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Health experts blame rapid expansion for vaccine shortages

Public health experts Thursday blamed vaccine shortages around the U.S. in part on the Trump administration's push to get states to vastly expand their vaccination drives to reach the nation's estimat...

Jan 21, 2021

Native Americans question use of folk song at inaugural

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - On the first day of Joe Biden's presidency, Native Americans had reason to celebrate. Biden cancelled construction of the border wall that threatened to physically separate Indigeno...

Jan 21, 2021

Biden halts oil and gas leases on US land, water for 60 days

BILLINGS, Mont. - The Biden administration announced Thursday the suspension of new oil and gas leasing and drilling permits for U.S. lands and waters for 60 days as part a broad review of programs at...

Jan 21, 2021

US government approves routes for Wyoming CO2 pipelines

CASPER, Wyo. - The U.S. government has approved routes for a system of pipelines that would move carbon dioxide across Wyoming in what could be by far the largest such network in North America, if it ...

Jan 21, 2021

Congress poised for quick action on Biden's Pentagon nominee

WASHINGTON - The Democratic-controlled House easily passed legislation required to confirm retired Gen. Lloyd Austin as President Joe Biden's secretary of defence, brushing aside concerns that his ret...

Jan 21, 2021

Judge: NY lawsuit seeking NRA's dissolution can go forward

NEW YORK - A New York judge on Thursday denied the National Rifle Association's bid to throw out a state lawsuit that seeks to put the powerful gun advocacy group out of business. Judge Joel Cohen's r...

Jan 21, 2021

US official: Biden proposing 5-year extension of nuke treaty

WASHINGTON - The Biden administration is proposing to Russia a five-year extension of the New START treaty limiting the number of U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear weapons, a U.S. official said Thurs...

Jan 21, 2021

Amazon offers assist with US COVID-19 vaccine distribution

SEATTLE - Amazon is offering its colossal operations network and advanced technologies to assist President Joe Biden in his vow to get 100 million COVID-19 vaccinations to Americans in his first 100 d...

Jan 21, 2021

European Central Bank stimulus on track as economy struggles

FRANKFURT - With more than a trillion euros in stimulus still in the pipeline to the economy, the European Central Bank left its key bond-purchase program unchanged Thursday as the 19-country eurozone...

Jan 21, 2021

University president in Maryland offers inaugural poet a job

BALTIMORE - The president of a historically Black university in Maryland was so captivated by inaugural poet Amanda Gorman's poem during President Joe Biden's inauguration that he offered her a job --...

Jan 21, 2021