Malcolm X’s boyhood home in Boston gets historic designation

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March 4, 2021

Malcolm X’s boyhood home in Boston gets historic designation

The 2 ½-story house is the only surviving residence associated with the slain civil rights leader’s formative years in the city.
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March 4, 2021

Vaccine bypasses some older adults who can’t manage to get appointments

Thousands of older Americans are spending hours online or enlisting their grandchildren's help to sign up for a COVID-19 vaccine, an untold number are getting left behind because they are too overwhelmed, too frail or too poor to fend for themselves.
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March 4, 2021

Florida governor faces growing charges of vaccine favoritism toward wealthy

Seniors in a wealthy enclave in Key Largo received hundreds of life-saving vaccinations as early as mid-January.
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March 4, 2021

Pentagon reviewing police request to keep Guard troops at Capitol

There was no disturbance Thursday connected to a threat tied to the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory that former President Trump would rise again to power on March 4.
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March 4, 2021

House passes sweeping voting rights bill over Republican opposition

House Resolution 1, which touches on virtually every aspect of the electoral process, was approved Wednesday night on a near party-line vote.
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March 4, 2021

White House says relief checks will go to most people who got $600 payments

A White House official says 98% of U.S. households that received COVID-19 relief checks in December will also qualify for the next round of payments.
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March 4, 2021

U.S. jobless claims tick up to 745,000 as layoffs remain high

All told, 4.3 million Americans are receiving traditional state unemployment benefits.
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March 4, 2021

The Latest: Fever scanners seen as COVID defense can be wildly inaccurate, researchers find

The latest on the coronavirus pandemic from around the U.S. and the world.
Published
March 3, 2021

Canada vaccine panel recommends 4 months between doses

A national panel of experts says that extending the dose interval would allow as many as 80% of Canadians older than 16 to receive a single dose by the end of June.
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March 3, 2021

Democrats tighten relief benefits, firm up support for pandemic relief bill

Under Wednesday’s agreement, the Senate bill would halt stimulus checks completely for individuals making $80,000 or more and couples earning $160,000.