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Tourism businesses that were just finding their footing after nearly two years of devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic are being rattled again as countries throw up new barriers to travel in an effort to contain the omicron variant.

A rise in inflationary pressures around the world may be longer-lasting than previously anticipated, posing a fresh risk to the global economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said Wednesday.

The ADP National Employment Report released on Wednesday morning provided a snapshot of the U.S. labor market in November.

Japan continued its aggressive stance against a new coronavirus variant on Wednesday, asking international airlines to stop taking new reservations for all flights arriving in the country until the end of December in a further tightening of already strict border controls.

Pfizer has prepared the first shipments of its COVID-19 antiviral pill PAXLOVID and sent them to the airport for distribution across Europe and America once it receives approval.

Former HHS secretary and Georgia congressman Dr. Tom Price told “Cavuto: Coast to Coast” Tuesday Americans do not need to “fear” the omicron variant since vaccination rates in the U.S. have been successful.

The average price for a gallon of regular gasoline in the U.S. is now $3.39, down one penny from last week, according to AAA.

Omicron variant could lead to more infections among vaccinated people but they will most likely remain protected from severe illness, according to the inventor of one of the first COVID-19 vaccines.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is set to tell Congress on Tuesday that the omicron variant could threaten the U.S. labor market and cloud the inflation forecast.

Stéphane Bancel, the CEO of Moderna, said in an interview published Tuesday that current vaccines for COVID-19 will likely be much less effective against the new omicron variant.

The Food and Drug Administration could authorize Covid-19 boosters from Pfizer Inc. PFE -2.96% and BioNTech SE BNTX 4.17% for use in 16- and 17-year olds as soon as next week as concerns rise over a new, possibly more transmissible variant, according to a person familiar with the planning.

A Texas man who spent government funds intended to help small business owners during the COVID-19 pandemic on luxury cars and other items was sentenced Monday to more than nine years in prison, the Justice Department said.

Larry Kudlow discusses the latest on Biden's social spending bill as Americans worry over the omicron variant

President Biden on Monday said he will be unveiling the details of his administration's plan to tackle the new omicron variant of COVID-19 on Thursday, but clarified that his strategy will not include more lockdowns.

Stocks rebound from worst selloff of the year as investors assess omicron impact.

As COVID-19's new omicron variant has begun to emerge overseas, vaccine makers Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson have outlined their respective strategies to tackle the new strain.

Some hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare providers are preparing to operate without up to a third of their staff at the start of next year, if those workers don’t comply with a federal mandate to get vaccinated against Covid-19.

FOX Business' Stuart Varney discusses why the omicron variant is an opportunity for the Biden administration.

Economist Stephen Moore warned of the "catastrophic" impacts that reinstating COVID-19 lockdowns would have on the economy, noting that they are also an ineffective way of reducing the spread of the virus.

An American travel industry group is asking the Biden administration to “revisit the reinstatement of country-specific entry bans in the near term” as the U.S. is tightening its border controls following the emergence of the omicron coronavirus variant.