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A new study by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers found no obvious safety concerns in some 35,000 pregnant people who were vaccinated, including in the third trimester.

CDC Director Recommends Pregnant People Receive COVID-19 Vaccines

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers found no obvious safety concerns in a study of 35,000 pregnant people who received the vaccines, though they say more research is needed.

The memoir writing students at the DOROT Center found new closeness on Zoom.

'So Deep And So Rich': Seniors Stay Connected Via Their New Life On Zoom

When their memoir writing class transitioned to Zoom, these seniors found a closer connection than ever. "There's an intimacy to Zoom that we never would have anticipated," says Adellar Greenhill.

Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, sworn in last week as the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, says she will focus on improving Americans' access to health care. Any discussions of shoring up Medicare funding, she says, should also entail strengthening the program's benefits.

Expanding Health Coverage Is Top Priority For New Head Of Medicare/Medicaid

Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the new head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, says she'll focus her time in charge on getting more Americans insured.

Enes Kanter of the Boston Celtics has not shied from political activism.

Celtics games have been turned off in China after one player's pro-Tibet tweet

Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter waded into an especially sensitive subject for the NBA with his comments advocating for a free Tibet, as China is by far the league's largest foreign market.

China's rules may be rewritten to allow Xi Jinping to stay on longer as leader

China's leadership is poised to approve a change that sets the stage for Xi Jinping to continue to rule after his second term as Communist Party boss ends next year.

Bilal Baig plays the non-binary child of Pakistani immigrants in <em>Sort Of.</em>

HBO Max's low-key gem 'Sort Of' is funny, tender and humane

This eight-part comedy, which centers on a gender-fluid millennial of Pakistani heritage, takes issues that are often used as hot buttons and treats them as an everyday, often funny part of life.

Travelers wait in the ticketing line at Salt Lake City International Airport on Monday. There have been thousands of flight delays and cancellations as the omicron variant spreads across the country. Unionized flight attendants are wary of new CDC guidelines that shorten the isolation period.

Delta's CEO asked the CDC for a 5-day isolation. Some flight attendants feel at risk

Some workers are concerned about new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that shortens the isolation period for COVID-19 cases.

Remembering trailblazing fashion designer Thierry Mugler, dead at 73

French fashion designer Thierry Mugler reshaped the fashion world, centering wildly inventive concepts and creating space for queer voices. On Sunday, he died at the age of 73.

Smoke from the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire drifts over Las Vegas, N.M., on Saturday.

Strong, swirling winds complicate New Mexico's wildfire fight

Dangerous winds have picked up again, threatening to spread spot fires and complicate work for firefighters.

A line of pro-life demonstrators watch as Pro-choice demonstrators chant in front of an un-scalable fence that stands around the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on Thursday.

7 persistent claims about abortion, fact-checked

Several not-quite-right claims have continued to linger about abortion since the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

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