The Latest Breaking News from Pandemic

Pupils in key GCSE exam years and those eligible for free school meals are most likely to be absent, latest official figures show

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the November 2020 election brought out about 155 million voters. That represented 67% of Americans over 18, and it was the highest voter turnout of any modern election.

HONG KONG: Hong Kong is considering easing property taxes and visa restrictions as authorities seek to curb a pandemic brain drain that has threatened the city’s status as an international financial hub.

The iconic Glasgow Santa Dash has been cancelled for the previous few years due to the pandemic, but is making a return this year with a brand new route through Glasgow Green.

Kentucky’s public health commissioner says hospitalizations, intensive care admissions, and ventilated patients for COVID are at some of the lowest levels since the beginning of the pandemic.

The 140-year-old oil company is making more money than ever. Yet the pandemic exposed deep cultural problems—and talent is fleeing.

Food banks across Texas are now struggling to keep up with growing demand even more than they were during the pandemic.

Ministers ruled by decree for more than two years. That’s not true democracy and it remains a risk, says barrister Adam Wagner

For the class of 2023, every year of high school was disrupted by the pandemic. NPR talked to five seniors about what that's been like.

The unemployment rate now matches the pre-pandemic, half-century low of 3.5 percent. But with 2.8 million missing workers, low unemployment is both a blessing and a curse.

The disruption associated with the COVID-19 pandemic is loosening society’s grip on some stubborn assumptions about different facets of life, especially work and education. The latest: that the hardest college classes are the most rigorous, as exemplified in last week’s hullabaloo over the case of an New York University professor…