The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has yet to weigh in on who it believes should get boosters and when.
Carol Semple
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Many Haitian migrants staying in U.S. even as expulsion flights continue
Large numbers are being processed under immigration laws and are not among those being placed on flights to Haiti that started Sunday, U.S. officials say.
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Company hopes to go mainstream with reusable packaging
In all, Loop says, 191 stores and restaurants worldwide will be selling products in reusable containers by the first quarter of 2022, up from just a dozen stores in Paris at the end of 2020.
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Fed on track to slow support for economy in November, chairman says
Meanwhile, the central bank’s policymaking committee indicates that it expects to start raising its benchmark interest rate sometime next year
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Biden doubles U.S. global donation of COVID-19 vaccine shots
The American response has come under criticism for being too modest, particularly as the administration advocates for providing booster shots to Americans before vulnerable people in poorer nations have received even a first dose.
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Interest in Gabby Petito disappearance fueled by social media, true-crime craze
Months before her disappearance and killing drew more than a half-billion views on TikTok, Petito, 22, and 23-year-old boyfriend Brian Laundrie set out on a cross-country road trip over the summer in a van she decorated boho-chic style.
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Boston train that rear-ended another was on ‘full power,’ investigators find
The report did not say if the controller had been turned to full power on purpose or accidentally.
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Post-Trump, Democrats push to curb presidential powers
Most of the legislation is in direct response to actions by Trump that Democrats saw as abuses of presidential power, including his firing of agency whistleblowers, his defiance of congressional subpoenas and his campaign’s interactions with Russians in the 2016 election.
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Consumers get online tool to check nursing home vaccination rates
Medicare officials say they are encouraged that even as the delta variant has swept across the country, outbreaks in nursing homes have not raced out of control as happened last year.
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Biden pledges ‘relentless diplomacy’ on global challenges in address at UN
President Biden is facing a healthy measure of skepticism from allies during his week of high-level diplomacy as he summons allies to quickly address the festering issues of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and human rights abuses.