In a rare move, the CDC director overruled an advisory committee and added a recommendation that people 18 to 64 at risk of exposure and transmission because of their jobs may receive a booster shot against the coronavirus.
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Six weeks after the Taliban takeover, donor nations are taking a wait-and-see approach. Prices of food and basic goods are rising sharply at a time when many government officials have not been paid for months, and the Taliban victory has thrust hundreds of thousands of Afghan soldiers into joblessness.
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A spokesman for the recount, which was pilloried by experts as sloppy and biased, said there will be “updates in the final report” before its scheduled release Friday.
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The debate exposed the political and religious fault lines in the party caucus over Israel, pitting members of the so-called Squad, many of them Muslim, against Israel’s longtime Jewish supporters.
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There was still a heavy security presence, a part of Somali life after years of war.
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Former members of the military who were forced out of the service for being gay say they still face repercussions from the policy that one lawmaker called “a dark chapter in the history of our nation’s military.”
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More than 950 people allege they were molested by a campus physician in what may turn out to be the largest such case in U.S. history.
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The federal programs expired on Labor Day, but the coronavirus continues to hamper job prospects for D.C.-area residents.
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Twelve Europeans arrive with an aggregate 38 Ryder Cups; the 12 Americans arrive with 12. This weekend at Wisconsin’s Whistling Straits could determine whether it’s better to have 38 or better to have 12.
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