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Pentagon to deploy 1,100 troops to help COVID-19 vaccination efforts

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday announced that the Pentagon had approved the deployment of 1,100 active-duty (More…)

Biden’s immense economic challenge: Putting 10 million people back to work

By Jonnelle Marte

(Reuters) – President Joe Biden is presenting his plan on Friday for addressing one of the greatest (More…)

Mars ready for its close-up: China releases space probe’s first image

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s maiden space exploration mission to Mars has captured its first image of the red planet, the (More…)

Hong Kong to teach children as young as six about subversion, foreign interference

By Pak Yiu and Sarah Wu

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong has unveiled controversial guidelines for schools in the (More…)

Protests against Myanmar junta spread despite arrests

(Reuters) – Teachers and students in Myanmar rallied on Friday to a growing civil disobedience campaign as the anti-coup protest (More…)

One U.S. company’s risky effort to build a new mask factory during COVID

By Timothy Aeppel

LA VERNE, Calif. (Reuters) – Dan Izhaky is betting $4 million that the pandemic will change what (More…)

U.S. Senate passes budget plan to advance Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID aid package

By Richard Cowan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s drive to enact a $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid bill gained momentum (More…)

McKinsey to pay $600 million to settle with U.S. states over opioid crisis role

By Jonathan Stempel and Nate Raymond

(Reuters) – Consulting firm McKinsey & Company on Thursday said it has agreed to (More…)

Biden set to accept more refugees

By Steve Holland and Ted Hesson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will issue an executive order to build (More…)

Vaccine passports: path back to normality or problem in the making?

By Natalie Thomas

LONDON (Reuters) – Governments and developers around the world are exploring the potential use of “vaccine passports” (More…)