In one corner was Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D). “They abandoned their posts and they abandoned kids and their families,” she said in a blistering critique of teachers who refused to show up for their jobs in person. In the other was the _...Read More_

>"The variant is spreading fast. For some, it is causing milder illness. But its distinct qualities have left Americans making a new set of calculations."

>"Both the House and the Senate passed legislation to keep the government funded through mid-February. The deal also provides $7 billion for the care and resettlement of Afghan refugees."

>"Even as the House set a Thursday vote to fund the government through February, Senate Republicans were still threatening to force a shutdown over vaccine mandates."

>"Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s coronavirus restrictions sent migrant workers fleeing. To get them home, the government offered special trains. But the trains would spread the virus across the country."

Europe’s latest wave of restrictions to stop the spread of coronavirus have largely avoided closing schools. We take a look at why and how they are being kept _...Read More_

>"Unlike earlier outbreaks concentrated in the Northeast and South, the virus is simmering at a worrisome level in most regions."

A proposal to let people with low risk of infection live without constraint could lead to a million or more preventable deaths.