The Delta variant of the coronavirus is as contagious as chickenpox, probably causes more severe disease, and breakthrough cases in vaccinated individuals may be as transmissible as unvaccinated cases, according to a leaked US government document. The...

As England’s “freedom day” dawned on 19 July, Boris Johnson was grumpily confined to his 16th-century grace-and-favour mansion, humiliated by the row over a bungled quarantine exemption. Cases were at more than 46,000 per day as all legal restrictions...

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol plans to subpoena White House, congressional witnesses to create a detailed timeline.

The chief executive for The New York Times Company announced in an email to employees on Friday that the paper of record would be indefinitely delaying its return to the office, citing the increasing spread of the delta variant and the government's most...

States with the worst Covid outbreaks are those seeing the largest jumps in vaccination rates across the U.S.