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Older Americans and people with weak immune systems can get an extra COVID-19 booster dose this spring.

Federal prosecutors accused a pair of brothers from South Florida of defrauding the government out of millions of dollars worth of COVID-19 relief money.

The U.S. national emergency to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic has ended.

Big changes could be coming for how Americans pay for COVID-19 tests.

People with immune system health problems continue to take precautions against COVID-19 five years into the pandemic.

A statewide grand jury convened at the request of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to investigate “any and all wrongdoing” concerning COVID-19 vaccines did not find any evidence of criminal activity, according to a report unsealed on Tuesday.

Thousands of workers are facing an unsettling reality heading into 2025.

A woman in Austria has been found guilty of fatally infecting her neighbor with COVID-19 in 2021, her second pandemic-related conviction in a year, according to local media.

Celine Dion made a triumphant return Friday with a very public performance, closing out the Paris Olympics’ opening ceremony from the Eiffel Tower.

Government advisers say it’s time to update the recipe for the COVID-19 vaccines Americans will receive in the fall.

Joe Biden has won the Democratic presidential primary in Puerto Rico.

Both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden are posing the time-tested question “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”.

A former Broward Sheriff’s Office deputy was convicted Tuesday of two counts of wire fraud for orchestrating a COVID-19 relief fraud scheme, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday in a news release.

Walgreens has agreed to pay $275,000 to settle allegations about service in some of the national pharmacy chain's Vermont stores during the coronavirus pandemic.

U.S. health officials say flu and COVID-19 infections are expected to ramp up in the coming weeks.

Britain's inquiry into the response to the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the nation has entered the second phase with political decision-making taking center stage.

Britain's former health secretary has told an official inquiry that the U.K. was ill-prepared for a pandemic partly because government resources had been diverted away from pandemic planning to brace for a possibly chaotic no-deal Brexit.

The World Health organization declared earlier this month that the COVID-19 pandemic is no longer an emergency, putting a three-year end to the virus that killed at least 7 million people and turned the world upside down.

The World Health Organization says that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency.

U.S. deaths fell last year, and COVID-19 dropped to the No. 4 cause.

Japan will lift most of its coronavirus border controls, including a requirement that entrants show proof of three vaccinations or a pre-departure negative test, beginning Saturday as the country’s Golden Week holiday season begins and a large influx of foreign tourists is expected.

The former Florida lawmaker who sponsored the controversial law critics call “Don’t Say Gay” has pleaded guilty to committing $150,000 in COVID-19 relief fraud.

U.S. cases of a dangerous fungus tripled over just three years, and more than half of states have now reported it.

The mystery to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic now has some new clues.

Hardly anything changed when Japan dropped its request for people to wear masks after three years.

A new study found multiple strains of the coronavirus in rats.

Reported sexual assaults at the U.S. military academies shot up during the 2021-22 school year.

For a few weeks in late January and early February, the U.S. economy seemed to have reached a rare sweet spot.

More Americans filed for jobless benefits last week, but layoffs remain historically low despite the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate policy intended to cool the economy and bring down inflation.

The World Health Organization chief says the coronavirus remains a global health emergency.

A second consecutive quarter of economic growth underscored Thursday that the nation isn’t in a recession despite high inflation and the Federal Reserve’s fastest pace of interest rate hikes in four decades.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is proposing legislation to permanently ban COVID-19 health measures aimed at mitigating the virus.

A public health emergency has been renewed by the White House as COVID-19 cases are once again on the rise.

Family members who ran a sham ministry have been charged with defrauding the federal government of COVID-19 relief funds in a scheme to buy a $3.7 million luxury home in a development at Walt Disney World, authorities said.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week, a sign that the labor market remains strong even as the Federal Reserve continues to raise interest rates in an effort to cool the economy and slow inflation.

The Biden administration is once more making some free COVID-19 tests available to all U.S. households as it unveils its contingency plans for potential coronavirus surges this winter.

The number of U.S. deaths has dropped this year, but there are still more than there were before the coronavirus hit.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday that he plans to petition the state’s Supreme Court to convene a grand jury to investigate “any and all wrongdoing” with respect to the COVID-19 vaccines.

An ongoing Associated Press investigation has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Justice Department’s largest law enforcement agency, the federal Bureau of Prisons.

Shares are mostly lower in Asia after Wall Street sagged under weakness in tech stocks.