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The plan is part of a sprawling proposal to curb COVID-19 in the U.S. and get the country’s economy and school systems back up and running.

How the Trump administration’s leadership churn could reform political appointments Short-term leaders have famously caused long-term problems for getting work done in government. (pepifoto/Getty Images) President Donald Trump’s administration has become infamous for high-level officials who don’t stick around long, whether by public scandal, private sector job offers or fallings out with the president. Former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci’s six-day stint in his position became a byword for shockingly short tenures and was even jokingly used as a measureme...

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- It was busy most of the day, Friday, at Wake County Health Department's Swinburne COVID-19 testing site with a heavy stream of people driving up for testing ahead of potential holiday travel or gatherings. No one seemed to be having a hard time finding a site to get tested. But, it's the travel and gatherings part that state health officials are having a hard time condoning. "I'll probably just go back home. If I don't have any symptoms I don't know if I'll get tested again. But I definitely don't want to bring anything back to my family," said Thomas Webb in downtown Raleig...

First problems in distribution of Pfizer vaccine involved it being too cold, not cold enough Updated December 16, 2020, 5:58 p.m. Email to a Friend Staff Sergeant Noel Bueno (left), Private First Class Saurav Shrestha (center), and Mark Robinson took delivery of a box of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 before putting it in a freezer on Tuesday at Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, south of Seattle.Ted S. Warren/Associated Press The first hiccups in the distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine in the United States included a holdup in delivering 3,900 shots ...

Trump official pushed for ‘herd immunity’ strategy, emails show Laura Davison A Trump administration official sought to speed the spread of the coronavirus among children and young adults in order to achieve “herd immunity,” according to documents released by a top House Democrat. Paul Alexander, a senior adviser at the Department of Health and Humans Services, repeatedly encouraged adoption of a policy to increase the number of virus infections among younger Americans, saying they have “zero to low risk,” according to documents released by the House Select Subcommittee on the Cor...