The University of Notre Dame is requiring all students to get a COVID-19 booster shot to minimize on-campus cases in the face of the delta and omicron variants.

The university previously mandated the COVID-19 vaccine for all students, faculty and staff in spring 2021.

Uyghur rights organizations are applauding the U.S. government's decision not to send any diplomatic or official representatives to Beijing for next year's Winter Olympics.

Drive DeVilbiss Healthcare and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission are recalling nearly half a million adult portable bed rails after the reports of two deaths, one in 2011 and another in 2015.

The voluntary recall issued Monday involves four different models of the company's Bed Assist Handle and Bed Assist Rail adult portable bed rails, totaling more than 496,000 units.

The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 continues to grow across the state.

The state reported Monday that 4,356 adults and 40 children were in the hospital with a confirmed case of COVID. Those numbers are very close to a record first set in April of 2020, before research showed the effectiveness of masks in slowing the spread of the virus, and before there was a vaccine.