WASHINGTON (AP) — Gliding over significant challenges still to come, President Donald Trump offered a rosy update on the race for a vaccine for the resurgent coronavirus as he delivered his first public remarks since his defeat by President-elect Joe Biden. He still did not concede the election. Trump spoke from the the Rose Garden […]

BOSTON (AP) — Once a coronavirus hot spot, Massachusetts was seen as a model for infection control this summer as coronavirus cases and deaths dwindled. Now, experts are warning the state could be headed for a bleak winter as its cases climb once again and confirmed deaths surpass 10,000. Amid growing calls for action, Republican […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Thursday sounded an alarm about restrictions imposed because of the coronavirus pandemic, saying they shouldn’t become a “recurring feature after the pandemic has passed.” “The pandemic has resulted in previously unimaginable restrictions on individual liberty,” Alito said in an address to the conservative Federalist Society, which […]

WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci is recommending masks at Thanksgiving gatherings if the coronavirus status of people is unknown. The nation’s top infectious disease expert told “CBS This Morning” that “even if it’s a very small group, to the extent possible, keep the mask on.” Fauci says if families have either quarantined or been tested […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — With a COVID-19 vaccine drawing closer, public health officials across the country are gearing up for the biggest vaccination effort in U.S. history — a monumental undertaking that must distribute hundreds of millions of doses, prioritize who’s first in line and ensure that people who get the initial shot return for the necessary […]

CHICAGO (VINnews) — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday issued a new Stay-at-Home Advisory amid a surge in local COVID-19 cases. The advisory will go into effect on Monday at 6:00 AM. The latest guidelines are part of what is being called the “Protect Chicago” strategy, designed to halt the surge in COVID cases in […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — 61-year-old Batya Lebel was stabbed 14 times all over her body by a 20-year-old terrorist in Kfar Saba on Israel’s last Remembrance Day while waiting at a bus stop. Lebel remembers that “he held my head and punched me with a metal item.” When she fell to the floor after losing a […]

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump pulled their children out of a Jewish day school in Washington, D.C., two weeks before Election Day and three weeks after an outbreak of COVID-19 cases in and around the White House. The couple’s three children had attended the Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Brian Contreras represents the worst fears of the lucrative business travel industry. A partner account executive at a U.S. tech firm, Contreras was used to traveling frequently for his company. But nine months into the pandemic, he and thousands of others are working from home and dialing into video conferences instead […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a remarkable display of selective enforcement of public health laws, an Israeli supreme court judge will have no fine and no legal steps taken against him for conducting a large wedding in contravention of health regulations. After a complaint was filed against the judge for his flagrant violation of the law, […]