The Latest Breaking News from Pandemic

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Editorial: The progress made by pupils from lower-income families has been wiped out – and it’s not all the pandemic’s fault

Departing Welsh first minister joined Labour at 17 and was elected to the then Welsh assembly in 2011

Judge says Kevin Davies, father of Wales rugby star, set out to ‘ridicule and intimidate’ former employee

First post-pandemic study of attainment gap finds pupils from low-income families have fallen further behind richer peers except in London

With the end of direct cash payments, poverty levels are moving up.

With three out of four Europeans planning on travelling over the summer, the era of border closures, mandatory testing and vaccine certificates seems a half-remembered nightmare to many. But with more than 1,700 people still dying every week across the world from Covid-19 and vaccine coverage declining among at-risk populations,…

Catalogue of errors by government and health officials includes the deliberate winding down of PPE stockpiles

June saw 75 filings, up from 62 in May and above the pandemic-era peak of 74 in July 2020, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer discusses GOP unity behind Trump, cautious optimism for second term, and downplays pandemic response as a defining issue.

A beloved regional chain has set the final day for its going-out-of-business sales after its unexpected bankruptcy filing.