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How Will Delta and COVID-19 Change This Back-to-School Season? Here’s What to Know

Getting the kids ready to go back to school each fall is stressful enough in a normal year, never mind in the midst of a pandemic. Between the more transmissible Delta coronavirus variant, rising cases across the country and new

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Almost Every Doctor Recommends Sunscreen. So Why Don’t We Know More About Its Safety?

Each year, as Memorial Day approaches, Holly Thaggard braces herself for the headlines. About how sunscreen may be damaging coral reefs. About the possible flammability of spray-on sunscreen. Headlines—as there were this year—about how sunscreen contains chemicals that could harm

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U.S. and Turkey Caught in Extradition Fight for Businessman With Ties to Turkish Elite

Sezgin Baran Korkmaz is at the center of an extradition fight between the U.S. and Turkey, which both want him on charges of laundering proceeds from a renewable-energy tax credit fraud, and where he winds up could affect already strained

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Senators unveil full text of $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, totaling 2,702 pages – CBS News

Senators unveil full text of $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, totaling 2,702 pages  CBS News Senate Unveils Biden’s $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill  CBS Miami It’s in and it’s big: Senate unveils $1T infrastructure bill  Associated Press Bipartisan infrastructure win shows Democrats must continue

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Belarusian Olympic Sprinter Receives Polish Visa

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya is set to travel to Poland on Wednesday after she resisted her team’s attempts to send her home from Tokyo against her will in the middle of a public dispute.

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10 Unique Storylines To Follow In The Final Stretch Of The Tokyo Olympics

The swimmers are now leaving Japan and the spotlight moves to the track and field events at Olympic Stadium. We’ll walk you through the biggest things to watch for until the closing ceremony. (Image credit: Ashley Landis/AP)

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The Station: The script for Elon Musk’s Loop drivers, Redwood snags $700M and a chat with Kodiak Robotics’ co-founder

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox. Hello readers: Welcome to The Station, your central hub for all past, present

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MRNA’s Next Chapter Has Nothing to Do With COVID-19 Vaccines

It’s safe to say that before the development of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, most people hadn’t thought about messenger RNA, or mRNA, since high school science class—if ever. The molecule plays a pivotal role in the body, carrying

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E-scooter company Fenix acquires Palm for $5M, gains entry to Turkish market

Abu Dhabi-based micromobility company Fenix has acquired Palm, a shared e-scooter company in Turkey, for $5 million – the exact amount the company raised last November and this past February during its seed round. Despite having not even raised a

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Simone Biles on start list for Olympics beam final

Simone Biles is set to return to competition at the Olympic Games for the closing women’s gymnastics beam final on Tuesday. The US superstar’s name was included on the list of eight finalists for the beam released on Monday. Biles,

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