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It’s the latest push by Senate Democrats to make good on their promise to pass voting rights legislation. (Image credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Holiday reporting delays mean real infection rates are likely higher than the new reports, as students return to classrooms and some workers remain home after contracting or being exposed to the coronavirus.

Kraken fan and future medical student Nadia Popovici alerted Canucks staffer Brian Hamilton to a suspicious mole, which turned out to be cancerous. The teams surprised her with a $10,000 scholarship. (Image credit: Ted S. Warren/AP)

Colorado search teams are looking for two missing people in the smoldering debris from a massive wildfire while people who escaped the flames are sorting through what didn’t burn.

Agency’s vaccine chief says third dose for kids 12 and over ‘may help provide better protection against both the Delta and Omicron variants’

A cup of tea in 2006 changed genetic engineering forever. Jill Banfield, a University of California at Berkeley ecosystem scientist and 1999 MacArthur Foundation fellow, had become curious in 2006 about mysterious repeating DNA sequences that were common in microbes

Salman Zarka warns the Delta variant still putting people in hospital; admits less-than-robust restrictions won’t help, so no need for them

Gunshots cause neither injury nor damage, but mark the third attack from the Strip in a week, amid high tensions along the frontier

The fire started on Sunday and had been contained, but flared up again on Monday after firefighters had been sent home. A man was arrested in connection with the fire. (Image credit: Nardus Engelbrecht/AP)

President Joe Biden will meet virtually with independent farmers and ranchers. Biden on Monday is discussing initiatives with them to reduce food prices by increasing competition within the meat industry.