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Why, When and How to Test At-Home for COVID-19

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How the World's Most Prevalent COVID-19 Vaccine Is Made

The German biotech company makes several million doses of vaccines weekly. Here's how they produce it

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How Biden’s Poor Polling Threatens His Major Social Spending Bill

Sinking approval ratings coupled with rising inflation may have weakened Biden's negotiating position on the Build Back Better bill
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How Joe Biden Plans to Rebound From Defeat in Virginia

The loss in Virginia and the question of how to respond consumed the President’s conversations with advisers
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Lawsuit: Biden Administration Foster Program Rejected Woman for Being Gay

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This Is the White House's Plan to Take on Facebook

President Joe Biden wants Congress to strengthen antitrust laws, make sure privacy is better protected, and rewrite Section 230

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The Trial Over Ahmaud Arbery's Killing Is Set to Begin. Here's What to Expect

The February 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery served as a flashpoint for the reckoning on racial injustice in America that dominated much of the public consciousness last year. Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was jogging
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Bitcoin's Risk and Reward for Black Investors

Why Black Bitcoiners seem certain that crypto represents keys to a car bound for somewhere better
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Racism in Medical Care Fuels Black Doubts in the System

Only about 5% of practicing doctors in the U.S. are Black, and more than 56% are white, a situation that enables racism in hospital care and fuels Black mistrust of the system as COVID-19 and gun violence take a disproportionate toll on communities of color
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Fani Willis Is at the Center of America's Converging Crises

She's working under the spotlight of two cases that have drawn the nation’s eyes to her office

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How American Shoppers Broke the Supply Chain

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Why Most U.S. Firms Are Staying in China Despite the Crackdown

Yahoo and LinkedIn are the latest U.S. businesses pull out of China amid sweeping regulatory crackdowns
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Whatever Happened to Amazon's Drone Delivery Service?

Amazon’s squadron of delivery drones was supposed to be in full flight by now. And the fall of 2021 would have been an opportune time to have little automated flying machines delivering packages to customers—what
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Facebook Failed to Remove Islamophobic Content in India

Facebook is aware of the danger and prevalence of the Love Jihad conspiracy theory on its platform but has done little to act on it, according to internal Facebook documents and former employees

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5 Creative Ways to Make a Winning Home Offer, According to Real Estate Experts

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Yes, You Should Get a COVID-19 Booster

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Texas Providers See Increased Interest in Birth Control

After Texas’ near-total abortion ban took effect, Planned Parenthood clinics there saw a 5% increase in birth control requests
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Many COVID-19 Survivors Still Can't Smell or Taste

On the morning after Christmas 2020, Carolyn Hinds woke up and realized she couldn’t smell or taste anything. Other signs of COVID-19, like fever, cough and muscle aches, came in the following days. Those symptoms
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Controversial Fitness Company CrossFit Wants to Be Your Doctor

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