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Medical staff prepare a syringe with the Pfizer-BioNTech biologic in Mexico City.  The US Health and Human Services is “winding down” its mRNA vaccine development.

HHS slashes funding for mRNA vaccine development

CNN By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — US Health and Human Services is “winding down” its mRNA vaccine development and will instead fund other vaccine platforms through the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, the agency said Tuesday. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a statement that BARDA would terminate 22 mRNA vaccine

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Sports on TV for Thursday, August 7

By The Associated Press (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Thursday, August 7 AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL (MEN’S) 5:30 a.m. (Friday) FS1 — AFL: Essendon at Geelong FS2 — AFL: Essendon at Geelong CFL FOOTBALL 7:30 p.m. CBSSN — B.C. at Hamilton GOLF 7:30 a.m. GOLF — DP World Tour: The Nexo Championship,

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WNBA Glance

All Times EDT EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB New York 19 10 .655 — Atlanta 18 11 .621 1 Indiana 17 13 .567 2½ Washington 13 16 .448 6 Chicago 8 21 .276 11 Connecticut 5 23 .179 13½ WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Minnesota 25 5 .833 — Phoenix 18 11 .621

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Sports on TV for August 11 – 17

By The Associated Press Adv09-10 (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Monday, August 11 MLB BASEBALL 7 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: Minnesota at N.Y. Yankees (7:05 p.m.) OR Pittsburgh at Milwaukee (7:40 p.m.) 11 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: San Diego at San Francisco (9:45 p.m.) OR L.A. Dodgers at L.A.

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Italy okays $15.5 billion project to build world’s longest suspension bridge from mainland to Sicily

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Italy cleared the way Wednesday to build the world’s largest suspension bridge linking the Italian mainland with Sicily in a massive 13.5 billion euro ($15.5 billion) infrastructure project that has been long delayed by debates over its scale, earthquake threats, environmental impact and the spectre of mafia

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Russia asks Central African Republic to replace Wagner with state-run Africa Corps and pay for it

By JEAN-FERNAND KOENA and MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Officials in the Central African Republic have said that Russia has called on the country to replace the private Wagner mercenary group with Moscow’s state-run Africa Corps and requested payment for further security services. The Central African Republic’s government has been

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin and US special envoy Steve Witkoff met for about three hours in Moscow on Wednesday

Trump says there’s a ‘good chance’ he’ll meet with Putin, but no ‘breakthrough’ in Witkoff’s Moscow trip

By Anna Chernova, Svitlana Vlasova, Catherine Nicholls, Ivana Kottasová, Kylie Atwood, Kristen Holmes, and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump said Wednesday there was a “very good prospect” of a summit meeting soon with Russia that could lead to an end to the war in Ukraine. “We had some very good talks

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Justice Department releases new list of so-called sanctuary jurisdictions

By TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press The Justice Department identified some three dozen states, cities and counties as so-called sanctuary jurisdictions on Tuesday, two months after the federal government quietly removed a much longer list that included many localities that support the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration policies. The earlier, typo-riddled list was met with pushback from

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