GENEVA — Four times as many jobs were lost last year due to the coronavirus pandemic as during the worst part of the global financial crisis in 2009, a U.N. report said Monday. The International […]
Merck is giving up on two potential COVID-19 vaccines following poor results in early-stage studies. The drugmaker said Monday that it will focus instead on studying two possible treatments for the virus that also have […]
RALEIGH — A new strain of coronavirus has been found in U.S. samples by a North Carolina lab. Mako Medical Laboratories said in a release that thirteen samples it tested contained the B.1.1.7 variant of […]
GENEVA — A panel of experts commissioned by the World Health Organization has criticized China and other countries for not moving to stem the initial outbreak of the coronavirus earlier and questioned whether the U.N. […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. Richard Burr has been cleared in a months-long investigation into stock sales before the coronavirus pandemic took root in the U.S. A statement from his office said, “Tonight, the Department of […]
RALEIGH — State Rep. Brian Turner (D-Buncombe) and state Sen. Bill Rabon (R-Brunswick) announced separately on Tuesday they each have tested positive for COVID-19. “Today I joined the over 675,000 people in NC who have […]
WILMINGTON, Del. — President-elect Joe Biden has unveiled a $1.9 trillion coronavirus plan to end “a crisis of deep human suffering” by speeding up vaccines and pumping out financial help to those struggling with the […]
BATON ROUGE, La. — The widow of Republican U.S. Rep.-elect Luke Letlow, who died from complications related to COVID-19 before he could take office, declared Thursday that she is entering the race to fill the […]
RALEIGH – Chief Justice Paul Newby made several changes to the judicial branch’s emergency directives on Thursday, ending eight directives last issued by former Chief Justice Cheri Beasley including the prohibition on jury trials. An […]
RALEIGH — A pre-publication release of a study to be published in the Journal of American Pediatrics looks at COVID-19 transmission in schools in North Carolina. The findings may help answer the question of whether […]
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