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Higher numbers of Covid patients limit the ability of hospitals to provide a full range of services.

The United States reported 1.34 million Covid cases on Monday, according to an NBC News tally, with the daily case rate shattering global records as hospitalizations soared across the country.

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Russian oil makes up 8 percent of U.S. oil imports. In most European countries, that number is much higher.

The United States will deliver more military aid and return a diplomatic presence to Ukraine, officials told President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a trip to Kyiv.

All five remaining Republicans facing Trump=backed primary challengers also had more money in their campaign accounts.

The weight of the pandemic can be measured in the count of hospital beds filled with Covid-positive patients.

More than 1 million people have died in the U.S. of Covid-19. Track which states are getting hit the hardest and which direction the country’s death rate is going. Updated daily.

The weight of the pandemic can be measured in the count of hospital beds filled with Covid-positive patients.

Get the latest data on the human cost of this virus. Updated daily.

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Should the U.S. government shut down Sunday, millions of employees and their families will be impacted as the effects of halting operations ripple across the country. The four-plus million people employed by the federal government include more than two and a half million employees in the civilian government workforce: workers who deliver the mail, forecast the weather and provide care for veterans of the armed forces. Stacked up against the nation as a whole, this is how the federal workforce c…

The Kaiser Permanente health care workers strike will affect more than 40 hospitals and medical clinics across the country. While most of the locations affected by the strike are in California, workers are also taking to the picket line in four other states: Colorado, Oregon, Virginia and Washington. The map below shows the locations of facilities where workers are picketing. More than 75,000 workers took to the picket lines Wednesday morning, arguing that staffing has reached critical levels. T…

Fundraising reports filed over the weekend provide new insights into the battle for the Senate, where Democrats are defending their slim majority. Republicans need a net gain of just two seats to take control of the chamber, or one seat if they win the White House next year, since the vice president casts tie-breaking votes. The new filings, which cover fundraising from July through September, shows that Democrats continue to dominate the fundraising game, with vulnerable incumbents stockpiling…

The House of Representatives went without a speaker for three weeks — leaving one of America’s branches of government effectively paralyzed as crises and a government shutdown loomed. The 21-day gap was the longest that Congress has been rudderless since 1962, when it took 55 days to elect a speaker. Republicans — who hold the majority of seats in the House and thus have the ability to elect a speaker without Democratic votes — nominated four candidates to the position: Rep. Steve Scalise R-L…

Former President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attacks on the judicial system are frequently tied to developments in his court cases, an NBC News analysis of his social media platform shows, and at times they’ve outnumbered his posts about his re-election bid. NBC News analyzed more than 14,000 Trump posts and reposts on Truth Social from April 2022 to Jan. 6, 2024, and found he often uses the platform as a megaphone to attack people and agencies involved in his numerous legal cases. For most of…

New data from the parties’ online fundraising platforms show how former President Donald Trump once again turned his legal woes into campaign cash, while Republican rival Nikki Haley used the GOP debates Trump skipped to fuel her rise. The fundraising reports from the Republican platform, WinRed, and the Democratic platform, ActBlue, filed on Wednesday shed new light on the top candidates’ online fundraising, and provided a look at when Trump and Haley, as well as President Joe Biden, were able…

The deadly wildfires in Texas, the largest in the state’s history and which are now spreading into Oklahoma, cover an area nearly the size of Delaware’s land. The most massive of the blazes, the Smokehouse Creek Fire, is larger than Rhode Island. But how big is that really? To get a sense of the scale of the Smokehouse Creek Fire’s million-plus acres, use the map below to compare the blaze to any of the most-populous cities or towns in the U.S. Follow the latest on the Texas wildfires news

President Joe Biden faces one of the most consequential speeches of his presidency Thursday night: his final State of the Union address before the presidential election. Advisers have said the president will attempt to show Americans the realities of the choices they have to make in November’s general election, while also addressing taxes and Biden’s legislative achievements, among other topics. NBC News will track the topics Biden brings up in Thursday’s address. The graphic below will show wha…

All hail Liam, all hail Olivia. Again. Liam and Olivia were the top baby names in 2023, according to the Social Security Administration, which released its annual list of the most popular names for newborns Friday. Both names have been at the top for years. Liam’s reign among baby boy names is now in its seventh year, with 20,802 of the 1.7 million boys born in 2023 sharing the name. Olivia has been the top name for girls since 2019. The top five names for boys and girls didn’t change from 2022…