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Abbey Bugenske, the winner of Ohio's first vaccine lottery drawing, was on a trip to get a used car when she found out she won $1 million. She says she hopes the lottery will encourage other people to get the COVID-19 vaccine.more

U.S. airlines and agencies are preparing for increased domestic air travel this summer even as the government continues to debate whether to allow more foreign travelers to visit.more

The New York Kosciuszko Foundation yesterday accused Democratic Congressman from Tennessee Steve Cohen of lying about blaming Poland for German concentration camps and demands an apology from him.more

The leader of the Republican minority in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, was outraged yesterday at his party's deputy Marjorie Taylor Greene, who compared the requirement to wear masks during the epidemic to the Holocaust. Other members of Congress also criticized it.more

President Joe Biden and Russia’s Vladimir Putin agreed Tuesday to meet next month in Geneva, a face-to-face encounter the White House hopes will help bring some predictability to a fraught relationship that’s only worsened in the first months of the Democratic administration.more

More than 130 cases of mysterious microwave weapons being used against US federal employees have been under investigation. Congressional lawmakers urge Biden's team to take the problem seriously.more

More than half of Republican Party voters, 53 percent, said they think Donald Trump is currently the "true president" of the United States, not Joe Biden, a new poll shows.more

For more than a half century, a wooden house on quiet 43rd Avenue in Elmhurst served as a cultural hub for Polish expats, welcoming artists, scholars and leaders who lived in New York City after escaping the post-World War II Iron Curtain.more

New York State adopts federal guidelines for people fully vaccinated against Covid-19. However, City Health Commissioner Dr. David Chokshi still recommends wearing face masks indoors.more

Microsoft was investigating its co-founder Bill Gates over a 20-year-old affair shortly before he stepped down from the company's board last year.more

Henry McCollum and Leon Brown spent nearly 31 years in prison for a brutal crime they did not commit - one they were convicted of on the basis of confessions that they insisted, for decades, had been coerced.more

President Joe Biden welcomed the lifting by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the requirement for fully vaccinated people to wear face masks. He called it "America's big day."more

All adults in the US state of Ohio who have received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine will be able to enter the lottery, and the prize will be one million dollars. The campaign is to encourage vaccinations, with a total of five million dollar prizes.more

Coronavirus vaccines will be made available to more children in the United States as regulators on Monday expanded use of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab to those as young as 12, sparking a race to protect students before they head back to class later this year.more

White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that people may decide to wear masks during certain seasons when respiratory illnesses are more prevalent.more

The Polish-American community is shocked by yet another case of desecration of the monument to Fr. Jerzy Popiełuszko in New York's Greenpoint. Her indignation is shared by local politicians. The police have opened an investigation into the hate crime.more

Eric Nelson, a defense attorney for ex-policeman Derek Chauvin convicted by the jury of the murder of black George Floyd, has requested a new trial. He justified it with the shortcomings that were supposed to occur during the first one.more

On Wednesday, somewhere over the Pacific, a woman who didn't know she was pregnant gave birth to a baby boy. Lavinia "Lavi" Mounga was flying from Salt Lake City to Honolulu on April 28 for a vacation when she gave birth to her son, Raymond.more

Bill and Melinda Gates have announced their divorce after 27 years of marriage, saying "we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple".more

Virtual parade, thanksgiving mass, theater performances, competitions, literary panel are just some of the events that honor the Polish diaspora in Chicago on the 230th anniversary of the adoption of the May 3rd Constitution. The celebrations are held under the slogan "Do not be afraid".more

The New York Police Department has canceled its trial of a robot dog made by US firm Boston Dynamics after receiving fierce criticism regarding the “dystopian” technology.more

The United States will start to share up to 60 million doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine with other countries as soon as the next few weeks, the White House said on Monday.more

Tourists from the US who have undergone the full course of vaccination against Covid-19 will be able to fly to Europe in summer, said the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen in an interview with today's New York Times.more

The systematic killing and deportation of more than a million Armenians by Ottoman Empire forces in the early 20th century was “genocide,” the United States formally declared on Saturday, as President Joe Biden used that precise word after the White House had avoided it for decades for fear of alienating ally Turkey.more

US President Joe Biden will visit the UK in June for his first overseas trip since his election victory last year. The president will travel to Cornwall for the G7 summit, which takes place between 11 and 13 June.more