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CDC greenlights spring COVID booster for some. Do you need it?
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended the allowance of an additional updated booster for seniors 65 and older and those immunocompromised. By LUKE MONEY, RONG-GONG LIN II Another COVID-19 booster shot is on the way as federal health officials look to augment further protection for those at greater risk of developing severe…
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Louisville police say 5 dead after suspect linked to Old National Bank location opens fire in Kentucky.
The Louisville Metropolitan Police Department says there are five people dead – including the gunman — and eight injured in the Kentucky city Monday following a shooting at a building that houses an Old National Bank location. “I want to reiterate that there is no active threat,” Humphrey said. “We believe this is a lone…
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Column: America’s decline in life expectancy speaks volumes about our problems
After decades of increasing longevity, Americans are facing shorter life spans than their predecessors and their rich-country peers. In states where Republicans set the agenda, it’s even worse. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported last year that life expectancy at birth fell in 2021 to its lowest level since 1996, a decline of…
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WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT ELECTION SENDS A MESSAGE ON ABORTION RIGHTS
MILWAUKEE — In overturning a national right to abortion last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court gave conservatives a policy they’d been seeking for nearly half a century. In the process, the justices also angered millions of Americans who have made their views known in key elections. The latest sign of that dynamic came in the…
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Mike Pence will not appeal the order to testify to January 6 grand jury.
The decision clears the way for the former vice president to appear before a panel looking into 2020 election interference and the Capitol attack. The former vice-president Mike Pence will not appeal an order compelling him to testify in the US justice department investigation of Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, attempts which…
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TRUMP’S REBEL YELL
SEETHING former President Donald Trump has ordered his army of rabid supporters to take to America’s streets — pushing the nation to the brink of a bloody new civil war as he fears looming criminal charges may cage him for the rest of his life, critics claim. Trump, 76, whipped his followers into a frenzy…







