Vanessa Romo
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National
DOJ Drops Insider Trading Investigation Into Sen. Richard Burr
Officials launched a probe into Burr's business dealings after he warned some constituents in February to prepare for the coronavirus. Two weeks earlier he had sold off $1.7 million in stocks.
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National
4,400 Moderna Vaccine Doses Not Kept Cold Enough May Be Unusable
Maine says it received vaccines with "the thermometer on the outside of the boxes ... [showing] that at some point the required minimum temperature had been exceeded."
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Business
Boeing To Pay $2.5 Billion Over 737 Max Fraud, Faces No Other Charges
"Boeing's employees chose the path of profit over candor," Justice Department officials said, after reaching a deal with Boeing. Most of the funds will pay airlines whose planes were grounded.
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National
FDA Warns Health Officials Not To Mess With COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Schedule
Agency officials said reducing the number of doses creates a potential for harm in patients because "they may assume that they are fully protected when they are not" and may "take unnecessary risks."
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National
Pharmacist Who Spoiled More Than 500 Vaccine Doses Said He Thought They Were 'Unsafe'
"He'd formed this belief they were unsafe," prosecutors said Monday. They also disclosed colleagues of the now-fired pharmacist Steven Brandenburg reported he had twice taken a gun to work.
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National
Pharmacist Arrested, Accused Of Destroying More Than 500 Moderna Vaccine Doses
The now-fired hospital employee later said he knew "that people who received the vaccinations would think they had been vaccinated against the virus when in fact they were not," investigators said.
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National
Some 500 Coronavirus Vaccine Doses Intentionally Destroyed, Hospital Says
Officials at the Wisconsin medical center first suspected a now-former employee inadvertently left the Moderna drugs out of cold storage. But an investigation concludes they were deliberately removed.
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National
California Identifies A Case Of Coronavirus Variant First Seen In U.K.
Newsom made the announcement during an online conversation about the pandemic with Dr. Anthony Fauci, but offered little additional information about the circumstances of the diagnosis.
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National
Massachusetts Senate Overrides Veto, Passes Law Expanding Abortion Access
"Pregnant people who once faced near-insurmountable barriers accessing abortion care can now seize the right to control their own bodies," Senate President Emerita Harriette Chandler said Tuesday.
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National
Justice Department Declines To Prosecute Cleveland Officers Who Killed Tamir Rice
The department announced that it found insufficient evidence to "support federal criminal charges" against Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback.