National News

Appeals court reinstates business vaccine mandate

Mainstreet Daily News

Dec 20, 2021

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has the authority to impose COVID-19 vaccine-or-test requirements on U.S. workplaces, a three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit […]

Covid-19

Judge partially reinstates healthcare vaccine rule

Mainstreet Daily News

Dec 15, 2021

Healthcare workers in roughly half of U.S. states are now shielded from a federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate, while those in the other half must get vaccinated by Jan. 4. […]

National News

Gymnastics abuse survivors obtain $380M settlement

Mainstreet Daily News

Dec 14, 2021

A federal bankruptcy court in Indianapolis on Monday approved a $380 million settlement involving more than 500 sexual abuse victims, ending the legal aspect of the […]

National News

AAA: Gas prices continue slow decline

Mainstreet Daily News

Dec 13, 2021

Pump prices continue their slow seasonal descent, despite a slight rebound in oil prices due to waning fears of a global slowdown caused by the COVID-19 […]

National News

Consumer inflation hits nearly 40-year high

Mainstreet Daily News

Dec 10, 2021

Americans in November saw prices jump 6.9 percent from the year before. That’s the highest annual inflation rate since 1982. The increased prices have affected everything […]

Business

Amazon Web Services outage stalls sites, apps

Mainstreet Daily News

Dec 8, 2021

Amazon’s US-East-1 servers, a major hub for the company’s cloud computing platform, shut down Tuesday morning. The company services governments, universities, and businesses, many of which […]

Covid-19

Judge stops vaccine mandate on federal contractors

Mainstreet Daily News

Dec 7, 2021

A U.S. District Court has temporarily suspended a vaccine mandate for companies that contract with the U.S. government. Under a Biden administration directive, companies such as […]

Covid-19

Omicron reaches nearly one-third of U.S. states

Mainstreet Daily News

Dec 6, 2021

The United States has identified several dozen cases of the omicron variant of the coronavirus, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expects the number […]

Covid-19

Biden announces winter COVID-19 strategy

Mainstreet Daily News

Dec 3, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden announced a nine-part plan to combat COVID-19 during the winter on Thursday—the same day that health officials announced cases of the new […]

National News

Congress passes stopgap funding bill

Mainstreet Daily News

Dec 3, 2021

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said “cooler heads prevailed” as the chamber approved a bill late Thursday to prevent a weekend government shutdown. Passing the […]

Covid-19

FDA advisers endorse Merck’s COVID-19 pill

Mainstreet Daily News

Nov 30, 2021

An advisory panel to the U.S Food and Drug Administration narrowly recommended authorization for Merck’s COVID-19 pill, days after new data showed the pill was less […]

Covid-19

Judge blocks healthcare vaccine mandate for some

Staff Reports

Nov 29, 2021

U.S. District Judge Matthew Schelp in Missouri ruled in favor of 10 states that filed the first legal challenge to the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate […]

Covid-19

New omicron COVID-19 variant affects air travel

Mainstreet Daily News

Nov 27, 2021

The United States announced Friday it will restrict flights from South Africa and seven other African countries in response to a new coronavirus variant, B.1.1.529, that […]

Covid-19

New Merck data shows COVID drug less effective

Mainstreet Daily News

Nov 27, 2021

The pharmaceutical company Merck on Friday released new numbers on the effectiveness of molnupiravir, a pill that interim results in October indicated might cut coronavirus hospitalizations […]

Business

Jobless numbers take a seasonally adjusted plunge

Mainstreet Daily News

Nov 24, 2021

Thanks in part to statistical seasonal adjustments around the Thanksgiving holiday, last week’s jobs report showed the number of Americans applying for unemployment dropped by 71,000. The […]

National News

U.S. to tap into oil reserves

Staff Reports

Nov 23, 2021

President Joe Biden has ordered 50 million barrels of oil to be released from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, an emergency stockpile stored in Texas and Louisiana. […]

Covid-19

CDC signs off on COVID-19 boosters for all

Mainstreet Daily News

Nov 22, 2021

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) joined the Food and Drug Administration on Friday to approve Pfizer and Moderna coronavirus booster shots for all adults. […]

Covid-19

OSHA backs off business vaccine mandate

Mainstreet Daily News

Nov 18, 2021

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said on Wednesday it will abide by a court order that it “take no steps to implement or enforce” a […]

Health

U.S. overdose deaths top 100,000 in one year

Mainstreet Daily News

Nov 17, 2021

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released an estimate on Wednesday that 100,300 people in the United States died of a drug overdose between May […]

Covid-19

U.S. reopens to international travelers

Mainstreet Daily News

Nov 9, 2021

Most European airlines reported full or nearly full passenger lists on Monday after the United States officially reopened its borders. One grandmother from a Mediterranean island […]

Covid-19

Appeals court blocks OSHA vaccine mandate

Mainstreet Daily News

Nov 7, 2021

U.S. companies with 100 or more workers do not have to move forward with requiring COVID-19 vaccines of all employees yet. On Saturday, the 5th U.S. Circuit […]

Education

UF testimony reversal caps tumultuous week

Camille Broadway

Nov 6, 2021

In a struggle between UF’s faculty and its administration over providing expert testimony in lawsuits, UF President W. Kent Fuchs has reversed an earlier ban on […]

National News

House passes infrastructure bill

Mainstreet Daily News

Nov 6, 2021

Democrats broke up a months-long logjam in the House to approve a $1 trillion package of road improvements and other projects late Friday. The measure passed […]

National News

Gainesville adds attorneys to challenge HB 1

Seth Johnson

Nov 4, 2021

The Gainesville City Commission voted unanimously on Thursday to retain additional outside legal counsel to represent the city in its legal challenge to House Bill 1 […]