It is not clear why Maurene Comey was removed from her job at the elite justice department office in Manhattan.

Maurene Comey, who is the daughter of the former F.B.I. director James Comey, worked on the criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

Manhattan federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, who worked on the cases of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislain Maxwell, as well as the highly publicized trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs, was fired by the Department of Justice Wednesday,

Prosecutors contended that the request to drop the charges should have been sealed due to what they said were "significant operational concerns.

COVID-19 cases are rising in half of US states. Is this the start of a summer wave? What to know about COVID trends and the new Stratus and Nimbus variants.

COVID-19 cases are on the rise again across the United States, with the biggest increases in parts of the South, Southeast and West Coast.

Infections of COVID-19 are growing or likely growing in half of the U.S. as of July 8, according to CDC estimates.

Research shows that COVID tends to spike twice annually — once in the winter and once in the summer, and, like past years, cases are starting to go up in much of the country now. But exactly how many people currently have COVID is harder to track now because of a number of changes to the country’s public health organizations.

Cases have been rising in the UK and around the world, with more than 500 reported since January in England alone. The increase is being blamed on the poor uptake of the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine. Measles is a highly contagious disease which is spread by coughs and sneezes.