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A different kind of COVID vaccine is about ready to roll

Protein subunit vaccines work by injecting people with a tiny portion of a virus. In the case of the COVID-19 vaccine, that tiny portion is the spike protein that the coronavirus uses to enter cells.

Pfizer says its COVID-19 pill cuts disease's worst risks by 89%

Pfizer says it will ask the FDA for emergency use authorization rather than enroll more people for clinical trials.

President Biden tours a Manville, N.J., neighborhood Tuesday that was affected by the remnants of Hurricane Ida.

Biden Asks Congress For $30 Billion To Help Disaster Relief And Afghan Evacuees

The White House wants $24 billion in new aid to help recovery from recent wildfires and hurricanes. President Biden also asks for $6.4 billion to resettle vulnerable Afghans in the U.S.

Abortion rights advocates and abortion rights opponents demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, in Washington, as the court hears arguments in a case from Mississippi, where a 2018 law would ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, well before viability.

Roe v. Wade's future is in doubt after historic arguments at Supreme Court

The fate of abortion in the U.S. appears to be on shaky ground as a divided Supreme Court weighs a Mississippi law. A decision in the case is expected by summer.

Migrants head toward a border checkpoint on the Belarusian-Polish border on Nov. 15, 2021.

Authoritarians are using migrants as weapons. The White House frets it's on the rise

The White House is concerned migrants will be increasingly used as a geopolitical tool as migration increases because of instability and climate change.

Automakers are racing to be the first to bring an electric pickup to market — including, clockwise from top left, Rivian's sporty offering, Tesla's futuristic Cybertruck, General Motors' Hummer EV and Lordstown's work-focused Endurance.

All The Oomph, Minus The Vroom? Electric Pickups Take Aim At American Market

Automakers hope Americans will be willing to switch to battery-powered vehicles, for their trucks' sakes, as they race to bring the first electric pickup to market.

Juanita Cortes, a Vista resident, gets a COVID test at the Lifeline North County testing station in Vista. August 12, 2021.

San Diego County Opens New COVID-19 Testing Sites As Demand Surges Amid Case Spike

All of these sites are in response to a striking surge in COVID-19 cases throughout the county, the vast majority of which have occurred in the unvaccinated.

In 'The Sour Cherry Tree,' a child keeps memories of her late grandfather close

The day after her beloved Baba Bazorg dies, a little girl remembers some of her favorite things about him: his striped slippers, the mints in his pockets and the fig cookies he always shared.

United Airlines has one of the strictest vaccine mandates in the U.S., requiring all U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 unless granted religious or medical exemptions.

Court rules United Airlines can put workers with vaccine exemptions on unpaid leave

A group of United employees had asked the court for a preliminary injunction to block United's policy of putting workers with religious or medical exemptions on unpaid leave.

People pass by a destroyed building in Kenosha, WI.

Kenosha Protests, Violence Expose Racial Disparities Among The Worst In The Country

Kenosha residents lament the violence and destruction that left swaths of their city damaged or destroyed, but many understand the anger over biased policing and wide racial inequities that led to it.

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