Coronavirus

The Milwaukee Bucks kept their NBA playoff series against the Brooklyn Nets alive Thursday night with a 15-point win. In a related development, the Milwaukee Health Department began or completed vaccinating about 25 more people against COVID-19.

Military hospital ICU resources are at full capacity and the embassy has been forced to "create temporary, on-compound COVID-19 wards," according to a note sent to embassy staff.

Health officials are investigating reports of mostly mild, temporary and treatable heart inflammation that may or may not be causally linked to vaccination with an mRNA vaccine against COVID-19.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Dr. Anthony Fauci about the CDC declaring the Delta variant of COVID-19 a concern, and how vaccines and booster shots fit into the discussion of combating variants.

The Fed is maintaining its easy money policies for now in an effort to speed the economic recovery. It left interest rates near zero despite a jump in consumer prices.

Despite being hit hard early in the pandemic, New York City lags behind in vaccinating people 65 and older, and its efforts to reach the homebound and disabled have been disorganized.

A Milwaukee community leader gives more insight into COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among some Black residents.

The Odyssey of the Seas had been slated to carry passengers for the first time on July 3. Instead, all 1,400 crew members are being quarantined.

A leading Milwaukee doctor and a prominent businessperson are urging more COVID-19 vaccinations because of the possibility that a dangerous coronavirus variant may be headed here.

The latest toll from Johns Hopkins University comes nearly four months after the nation crossed the half-million mark for deaths from the coronavirus pandemic.