Government and politics

Thailand has moved one step closer toward being the first Asian nation to decriminalize marijuanaBy CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated PressFebruary 8, 2022, 1:01 PM• 3 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this articleBANGKOK…

Germany’s health minister has decried calls from the main opposition party to suspend the implementation of a vaccination mandate for health workers, saying that they send a dangerous signalBy GEIR MOULSON Associated PressFebruary 8, 2022,…

Ugandan authorities are seeking to legally mandate vaccines in draft legislation aimed at boosting the East African country's drive to inoculate more people against COVID-19By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated PressFebruary 8, 2022, 11:03 AM• 3…

Poland's Health Ministry says that the March 1 deadline of full vaccination for teachers and so-called uniformed services is being pushed back indefinitely because it cannot be metByThe Associated PressFebruary 8, 2022, 10:28 AM• 1 min…

Hong Kong’s leader has announced the city’s toughest social-distancing restrictions yet, including unprecedented limits on private gatherings, as new daily cases surge above 600ByThe Associated PressFebruary 8, 2022, 9:43 AM• 2 min…

The Justice Department is signaling it might be open to allowing so-called safe injection sites, or safe havens for people to use heroin and other narcotics with protections against fatal overdosesBy JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL BALSAMO…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- When Crystal Orozco got sick with the coronavirus last month, she missed nearly two weeks’ worth of her salary as a shift leader at a fast food restaurant and had to ask family members for a loan to help pay her…

The Supreme Court of Virginia has rejected a petition from parents that sought to invalidate Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order prohibiting school systems from enforcing mask mandates in the classroomBy MATTHEW BARAKAT…

The former owner of a failed multistate chain of nursing homes has pleaded not guilty to tax chargesByThe Associated PressFebruary 7, 2022, 7:56 PM• 2 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this articleNEWARK, N.J. -- The former…

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy will end a statewide mask mandate that was instituted to protect against COVID-19 in schools and child care centersBy MIKE CATALINI Associated PressFebruary 7, 2022, 5:10 PM• 2 min readShare to FacebookShare to…