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FDA authorizes two COVID boosters targeted at Omicron subvariants
(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday authorized the retooled COVID-19 booster shots of both Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech that target the currently dominant BA.4/BA.5 Omicron su...
Aug 31, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A vial and a syringe are seen in front of a displayed Moderna logo, in this illustration taken, November 27, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
U.S. Army grounds Boeing-made Chinook helicopters fleet
(Reuters) - The U.S. Army has temporarily grounded its fleet of about 400 Chinook helicopters due to a risk of engine fires, a spokeswoman told Reuters on Tuesday. Planemaker Boeing Co makes the heavy...
Aug 31, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter is seen at the ILA Air Show in Berlin, Germany, April 25, 2018. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt
U.S. life expectancy fell further in 2021 due to COVID
(Reuters) - Life expectancy fell in the United States in 2021 to its lowest since 1996, the second year of a historic retreat due to COVID-19 deaths, provisional government data showed on Wednesday. T...
Aug 31, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A general view of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia September 30, 2014. REUTERS/Tami Chappell/
Video surfaces of brawl at East Peoria high school football game
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- Another video getting passed around online is scaring parents, showing local high school students in a violent fight. It's the second recorded incident from Friday night, putting ...
Aug 31, 2022 (25 News)
NASA to make second attempt at debut moon rocket launch on Saturday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA aims to make a second attempt to launch its giant next-generation moon rocket on Saturday, Sept. 3, five days after a pair of technical issues foiled an initial try at getti...
Aug 31, 2022 NASA's next-generation moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), with the Orion crew capsule perched on top, stands on launch complex 39B one day after an engine-cooling problem forced NASA to delay the debut test launch at Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. August 30, 2022. REUTERS/Steve Nesius
PPD: Teens arrested for fight at Peoria Stadium
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police have now arrested three teenagers after Peoria Stadium was evacuated during a brawl last Friday night. On Monday, a 17-year-old was arrested for mob action and transporte...
Aug 31, 2022 MWC-PPD
U.S. Justice Dept says Trump team may have moved classified papers amid probe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department said it had evidence that classified documents were deliberately concealed from the FBI when it tried to retrieve them in June from former President D...
Aug 31, 2022 FILE PHOTO: An aerial view of former U.S. President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home after Trump said that FBI agents searched it, in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. August 15, 2022. REUTERS/Marco Bello
Biden blasts 'sickening' threats against FBI, MAGA Congress members
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden condemned violent threats against FBI agents who searched predecessor Donald Trump's home as "sickening," as he called for more police funding and...
Aug 30, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden disembarks from Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., August 29, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War, dies at 91
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, Russian news agencies cited hos...
Aug 30, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev addresses the audience after the Russian premiere of the documentary film "Meeting Gorbachev" in Moscow, Russia November 8, 2018. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva
U.S. labor market defies interest rate hikes as job openings rise high in July
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. job openings increased in July and data for the prior month was revised sharply higher, pointing to persistently strong demand for labor that is giving the Federal Reserve ...
Aug 30, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A restaurant advertising jobs looks to attract workers in Oceanside, California, U.S., May 10, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
