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WASHINGTON — One day after President Biden announced that he would instruct all states to make every American adult eligible to receive a coronavirus vaccine by May 1, his administration announced several measures to facilitate the ambitious goal, which...

Ever since U.S. COVID-19 cases started their precipitous post-holiday decline, Americans have been anxious about the threat of yet another hurdle on the long road to recovery: a possible “fourth wave” of infections driven by the newer, more contagious...

WASHINGTON — “We all lost something,” President Biden said in his remarks to the nation on Thursday evening marking the one-year anniversary of the start of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States. Seeking unity in sorrow, Biden noted...

Last August, the man who succeeded Joe Biden in the Senate and led his transition team made a statement that troubled many on the left.“When we get in, the pantry is going to be bare,” Ted Kaufman told the...

WASHINGTON — Having students sit 6 feet apart in classrooms, as opposed to 3, offers no greater protection against the coronavirus, according to a major new study, whose findings come as schools across the U.S. struggle to reopen amid...

SEATTLE — Facing the nation’s first widespread coronavirus outbreak, some of Washington state’s top leaders quietly gathered on a Sunday morning last March for an urgent strategy session. The virus had been rampaging through a nursing home in the...

WASHINGTON — People fully vaccinated against the coronavirus finally have guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But that guidance, issued on Monday, seems to have raised as many questions as it answered. Even as that guidance...

BenzingaBig Tech Back Under Pressure From Rising Yields, With Apple, Microsoft, Semis HitA day after the Fed waved the green flag, the Treasury market raised a caution sign for growth stocks. New 14-month highs in the 10-year yield have...

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WASHINGTON — President Biden’s fellow residents in the nation’s capital are getting vaccinated for COVID-19 at a slower rate than almost anywhere else in the country. Out of 59 U.S. states and...