COVID-19

Five people close to Vice President Mike Pence — including his chief of staff — have tested positive for COVID-19, according to reports. Marc Short, Pence’s chief of staff, tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday, the VP’s office said in a statement…

President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden traded coronavirus barbs over on the campaign trail Saturday, with Election Day looming a little over one week away. As Trump hopscotched through three different battleground states – North Carolina, Ohio, and Wisconsin –…

Jonathan Endecott wanted to be a normal kid again — to get back to class and his friends. But the 9-year-old New Mexico boy didn’t know quite how because of the darned coronavirus. His school in Roswell is closed and switched to…

Ee-i-ee-i-ohhh! Ducks and chicks and geese better scurry from these cheeky Australian veterinary school students, who stripped off their lab coats, and then some, to pose for a charity calendar. With a backside here, and a backside there — everywhere a backside!…

Polish President Andrzej Duda has tested positive for COVID-19 but insists he feels fine — and is apologizing to those who have to quarantine because they were exposed to him. “I do not suffer from any symptoms, especially lack of taste or…

The French are looking at another nine months of fighting the coronavirus if their president’s prediction comes true — and leaders all across Europe have their guard up, ready to impose lockdowns again to stymie the alarming spike in COVID-19 cases. President…

A Hollywood-backed animal rights activist was charged last week with practicing veterinary medicine without a license and deceptive advertising for products he hawked at his pet food stores. Los Angeles prosecutors filed the charges against Marc Ching after a Los Angeles Times…

Two drugmakers announced Friday the resumption of U.S. testing of their COVID-19 vaccine candidates. Testing of AstraZeneca’s vaccine candidate had been halted since early September, while Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine study was paused at the beginning of last week. Each company had…

That comes amid other bleak patterns including rising hospitalizations and daily death tolls across the country, with experts warning that the worst is yet to come. Friday's case count of at least 80,005 surpasses the country's previous one-day high of 77,362, reported…

The city of Berkeley put out the following safety message Friday, noting that high fire danger has been forecast to begin Sunday, and power shutoffs are likely. Residents should be ready to evacuate in a wildfire, the city said. Berkeley Hills residents…