WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says Justice Brett Kavanaugh has tested positive for COVID-19. The high court said in a press release this morning that Kavanaugh has no symptoms and has been fully vaccinated since January. Kavanaugh and all the other justices had a routine coronavirus ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Drugmaker Merck said this morning that its experimental COVID-19 pill reduced hospitalizations and deaths by half in people recently infected with the coronavirus and that it would soon ask health officials in the U.S. and around the world to authorize its use. If ...
September likely will have more COVID-19 cases reported than all but three months in Ohio since the start of the pandemic. Also, with today not included, September had more cases than May, June, July and August combined. The state started seeing a spike in cases in mid-July, largely caused ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy expanded at a 6.7 percent annual pace from April through June, the Commerce Department said this morning, slightly upgrading its estimate of last quarter's growth in the face of a resurgence of COVID-19 in the form of the delta variant. The government's estimate of growth in the second quarter — its last of three — was up from its previous estimate of a 6.6 percent annual pace that will likely mark a high point for the economy's expansion this year as the virus slows some activity, government support programs wind down and manufacturing ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose for the third straight week, a sign that the highly contagious delta variant may be slowing a recovery in the job market. Claims rose unexpectedly by 11,000 last week to 362,000, the Labor Department said ...
A survey of Americans on President Joe Biden's plan to require most workers to get either vaccinated or regularly tested for COVID-19 finds a deep and familiar divide: Democrats are overwhelmingly for it, while most Republicans are against it. With the highly contagious delta variant driving ...
