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There is plenty still unknown about Omicron, but the variant already has the potential to upend the global pandemic response and undo progress that's been made containing Covid-19.

Robert Califf, who President Joe Biden nominated this month to lead the agency, is being looked to by forces from all sides as someone who can reboot the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products.

A World Health Organization panel named the variant “omicron” and classified it as a highly transmissible virus of concern, the same category of the delta variant.

Refugees fleeing weather-related disasters are changing the political equation in Florida, Virginia, California, Idaho and beyond.

While Cuomo projected calm during his daily public briefings, with thousands dying as the virus ravaged New York City, public health officials were forced to find ways to work around him.

The president has kept a low profile amid two emotionally charged trials, but that’s left people on both sides of the political divide dissatisfied.