Avie Schneider

House Speaker Mike Johnson invited the president to address a joint session of Congress on March 7. Johnson said the country faces a “moment of great challenge.”

If Congress fails to raise the nation’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, the U.S. government could run out of cash between July and September, or even sooner, the Congressional Budget Office said.

A day after the president’s physician said Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 again, the doctor said Biden continues to feel well, despite testing positive on Sunday again.

The World Health Organization on Saturday declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency. The move is aimed at boosting coordination and sharing of resources and information among nations.

“Unvaccinated Soldiers present risk to the force and jeopardize readiness,” Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth says. The Army says 96% of active troops have been vaccinated.

The Republican Texas governor, who has been fully vaccinated and has no symptoms, “will isolate in the Governor’s Mansion and continue to test daily,” his office announced.

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos is going up July 20 on a rocket made by his space exploration company Blue Origin. So is his brother. And now a mystery bidder has won an auction to join them.

Citing a severe shortage of workers, half of the nation’s governors have decided to end extra federal jobless benefits months early. But an economist says that will set back households and businesses.

With the focus shifting again to a Wuhan, China, lab, Dr. Céline Gounder, a COVID-19 adviser to the Biden transition team, says it’s important to find the pandemic’s origins to prevent the next one.

As people get back to in-person work, it may be a difficult transition for dogs and their owners. One tip from a veterinarian: Don’t make a big deal about leaving and coming back home.