A panel of scientists affiliated with the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a report that they cannot draw a definite conclusion about COVID-19's origins.
A large-scale study analyzing national data in the Czech Republic has found lower rates of successful conceptions (live births) among women vaccinated against COVID-19 compared to their unvaccinated peers.
North Korea continues to impose harsh civil rights restrictions more than two years after the global COVID-19 emergency officially ended, according to a senior U.N. human rights official. The regime under dictator Kim Jong-un maintains post-pandemic lockdown measures that further isolate and control the population, despite international pressure and growing evidence of widespread human rights abuses.
President Donald Trump has issued a pardon for former Army Lt. Mark Bashaw, who faced a court-martial and a criminal conviction after refusing to comply with Biden-era Covid mandates. Bashaw’s refusal to take the Covid-19 vaccine, wear a mask indoors, or submit to routine testing led to his prosecution under the military’s strict vaccine requirements implemented by then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in 2021. Bashaw, the first service member to stand trial over the rules, was convicted in 2022 but avoided jail time.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) pulled its recommendation that healthy children and pregnant women receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
Portland’s flagship luxury high-rise, the $600 million Ritz-Carlton tower, may soon change hands as its developers prepare to surrender the property to their lender. Struggling with the economic aftershocks of COVID-19 and years of downtown unrest, the 35-story tower—Block 216—has failed to reach profitability.
