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After some confusion earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released updated guidance around gathering and traveling for the holiday season. On Friday, the CDC released the updated guidance, saying the best way to safely observe the holiday season is being vaccinated against COVID-19. A representative from the agency said in an email Friday they “fully...

The Transportation Security Administration is increasing the penalty for people who violate the mandate to wear masks on planes, trains and other forms of transportation to help stop the spread of COVID-19.

The Dallas County health director voiced concerns Monday about a possible COVID-19 holiday surge from Labor Day crowds and gatherings.

A group of parents of disabled students has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to strike down Iowa’s law banning schools from requiring masks, arguing it endangers their health and denies equal access to education.

The rancorous debate over whether returning students should wear masks in the classroom has moved from school boards to courtrooms. In at least 14 states, lawsuits have been filed either for or against masks in schools. In some cases, normally rule-enforcing school administrators are finding themselves fighting state leaders. Legal experts say that while state laws normally trump local control,…

This weekend’s naked bike ride in Philadelphia will require participants to wear masks.

The Plano Independent School board will consider making masks mandatory in its schools during an emergency session on Monday morning.

The Plano Independent School board will consider making masks mandatory in its schools during an emergency session on Monday morning.

The three states are all hot spots in the nation’s recent COVID-19 surge, and defiant boards in Miami, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix and other urban areas argue that requiring masks protects students, teachers and staff from contracting and spreading the virus as many pediatric hospitals fill.

Millions of students in Florida, Texas and Arizona are now required to wear masks in class as school boards in mostly Democratic areas have defied their Republican governors and made face coverings mandatory.

Justin Kanew’s speech during a public comment period at a Williamson County Board of Education meeting encouraging parents to have their kids wear masks has gone viral. Kanew quoted his pastor who said “wearing masks is not in the bible, but taking care of others is.”

A parent attacked a teacher following a mask dispute on the first day of school, a California superintendent said.

Dallas County businesses have three days to institute new masking and safety policies or risk fines after Judge Clay Jenkins signed a emergency order Wednesday.

Officials at Texas Christian University announced Tuesday that face masks will be required inside all campus buildings, effective immediately.

A new indoor mask order for Dallas County starts at midnight. It requests wearing masks in all schools, public buildings and private businesses. NBC 5’s Ken Kalthoff reports it comes after Dallas County’s top elected leader won a court order that allows him to require masks, contrary to the governor’s order against mask mandates.

Penn State University announced it is requiring all students, staff and visitors on its campuses to wear masks indoors.

Duncanville ISD and Garland ISD students are back in the classroom under new rules from the governor which don’t require masks in the building.

A Texas educators group is calling for more local control over mask wearing in schools.

“If we were all vaccinated it would be hard to spread COVID. But so many of us are not.” Dr. Lynn Goldman from George Washington University talks about low vaccination rates – they’re like kindling on a fire. That is contributing to a rise in cases of COVID and the Delta variant, and the return of mask mandates in some...

The Department of Defense has directed all individuals to wear masks when they are indoors at DOD installations located in parts of the country that have ‘substantial or high community transmission.’