Summer camps hit with COVID outbreaks 鈥� are schools next?
The U.S. has seen a string of COVID-19 outbreaks tied to summer camps in recent weeks in places such as Texas, Illinois, Florida, Missouri and Kansas, in what some fear...
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U.S. COVID-19 cases rising again, doubling over three weeks
The COVID-19 curve in the U.S. is rising again after months of decline, with the number of new cases per day doubling over the past three weeks, driven by the...
Schools across U.S. brace for surge of kindergarteners in fall
School districts across the United States are hiring additional teachers in anticipation of what will be one of the largest kindergarten classes ever as enrollment rebounds following the coronavirus pandemic.
U.S. schools fight to keep students amid fear of dropout surge
U.S. educators are doing everything they can to track down high school students who stopped showing up to classes and to help them get the credits needed to graduate, amid...
U.S. parents excited over prospect of virus shots for children
After more than a year of fretting over her 13-year son with a rare liver disease, Heather Ousley broke into tears when she learned that he and millions of other...
Restrictions easing in U.S. and Europe amid COVID-19 disaster in India
Air travel in the U.S. hit its highest mark since COVID-19 took hold more than 13 months ago, while European Union officials are proposing to ease restrictions on visitors to...
Officials plead: Don鈥檛 let Super Bowl become superspreader
Kansas City Chiefs superfan Ty Rowton hugged strangers in the streets of Miami last year after watching his team win the Super Bowl and then joined hundreds of thousands of...
Chiefs under pressure to ditch the tomahawk chop celebration
Pressure is mounting for the Super Bowl-bound Kansas City Chiefs to abandon a popular tradition in which fans break into a 鈥渨ar chant鈥� while making a chopping hand motion designed...
Single-day U.S. deaths top 3,000, more than D-Day or 9/11
Just when the U.S. appears on the verge of rolling out a COVID-19 vaccine, the numbers have become gloomier than ever: Over 3,000 American deaths in a single day, more...
Empty seats, delivered feasts as virus changes Thanksgiving
Americans are marking Thanksgiving amid an unrelenting pandemic that has claimed the lives of more than a quarter of a million people in the U.S.