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Judge bars DC from vaccinating kids without parental permission 03/21/2022 10:20pm • A federal judge is temporarily blocking D.C. from enforcing a law that allows children to be vaccinated without parental consent. Judge Trevor N. McFadden, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, said on Friday that it violates parents' religious liberty. More D.C. Counc Editorial Roundup: United States 03/21/2022 07:11pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: March 18 The New York Times believes the United States has a free speech problem For all the tolerance and enlightenment that modern society claims, Americans are losing hold of a fundamental right as citizens of a free country: the ri Biden aides to Congress: Fund COVID aid, don't cut budget 03/21/2022 06:33pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress should provide the $22.5 billion President Joe Biden wants for continuing the battle against COVID-19 without cutting other programs to pay for it, senior administration officials said Monday. And if Republicans continue to insist that additional federal efforts to comb What we know about Justice Clarence Thomas' hospitalization 03/21/2022 06:04pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Clarence Thomas remains hospitalized in Washington after being diagnosed with an infection but does not have COVID-19, the Supreme Court said Monday. The high court announced Sunday evening that the 73-year-old justice had entered the hospital Friday after experiencing � Hong Kong to lift flight bans, cut quarantine for arrivals 03/21/2022 11:21am • HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s leader Monday said that the city would lift flight bans on countries including Britain and the U.S., as well as reduce quarantine time for travelers arriving in the city as coronavirus infections in its latest outbreak plateaus. The city’s chief executive Carrie La Doctors finding hurdles to using pills to treat COVID-19 03/21/2022 10:21am • High-risk COVID-19 patients now have new treatments they can take at home to stay out of the hospital — if doctors get the pills to them fast enough. Health systems around the country are rushing out same-day prescription deliveries. Some clinics have started testing and treating patients in one Shanghai Disneyland closes as virus rises, Shenzhen reopens 03/21/2022 01:42am • BEIJING (AP) — Shanghai Disneyland closed Monday as China's most populous city tried to contain its biggest coronavirus flareup in two years, while the southern business center of Shenzhen allowed shops and offices to reopen after a weeklong closure. Meanwhile, the cities of Changchun and Jilin in Prominent Israeli rabbi mourned by thousands at funeral 03/20/2022 03:18pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people attended the funeral Sunday of a prominent ultra-Orthodox rabbi in a city in central Israel. Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, 94, one of the most influential scholars in the country’s religious community, died Friday. He was born in Pinsk, Belarus, and move Addressing the pandemic's mental health fallout 03/20/2022 09:55am • At home with her guinea pigs, Coco and Juliet, Natasha Beltran seems like a happy 12-year-old. But since 2020, she has been struggling with grief beyond her years. "I remember my dad as a very funny guy that has a lot of friends near his neighborhood," she said. "And he likes to go to movie t Hong Kong will review COVID-19 restrictions as cases decline 03/20/2022 01:57am • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Hong Kong's leader said Sunday that the government would consider lifting strict social distancing measures as new COVID-19 infections in the city continued trending downward. “I wouldn’t promise now that there’s room for adjustment,” Chief Executive Carrie Lam said. China reports first COVID-19 deaths in more than a year 03/19/2022 11:29pm • BEIJING (AP) — China’s health authorities reported two COVID-19 deaths on Saturday, the first since January 2021, as the country battles its worst outbreak in two years driven by a surge in the highly transmissible omicron variant. The deaths, both in northeastern China’s Jilin province, bring Rep. Don Young, longtime Alaska congressman, dies at 88 03/19/2022 03:48pm • JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Rep. Don Young, who was the longest-serving Republican in the history of the U.S. House, has died. He was 88. His office announced Young's death in a statement Friday night. “It’s with heavy hearts and deep sadness that we announce Congressman Don Young (R-AK), t Los Angeles schools announce end of classroom mask mandate 03/18/2022 08:43pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Unified School District — the largest U.S. school district still requiring masks for staff and students — announced Friday that it will lift the mandate as COVID-19 infection rates continue to plunge. The nation's second-largest school district said it will d Bird flu case forces killing of 5.3 million chickens in Iowa 03/18/2022 05:58pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The confirmation of bird flu at another Iowa egg-laying farm will force the killing of more than 5 million chickens, state officials said Friday. It's the second confirmed case of avian influenza in Buena Vista County, about 160 miles (257 kilometers) northwest of Des Mo Prominent ultra-Orthodox Israeli rabbi Kanievsky dies at 94 03/18/2022 11:39am • JERUSALEM (AP) — Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, one of the most influential leaders in Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, died Friday at the age of 94. Condolences poured in, including from Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who called him a "true public leader” who lived modestly but led tens of th