By Lolita C. BaldorAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army said Wednesday it will immediately begin discharging soldiers who have refused to get the mandatory COVID-19 vaccine, putting more than […]
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Miranda Talks About Bruno, and The ‘Encanto’ Phenomenon
By Jake CoyleAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A month after “Encanto” debuted in theaters, Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote the movie’s Colombia-inflected songs, took a long vacation. By the time […]
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US Begins Offering Free COVID Test Kits, but Doubts Persist
By Matthew Perrone and Kate BrumbackAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, all Americans can log on to a government website and order free, at-home COVID-19 tests. But […]
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Kids’ Low COVID-19 Vaccination Rates Called a ‘Gut Punch’
By Lindsey TannerAssociated Press Distrust, misinformation and delays because of the holidays and bad weather have combined to produce what authorities say are alarmingly low COVID-19 vaccination rates in U.S. […]
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Garland Vows Accountability for Anyone Responsible for 1/6
By Michael BalsamoAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday vowed to hold accountable anyone who was responsible for last year’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, whether […]
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Jan. 6 Committee Prepares to go Public as Findings Mount
By Mary Clare JalonickAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — They’ve interviewed more than 300 witnesses, collected tens of thousands of documents and traveled around the country to talk to election officials […]
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Amanda Gorman Writes End-Of-Year Poem, ‘New Day’s Lyric’
By Hillel ItalieAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Amanda Gorman is ending her extraordinary year on a hopeful note. The 23-year-old poet, whose reading of her own “The Hill We […]
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Padilla Joins Colleagues to Press Meta About Failure to Address Election-Related Disinformation Ahead of Jan. 6 Anniversary
Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), a member of the Senate Rules Committee and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, joined Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and 11 of their colleagues […]
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Biden Pivots to Home Tests to Confront Omicron Surge
By Josh Boak, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Colleen LongAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Fighting the Omicron variant surging through the country, President Joe Biden announced the government will provide 500 million […]
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US Faces a Double Coronavirus Surge as Omicron Advances
By Laura Ungar and Carla K. JohnsonAssociated Press The new omicron coronavirus mutant speeding around the world may bring another wave of chaos, threatening to further stretch hospital workers already […]