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Biden in reach of key legislative priority as Senate backs bipartisan infrastructure bill

A massive bill that would inject more than $1 trillion dollars into infrastructure and climate projects in the U.S. cleared the Senate Tuesday, and is now headed to the House. Nineteen Republicans joined all 50 Democrats in voting to pass…

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As millions of students return to the classroom, parents remain divided on mask mandates

As U.S. schools begin opening for another year of learning, the controversy over whether students should be required to wear masks is anything but settled in many states. While hospitalization and death from COVID-19 is uncommon in children, cases have…

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California prison inmates become a critical resource for fighting wildfires

By William Brangham, Sam Lane, Lena I. Jackson

The Dixie Fire, now the second-largest in California history, continues to burn northern parts of the state. It comes as California faces a shortage of firefighters, a scenario that's bringing new attention to a critical firefighting resource: prison inmates. William…

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Hospitals run low on nurses as they get swamped with COVID-19

By Terry Spencer, Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Andrew Selsky, Associated Press

The surge in COVID-19 infections across the U.S. has caused a shortage of nurses and other front-line staff in virus hot spots that can no longer keep up with the flood of unvaccinated patients.

Legal group backs U.S. review of Indigenous boarding schools

By Susan Montoya Bryan, Associated Press

The American Bar Association’s policymaking body is supporting the U.S. Interior Department as it works to uncover the troubled legacy of federal boarding schools.

We don’t know exactly how many people are dying from heat — here’s why

By Chloe Jones, Cresencio Rodriguez-Delgado

Data on heat deaths is sparse and undercounted, making it difficult to predict the impact of climate change as temperatures continue to rise.

Groups make own drugs to fight high drug prices, shortages

By Linda A. Johnson, Associated Press

Impatient with years of inaction in Washington on prescription drug prices, U.S. hospital groups, startups and nonprofits have started making their own medicines.

Poles protest bill that would silence U.S.-owned TV network

By Vanessa Gera, Associated Press

Nationwide demonstrations have begun across Poland against a bill seen as an effort by the country’s nationalist ruling party to silence an independent, U.S.-owned television broadcaster.

Kathy Hochul to become first female governor of New York after Cuomo resignation

By Carolyn Thompson, Associated Press

The centrist Democrat from western New York last week joined the chorus of politicians denouncing the governor. She said Tuesday that she's ready to lead.

U.S. vows to isolate Taliban if they take power by force

By Kathy Gannon, Tameem Akhgar, Associated Press

A US peace envoy has brought a warning to the Taliban that any government that comes to power through force in Afghanistan won’t be recognized internationally.