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Pfizer asks FDA to allow COVID vaccine for kids under 5

In an extraordinary move, the Food and Drug Administration had urged Pfizer and its partner BioNTech to apply earlier than the companies had planned.

 
‘A day to remember’: Pfizer coronavirus vaccine OK’d in UK

The announcement sets the stage for the biggest vaccination campaign in British history and came just ahead of what experts are warning will be a long, dark winter.

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iPhone battle brings Apple executives and FBI director to congress

FBI Director James Comey defended the agency’s legal pursuit of access to suspects’ digital information, including that of an iPhone owned by one of the San Bernardino terrorists, but he faced some skeptical lawmakers on Capitol Hill who worried about cases setting a precedent that would jeopardize privacy.

 
Lightning suspected in fire at historic S.C. black church

Federal investigators suspect lightning may have caused the fire at Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church in Greeleyville, South Carolina, senior officials in the FBI said Wednesday morning.

 
Supreme Court throws out conviction against man who made Facebook threats

The Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of a Pennsylvania man who posted several violent messages on Facebook and was convicted under a federal threat statute — the first time the Court raised the implications of free speech on social media.

 
Obama launches sanctions to fight ‘malicious’ overseas cyber attacks

President Barack Obama launched a new sanctions program on Wednesday to target individuals and groups outside the United States that use “malicious” cyber attacks to threaten U.S. foreign policy, national security or economic stability.

 
American blogger hacked to death after criticizing religious extremism

Machete-wielding assailants hacked to death an American critic of religious extremism in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, in the latest of a series of attacks on writers who support freethinking values in the Muslim-majority nation.

 
President Obama urges parents to vaccinate kids

President Barack Obama is urging parents to get their children vaccinated in the face of a measles outbreak that has infected more than 100 people in the United States.

 
2 Americans sick with Ebola coming home

Plans are underway to bring back the two American aid workers sick with Ebola from Africa.

 
Smokers: Yearly lung scans could save your life

Certain current or former heavy smokers should start getting yearly scans for lung cancer to cut their risk of death from the nation’s top cancer killer, government advisers said Monday — even as they stressed that the tests aren’t for everyone.