Danny Meyer restaurants will require vaccine proof for diners and employees

Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group will require workers and indoor diners to prove they've been vaccinated.

Opinion | The CDC needs to make clear: The problem is the unvaccinated

The agency's new guidance on masking is right. But its messaging remains muddled.

D.C. reinstates indoor mask mandate as virus cases rise

The move comes a day after the CDC recommended indoor masks in areas where virus transmission is high.

Simone Biles turns superstar cheerleader for Sunisa Lee and other gymnasts

Support, as Simone Biles well knows, matters. And her voice echoed loud and clear as Sunisa Lee won a gold medal.

Biden urges Congress to extend eviction moratorium, saying his hands are tied by Supreme Court ruling

The ban on evictions, which came in response to the pandemic and has been in place for nearly 11 months, is set to expire Saturday.

Masks are back at Disney World amid political tensions over coronavirus restrictions in Florida

The mayor of Florida’s Orange County declared a state of local emergency to combat climbing cases.

Bhutan fully vaccinates 90 percent of eligible adults within a week

Bhutan’s feat stands out in a region where nations like India and Bangladesh grapple with surges of delta variant cases and low vaccination rates.

Analysis | The Health 202: Some vaccinated people are still carrying big loads of the delta variant

The CDC has the data, but hasn't released it yet even as people scorn a return to masking.

USA Swimming didn’t need a hero. It just needed Caeleb Dressel.

His first individual Olympic gold is earned in a fast 100-meter freestyle.

Mexico declares $3 billion U.S. security deal ‘dead,’ seeks revamp

The Merida initiative has failed to reduce drug trafficking, addiction or violence. Mexican officials are calling for an overhaul.

890-million-year-old fossils may be oldest sign of animal life on Earth, Canadian geologist says

“If we’re going to find early animals, it seems reasonable that they’re going to be sponge-like,” geologist Elizabeth Turner says.

Biden to announce federal employees must get vaccinated or face repeated testing

The president’s directive comes as a rapidly growing number of businesses are imposing requirements and will align with policies put in place for government workers in California, New York State and New York City.

Perspective | Simone Biles was abandoned by American Olympic officials, and the torment hasn’t stopped

Simone Biles has been frank about her profound lingering distrust of USA Gymnastics and the USOPC, and her conviction they will not do right by her and other athletes of their own accord.

Opinion | The Jan. 6 select committee is already exceeding all expectations

The committee's hearing has already managed to impress and educate.

U.S. economy grew annual 6.5 percent between April and June, marking full recovery from the pandemic

The economy is officially recovered from the coronavirus pandemic. For the first time since covid took hold, economic output eclipsed its pre-pandemic high, after adjusting for inflation.

A 25-foot Native American totem pole arrives in D.C. after a journey to sacred lands across U.S.

Native Americans carved a 5,000-pound totem pole as part of an effort to save sacred tribal lands.

Sunisa Lee wins gold medal for United States in women’s gymnastics all-around competition

Sunisa Lee, an 18-year-old from Minnesota, won the gymnastics' signature individual event with her teammate Simone Biles out.

A Texas deputy attorney general called Simone Biles a ‘national embarrassment.’ His boss publicly disagreed.

A deputy Texas attorney general denounced U.S. gymnast and fellow Texan Simone Biles as "selfish," "childish" and "a national embarrassment."

Two NYPD officers said they were mentoring a ‘troubled’ 15-year-old girl. A judge determined they raped her.

Both officers raped her when she was 15 and incapable of consenting to sex, an NYPD assistant deputy commissioner determined.