The Department of Veterans Affairs on Monday became the first major federal agency to require health care workers to get COVID-19 vaccines, as the aggressive delta variant spreads and some communities report troubling increases in hospitalizations among unvaccinated people.
Oil companies like Chevron, Shell and Eni have made billions in profits in the vast Niger Delta region in the last decades. But now some are pulling out — and they are leaving utter ruin in their wake, according to government monitors and environmental and human rights organizations
Heading into a make-or-break week for President Joe Biden’s infrastructure deal, serious roadblocks remain.
Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna are expanding the size of their COVID-19 vaccine studies in children ages 5 to 11.
A boat carrying migrants capsized off Libya on Monday, leaving at least 57 people presumed dead, a U.N. migration official said.