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US officials flag “small” reaction risk with J&J vaccine

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WASHINGTON — Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine may pose a “small possible risk” of a rare but potentially dangerous neurological reaction, U.S. health officials...

South Dakota official: Fatal crash may have been suicide

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PIERRE, S.D. — South Dakota's attorney general is attempting to access any psychiatric or psychological records of the man he struck and killed along...

Thrill ride appears to malfunction during Michigan festival

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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — A thrill ride at a popular festival in northern Michigan was dismantled and an investigation started after the machine appeared...

Racial bias reports threaten Tulane med school accreditation

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Associated Press — Allegations of racial discrimination in the Tulane University School of Medicine's Graduate Medical Education program have prompted an accrediting organization to...

FAA: New tool limits disruptions caused by space operations

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Federal regulators said Thursday they now can better track rocket launches and space vehicles returning to Earth, which could cut the amount of time...

Building collapse lawsuits seek to get answers, assign blame

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Even as the search continues over a week later for signs of life in the mangled debris of the fallen Champlain Towers South, the...

Columbus officer who killed Andre Hill wants trial moved

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Extensive publicity about the December police killing of Andre Hill makes it impossible to convene a fair jury locally and so...

Columbus officer who killed Andre Hill wants trial moved

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Extensive publicity about the December police killing of Andre Hill makes it impossible to convene a fair jury locally and so...

Texas inmate faces execution after killing 3 family members

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HOUSTON — A Texas inmate faces execution on Wednesday after killing his pregnant wife, 5-year-old daughter and father-in-law more than a decade ago in...

To aid island during pandemic, students forgo senior trip

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Students from a Maine island high school have seen the world on senior class trips -- the Eiffel Tower, Iceland’s volcanos, Norway’s fjords, the...