NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s troubled jail system is facing more turmoil: the suspension of potentially hundreds of corrections officers for failing to meet a Tuesday night deadline to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The city’s Department of...

The case is associated with travel from one of the countries where the variant has been detected.

The dangers of the Omicron COVID-19 variant are unknown. But many Americans aren't very worried.

The fact is that Afghanistan is a predictable humanitarian disaster, but the arrival of the Taliban is only the first disaster. The second disaster is one caused by the multiple failures of the Biden administration itself.

The omicron variant of Covid-19, first identified in South Africa, has been detected in locations from U.K. to Spain and Canada, showing the difficulties of curtailing new strains.