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President Joe Biden is greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, right and President Isaac Herzog, left, as they participate in an arrival ceremony after Biden arrived at Ben Gurion Airport, Wednesday, July 13, 2022, in Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden underscores U.S. ties with Israel during Middle East trip

President Biden kicked off a high-stakes trip to the Middle East on Wednesday with a visit to Israel, the first stop on a diplomatic mission to bolster U.S. ties to the region, facilitate growing ties between the Arab world and the Jewish state, and get some help on soaring world energy prices and the challenge posed by Iran.

July 13, 2022
The logo and building of the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, 15 April 2020. An expert group convened by the World Health Organization says there may be some benefit to giving a second booster dose of coronavirus vaccine to the most vulnerable people amid the continuing global spread of omicron and its subvariants. In a statement issued on Tuesday, May 17 2022 the U.N. health agency said there was increasing evidence that a second booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine would benefit health workers, people over age 60 and those with weak immune systems. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, file)

WHO: ‘Sex is not limited to male or female’

The World Health Organization says sex "is not limited to male or female" as it plans to update a manual used by public health professionals to recognize gender and sexual diversity, wading into the thorny debate about whether gender is strictly binary or something more complicated.

July 12, 2022
In this file photo, White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Ashish Jha speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

White House COVID coordinator: Country can weather new BA.5 variant just fine

The Biden administration said the fast-moving BA.5 variant of the coronavirus is a stark but manageable challenge, unveiling a plan that relies on frequent testing, antiviral drugs and up-to-date vaccinations while stopping short of an immediate expansion of the booster campaign as drugmakers reformulate their shots.

July 12, 2022
This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. The Biden administration has started shipping testing kits for monkeypox to commercial laboratories, in a bid to speed diagnostic tests for suspected infections for the virus that has already infected at least 142 people in the U.S. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP, File)

Biden enlists Mayo Clinic for monkeypox testing push

The Biden administration said Monday that Mayo Clinic Laboratories will begin processing up to 10,000 monkeypox tests per week as the U.S. tries to track down infections and slow a mounting case total.

July 11, 2022