By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer says its experimental pill for COVID-19 cut rates of hospitalization and death by nearly 90% among patients with mild-to-moderate infections. The company announced Friday it will soon ask the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and international regulators to authorize its pill, which is taken twice
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By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer says its experimental pill for COVID-19 cut rates of hospitalization and death by nearly 90% among patients with mild-to-moderate infections. The company announced Friday it will soon ask the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and international regulators to authorize its pill, which is taken twice
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By Bob Ortega, CNN Investigates Brandon Steele, a second-term Republican in West Virginia’s House, worked hard this year to get his colleagues to pass his “Second Amendment Preservation Act.” It seeks to bar state or local police from enforcing new federal gun restrictions the Biden administration might adopt. Mind you, Steele himself concedes he doesn’t
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By Daniel Dale, CNN President Joe Biden was asked by a Fox News reporter on Wednesday about a Wall Street Journal article last week that had reported “the Biden administration is in talks to offer immigrant families that were separated during the Trump administration around $450,000 a person in compensation.” The reporter asked Biden if
Continue Reading By Daniel Dale, CNN President Joe Biden was asked by a Fox News reporter on Wednesday about a Wall Street Journal article last week that had reported “the Biden administration is in talks to offer immigrant families that were separated during the Trump administration around $450,000 a person in compensation.” The reporter asked Biden if
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — Spain’s health minister has signed an order granting single women, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people access to medically assisted reproduction in the public health system. That step allows them to get treatment free of charge. The measure had long been demanded by LGBT rights groups. Fertility treatment is free in Spain, but
Continue Reading Mariana Toro (CNN) — La farmacéutica Pfizer dijo el viernes que su píldora experimental diseñada para combatir el coronavirus redujo el riesgo de hospitalización y muerte para los pacientes de alto riesgo que participan en un ensayo del medicamento. El CEO de la compañía, Albert Bourla, dijo que esperaba enviar la píldora a los reguladores
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN This morning’s October jobs report is expected to contain good news. An estimated 450,000 jobs were added last month, more than in both September and August. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN This morning’s October jobs report is expected to contain good news. An estimated 450,000 jobs were added last month, more than in both September and August. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN This morning’s October jobs report is expected to contain good news. An estimated 450,000 jobs were added last month, more than in both September and August. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN This morning’s October jobs report is expected to contain good news. An estimated 450,000 jobs were added last month, more than in both September and August. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN This morning’s October jobs report is expected to contain good news. An estimated 450,000 jobs were added last month, more than in both September and August. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to
Continue Reading By Judson Jones and Monica Garrett, CNN Water levels reached the major flood stage in Charleston, South Carolina, on Friday morning, according to a tidal gauge report. The gauge shows the tide reached 8 feet, the minimal level for major flooding, for a few minutes around 9 a.m. Saturday morning’s tide is forecast to be
Continue Reading By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — China has criticized a press freedom survey from the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents’ Club that found nearly half its members are considering leaving the city. The survey says the members are concerned about a decline in press freedoms under a sweeping national security law imposed by
Continue Reading COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Latvian parliament has given employers the go-ahead to dismiss employees who are required to get vaccinated against the coronavirus but refuse to do so. The Seimas assembly voted 52 -27 to authorize employers to suspend workers without required vaccination certificates for whom they are unable to make accommodations. Employers must
Continue Reading Mariana Toro (CNN) — La Cámara de Representantes de EE.UU. votará el viernes sobre el amplio plan de red de seguridad social del presidente Joe Biden y el proyecto de ley de infraestructura bipartidista. Los líderes demócratas de la Cámara de Representantes esperaban una votación sobre el paquete económico el jueves por la noche, pero
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By Rob Picheta and Nadine Schmidt, CNN German health officials have warned the country is in the grips of a “very worrying” spike in Covid-19 cases and expanded its booster vaccine program to all adults, after a new record in daily infections was registered for the second day running. More than 37,000 new infections were
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By Melanie Zanona and Ella Nilsen, CNN As global temperatures rise, some congressional Republicans are feeling the pressure to show they’re embracing climate change and offer up their own plan for how to deal with it. But those same Republicans are also running smack dab into a familiar obstacle: former President Donald Trump, their de
Continue Reading By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer says its experimental pill for COVID-19 cut rates of hospitalization and death by nearly 90% among patients with mild-to-moderate infections. The company announced Friday it will soon ask the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and international regulators to authorize its pill, which is taken twice
Continue Reading By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer says its experimental pill for COVID-19 cut rates of hospitalization and death by nearly 90% among patients with mild-to-moderate infections. The company announced Friday it will soon ask the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and international regulators to authorize its pill, which is taken twice
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