(Headline USA) Joe Biden said Thursday that he will ask Americans to commit to 100 days of wearing masks as one of his first acts if he becomes president, stopping just short of the nationwide mandate he's pushed before to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
The move marks a notable...
Law professors say that American companies may have the power to demand that their employees receive a COVID-19 vaccine before returning to work, Reuters reported.
"Companies have every good reason to get all of their employees vaccinated and also have an obligation to keep all employees and customers safe," said...
The Democrat mayor of Austin, Texas urged city residents not to leave their homes --- blaming a coronavirus "surge" --- during the holiday season, while at his luxury timeshare in Cabo, Mexico.
In early November, Mayor Steve Adler posted a video saying, “We need to stay home if you can....
The White House Coronavirus Task Force warned Americans this week that they should assume they caught the coronavirus over Thanksgiving and that they are now “dangerous to others.”
In a report distributed to state leaders, but not released publicly, the task force urged state governments to crack down on coronavirus...
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced this week that the city is re-entering a total lockdown because of a coronavirus "surge," discouraging residents from leaving their homes unless it is absolutely essential.
"My message couldn't be simpler. It's time to hunker down. It's time to cancel everything. And if it...
(Associated Press) City officials in San Francisco have banned all tobacco smoking inside apartments, citing concerns about secondhand smoke.
But lighting up a joint inside?
That’s still allowed.
The Board of Supervisors voted 10-1 Tuesday to approve the ordinance making San Francisco the largest city in the country to ban tobacco smoking inside...
(Headline USA) Dr. Scott Atlas, a medical adviser to President Donald Trump who was skeptical of some measures to control the coronavirus outbreak, is leaving his White House post.
A White House official confirmed that the Stanford University neuroradiologist resigned at the end of his temporary government assignment.
Atlas confirmed the news...
(Headline Health) Colorado's Democrat Gov. Jared Polis has tested positive for the coronavirus.
Polis and his male partner, Marlon Reis, both have COVID-19 and are asymptomatic, the governor said in a statement Saturday night.
Polis had started quarantining Wednesday after he said he was exposed to the virus. Polis had tweeted...
(Headline USA) Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden fractured his foot while playing with one of his dogs, according to his doctor.
Biden suffered the injury on Saturday and visited an orthopedist at Delaware Orthopaedic Specialists in Newark, Delaware, for an examination Sunday afternoon, his office said.
A subsequent CT scan "confirmed hairline...
(Headline USA) Los Angeles County announced a new house-arrest order Friday, banning most gatherings but stopping short of a full shutdown on retail stores and other businesses.
It bans people from gathering with others who aren't in their households, whether publicly or privately.
The three-week order takes effect Monday. It came...
Officials in Columbia, South Carolina, handed out more than 125 citations in three days to residents not wearing masks.
This “no tolerance” blitz was more than double the total number of citations the Columbia Fire Department has handed out since the city passed its mask ordinance in June, according to...
Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan claimed that no one has a “constitutional right to walk around without a mask” while defending his state’s newly adopted mask mandate on Monday.
"It's sort of like saying I have a constitutional right to drive drunk. I have a constitutional right to not wear...