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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.

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.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state’s top health official are directly contradicting federal health recommendations, saying there’s not enough evidence a new COVID booster provides benefits that outweigh risks.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday criticized recent efforts across the U.S. to tamp down a recent jump in COVID-19 cases through temporary restrictions or masking and his state surgeon general warned against getting the latest COVID-19 vaccine, which is expected to be available this month.

President Joe Biden turned up in a mask for the first time in months on Tuesday, a day after his wife tested positive for COVID-19.

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.

COVID-19 has shot back into the headlines in Britain through the leak of more than 100,000 private messages sent or received by the health minister as the government scrambled to respond to the new respiratory virus.

Britain’s former health minister is denying wrongdoing after a newspaper published extracts of private messages he sent in the first weeks of the coronavirus pandemic.

California's coronavirus emergency declaration has ended.

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.

The supply backlogs of the past two years — and the delays, shortages and outrageous prices that came with them — have improved dramatically since summer.

As coronavirus cases rose in Shanghai earlier this year and the city’s lockdown stretched from weeks to months, Leah Zhang’s feeling of suffocation grew.

Could trawler cams help save the world’s fish.