What happens when COVID-19 causes a person to lose their sense of smell? Food tastes like cardboard. Depression and cognitive issues can result. The latest developments.
After a year that has darkened doorways across the U.S., the pandemic has surpassed a milestone that once seemed unimaginable, a reminder of the virus's reach into all corners of the country.
In a significant defeat for former President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court is declining to step in to halt the turnover of his tax records to a New York state prosecutor.
As the U.S. nears 500,000 COVID-19 deaths, Dr. Anthony Fauci says it's "possible" Americans will still need to wear masks in 2022. Here's the latest.
President Joe Biden declared a major disaster in Texas, and he has asked federal agencies to identify additional resources to address the suffering.
President Joe Biden toured a coronavirus vaccine plant Friday, intent on showcasing progress even as extreme winter weather across the U.S. handed his vaccination campaign its first major setback.
President Biden will announce $4 billion in U.S. aid to help the vaccine effort in poor nations, then will head to Michigan to visit a vaccine site as weather hampers U.S. distribution.
As states ease restrictions because of falling case numbers, public health officials say authorities are overlooking potentially more dangerous COVID-19 variants quietly spreading through the U.S.
A NASA rover has landed on Mars in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on the red planet.
Get the latest updates from the winter storm that continues to grip much of the US. Plus, photos and video from impacted regions across the country.
Life expectancy in the United States dropped a staggering one year during 2020 as coronavirus claimed more American lives than the greatest war. Blacks and Hispanics suffered the worst death rates, researchers say, but also people with cancer, heart disease and other conditions.
Virus update: Federal agents have seized more than 10 million fake 3M brand N95 masks in recent weeks, the U.S. is scrambling to expand DNA mapping of coronavirus samples and more.
Rush Limbaugh, the bombastic talk radio host who became voice of American conservatism, has died at age 70.
A "polar vortex" brings a taste of the Arctic to places in the U.S. where winter often requires no more than a jacket. This particular vortex has been a whopper, one of the biggest, nastiest and longest-lasting ones since the 1950s.
FEMA opened its first COVID-19 mass vaccination sites Tuesday, setting up in Los Angeles and Oakland as part of an effort by the Biden administration to get shots into arms more quickly and reach minority communities hit hard by the outbreak.
A Democratic congressman accused Donald Trump in a federal lawsuit on Tuesday of inciting the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Their claims were explosive. Their evidence was weak. These are the leading superspreaders of COVID-19 misinformation.
Enough senators cast “not guilty” votes to acquit Donald Trump of inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The vote will give the former president an historic second acquittal in an impeachment trial.
Word of McConnell’s decision came Saturday before what is expected to be a final day in the historic trial on the charge that Trump incited an insurrection in the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
The nation’s top public health agency on Friday provided a roadmap for reopening schools in the middle of a pandemic. Here's the latest virus news.
