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National
Massachusetts Calls On The National Guard To Mitigate A School Bus Driver Shortage
The pandemic has contributed to a shortage in bus drivers, so Gov. Charlie Baker says 250 Guard members with commercial driver's licenses will be brought in to help.
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Environment
Scientists Say They Could Bring Back Woolly Mammoths. But Maybe They Shouldn't
A company formed by Harvard genetics professor George Church, known for pioneering work in genome sequencing and gene splicing, hopes to genetically resurrect woolly mammoths.
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National
A Man Died After Being Turned Away From 43 ICUs At Capacity Due To COVID, Family Says
Ray DeMonia didn't die from COVID-19, but after the 73-year-old experienced a cardiac emergency, he was turned away from dozens of packed ICUs, his family says.
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Environment
It Was The Deadliest Year Ever For Land And Environmental Activists
Global Witness, an international human rights group, says a record 227 grassroots environmental activists were killed in 2020. More than half were killed in Colombia, Mexico and the Philippines.
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World
The Afghan Resistance Says Reports Of Its Defeat In Panjshir Are Taliban Propaganda
Ali Nazary, a spokesman for the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, denies that the last holdout against the Taliban has fallen, calling such reports part of the "Taliban propaganda machine."
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National
Gun-Maker Sued In Sandy Hook Shooting Wants The School Records Of Slain Children
Remington Arms, the now-bankrupt gun-maker being sued by nine families of those killed in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School, has subpoenaed academic, attendance and disciplinary records.
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Health
Sorry, Tom Cruise Fans — New 'Top Gun' And 'Mission Impossible' Movies Delayed Again
The blockbuster movies have been pushed back once again — Top Gun: Maverick is now scheduled to hit theaters in the spring and Mission: Impossible 7 won't be released until next September.
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Health
CDC Recommends That Unvaccinated People Don't Travel Over Labor Day Weekend
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has expressed concern about the further spread of the delta variant. Health officials have been concerned about holiday weekends during the pandemic.
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World
With The Americans Gone, Afghanistan Enters Its Uncertain, Taliban-Led Future
Some Afghans welcome their new Taliban rulers, while many others remember the excesses of the harsh ideology they enforced when they last seized power in the 1990s.
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Sports
The Paralympics Are Getting A Higher Profile And Have More Athletes Than Ever
With prime-time coverage and more competitors than ever before, the Tokyo Paralympic Games have a number of "firsts."