Biden to Require Federal Workers to Be Vaccinated or Take Regular Tests
President Joe Biden will formally announce on Thursday that all civilian federal employees must be vaccinated against the coronavirus or be forced to submit to regular testing, social distancing, mask requirements and restrictions on most travel, two people familiar with the president’s plans said Wednesday.
Is Biden overlooking ‘bureau of prisons’ as reform target?
China sends new ambassador to US amid strained ties
Monsanto told to pay teachers $185M over chemical exposure
Three schoolteachers in Washington state who sued the chemical company, Monsanto, overexposure to materials in fluorescent lights have been awarded $185 million. The law firm that represented the teachers, Friedman Rubin, said a jury returned the verdict Tuesday in King County Superior Court.
Infrastructure deal: Senate suddenly acts to take up bill
CDC mask guidance met with hostility by leading Republicans
Statue of black hero on Lewis and Clark trip toppled in Oregon
Huge quake of magnitude 8.2 on Alaska Peninsula triggers tsunami alert
Ron Popeil, inventor and king of TV pitchmen, dies at 86
Biden to launch vaccine push for millions of federal workers
Republican leader slams CDC for new mask mandate, says it’s based on data from India
A top Republican leader has slammed the ruling Democratic party and the Center for Disease Prevention and Control for reimposing a mask mandate for vaccinated people in certain circumstances, alleging that the latest regulation is based on data from India. Congressman Kevin McCarthy, house minority leader, was speaking against a bill that proposed to reinstitute …
Top US diplomat visits Kuwait to boost ties with key ally
Covid-19 rates a worry as 1 million head for Iowa State Fair
New York to require state employees to get vaccines, or get tested
New York will require all state employees to get vaccinated against the coronavirus by Labor Day or undergo weekly tests for Covid-19, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday. “It’s smart, it’s fair and it’s in everyone’s interest,” Cuomo said in a Zoom call with the nonprofit Association for a Better New York.
Trump, children cannot arbitrate marketing scam case: US appeals court
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Biden meets with Belarusian opposition leader Tsikhanouskaya
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Biden condemns anti-Semitism after swastika found at State Department
US President Joe Biden spoke out against anti-Semitism after officials said that a swastika had been found carved into the wall of a US State Department elevator.
California, Nevada governors to tour site of huge wildfire
Racism of rioters takes center stage in January 6 hearing
New CDC guidelines set off rush to reimpose mask mandates
Governments and businesses are scrambling to change course following new federal guidance calling for the return of mask wearing in virus hot spots amid a dramatic spike in Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations.
Senators reach deal on major points of US infrastructure bill
Biden backs embattled democracy movement in Belarus
President Joe Biden spoke out for embattled pro-democracy forces in Belarus on Wednesday in a White House meeting with that country’s main opposition leader.
Tempers flare in US Congress as Covid-19 mask mandates return
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Biden’s ‘summer of joy’ turns grim as Covid cases in US skyrocket
Taliban taking over Afghanistan will make it a ‘pariah state’, warns US secretary of state
If the Taliban took Afghanistan by force and abused the rights of the people, they would make the country a “pariah state” and no international recognition or support would be forthcoming, US secretary of state Antony Blinken said here on Wednesday, in the strongest warning yet to the extremist group amid mounting atrocities and continuing …
Google requires employee vaccinations, pushes back reopening
Google on Wednesday slowed its plan to get campuses back up and running, and said workers returning to offices will need to be vaccinated against Covid-19.