The odds of a vaccinated person getting sick with COVID-19 have changed since the more transmissible Delta variant came to dominate the U.S. pandemic, but probably not as much as you think, David Leonhardt writes in Tuesday's New York Times. In July, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported...

“This is not a ‘What happens in Texas stays in Texas’ situation,” said NARAL’s Kristin Ford. Texas’ six-week abortion ban is one of the most — if not the most — draconian and unprecedented anti-abortion bills to ever become law. It seemed almost unfathomable that it could be enacted, and yet at midnight...

The Asian population in the U.S. grew by 35.5 percent over the past 10 years. The Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities continue to grow steadily, the 2020 census data showed.  The data, released Thursday, revealed almost 20 million people identified as "Asian," and another 4 million checked boxes as...

Government officials and health experts are leaning on the private sector to lead the U.S. out of a coronavirus surge caused by the highly infectious Delta variant. The reason lies largely in the fact that the federal government won't issue a blanket mask or vaccine mandate, and some states are actively...

“I hope to live a long time. I have a lot of things I want to do and experience with my wife and my friends and my family,” H. Scott Apley wrote last month. A Texas Republican leader who was hospitalized earlier this week with COVID-19 has died just days after he posted...

The nation’s highest congressional honor will be given to the U.S. Capitol Police and D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department. President Joe Biden signed a bill Thursday to award Congressional Gold Medals to police departments that responded to the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Gold Medal, the nation’s highest congressional honor, will...

A 24-year-old Georgia man who contracted COVID-19 and required a double lung transplant, and who remains hospitalized, has expressed his regret he did not get vaccinated for the virus, which has so far killed more than 607,000 Americans.  Blake Bargatze had told his parents he was putting off receiving a COVID-19...