Texas Supreme Court denies San Antonio mask mandate
by Asher Notheis The Texas Supreme Court struck down a mask mandate within San Antonio’s school districts Thursday, the latest rejection of a local mandate in the state as debates…
by Asher Notheis The Texas Supreme Court struck down a mask mandate within San Antonio’s school districts Thursday, the latest rejection of a local mandate in the state as debates…
by Matthew Miller A leading Chicago police union opposed an impending mandate from Mayor Lori Lightfoot that requires all city officers to get the COVID-19 vaccine. John Catanzara, president of…
By Bethany Blankley Overruling their own court’s 3-judge panel, nine judges on the 17-member New Orleans-based appeals court ruled in favor of the Texas statute, five against, and three recused…
Bethany Blankley, U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker handed Texas another win against the Biden administration Friday, this time over Medicaid funding, granting Attorney General Ken Paxton’s request for an…
By Zachary Stieber U.S. drug regulators on Monday approved the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech for people 16 and older, making it the first such shot to receive approval…
Jaimy Lee The decision to give out extra doses of Moderna and Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccines pits federal health officials who say the shots may not protect people from severe disease…
insider@insider.com (Aria Bendix) Sam Reider, a musician from San Francisco, got a call from the California Department of Public Health in June. Though fully vaccinated, Reider had recently tested positive…
By Eric Mack A new study examining masks effectiveness in protecting against COVID-19 infection finds N95-style masks to be more effective than surgical masks or other cloth coverings, adding scientific…
By Matt McGregor A Washington state government worker said Gov. Jay Inslee’s vaccine mandate announcement was the “last straw” in a steady decline of morale within his department. On Aug.…
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER, TERRY TANG and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press The Hawaii lieutenant governor watched in horror as protesters showed up outside his condo, yelled at him through…
By Paul Best Texas schools will not have to obey Gov. Greg Abbott’s ban on mask mandates while lawsuits challenging his executive order make their way through the legal system,…
By Isabel van Brugen A Texas law effectively banning an abortion procedure commonly employed during second-trimester pregnancies in the United States was upheld by the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday, reversing…