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In rural areas where vaccination rates are low and hiring is already difficult, hospital directors are worried there could be staffing shortages.

Billions more in profits are at stake for some vaccine makers as the U.S. moves toward dispensing COVID-19 booster shots to shore up Americans’ protection against the virus.

The CDC advisers said boosters should be offered to people 65 and older, nursing home residents and those ages 50 to 64 who have risky underlying health problems.

The suspected shooter died of what investigators believe was a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the police chief says. No motive has been given.

The subpoenas compel four former officials to produce sought-after documents, relevant to the Jan. 6 attack, by Oct. 7 and then sit for a deposition the following week.

The U.S. has moved a step closer to offering booster doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to seniors and others at high risk from the virus.

The FDA itself still has to decide whether it agrees with its advisers’ recommendation and will authorize Pfizer boosters.

The increasingly lethal turn has filled hospitals, complicated the start of the school year, delayed the return to offices and demoralized health care workers.

The pledge will come at the start of a virtual summit aimed at boosting commitments from other nations and the private sector.

The House has approved legislation to fund the government, suspend its borrowing limit and provide federal disaster and refugee aid.

"I thought the Haitians were quite scared, and I think there was probably some panic which resulted in them trying to run around the horses," photographer Paul Ratje says.

The COVID-19 crisis is by any measure a colossal tragedy in its own right, especially given the incredible advances in scientific knowledge since 1918.

It's a massive show of force that signals the beginning of what could be one of America’s swiftest, large-scale expulsions of migrants or refugees in decades.

Dr. Alan Braid said that his decision to perform an abortion past the six-week mark earlier this month was a matter of duty.

The United States is trying to stem the flow of migrants into Texas by blocking the Mexican border at an isolated town where thousands of Haitian refugees set up a camp.