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Tom Howell Jr.

Tom Howell Jr.

Tom Howell Jr. covers politics and the White House for The Washington Times. He can be reached at thowell@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Tom Howell Jr.

Protesters who oppose mask and COVID-19 vaccine mandates gather outside the Legislative Building, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. A growing number of communities are moving to require teachers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as part of aggressive campaigns to ward off the delta variant, which has infected hundreds of thousands of children in the United States. While some school districts are allowing teachers to opt out of vaccine requirements with weekly testing, New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago and St. Louis have taken tougher stances by limiting exemptions to bona fide medical and religious reasons. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) **FILE**

Companies grapple with granting religious exemptions

Faith-based exemptions are gaining a big role in the debate over employer vaccine mandates, forcing companies to vet what is a "sincerely held" belief or whether workers are using religion as an end-run around tough rules imposed by corporations and cheered by President Biden. Published September 13, 2021

In this Monday, Sept. 12, 2011, file photo, a U.S. flag is stuck into the etched name of Father Mychal F. Judge, the New York Fire Department chaplain who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, at the National September 11 Memorial in New York. (AP Photo/Mike Segar, Pool) ** FILE **

‘Never Forget’: 9/11 charity going strong 20 years later

Rep. Mikie Sherrill looked out over the crowd and motioned to the children playing in inflatable bounce houses on the edge of a barbecue honoring Tunnel to Towers, a 9/11-inspired nonprofit that provides homes to wounded veterans and first responders. Published September 10, 2021

President Joe Biden speaks during an event to celebrate labor unions, in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Biden scrambles to defeat the surging virus, salvage agenda

President Biden on Thursday forced federal workers to get the COVID-19 vaccine and compelled private employers to crack down, too, as he resorts to heavy measures in a scramble to fend off a delta variant that could tank his campaign pledge to defeat the virus and "build back better." Published September 9, 2021

Campus monitor Rosalia Dunes, right, dispenses hand sanitizer to students, as parents drop off their kids at Parkview School in El Monte, Calif., on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. Parkview took on an extra 360 students when Mountain View School District closed four schools in the past year. (Alex Gallardo/The Orange County Register via AP)

Weekly child COVID-19 cases surpass 250K as school restarts

One in four COVID-19 cases is occurring in children as schools reopen across the country, a prominent medical organization said Wednesday, as President Biden prepared a six-pronged plan to fight a virus surge upending economic recovery plans. Published September 8, 2021

In this April 21, 2021, file photo, a registered dons protective gear before entering a room at a hospital in Royal Oak, Mich. In 2021, U.S. hospitalizations and deaths are nearly all among the unvaccinated, and real-world data from Britain and Israel support that protection against the worst cases remains strong. What scientists call breakthrough infections in people who are fully vaccinated make up a small fraction of cases. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) ** FILE **

Odds of a ‘breakthrough’ COVID-19 infection worsen with delta variant

People who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 seem to be getting infected with alarming frequency, from Georgia Bulldog football players to people you might follow on social media, and this is driving talk of booster shots before waning protection against the virus grows into a crisis that fills hospitals. Published September 7, 2021