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White House offers new tax credit to help spur vaccinations
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced new employer tax credits and other steps to encourage people reluctant to be inoculated to get the COVID-19 vaccine as his administration t...
Syndicated Author Apr 21, 2021

Virginia city fires police officer over Rittenhouse donation
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - The Virginia city of Norfolk has fired a police lieutenant after news reports that said he donated to and expressed support for Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager accused of killing tw...
Syndicated Author Apr 21, 2021

Pelosi floats new proposal for bipartisan Jan. 6 commission
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is renewing her push for a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, floating a new proposal to Republicans that would evenly s...
Syndicated Author Apr 21, 2021

FDA inspection found problems at Baltimore factory making J&J vaccine
The Baltimore factory contracted to make Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine was dirty, didn't follow proper manufacturing procedures and had poorly trained staff, resulting in contamination of m...
Syndicated Author Apr 21, 2021

Hitting latest vaccine milestone, Biden pushes shots for all
WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States is set to meet President Joe Biden's latest vaccine goal of administering 200 million coronavirus shots in his first 100 days in office as the White House steps up ...
Syndicated Author Apr 21, 2021

Garland announces police probe day after Floyd case verdict
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department is opening a sweeping investigation into policing practices in Minneapolis after a former officer was convicted in the killing of George Floyd there, Attorney ...
Syndicated Author Apr 21, 2021

EU agency links J&J shot to rare clots, says odds favor use
LONDON (AP) - The European Union's drug regulatory agency said Tuesday that it found a "possible link" between Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine and extremely rare blood clots and that a warnin...
Syndicated Author Apr 20, 2021

Bush criticizes GOP isolationism, anti-immigration rhetoric
WASHINGTON (AP) - George W. Bush says the Republican Party he served as president has become "isolationist, protectionist and, to a certain extent, nativist" and says he's especially concerned about a...
Syndicated Author Apr 20, 2021

Murder case against ex-cop in Floyd’s death goes to the jury
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The murder case against former Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd went to the jury Monday in a city on edge against another round of unrest like the one that erupted...
Syndicated Author Apr 19, 2021

Apple signals return of social app Parler
Apple said it has reached an agreement with social app Parler that could lead to its reinstatement in the company's app store. Apple kicked out Parler in January over ties to the deadly Jan. 6 siege o...
Syndicated Author Apr 19, 2021
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