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A woman receives a COVID-19 vaccination at a mobile clinic in Los Angeles' Chinatown. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Confidence grows that COVID-19 vaccines hold their own against variants

Confidence is growing that COVID-19 vaccines authorized for use in the U.S. are holding their own against the coronavirus variants now in circulation. “Everything we’ve seen with the … more

Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times (TNS) | 5/13/21

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the lives lost to COVID-19 in the Cross Hall of the White House with First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, in the White House, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. (Doug Mills/Pool/Sipa USA/TNS)

Biden rides high in polls as Americans back his handling of pandemic

President Joe Biden is riding a wave of approval as Americans overwhelmingly back his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, a new AP-NORC poll revealed Monday. As he nears four months in the White … more

Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News (TNS) | 5/13/21

In a Bankrate survey of economists, most expect Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to be reappointed in 2022. (Mark Makela/Getty ImagesTNS)

Powell dashboard shows wider disparities as job growth slows

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says he wants to see a recovery that reaches all corners of the labor market before the U.S. central bank begins raising interest rates. The numbers in … more

Matthew Boesler, Bloomberg News (TNS) | 5/13/21

Gasoline tankers pass by the Colonial Pipeline storage tanks in Austell, Georgia on Monday, May 10, 2021 as they enter the Marathon Powder Springs Terminal. The largest pipeline in America returned to service, recovering from a cyberattack late Friday that raised pump prices and choked fuel supplies across the eastern U.S. (John Spink/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS)

Colonial Pipeline restarts 5 days after after cyberattack

The largest gasoline pipeline in the U.S. is returning to service, recovering from a cyberattack late Friday that sent pump prices surging and triggered shortages across the Eastern U.S. The … more

Jill R. Shah and Sheela Tobben, Bloomberg News (TNS) | 5/12/21

Doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine arrived at Rady Children's Hospital on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020 in San Diego. The FDA on Monday expanded the shot’s original emergency use authorization to include adolescents 12 through 15 years of age. (K.C. Alfred/The San Diego Union-Tribune/TNS)

CDC panel recommends Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children as young as 12

Children as young as 12 should receive the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine to protect them from COVID-19 and help end the pandemic, a panel of advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and … more

Emily Baumgaertner, Los Angeles Times (TNS) | 5/12/21

Wade Gibbs shops at the Mercado Popular pop-up neighborhood farm store and pop-up Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021, in Hartford, Connecticut. (Kassi Jackson/Hartford Courant/TNS)

Inflation brews for US producers while services wages pick up

Inflation continues to brew in America’s industrial heartland as growing materials shortages cascade into record-long delivery times and leave manufacturers struggling to keep pace with an … more

Reade Pickert and Vince Golle, Bloomberg News (TNS) | 5/12/21

Palestinians carry the body of Hussein Hamad, 11, who was killed after the Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip during his funeral in Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, May 11, 2021. (Mohammed Talatene/DPA via ZUMA Press/TNS)

Biden struggles to respond to Jerusalem clashes after Trump refused to criticize Israel

After four years of former President Donald Trump’s refusal to condemn or even mildly critique any Israeli act, the Biden administration faces soaring Israeli-Palestinian … more

Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times (TNS) | 5/12/21

Smoke billows from Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, on May 11, 2021. Israel and Hamas exchanged heavy fire, in a dramatic escalation between the bitter foes sparked by unrest at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. (Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

In slide toward all-out combat, Israel and Gaza militants trade blows, bombardment

Intensifying violence in Israel and the Gaza Strip threatened Tuesday to tip into outright warfare as punishing Israeli airstrikes battered the Palestinian enclave and Israel … more

Dina Kraft and Laura King, Los Angeles Times (TNS) | 5/11/21

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) attends a Senate Rules Committee markup on S-1, an election and ethics reform package, on Tuesday, May 11, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/TNS)

Senate panel deadlocks on Democratic elections overhaul bill

A Senate panel deadlocked on a Democratic bill to set federal standards on voting access, with Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell leading a day-long effort to thwart legislation he … more

Jarrell Dillard, Bloomberg News (TNS) | 5/11/21

Republican Conference Chairwoman Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wy., speaks during a press conference with House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Republican Whip Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., at the U.S. Capitol on December 17, 2019, in Washington, D.C. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images/TNS)

Liz Cheney says Trump and supporters ‘at war with Constitution’

Republican Rep. Liz Cheney said former President Donald Trump and his loyalists are undermining democracy and risk inciting more violence by persisting in their false claim of a … more

Billy House, Bloomberg News (TNS) | 5/11/21

Gasoline tankers pass by the Colonial Pipeline storage tanks in Austell, Georgia, on Monday, May 10, 2021. (John Spink/ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS)

Hackers find easy prey as US ignores one warning after another

The ransomware attack that shut down the nation’s biggest fuel pipeline prompted an all-too familiar question in the corridors of power in Washington and boardrooms across the country: Can … more

Alyza Sebenius, Jennifer A. Dlouhy and Brody Ford, Bloomberg News (TNS) | 5/11/21

A pedestrian walks by a now hiring sign at Ross Dress For Less store on April 02, 2021, in San Rafael, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/TNS)

Job openings in US surge to a record high 8.12 million

U.S. job openings surged in March to a record high, underscoring the rapid increase in labor demand as vaccinations accelerate and states reopen their economies. The number of available positions … more

Olivia Rockeman, Bloomberg News (TNS) | 5/11/21

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks during a hearing before the Senate Rules and Administration Committee at the Russell Senate Office Building on March 24, 2021, in Washington, D.C. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/TNS)

Ahead of first Biden-McConnell meeting, a long history with low expectations

President Joe Biden insists he can work from a clean slate with Mitch McConnell when they convene for their highly anticipated White House meeting on Wednesday and that a … more

David Catanese and Francesca Chambers, McClatchy Washington Bureau (TNS) | 5/11/21

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a press conference after the Democrats' weekly policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, May 11, 2021. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

Schumer, McConnell face off over elections overhaul bill

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and GOP leader Mitch McConnell made rare appearances at a committee hearing Tuesday to lead their parties’ battle over sweeping … more

Jarrell Dillard, Bloomberg News (TNS) | 5/11/21

Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, speaks during CPAC at the Hyatt Regency in Orlando, Fla., on Feb. 28, 2021. (Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel/TNS)

Judge rejects NRA’s Texas bankruptcy bid as attempt to avoid NY attorney general oversight

NEW YORK — A judge rejected the National Rifle Association’s bid Tuesday to file for bankruptcy in Texas, ruling that the audacious move was an attempt to avoid the oversight of New York … more

Stephen Rex Brown, New York Daily News (TNS) | 5/11/21

Gotcha! Dvorin examines his captives under the microscope. On Friday, he decreed that his 24-hour sample had determined tree pollen was high. (Jessica Griffin/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS)

As pollen torments millions, it might be getting worse, and it’s poorly measured in America

He found masses of pollen as thick as “oatmeal,” and once discovered that grains from palm trees had ridden the winds for hundreds of miles to reach his front porch. more

Anthony R. Wood, The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS) | 5/10/21

Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 shot cleared for adolescents in US

WASHINGTON — Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE’s COVID-19 vaccine was cleared for use in children age 12 to 15 in the U.S., paving the way for the mass vaccination of middle- and high-school … more

Riley Griffin and Robert Langreth, Bloomberg News (TNS) | 5/10/21

Jon Ossoff holds a campaign event at Grant Park on Friday, Nov. 6, 2020, in Atlanta. (Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Ossoff introduces bill to roll back Georgia law on giving voters water

Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff introduced a bill Monday to prohibit states like Georgia from banning volunteers from distributing food and water to voters waiting in line. more

Mark Niesse, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (TNS) | 5/10/21

Gas delivery was disrupted starting late Friday due to a cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline. (Nelvin C. Cepeda/The San Diego Union-Tribune/TNS)

Biden says Russia has ‘some responsibility’ in Colonial pipeline attack

President Joe Biden said Russia has “some responsibility” to address a ransomware attack that crippled the Colonial fuel pipeline and that he’ll seek global … more

Josh Wingrove and Jennifer Epstein, Bloomberg News (TNS) | 5/10/21

Gasoline delivery was disrupted starting May 7, 2021, due to a cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline. As of May 8, gas prices had not surged as a result of the ransomware attack. (Nelvin C. Cepeda/San Diego Union-Tribune/TNS)

Pipeline hack may push US pump prices to $3 ahead of holiday

U.S. gasoline prices may surge to their highest level since 2014 even faster than previously expected as a cyberattack disrupts operations on the nation’s biggest oil fuel pipeline. The … more

Jeffrey Bair, Bloomberg News (TNS) | 5/10/21

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