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Thousands of small pharmacies across the country were tapped by the Biden administration last week to stand on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic and carry out vaccinations. For each of these mom and pop pharmacies, that has meant investing huge sums of money to purchase freezers for …
Colton Schrag remembers the night at the Agapé Boarding School when, he says, a staff member punched him in the face. It was late on April 20, 2007, he said, and the staff at the all-boys boarding school in southwestern Missouri wanted him to confess that he and two other boys were going to try to …
For this vaccine chaser, the second time was the charm. On her first attempt to get a Covid-19 shot last month, 28-year Leah Robson arrived at a Los Angeles city park at 4 a.m., waited all day with hundreds of other hopefuls, and wound up going home without the vaccination. She tried again the next …
The death of George Floyd in police custody last May has galvanized lawmakers across the country along political lines. Democrats in many states have proposed measures to reform police use-of-force policies. Republicans have focused on cracking down on demonstrators who protest in the streets or on …
This article about standardized testing was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. When schools in Columbus, Ohio, opened last fall for the state’s third grade reading exam, …
Halfway through a bleak winter, Dr. Diane Griffin started to feel something in recent weeks that had been missing for much of the past year: optimism. Griffin, an infectious disease expert at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, said recent declines in hospitalizations, …
While Donald Trump undergoes a second impeachment trial in Washington, he is also confronting a potent threat to the crown jewel of his real estate holdings, according to a person familiar with the matter. The threat, involving a highly profitable real estate partnership that generates significant …
In his first three weeks in office, President Joe Biden has made a flurry of phone calls to American allies around the world, including the leaders of Canada, Britain, France and Japan. But one close American ally’s leader has so far been left conspicuously off the new president’s call list: Israeli …
North Dakota and South Dakota had record Covid-19 rates and deaths and little government intervention. Now both states lead in vaccinations. Being mostly rural and far from the coasts didn't protect North Dakota and South Dakota from Covid-19. After a spring and a summer of flimsy or nonexistent …
McKinsey & Co., the global consulting giant, agreed to pay nearly $600 million last week to settle allegations by 49 states that its work for large opioid manufacturers helped "turbocharge" sales of the drugs, contributing to an addiction epidemic that rocked the country and has caused more than …
