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BALTIMORE — President Joe Biden plans to take executive action Friday to provide a stopgap measure of financial relief to millions of Americans while Congress begins to consider his much larger $1.9 trillion package to help those affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

WASHINGTON — Public health experts Thursday blamed coronavirus vaccine shortages in part on the Trump administration’s push to get states to vastly expand their vaccination drives to reach the nation’s estimated 54 million people age 65 and over.

WASHINGTON — Deep in the deadliest coronavirus wave and facing worrisome new strains, President Joe Biden will initiate a national coronavirus strategy to ramp up vaccinations and testing, reopen schools and businesses and increase the use of masks — including a requirement that Americans mask up for travel.

NEW YORK — The push to inoculate Americans against the coronavirus is hitting a roadblock: A number of states are reporting they are running out of vaccine, and tens of thousands of people who managed to get appointments for a first dose are seeing them canceled.

WASHINGTON — In his first hours as president, Joe Biden will aim to strike at the heart of President Donald Trump’s policy legacy, signing a series of executive actions that will reverse his predecessor’s orders on immigration, climate change and handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

WASHINGTON — Joe Biden became the 46th President of the United States on Wednesday, swearing the oath of office just before noon to take the helm of a deeply divided nation while inheriting a confluence of crises arguably greater than any faced by his predecessors.

AKRON – Ohio’s treasurer wants the state to set aside $100 million in federal pandemic relief funds to provide grants to struggling small businesses hurt by the coronavirus.The program needs to go through the General Assembly first, get approval by the DeWine administration and then be administered.And the clock is ticking: The money, which would

A University of Cincinnati dean is investigating an email to an engineering student in which an adjunct instructor is accused of referring to the novel coronavirus as “the Chinese virus.” The email came after the student had to miss a lab session due to being quarantined for possible exposure to the novel coronavirus.”I think that the

A floating boat cinema that was scheduled to be in Cincinnati next week has been rescheduled to 2021 “due to COVID,” according to the promoting website.Beyond Cinema, an Australian-based pop-up cinema experience company, said the floating theater would come to Cincinnati from Sept. 23-27.The floating cinema tour planned several stops in U.S. cities including Pittsburgh, Philadelphia,

Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s strict reading of state law, which he interprets as prohibiting additional ballot drop boxes, differs from common practice at Ohio’s county boards of elections.LaRose is appealing Wednesday’s preliminary injunction by a Franklin County judge ordering him not to enforce his directive restricting counties to only one drop box ahead of