WASHINGTON — For the first time in nearly 15 months, daily deaths from COVID-19 nationwide have fallen below an average of 300 for the last seven days, providing further evidence that the pandemic is in abeyance across the United States.

In this case too, such low counts have not been seen since March 2020 — and that was because the pandemic was just gaining force in the United States.

By contrast, in January, the nation suffered an average of more than 200,000 infections and 3,000 fatalities daily.

Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, during a Thursday meeting of the White House pandemic response team.

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a top pandemic adviser to the Biden administration, announced that the federal government would devote $3 billion to therapeutic treatments against the coronavirus.

David Kessler, another pandemic adviser to the Biden administration, explained in an emailed statement that even “with very effective vaccines, some people may remain vulnerable to the virus, including people who are immunosuppressed or who are unvaccinated.”.

Kessler said that an “easily administered oral antiviral drug would be an important part of our therapeutic arsenal,” suggesting that development of such a drug could also be used to help combat the pandemic in other nations.

The court said the city of Philadelphia wrongly limited its relationship with the group as a result of the agency's policy.

Texas, a majority of the court said that Texas and a number of other Republican-controlled states did not have standing in their case to overturn former President Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievement.

WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders would like everyone to know that the nation is in crisis.

There is an economic crisis, they say, with rising prices and overly generous unemployment benefits; a national security crisis; a border security crisis, with its attendant homeland security crisis, humanitarian crisis and public health crisis; and a separate energy crisis.

President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris signed into law a bill establishing Juneteenth National Independence Day, a celebration designating the end of slavery in the United States, as a federal holiday.

More than 60% of Americans know “nothing at all” or only “a little bit” about Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the end of slavery in the United States, according to a new Gallup survey?

The documents included any communications between the Justice Department and former President Donald Trump or White House staff relating to the opening of the leaks investigations