May

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Feb. 25 it is no longer requiring students and others on school buses to wear masks, but is keeping the mask mandate for all other forms of public transportation in place.

Scientists worry self-spreading vaccines could be hijacked to make biological weapons.

A small group of conservative religious colleges is defying the national trend of declining enrollment in higher education and crediting their missions, as well as their handling of COVID-19, for the bump.

Supreme Court Justice nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson and former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin, are related by marriage.

Biden nominated federal Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to fill the seat soon to be vacated by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.

Chinese media accidentally shows leaked censorship instructions to say nothing critical of Russia during the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

Russia's leader says Moscow seeks "demilitarization and denazification" of Ukraine, tells Ukrainian army to lay down weapons, warns of response to foreign intervention.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published new data that shows COVID cases and hospitalization rates have jumped among the vaccinated.

Within the next couple of months it is likely that there will be direct US military involvement in Ukraine, with Russia now openly supporting and recognizing separatist groups in the Donbass region on the eastern edge of the country and apparently moving to aid them militarily in separation.

Biden administration imposes second effort in year to divert border agents overseas. Last year, it was for Afghanistan.