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US pharmacies could administer up to 100 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine a month. Here’s how

Shipments of Covid-19 vaccines will be headed to pharmacies this week under a federal program that aims to get more people vaccinated quickly. Twenty-one “national pharmacy partners and networks of independent pharmacies representing over 40,000 pharmacy locations nationwide” are taking part in the program, according to a government fact sheet, which includes a list of

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Coyote spotted in Central Park, but officials say ‘They’re not there to chase humans’

Click here for updates on this story     New York (WCBS) — Take a stroll through Central Park and you never know what you’ll encounter. Recently a snowy owl ruffled many feathers. Now coyote sightings have hairs standing on end. As CBS2’s Vanessa Murdock reports, it was something unusual caught on camera – a coyote in

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Impeachment managers conclude their case and urge Senate to convict Trump for inciting insurrection

House impeachment managers concluded their case against Donald Trump on Thursday, urging the Senate to convict the former President for inciting the insurrectionists that attacked the US Capitol, arguing he was responsible for the deadly riots on January 6 and showed no remorse afterward. The managers used their final day of arguments in the Senate

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Saudi women empowerment ‘a lie’, say siblings of Loujain al-Hathloul a day after her release

The family of Saudi activist Loujain al-Hathloul issued a scathing rebuke to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in a press conference Thursday, a day after the women’s rights defender was released from prison. Hathloul, who alleges that she was tortured and sexually assaulted while in prison, is a prominent women’s rights defender. Her arrest in

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Study finds police officers of color make fewer stops and arrests and use less force than White officers

At a time of national reckoning and outcry over systemic racism, prominent proposals for addressing police brutality call for law enforcement agencies to more closely reflect the demographics of communities they serve. Now, one of the first studies of its kind — published Thursday in the journal Science — finds that deploying officers of color

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