Travelers make their way through the Miami International Airport before starting the Labor Day weekend on September 03, 2021 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images A federal judge in Florida on ...
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Broadway Extends Mask Mandates Through May As More Shows Cancel Due To Covid
Topline Broadway theaters are extending mask mandates for theatergoers through at least May 31, the Broadway League said Friday, which comes as more shows have had to cancel performances after members...
Biden administration extends transportation mask mandate for 15 more days
Travelers wait in line at a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screening checkpoint at Orlando International Airport on the Friday before Memorial Day. As more and more people have received ...
Fewer Americans Than Ever Want Mask Mandates, Poll Finds — Despite Uptick In Cases
Topline Fewer than half of Americans are regularly wearing masks and want states and cities to require them, a new Axios/Ipsos poll finds—the lowest share since they started polling the questions—even...
First Major U.S. City To Reimpose Mask Mandate Amid Latest Covid Surge
Topline Philadelphia will reimpose its indoor mask mandate on April 18, the city’s health commissioner announced Monday, the first major city to put its mandate back in effect in response to rising Co...
Philadelphia reinstates indoor mask mandate
A shopper wearing a protective mask as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus selects fruit at the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia. Matt Rourke | AP With Covid-19 cases slowly risi...
Extending Mask Mandate For Airplanes, Public Transportation ‘On The Table’, White House Says
Topline The Biden administration may continue to require Americans to wear masks on public transportation, airplanes and in airports after the mandate runs out next week, as the White House’s Covid-19...
21 States Sue To Stop Covid-19 Face Mask Mandates On Airplanes, Public Transit
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) face mask requirements for those riding public … [+] transit and in transportation hubs are scheduled to expire on April 18. (Photo by ELEON...
Ted Cruz Trolls Mr. T Covid-19 Face Mask Tweet, Here’s The Reaction
On Wednesday, Mr. T tweeted out, “I just received my 2nd Moderna booster vaccine, and I feel good! I … [+] am still going to wear my mask and keep my distance because the virus ain’t over, Fool!...
Major Airlines Are Pleading To Drop Mask Mandates On Planes
NurPhoto via Getty Images The CEOs of major U.S. airlines wrote a letter to President Joe Biden requesting that he drop the mask mandate on planes and testing requirements for arriving international t...
Delta’s health chief thinks the plane mask mandate will soon be lifted
Passengers wearing protective masks wait to board a Delta Air Lines Inc. flight at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Elijah Nouve...
Twenty-One States Sue Biden Administration To End Mask Mandates On Planes And Public Transportation
Topline Twenty-one Republican state attorneys general filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Biden Administration in an attempt to end the mask mandate on airplanes and public transportation, which they ...
Singapore to ease Covid measures; drops outdoor mask mandate
Office workers walk out for lunch break at Raffles Place financial business district in Singapore on January 4, 2022. Roslan Rahman | AFP | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Singapore will ease most of its Cov...
Mask Mandate On Airplanes, Public Transportation Extended Until April 18
Topline The Transportation Security Administration will extend its mask mandate on public transportation for another month, multiple outlets report, even as other mask mandates have been lifted nation...
U.S. extends airplane mask mandate through April 18
A sign reads “Wear A Mask” at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021. Elijah Nouvelage | Bloomberg | Getty Images T...
Hawaii Becomes Last State To Drop Mask Mandate As Covid Infections Fall
Topline Hawaii plans to drop the nation’s last remaining statewide indoor mask mandate later this month, Gov. David Ige (D) announced Tuesday, as Covid-19 infections have plunged since January—but Ige...
New Jersey governor hopes mask mandates in schools done forever
Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy told CNBC on Monday he’s hopeful the state’s school mask mandate will remain a policy of the past, suggesting it’s part of a shift toward livin...
‘Love Is Blind’ Uses Deceptive Editing To Mask A Disastrous Finale
Love is Blind Netflix The Love is Blind finale just dropped yesterday on Netflix, marking an almost end to the second season of the show, though there’s a reunion episode next week so we can see where...
CDC Significantly Loosens Mask Guidelines
Topline The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will no longer recommend masking indoors, schools included—except in areas with high levels of severe Covid cases—in order to “give people a brea...
Los Angeles Expected To Ease Indoor Mask Mandate This Week, County Official Says
Topline Los Angeles County—the nation’s most populous county and one of two places in California that still requires masks indoors—plans to let vaccinated people take off their masks later this week i...
Covid infections plummet 90% from U.S. pandemic high, states lift mask mandates
A resident receives a Covid-19 swab test during a mobile clinic at Saint Paul MB Church in Cleveland, Mississippi, on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022. Rory Doyle | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. health official...
Bill Maher Claims Covid-19 Face Mask Requirements Turning Kids Into ‘Howie Mandels’
Bill Maher claimed that school face mask requirements are “creating a generation of Howie Mandels, … [+] of little germ-paranoid munchkins.” (Photo by PG/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images) GC Images...
DeSantis Reportedly Backs Plan To Take $200 Million From School Districts That Had Mask Mandates
Topline Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is putting his support behind a plan to redirect $200 million in state funding from school districts that enacted mask mandates earlier in the pandemic, according...
California Will Keep School Mask Mandate For At Least Two More Weeks — Even As State Lifts Indoor Mandate
Topline California will keep in place its mask mandate for school children for at least two more weeks even though the state’s indoor mask mandate for vaccinated Californians is set to expire Wednesda...
Walmart Reportedly Scraps Mask Mandate For Vaccinated Staff
Topline Walmart announced Friday that vaccinated employees will no longer be required to wear masks at work, multiple news outlets reported, after Amazon and multiple states loosened their own masking...
Covid mask mandate lifted because hospitals OK
A recent sharp drop in Connecticut’s Covid hospitalizations allowed the Democratic governor there to feel comfortable dropping the state’s mask mandate, effective later this month. “...
New York Gov. Hochul expected to lift indoor mask mandate
[The stream is slated to start at 11:15 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to drop the state’s strict indoor ...
New York state lifts indoor mask mandate as surge in omicron cases subsides
A person wearing a face mask leaves a store on January 26, 2022 in New York City. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images New York is dropping its strict indoor mask mandate as the surge in Covid-19 cases a...
New Jersey, Delaware Lifting School Mask Mandates—Other States May Be Next
Topline Democratic governors in Delaware and New Jersey plan to lift their states’ school mask mandates starting in March—potentially signaling the end of statewide school mask mandates as Covid-19 ca...
Conservatives Blast Stacey Abrams For Maskless Photo-Op— She Calls A ‘False Political Attack’
Topline Stacey Abrams, a Democratic candidate for the 2022 Georgia governor’s race, responded Sunday to criticism from Republicans after a photo of a maskless Abrams posing with a group of masked chil...