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The Coronavirus Can Sicken Children in Very Different Ways, New Study Finds
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Amid Shortfalls, Biden Signs Executive Order to Bolster Critical Supply Chains
The order is intended to help insulate the economy from future shortages of critical imported components by making the United States less reliant on foreign supplies.
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Facing Roadblocks, Vast Global Vaccination Effort Gets Underway
An operation to supply billions of coronavirus vaccine doses to poorer countries has started. But as rich countries buy most of the available supply, stark inequalities remain.
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Head of McKinsey, Kevin Sneader, Voted Out as Firm Faces Reckoning on Opioid Crisis
Partners decided not to keep Kevin Sneader in the top job. Weeks earlier, McKinsey had reached a historic settlement agreement in the U.S. over its advice to drugmakers.
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A Top Democrat Warns Against a Hasty Withdrawal of U.S. Troops From Afghanistan
Senator Jack Reed said he favored seeking an extension of the May 1 deadline for withdrawing troops that President Donald Trump and the Taliban negotiated last year.
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Travel Quarantines: Enduring the Mundane, One Day at a Time
Running a half-marathon in your hotel room. Hearing the sea, but not seeing it. Fixating on food. Here’s how some travelers passed the time during their mandatory quarantines.
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Arrest of Opposition Leader in Georgia Raises Fear of Growing Instability
Lawmakers from parties aligned against the government have vowed to continue a boycott of Parliament until Nika Melia is released from police custody.
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Husband Must Pay Wife $7,700 for Years of Housework, Chinese Court Rules
Some in China hailed the divorce court case as a breakthrough, but many noted that full-time nannies are paid far more.
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New World Map Tries to Fix Distorted Views of Earth
You’re going to need some double-sided tape.
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Covax Program Ships First Covid Vaccines to Ghana
The initiative known as Covax plans to deliver some two billion doses worldwide this year, the largest mass inoculation operation in history.
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'Resist becoming numb to the sorrow' - Biden
President Joe Biden addresses the nation as the US mourns 500,000 people lost to Covid-19.
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Gender-reveal device explosion kills father-to-be
Christopher Pekny was making a device to be used at his child's gender-reveal party, police say.
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'This is incredible': Burnett explains Trump's reported offer to Kim Jong Un
Then-President Donald Trump in 2019 offered North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a ride home on Air Force One following their Vietnam summit, a former senior administration official who was on the trip confirmed to CNN.
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Sarika Kale: The sports star who could afford just one meal a day
Sarika Kale says she survived on instant noodles and chutney for years because that's all she could afford.
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Keir Starmer urges government to buy more food from British farmers
Sir Keir Starmer will be the first Labour leader to address the farmers' union since 2008.
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Augmented reality art: Where your home becomes the gallery
How virtual artworks allow you to see anything from the sun to a giant spider in your own home.
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Extinction: Freshwater fish in 'catastrophic' decline
Numbers are plunging due to pollution, unsustainable fishing and the draining of rivers.
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