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UPDATE 12/25: BTS members RM and Jin have also tested positive for Covid-19, with their diagnosis coming less than 24 hours after it was revealed that BTS’ Suga was infected. The K-pop superstars’ Big Hit Music management announced Christmas morning that both RM and Jin tested positive Saturday; both received …

Documents and interview transcripts released by a congressional committee shine additional light on how the Trump administration interfered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, undermining the agency’s efforts to communicate the seriousness of the pandemic to the American people as the virus began to spread throughout the country. …

UPDATE (9/9): Korn guitarist James “Munky” Shaffer has tested positive for Covid-19, but the band does not plan on postponing any of their upcoming gigs. “Unfortunately, Munky has tested positive for Covid,” Korn said in a statement. “He is doing OK, but he will not be playing some of our …

Not satisfied with banning mask mandates and undeterred by catching Covid-19 himself, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed an executive order on Wednesday banning local governments from imposing vaccine mandates. The order comes as Covid cases and hospitalizations continue to skyrocket across Texas. One of the new cases belonged to Abbott. …

The White House has released a new video of Olivia Rodrigo reading tweets about the Covid-19 vaccine with Dr. Anthony Fauci. The video featured plenty of goofy wordplay, like one tweet that referred to the vaccine as the “Fauci Ouchie,” and another one that read: “Olivia RodriGo to the vaccine …

This story was originally published by Searchlight New Mexico and is posted here as part of an ongoing collaboration with Rolling Stone. The story was produced with support from the Doris O’Donnell Innovations in Investigative Journalism Fellowship, awarded by the Center for Media Innovation at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, …

Following weeks of speculation, the International Olympic Committee and the Japanese government announced Saturday that spectators traveling from overseas would be barred from attending the Tokyo Olympics, currently scheduled to begin July 23rd. “Currently, the COVID-19 situation in Japan and many other countries around the world is still very challenging …

& nbsp; According to most standards, Harkirat Anand did everything right. He went to one of the best schools in the country, Washington University in St. Louis. He focused on STEM fields, double-majoring in economics and math. And when he finished his internship with a major telecommunications firm during his …

Sara Nelson believes in solidarity: When she speaks, she talks about collectivity, of worker power, of bread and roses. As the head of the Association of Flight Attendants – CWA, Nelson, who started working as a flight attendant for United Airlines in 1996, can wield strength in numbers — the …

Epidemiologist Michael Osterholm issued dire warnings about the potential spread of the new, more contagious Covid-19 variants, saying that they could produce a surge of cases in the United States to levels “we have not seen yet in this country.” Dr. Osterholm, who is director of the Center for Infectious …