most common omicron strain. The move on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2022, by the Food and Drug Administration tweaks the recipe of shots made by Pfizer and rival Moderna that already have saved millions of lives. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) **FILE**

FDA clears COVID-19 boosters targeting fast-moving variants

The Food and Drug Administration authorized reformulated COVID-19 boosters Wednesday that target omicron variants alongside the original strain discovered in China, clearing the way for another shots-in-arms campaign to launch by next week.

August 31, 2022
Former President Donald Trump departs Trump Tower, Aug. 10, 2022, in New York, on his way to the New York attorney general's office for a deposition in civil investigation. A newly released FBI document helps flesh out the contours of an investigation into classified documents at Trump’s Florida estate. But plenty of questions remain, especially since half the document was blacked out. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)

Trump hires DeSantis adviser Chris Kise for defense in FBI raid case

Former President Donald Trump has enlisted Chris Kise, a former Florida solicitor general who served on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's transition team, to serve on his legal team as the Department of Justice investigates why sensitive government documents were stored at the ex-president's Mar-a-Lago estate.

August 31, 2022