Month: March 2021

A residential assisted living center in New York caught fire and partially collapsed early Tuesday, leaving one resident dead and a firefighter missing in the rubble, officials said. The fire at the Evergreen Court Home for Adults in Spring Valley, a suburb of New York City, began overnight and sent Rockland County firefighters streaming inside

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Dr. Vivek Murthy as US surgeon general, a role he had held under the Obama administration and reprises during a key chapter in the Biden administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Lawmakers voted 57-43 to confirm Murthy, with Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Roger Marshall

Americans have been saying for a year they want to get back to normal. Tragically, they’re getting their wish. With the gradual return to public places comes a specter the country was all too willing to set aside as it grappled with a pandemic capable of killing thousands of Americans a day. Mass shootings are

Once again Americans are grieving over lives lost to another mass shooting. On Monday, 10 people, including a police officer, were killed at a Boulder, Colorado, King Soopers grocery store. Just six days ago, we began mourning the deaths of the eight people killed in Atlanta. Sadly, my family and I are no strangers to

After a year of living in a camper and caring for Covid-19 patients at a hospital, one doctor is finally home. Dr. Tiffany Osborn moved back in with her husband and two children in St. Louis, thanks to the Covid-19 vaccine. Osborn is a professor of surgery and emergency medicine at Washington University and she

From her home in Toronto, Vina Nadjibulla fields hundreds of emails, texts, and phone calls, all about the only person she really wants to hear from. Nadjibulla’s husband, Michael Kovrig, has been detained in China for more than two years, on espionage charges the Chinese government refuses to explain and Canada’s Prime Minister says are