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CHARLESTON — First lady Jill Biden touched down in Charleston on Thursday afternoon to show support for students getting their COVID-19 vaccinations at a clinic at Capital High School.

By Jennifer Drysdale‍ OLIVER CONTRERAS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Jennifer Garner and First Lady Jill Biden are celebrating new mask guidelines. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Thursday that people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 are no longer expected in most situations to wear masks indoors or outdoors. The announcement was made while Biden was flying to West Virginia, where she and Garner visited an area high school and va...

Fauci gave his first interview since the mask guidance update on Thursday  He told CNN he wouldnt want to declare victory prematurely and its not over  But he added: This is clearly a step in the direction that we want to go  Asked if parents should continue putting their children in masks Fauci said: The children do when they are out there playing with their friends...they do But he also noted children as young as 12 are now  eligible to get Pfizers shot  Fauci said it would be an optio...

America unmasks: Joe and Kamala take all the credit as they finally announce its time to ditch the masks, shake hands and even HUG each other if youve had your shots Biden said those who are fully vaccinated are allowed to take their masks off, hug and shake hands Youve earned the right to do something that Americans are known for all around the world, greeting others with a smile, President Biden said  In West Virginia, Jill Biden did just that and she stepped off her plane maskless and was ...

. Manchin is the politico of the moment in Washington: The moderate Democrat from West Virginia holds the make-or-break vote for administration policies in the evenly divided U.S. Senate. Gayle Manchin is the Senate-confirmed co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission.  Greeting them at the airport: Garner, a Save the Children ambassador who grew up in Charleston, and Mark Shriver, the Kennedy cousin who is president of Save the Children Action Network, which advocates for humanitarian a...

The Associated Press The first ladys office announced Wednesday that the pair will visit a COVID-19 vaccination center at Capital High School in Charleston. Bidens office initially announced Tuesday that Biden and Garner would tour Arnoldsburg Elementary School in Clay County, but that portion of the engagement was canceled due to a COVID-19 quarantine in the school district. U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., will now also join the two on the trip. Biden and Manchin will arrive and depart from ...

POTOMAC, Md. —  R. Sargent Shriver was always an optimist, pioneering the Peace Corps and running the War on Poverty during the turbulent 1960s - an idealist even as the running mate on a Democratic presidential ticket doomed for failure. At his funeral Mass on Saturday, mourners from philanthropist and musician Bono to Vice President Joe Biden to former President Bill Clinton honored a man who dedicated his life to serving others. The celebration was filled with songs, laughter and fond ...

Leon Bennett/Getty Images; Frazer Harrison/Getty Images; Amy Sussman/KCA2021/Getty Images Yara Shahidi, Jennifer Garner, Edward James Olmos and Anthony Ramos are set to take part in the 90-minute virtual event looking at gaps in public education exacerbated by the COVID-19 epidemic: "The summit is a call to action." CAA announced on Monday that it will host a 90-minute virtual summit on March 18 focused on public education. Presented by the CAA Foundation and CAA Amplify, the agency’s diversi...

“My kids are big now, they see what they see. But they know how I feel, and that they’re not going to see me reading tabloids. Daily Mail is not in my [search] history — or TMZ. God no,” says Jennifer Garner, photographed Feb. 5 at Malibu Canyon Ranch in Calabasas. Photographed by Mary Rozzi The Queen of Nice: Jennifer Garner on Rededicating Herself to Acting, Co-Parenting With Ben Affleck and Prospects of an Alias Reboot by Lacey Rose March 10, 2021, 6:00am PST The Yes Day star know...

| Credit: Mireya Acierto/FilmMagic; Jamie McCarthy/Getty Mark K. Shriver wrote a new kids book about the importance of service with the help of his family — and his niece, new mom Katherine Schwarzenegger, is already a big fan! "I think in American culture, we celebrate and focus so much on money, power and fame," the president of Save the Children Action Network tells PEOPLE...