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Herbie Hancock, speaking to high school students in the State Dining Room of the White House during President Obama's celebration of International Jazz Day on April 29, 2016.

International Jazz Day's Global Celebrations Are On, And Again Online

April 30 will bring the International Jazz Day All-Star Global Concert, with artists from across the world taking part in another digital edition of the show, in addition to several other events.

The Food and Drug Administration authorized Abbott's BinaxNOW (seen in photo) and Quidel's QuickVue COVID-19 tests to be sold without a prescription for consumers who want to test themselves repeatedly at home.

As At-Home Coronavirus Tests Hit Pharmacies, What Role Can They Play In The Pandemic?

Rapid COVID-19 tests are now available at pharmacies in the U.S. Dr. Michael Mina of Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health says these can help people wondering if they are infectious right now.

Intensive Care Unit nurse Subramanya Kirugulige prepares a bed for an arriving COVID-19 patient at Roseland Community Hospital in Chicago in December. A large study has found that people with severe initial cases of COVID-19 tend to be at greater risk of more health problems later on.

People With Severe COVID-19 Have Higher Risk Of Long-Term Effects, Study Finds

The study's author says he was shocked to find the toll of long COVID was so substantial and multifaceted: "When you put it all together ... it's actually quite jarring."

A nurse administers a COVID-19 vaccine in Ridgeway, Va., in March.

Biden Administration Looks For Help With Next Phase Of Pitching COVID Vaccines

In the next phase of the race to vaccinate Americans, the Biden administration knows the government is not the best messenger. So it's asking communities for help.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon space capsule lifts off from Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Friday.

SpaceX Rocket Launches With Astronauts Aboard

The company's third crewed spacecraft took off from Florida early Friday.

Armenian refugees on the deck of a French cruiser that rescued them in 1915 during the massacre of the Armenian populations in the Ottoman Empire.

Biden Calls The Massacres Of Armenians Genocide. Here's What That Means

President Biden on Saturday recognized the World War I-era mass killing and deportation of Armenians as genocide — a move that could make Turkey angry.

An Indonesian navy ship works near what appears to be oil slicks during a search Friday for the submarine KRI Nanggala 402 in the Bali Sea.

U.S. Joins Final Push To Find Indonesian Submarine With 53 Aboard

The Pentagon says it will send airborne assets to help with the search as Indonesian officials say oxygen for the submarine - if still intact - may by now be exhausted.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, shown here in a February court session, reportedly has lost more than 30 pounds since his arrest.

Kremlin Critic Navalny Says He Will End Prison Hunger Strike

The fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin began refusing food on March 31 to demand medical care for leg and back pain.

Bottles of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine await transfer into syringes for administering last month in Los Angeles.

U.S. Lifts Pause In Use Of J&J Vaccine After Vote By Expert Panel

Federal regulators say they have confidence the vaccine is safe and effective at preventing COVID-19 and the benefits outweigh the risks.

U.S. Army soldiers board a bus in January 2020 at Fort Bragg, N.C., one of the military bases that will likely see population boosts in their 2020 census counts due to a change to how troops deployed abroad were counted.

Why Deployed Troop Counts Are A 'Wildcard' In 2020 Census Results

About 97,000 troops who are stationed in the U.S. but were deployed abroad during the census could help shift congressional seats and Electoral College votes to states with military bases or ports.

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