Friday

Authorities have at times failed to distinguish between hospitalizations “with” the virus and due to it.

U.S. stocks edged lower on Thursday on worries about the raging conflict in Ukraine and the outlook for U.S. interest rate hikes, putting the main indexes on course for their worst quarter since the pandemic crash in 2020.

VAERS data released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention included a total of 1,205,755 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 26,396 deaths and 214,521 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020, and March 25, 2022.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) reportedly told a group of homeless people in Los Angeles to “go home.”

The Pentagon has announced $300 million in additional aid to Ukraine.

Support for President Joe Biden Biden’s porous southern border policies is crumbling within his own party.

Skippy Foods issued a voluntary recall of its peanut butter jars on Wednesday. 

America's employers extended a streak of robust hiring in March, adding 431,000 jobs in a sign of the economy's resilience in the face of a still-destructive pandemic and the highest inflation in 40 years.

China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday triumphantly announced the deployment of intimidating robot arms to perform throat swab coronavirus tests “with reasonable sampling accuracy and efficiency.”

Pope Francis apologized and begged forgiveness Friday for the “deplorable” abuses suffered by Indigenous Peoples in Canada’s residential schools, saying he was ashamed and indignant at all they had endured at the hands of Catholic educators.