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Dr. Naresh Aggarwal talks with Jennifer Bain, who volunteered for a study of Medicago's COVID-19 vaccine, in Toronto. More than 24,000 volunteers in six countries participated. Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images hide caption
What the omicron variant might mean for current — and future — vaccines
Republican elections lawyer calls for reform to the Electoral Count Act
Books We Love: Ailsa Chang picks 'Empire Of Pain' by Patrick Radden Keefe
President Biden walks to Marine One outside the White House on Dec. 2. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption
Biden pledged to forgive $10,000 in student loan debt. Here's what he's done so far
As Turkey's currency drops, some worry the government can't turn things around
Art Montagne in Honolulu, 1940; his letter to his mom, December 1941; and the American destroyer USS Shaw exploding during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Renee Montagne; Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption
My dad witnessed the horror of Pearl Harbor firsthand. But his letters never let on
How the community of Oxford, Mich., is starting to recover from school shooting
Dr. Naresh Aggarwal talks with Jennifer Bain, who volunteered for a study of Medicago's COVID-19 vaccine, in Toronto. More than 24,000 volunteers in six countries participated. Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images hide caption
National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins served for 12 years under three presidents and presided over an expansion of the agency's budget and efforts to develop new cures to diseases. Graeme Jennings/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Shots - Health News
The NIH director on why Americans aren't getting healthier, despite medical advances
The NIH director on why Americans aren't getting healthier, despite medical advances
Far right is using Twitter's new policy against extremism researchers and activists
More than a foot of rain has fallen and power is out across Hawaii due to storm
Riots haven broken out after soldiers in India killed members of an indigenous tribe
Three of the student authors of Who Is Florence Price? (left to right: Sebastián Núñez, Hazel Peebles and Sophia Shao), joined by their English teacher, Shannon Potts. Courtesy of Special Music School hide caption
These NYC kids have written the history of an overlooked Black female composer
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