WASHINGTON — Senate negotiators announced Wednesday that they have resolved outstanding issues on a bipartisan infrastructure package and are prepared to vote as early as Wednesday night to consider the measure.

Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, the GOP's lead negotiator, described the legislation as a major infrastructure package that would be ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Faced with sustained increases in coronavirus infections and COVID-19 hospitalizations, California officials are considering new measures to hopefully cap the spike.

Though the number of infections and those who are ill enough to be hospitalized remain well below the levels of previous surges, the extent of the latest increases ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sober first-person accounts from police marked the first hearing of the House committee tasked with investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

The attack, which occurred following a rally by President Donald Trump near the White House and disrupted for several hours Congress’ obligation to publicly count the Electoral ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators is closing in on a final agreement for an approximately $1.2 trillion proposal to build and repair the nation’s roads, bridges and broadband internet networks.

The plan is the first part of President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” infrastructure initiative.

The Senate may hold the first ...Read more

ALBANY, N.Y. — Following in New York City's footsteps, New York state is making vaccinations or regular COVID-19 testing mandatory for all state employees.

Additionally, all patient-facing front-line health care workers in state-run hospitals must be immunized, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday.

“I think we need dramatic action to get ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Someone is not telling the truth. It’s either the polygraph industry behind the age-old lie detection equipment, or it’s the makers of the newer voice-stress test technology.

Both say their methods are dependable, and both claim their competitor is spreading falsehoods about what works best for police. It’s a ...Read more

A renewed vaccine push mixed with masking could flatten America’s recent spike in coronavirus cases within two weeks, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday morning.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky sounded the hopeful note after her health agency reversed lenient face-covering guidelines on Tuesday, urging even ...Read more

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — A few months ago, the boxy, teal truck parked outside a McDonald’s in this Inland Empire city might have drawn hundreds of people willing to stand in line for hours under the scorching sun.

The truck is San Bernardino County’s mobile vaccine unit, which brings COVID-19 vaccines directly to people. But on July 15, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A little more than two months ago, a beaming President Joe Biden stepped into the Rose Garden to announce that vaccinated Americans no longer needed to wear masks indoors. So much progress had been made against the coronavirus, now they could go back to “greeting others with a smile.”

But anyone smiling inside the White House...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Nicola Habash's mother held out the short white coat for him.

"Here you go, young man. This is it," she said as he slipped his arms through the sleeves.

With that, Habash was among 280 Thomas Jefferson University students who began their medical school journey Friday during a two-hour ceremony at the Crystal Tea Room of The ...Read more

Republican lawmakers this year passed an unprecedented bevy of bills targeting the authority of state and local election officials, a power grab that might allow partisan legislators to overturn future election results by claiming there was fraud.

GOP legislators in at least 14 states have enacted 23 new laws that empower state officials to ...Read more

CHICAGO — As the nation grapples with a record number of overdose deaths, it might not seem like the ideal time for a physician convicted of illegally prescribing opioids to push for liberalized drug laws.

Dr. Jay Joshi is taking his shot anyway.

Joshi, 37, who lives in Chicago’s western suburbs but practices in northern Indiana (and is ...Read more

As bipartisan Senate negotiators continue marathon talks on an infrastructure package that includes $579 billion in new spending, a concern among committees and committee staff has grown: Where are our voices?

They say they’ve been cut out of negotiating on issues in their areas of jurisdiction, and it’s led to confusion and occasional hard...Read more

LIMA — It was one of the most improbable electoral victories in recent Latin American political history.

Pedro Castillo, a 51-year-old former rural elementary school teacher who has never held office, won the presidency of Peru in a race so close and so disputed that it took election authorities six weeks to confirm the results.

Now the left...Read more

WASHINGTON — The World Trade Center Health Program, a federal agency that oversees the 9/11 health care and compensation, is warning law firms that work with sick survivors and responders to follow the law themselves as the deadline to seek compensation goes into effect on July 29.

According to letters obtained by the Daily News, the health ...Read more