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Brazilian Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga at Palacio do Planalto

Brazilian health minister tests positive for Covid-19 while in New York for UN meeting

By Rodrigo Pedroso and Jessie Yeung, CNN Brazilian Minister of Health Marcelo Queiroga has tested positive for Covid-19 while in New York City for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the Brazilian president’s office announced Tuesday evening. Queiroga was part of Jair Bolsonaro’s Presidential Committee, according to the statement, which added he was “doing well.”

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Covid-19 vaccine boosters can begin for some US adults as CDC partially diverges from its advisers’ recommendations

By Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN Following days of lengthy debate among vaccine experts, booster shots of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine can now be officially administered to some adults in the United States. Early Friday morning, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky diverged from the agency’s independent vaccine advisers to recommend boosters

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Missouri’s Vision Zero Plan addresses cellphone use while driving

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri held its Highway and Traffic Conference with one topic of focus on texting while driving. According to the Federal Highway Administration, each fatal Missouri crash caused by distracted driving results in $9.9 million in comprehensive cost, including $1.5 million in economic costs like emergency services, legal cost, property damage and lost

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An exhausted Haitian father cradles his son on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande from Del Rio

Texas governor approves miles-long steel barrier of police vehicles to deter the more than 8,000 migrants in Del Rio

By Amir Vera, Carma Hassan and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN With 8,600 migrants remaining under the Del Rio International Bridge, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday officials are using “unprecedented” methods to deter migrants from crossing into the state, including parking Texas National Guard and Texas Department of Public Safety vehicles for miles along the border

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State representative criticizes Columbia Public Schools over music video use in class

State Rep. Chuck Basye (R-Rocheport) said parents complained to him about a U.S. studies course using the video for “This is America” by Childish Gambino in class. Basye said the video features “gun violence, murder, inappropriate use of firearms and drug use.” Basye said superintendent Brian Yearwood and CPS had not done enough to address concerns he’s heard from parents.

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Missouri leaders say more than 45,000 adults have gotten the vaccine since the launch of the incentive program

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri’s Vaccine Incentive Program or MO VIP will have its fourth drawing of winners Wednesday and state leaders are considering the program to have been a success. Lisa Cox, spokeswoman for the Missouri Department of Health and Human Services, said the state has had about 630,000 people enter the program and

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