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Comedian Heather McDonald collapsed shortly after bragging about how many shots she'd received.

Democrats still run the Senate but have lost their ability to muscle bills and nominations through the chamber by themselves.

U.S. COVID deaths top 900,000 in the highly vaccinated country.

A Virginia mother delivered a rousing speech where she blasted her child's school board over its mask mandate that she deemed to be "blatant political theater."

Sweden and Switzerland joined Denmark, Norway, Finland, Ireland, The Netherlands, Italy, Lithuania, France and the UK in announcing they will lift COVID restrictions and open up their countries.

New COVID cases are plunging in the United States.

Colleges and universities are struggling to keep up with the demand for mental health services, as college students seek mental health therapy on campus in droves, part of a 15-year upswing that spiked during the pandemic.

Lockdowns in the U.S. and Europe had little or no impact in reducing deaths from COVID-19, according to a new analysis by researchers at Johns Hopkins University.

Days prior to today’s scheduled release of documents related to the Pfizer COVID vaccine, the pharmaceutical company asked a federal court to let it intervene before any information is released. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it agreed with the drugmaker’s request.

Coronavirus case numbers decline just days after scrapping mask rules.