An advocacy group says a police shooting that wounded a 13-year-old autistic boy in Salt Lake City reveals shortfalls in the way officers respond to a mental health crisis.
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Vaccine by Nov. 3? Halted study explains just how unlikely
The National Institutes of Health director is telling Congress that AstraZeneca’s suspension of its COVID-19 vaccine study shows there will be ‘no compromises’ on safety in developing the shots.
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Employee at Maine prison tests positive for COVID-19
The employee at the Mountain View Correctional Facility in Charleston tested positive Monday after returning from out of state and has not been at the prison since Aug. 21.
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Justice Department’s push into Trump defamation case could prompt delay
Attorney General William Barr is defending the Justice Department’s move to intervene in the defamation lawsuit against the president.
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Teacher deaths raise alarms as new school year begins
Teachers in at least three states have died after bouts with the coronavirus since the dawn of the new school year.
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Think 2020’s disasters are wild? Just wait.
What’s happening now is just the type of crazy climate scientists anticipated 10 or 20 years ago – and it’s going to get worse, experts say.
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Challenges to Maine’s COVID-19 restrictions go to federal appeals court
A church in Orrington and a campground in Scarborough argued that the state’s limits on gatherings and out-of-state visitors violated constitutional rights to worship and travel.
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‘Be my hero please’: ‘Tiger King’ star Joe Exotic asks Trump for a pardon
The convicted felon’s 257-page application includes a handwritten letter.
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Trump said of virus, ‘I wanted to always play it down,’ Woodward book says
President Donald Trump told journalist Bob Woodward on March 19 that he deliberately minimized the danger. “I wanted to always play it down,” the president said.