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FDA authorizes Pfizer booster shots for ages 5 to 11

The Food and Drug Administration authorized COVID-19 booster shots Tuesday for children aged 5 to 11, making them the youngest age group to be eligible for extra shots.

May 17, 2022

Pa. Senate GOP primary turns into spending spree for contenders, super PACs

Candidates and political action committees have spent more than $55 million on television and radio ads ahead of Tuesday's Pennsylvania Senate GOP primary, meaning it could be one of the most expensive races in this year's cycle, according to CNBC.

May 17, 2022

Mayor Eric Adams urges New Yorkers to don COVID masks again

New York City Mayor Eric Adams wore a mask at an official event on Monday as city officials formally urged people to bring back face coverings due to the high transmission of COVID-19.

May 17, 2022

North Korea stiffarms South’s offer of aid as COVID crisis mounts

North Korea ignored South Korea's offer of COVID-19 aid for a second day on Tuesday as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un decides how to combat surging "fevers" in his nation of 26 million while preserving his power base at home.

May 17, 2022

White House: Americans can order eight more COVID-19 tests for free

The Biden administration on Tuesday said Americans can visit COVIDTests.gov to order eight additional at-home tests for the coronavirus.

May 17, 2022

Buffalo shooting sparks debate, finger-pointing over ‘great replacement’ theory

The White House said Monday that the racially motivated mass shooting in upstate New York is "another vivid reminder" of the need to prevent hate-driven terrorism, as President Biden prepared to visit Buffalo in the wake of a tragedy that symbolizes his oft-repeated reason for seeking the White House in 2020.

May 16, 2022

Dr. Fauci wouldn’t keep White House post if Trump were reelected

Dr. Anthony Fauci says he wouldn't want to keep his post as chief White House medical adviser if former President Donald Trump won back the presidency in 2024.

May 16, 2022

North Korea reports more COVID-19 deaths; Kim Jong-un blasts officials

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is ordering the military to distribute medicine in Pyongyang and blasting top officials as negligent while the reclusive nation battles a surging outbreak of COVID-19.

May 16, 2022

Belarus stages troops near Ukraine, complicating Kyiv’s strategy, says U.K. intelligence

Belarus has deployed special operation forces along the Ukrainian border, complicating Kyiv's military strategy even though the Eastern European ally of Russia hasn't been directly involved in the conflict, British intelligence officials said Monday.

May 16, 2022

McDonald’s is severing ties with Russia, will sell off restaurants

McDonald's said Monday it will sell off its restaurants in Russia because of the nation's invasion of Ukraine and resulting turmoil, a major exit for a company that became a symbol of western capitalism after the fall of communism in Moscow.

May 16, 2022

Biden unveils regulatory steps aimed at housing shortfall

President Biden announced a plan Monday to increase the supply of housing and combat soaring costs by preserving affordable units and using federal funding to reward states that use their zoning and land-use laws to provide more options.

May 16, 2022

Emotional Jen Psaki bids adieu to press, thanks Bidens

An emotional Jen Psaki thanked President Biden and the press on her last day as chief White House spokeswoman Friday, saying she tried to show "integrity and grace" from the podium.

May 13, 2022

Mayor Eric Adams enjoys celebrity status as man about town but can’t shake NYC’s woes

Mayor Eric Adams wants New Yorkers to know it is safe to go out again.

May 13, 2022

Elon Musk: Less divisive candidate preferable to Trump in 2024, Biden misreading his mandate

Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO and business mogul eyeing a purchase of Twitter, said he thinks a less polarizing challenger should run in 2024 instead of former President Donald Trump.

May 13, 2022

McConnell: Impact of Supreme Court’s anticipated abortion ruling will be a ‘wash’ in midterms

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he thinks the political impact of the revived abortion debate will be "a wash" in the midterm elections and defended Supreme Court rulings that go against the majority view in America.

May 13, 2022

North Korea says fever spreading ‘explosively,’ six dead from COVID-19

The coronavirus has been spreading "explosively" in North Korea since April and killed at least six, state media said Friday in an unusual admission one day after dictator Kim Jong-un donned a mask and warned that a variant had slipped into the country.

May 13, 2022

Russian battalion wiped out in failed river crossing in eastern Ukraine

Ukrainian forces wiped out nearly all the armored vehicles in a Russian battalion that attempted to cross a river in eastern Ukraine, British intelligence officials said Friday.

May 13, 2022

Biden tells global leaders to resist COVID-19 complacency

President Biden told global leaders Thursday to contend with both the coronavirus and complacency by expanding COVID-19 vaccinations and thwarting variants that could disrupt the shift to post-pandemic life, even as he grumbled that lawmakers at home were stymying his own ambitions.

May 12, 2022

Nurses to march on Washington for better pay, working conditions

Hundreds or perhaps thousands of nurses will march through Washington on Thursday to demand workplace protections and better wages.

May 12, 2022

Signs removed from Trump hotel in D.C. after its sale

The Trump International Hotel in the heart of Washington is closed after the Trump Organization sold it to a Miami investor group for $375 million.

May 12, 2022