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The Senate on Thursday passed the annual defense authorization bill, sending the $858 billion measure to President Biden’s desk for signature just before the year-end deadline. The measure, formally known as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), passed with an overwhelming bipartisan majority, 83-11.  It provides $45 billion more for defense than called for in […]

The man hasn’t been detained but is under investigation for unauthorized issuance of vaccination cards and document forgery.

The DOE notified the teachers around Tuesday they would be placed on unpaid leave with benefits beginning Monday, per the union.

LONDON (AP) — As the World Health Organization’s emergency committee convened Thursday to consider for the second time within weeks whether to declare monkeypox a global crisis, some scientists said the striking differences between the outbreaks in Africa and in developed countries will complicate any coordinated response. African officials say they are already treating the […]

The number of monkeypox cases identified in the U.S. have doubled in the past week to 20, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says the risk to the public remains low and the strain causing these cases is believed to be a less severe version of the disease.

NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, submitted her resignation Friday, saying the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic was a good time to make a transition. Walensky’s last day will be June 30, CDC officials said, and an interim director wasn’t immediately named. She sent […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A new Mississippi law bans government offices and schools from discriminating against citizens who have not received a COVID-19 vaccine, the governor’s office says. Governor Tate Reeves announced the signing of House Bill 1509 Friday. The law means Mississippi public and private schools, from kindergarten through college, cannot require students to receive […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Second COVID-19 booster shots will soon be available at Mississippi health departments. The Mississippi State Department of Health says starting Monday, April 18, appointments of second booster shots will be available through county health departments. The state health department says you’re eligible to receive a second booster of the Pfizer or Moderna […]

The U.S. has a new dominant COVID strain, according to the CDC.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is lifting its requirement that international air travelers to the U.S. take a COVID-19 test within a day before boarding their flights, easing one of the last remaining government mandates meant to contain the spread of the coronavirus. A senior administration official said the mandate expires Sunday at 12:01 a.m. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden tested negative for COVID-19 on Monday and will return to Washington on Tuesday, nearly a week after she came down with a “rebound” case of the coronavirus. Her communications director, Elizabeth Alexander, announced the negative test in a statement Monday night. Jill Biden had been isolating at her […]