Tom Howell Jr.

Airlines struggle to keep up with travel demand, scrap flights amid worker shortages

Thousands of flights were canceled over the Juneteenth and Father's Day weekend as U.S. airlines dealt with pilot and staffing shortages -- even as air travel picks up dramatically for the summer season.

June 20, 2022

New N.Y. law on body armor wouldn’t even apply to Buffalo tragedy: Report

A New York law that prohibits most civilians from purchasing "bullet-resistant soft body armor" would not have applied to the shooter who killed 10 persons at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store.

June 20, 2022

Texas GOP platform denies Biden’s victory in 2020, hits Sen. John Cornyn over gun control deal

Texas Republicans adopted a platform over the weekend that denies the legitimacy of President Biden's win in 2020, chastises Sen. John Cornyn for working on a bipartisan gun deal and calls homosexuality "abnormal."

June 20, 2022

N.J. state Sen. Ed Durr, a truck driver, says his victory, Mayra Flores’ Texas win signal ‘red wave’

New Jersey state Sen. Edward Durr sensed something familiar when Republican Mayra Flores swept to victory last week in a South Texas congressional district that Democrats had taken for granted.

June 20, 2022

Zelenskyy: Russia will step up attacks during Ukraine’s EU membership drive

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he expects "greater hostile activity" from Russia as his country pursues membership in the European Union.

June 20, 2022

CDC director approves COVID-19 vaccines for children under 5

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky on Saturday approved Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccines for use in American children as young as 6 months.

June 18, 2022

FDA authorizes COVID-19 shots for youngest Americans

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized COVID-19 vaccines for emergency use in Americans as young as 6 months, a major step in launching a nationwide pediatric rollout as soon as Tuesday.

June 17, 2022

Russian court sentences American teacher to 14 years in prison for cannabis bust

A Russian court sentenced Marc Fogel, an American teacher and former U.S. embassy worker, to 14 years in a penal colony for having cannabis at the airport in August 2021.

June 17, 2022

Doctors push for warning label on California pot, sound alarm about cannabis-induced psychosis

Doctors in California are pushing to include warnings about health risks on cannabis packaging akin to requirements on cigarette makers.

June 17, 2022

Montana governor returns home after absence amid flooding

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte returned home late Thursday after a lengthy and mysterious absence as the state reeled from severe flooding.

June 17, 2022

Business elite look to flee Russia amid Ukraine invasion

Migration applications suggest about 15,000 Russian millionaires -- as calculated in U.S. dollars -- are attempting to leave the country, a reflection of the deep skepticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine within the business elite and oligarch community, British intelligence officials said Friday.

June 17, 2022

Biden insists a recession is ‘not inevitable’ as stocks dive again sharply

Stocks tumbled Thursday as investors digested the Federal Reserve's decision a day earlier to hike interest rates and increasingly worry that the country may head into an economic recession.

June 16, 2022

Fauci: NIH is researching a pan-coronavirus vaccine to combat COVID-19 twists, new threats

Dr. Anthony Fauci, speaking by video-link because he contracted COVID-19, told Congress on Thursday his agency is studying vaccines that better target the omicron variant and it will be "paramount" to develop a new generation of shots that can tackle a range of coronaviruses.

June 16, 2022

Tech companies lay off workers, slow down hiring amid economic tumult

Plenty of people quit their jobs during the pandemic, but now many workers are being forced out, with more and more companies facing fears of an economic recession, supply chain problems and other woes.

June 16, 2022

Flooding trips up Abbott formula production plant at center of shortage debate

When it rains, it pours. Abbott Laboratories had to stop production of its EleCare formula at the plant in Sturgis, Michigan, because storms flooded the plant, delaying output for a few weeks.

June 16, 2022

Sen. Rob Portman: Fed should have acted sooner to wrangle inflation

Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio said Thursday it is easy to be an armchair quarterback, but it was "pretty obvious" there was a mismatch between supply and demand in early 2021 so the Federal Reserve should have acted earlier to corral inflation.

June 16, 2022

Jan. 6 committee: Trump disparaged Pence in a tweet after violence began

Former President Donald Trump reportedly knew the U.S. Capitol had been breached when he tweeted a disparaging message about then-Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6, 2021, the committee investigating the Capitol invasion told NBC News.

June 16, 2022

FDA advisers unanimously endorse Pfizer, Moderna shots for youngest kids

Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday endorsed COVID-19 vaccines for use in kids ages 6 months to 4 years, meaning the youngest Americans should be eligible for the shots by next week.

June 15, 2022

Dr. Fauci, the face of pandemic response, tests positive for COVID-19

Dr. Anthony Fauci has reportedly tested positive for COViD-19.

June 15, 2022

Fed raises rates by three-quarters of a point; highest increase in nearly 30 years

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point Wednesday, the biggest increase in nearly three decades, as the central bank scrambles to tame inflation.

June 15, 2022