WASHINGTON – Prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center can begin getting the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as Monday, a senior defense official told The Associated Press, months after a plan to inoculate them was scuttled over outrage that many Americans weren’t eligible to receive the shots.

The new timing coincides with President Joe Biden’s deadline for states to make all adults in the U.S. eligible for coronavirus vaccines.

Beginning Monday, anyone older than 18 in the country qualifies to sign up and get in a virtual line to be vaccinated. The defense official said all 40 men held at the Navy base in Cuba will be offered the vaccination to comply with legal requirements regarding the treatment of prisoners and to help prevent

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More than 50,000 boosters given yesterday; 446 community cases; 23 in hospital

The Big Boost continues today, promoting the booster dose to anyone over 18 who has had their second dose more than 3 months ago. Many vaccination centres will be open extended hours over the weekend to encourage people to get their booster.

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Delaware County hospital gives families one-week notice before closing hospice unit

RIDLEY, Pa. - Maureen Tribuiani said she knows her 87-year-old mother’s time is coming. It’s an indescribable pain, but one that was slightly alleviated knowing she was at least in good hands."We don’t know if it’s going to be weeks,or a month, or months, but she’s still at the end, and I want her happy and comfortable, and she was very comfortable there," Tribuiani said.She brought her mother, Mary "Mae" Doherty, to the 10-bed inpatient hospice unit at Taylor Hospital in Ridley Park back on Jan.

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COVID-19: Copping says non-ICU hospitalizations in Alberta within normal capacity

Health Minister Jason Copping explains why the Alberta government chose to start loosening COVID-19 health measures immediately instead of waiting for numbers to come down.

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COVID-19: Copping says Alberta’s restrictions exemption program was no longer effective

Health Minister Jason Copping explains why the Alberta government chose to scrap its restrictions exemption program immediately.

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Alberta health minister explains decision to remove COVID-19 mask restrictions for children under 12

Health Minister Jason Copping explains the reasoning behind the removal of masking mandates for children under 12 in Alberta.

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Biden's first address to Congress is invite-only

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden's first address to Congress is an invite-only affair, no guests allowed.

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U.S. to share 60M AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses with world

AstraZeneca once the COVID-19 vaccine clear federal safety reviews, the White House told The Associated Press on Monday, with as many as 60 million doses expected to be available for export in the coming months.The move greatly expands on the Biden administration’s action last month to share about 4 million doses of the vaccine with Mexico and Canada. The AstraZeneca vaccine is widely in use around the world but not yet authorized by the U.S.

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Singer Mary Millben urges Biden to help India as Covid cases see record spike

Joe Biden urging him to help India, which is grappling with the deadly second wave of coronavirus.Applauding Biden for prioritising Americans in the coronavirus vaccination distribution, Millben, who is a big fan of Indian culture and its people, said the US is headed to better days, “but in India, the days worsen".“Mr President, today, America is in full capability to help India. Thank you for lifting the ban on raw materials.

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US considering boosting aid to India amid devastating COVID-19 surge, Fauci says

NOIDA, INDIA - APRIL 24: Relatives of Covid-19 victims wait outside the mortuary at Maulana Azad Medical Collage, on April 24, 2021 in New Delhi, India. (Photo by Sanjeev Verma/Hindustan Times via Getty Images) The Biden administration’s top medical adviser on the pandemic says the U.S.

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Defining numbers from Biden's early days, from jobs to virus

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden's opening months in office have been a whirlwind of activity during the pandemic and the start of an economic recovery. He is facing a sharp increase in the number of migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border, the tragedy of mass shootings and lingering tensions over racial inequities, the environment and the legacy of his predecessor, Donald Trump.

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More action, less talk, distinguish Biden's 100-day sprint

WASHINGTON – The card tucked in President Joe Biden’s right jacket pocket must weigh a ton. You can see the weight of it on his face when he digs it out, squints and ever-so-slowly reads aloud the latest tally of COVID-19 dead.

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US in 'active' talks to send aid as India battles second wave of Covid-19

India and will race additional support to the Indian government and health care workers, a White House spokeswoman said on Saturday."We are in active conversations at high levels and plan to quickly deploy additional support to the Government of India and Indian health care workers as they battle this latest severe outbreak.

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The big Pentagon internet mystery now partially solved

BOSTON – A very strange thing happened on the internet the day President Joe Biden was sworn in. A shadowy company residing at a shared workspace above a Florida bank announced to the world’s computer networks that it was now managing a colossal, previously idle chunk of the internet owned by the U.S. Department of Defense.

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Honda to phase out gas-powered cars in North America by 2040

NEW YORK - Japanese automaker Honda said Friday that it plans to phase out all of its gasoline-powered vehicles in North America by 2040, making it the latest major automaker with a goal of becoming carbon neutral.The announcement came as leaders of the major global economies met for President Joe Biden's climate summit.

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NBC's Kristen Welker reveals difficulties with infertility

NEW YORK – NBC News' Kristen Welker, shortly before she expects the birth of a daughter through a surrogate, is revealing the struggles with infertility that she and her husband, John Hughes, have gone through.

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Meet the nurse from Montreal who vaccinated Joe Biden

COVID-19 vaccine.The chief executive nurse of ChristianaCare Christiana Hospital was tasked with giving the booster shot to then-president-elect Joe Biden in the midst of the pandemic that has killed millions.“You never really do know what to expect in life,” the former Montrealer said.Cuming found out a week before that he would be vaccinating Biden, who was about to be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. Biden says U.S.

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COVID-19 hospitalizations in U.S. down over 70% among seniors

COVID-19 hospitalizations among older Americans have plunged more than 70 per cent since the start of the year, and deaths among them appear to have tumbled as well, dramatic evidence the vaccination campaign is working.Now the trick is to get more of the nation’s younger people to roll up their sleeves.The drop-off in severe cases among Americans 65 and older is especially encouraging because senior citizens have accounted for about 8 out of 10 deaths from the virus since it hit the U.S., where the toll stands at about 570,000. Over 5M Canadians given at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose as rollout picks up steam COVID-19 deaths among people of all ages in the U.S.

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COVID-19 vaccine milestone: US surpasses goal of 200 million shots administered in less than 100 days

WASHINGTON - The United States passed a milestone Thursday in the Biden administration's effort to get Americans vaccinated against COVID-19: More than 200 million shots have been administered.President Joe Biden wrote on Twitter, "Today, we officially reached our goal of 200 million shots in my first 100 days. Make no mistake: This is an American achievement.

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Countering Biden, GOP pitches $568B for infrastructure

WASHINGTON – A group of Senate Republicans on Thursday unveiled a public works proposal with a much smaller price tag and a narrower definition of infrastructure than what President Joe Biden has proposed, highlighting the stark differences between the two sides that will be difficult to bridge in coming months.

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Biden to open global Earth Day summit with ambitious new US climate pledge

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden will open a global climate summit with a pledge to cut at least in half the climate-wrecking coal and petroleum fumes that the U.S. pumps out, a commitment he hopes will spur China and other big polluters to speed up efforts of their own.Biden is offering Americans and the world a vision of a prosperous, clean-energy United States where factories churn out cutting-edge batteries for export, line workers re-lay an efficient national electrical grid and crews cap abandoned oil and gas rigs and coal mines.Helen Mountford, the vice president for climate and economics at the World Resources Institute, discusses the Paris Agreement, an accord that President Biden rejoined.His commitment to cut U.S.

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Biden opening summit with ambitious new US climate pledge

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden will open a global climate summit with a pledge to cut at least in half the climate-wrecking coal and petroleum fumes that the U.S. pumps out, a commitment he hopes will spur China and other big polluters to speed up efforts of their own.

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Are vaccine incentives and mandates the right approach?

PHILADELPHIA - President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced a tax incentive for businesses to give employees paid leave to get vaccinated against COVID-19.Drexel University says it will be a vaccinated campus in the fall. No COVID vaccine means no in-person learning, campus living, or school activities."Going next Thursday to get shot," Maryssa Erdman said.

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US offers business tax credits for Covid vaccinations

United States will offer tax credits to businesses that grant their employees time off to receive a Covid-19 vaccine or recover from its side effects, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday.The credits are aimed at companies and tax-exempt organizations with fewer than 500 employees, as well as some government offices, and are paid for by the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan President Joe Biden signed last month."Eligible employers may claim tax credits for sick and family leave paid to employees, including leave taken to receive or recover from Covid-19 vaccinations, for leave from April 1, 2021, through September 30, 2021," according to details of the credits published by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).Biden, who took office in

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Trudeau on conversation with U.S. President Joe Biden about when more COVID-19 vaccines will be coming to Canada

Following a conversation with U.S. President Joe Biden this week about more COVID-19 vaccines coming to Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tells reporter Richard Zussman about what Canadians can expect.

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US administers 200 million COVID-19 vaccine doses

Today, on day 92 of his presidency, Joe Biden has reached his goal of administering more than 200 million vaccine doses to Americans, 8 days ahead of schedule.

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Biden says U.S. plans to offer Canada extra COVID-19 vaccines in future

Joe Biden says he’s planning to give surplus COVID-19 vaccines to other countries, including Canada, in the future as his country’s vaccination rollout hits another milestone.Biden said he spoke to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Wednesday about providing additional vaccine assistance to Canada, but also suggested some of the extra vaccines could go to Central America. He noted that the U.S.

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Biden says he spoke to Trudeau about helping procure COVID-19 vaccines, including offering Canada extra supply

U.S. President Joe Biden said he spoke to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday about helping procure COVID-19 vaccines including offering some of their extra supply, but that they’ll have to make sure they’re safe before sending.

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Call for 'political pressure' on vaccine rights waiver to increase supply

Former President and UN Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson has called for "political pressure" in support of an international campaign for intellectual property rights on Covid-19 vaccines to be waived, so that production can be increased across the globe.

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Biden expects to meet 100-day COVID-19 vaccine goal: White House

According to White House press secretary Jen Psaki, U.S. President Joe Biden is set to announce on Wednesday that he expects to meet his COVID-19 vaccination goal – 200 million shots administered in his first 100 days in office.

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Joe Biden to offer tax credits for COVID-19 vaccination paid time off

WASHINGTON : President Joe Biden on Wednesday will announce tax credits to businesses that provide paid time off for some people to get COVID-19 shots as he seeks to get corporate America more involved in the vaccination campaign, officials said.Biden administration officials said the government plans to reimburse businesses for the cost of giving workers as many as 80 hours paid time off to get their shots or recover from any vaccination side effects.The tax credit of up to $511 per day through September for each worker would be given to businesses with fewer than 500 employees, officials said. Businesses of that size employ roughly half of the country's private sector workers.

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Biden expected to push for more COVID-19 vaccinations as administration nears 200M shots goal

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden is set to give remarks Wednesday on the country’s COVID-19 vaccination effort as the U.S. approaches his goal of 200 million shots administered during his first 100 days in office.Biden, in his planned address, will note that the U.S.

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Hitting latest vaccine milestone, Biden pushes shots for all

WASHINGTON – The U.S. is set to meet President Joe Biden’s latest vaccine goal of administering 200 million coronavirus shots in his first 100 days in office, as the White House steps up its efforts to inoculate the rest of the public.

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AP sources: Biden to pledge halving greenhouse gases by 2030

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden will pledge to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions at least in half by 2030 as he convenes as a virtual climate summit with 40 world leaders, according to three people with knowledge of the White House plans.

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Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez unveil Green New Deal proposal to modernize US public housing

WASHINGTON - Progressives introduced the "Green New Deal for Public Housing Act" this week, which would invest billions into retrofitting existing public housing over the next decade to reduce environmental hazards like lead and water poisoning, among other initiatives.Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep.

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Repeated Guard missions in DC trigger frustration, denials

WASHINGTON – Three months after more than 25,000 National Guard troops poured into the nation's capital to secure President Joe Biden's inauguration, Defense Department and Guard officials are losing patience and are denying some of the city's recurring requests for troops to protect D.C.

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Guantanamo prisoners now getting COVID-19 vaccine

The American flag flies over Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. (U.S.

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All adults in US now eligible for COVID-19 vaccine

WASHINGTON - All adults in the United States are now eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, another major milestone reached in the ongoing effort to vaccinate the population against the virus and defeat the pandemic.Adults are eligible to register for vaccination in every U.S. state, as well as in Washington, D.C.

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Asian shares rise amid cautious outlook for global economy

TOKYO – Asian shares rose moderately Monday amid cautious optimism about a global rebound from the coronavirus pandemic.

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Asian shares mixed amid cautious outlook for global economy

TOKYO – Asian shares were mixed Monday amid cautious optimism about a global rebound from the coronavirus pandemic.

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US is unlikely to ‘just cancel’ J&J covid-19 shots, Anthony Fauci says

Booster ShotsSouth Africa’s health regulator asked its government on Saturday to lift a pause on the Johnson & Johnson shots provided certain conditions are met.Separately, Fauci, a top adviser to President Joe Biden, said officials would determine “soon" -- likely by the end of summer -- whether people who’ve been vaccinated against Covid may need to get booster shots or new vaccines aimed at emerging strains.Officials with vaccine makers Moderna and Pfizer have indicated that a booster dose may be required, or that the Covid vaccines become annual events like flu shots, but Fauci on NBC said that such a call would be a “public health decision."“It’s not going to be a decision that’s going to be made by a pharmaceutical company," he said.

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New migrant facilities crop up to ease crowding, again

For the third time in seven years, U.S. officials are scrambling to handle a dramatic spike in children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border alone, leading to a massive expansion in emergency facilities to house them as more kids arrive than are being released to close relatives in the United States.

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Fauci says he expects J&J vaccine to resume later this week

WASHINGTON – The United States will likely move to resume Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine this coming week, possibly with restrictions or broader warnings after reports of some very rare blood clot cases, the government’s top infectious diseases expert said Sunday.

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Japanese leader asks Pfizer for additional vaccine supply

TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga asked the U.S. drug maker Pfizer Inc. for additional supplies of the COVID-19 vaccine to speed up the inoculation drive that lags behind many other countries.

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Fore! Biden plays golf for the first time as president

WILMINGTON, Del. – President Joe Biden has taken his first swing at a presidential pastime: golf.

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China says US-Japan actions are stoking division

BEIJING – China hit back at the U.S.-Japan show of alliance during talks between President Joe Biden and Japan Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, calling it an "ironic attempt of stoking division.”

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Celebrities make a stand for COVID vaccines on TV special

LOS ANGELES – President Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama and a slew of celebrities including Billy Crystal, Jennifer Hudson and Lin-Manuel Miranda are part of a special aimed at boosting COVID-19 vaccination rates.

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‘This has to end’: Biden urges Senate to bring gun control bill to floor ‘now’ in wake of FedEx shooting

INDIANAPOLIS - After a gunman killed eight people and wounded several others before killing himself in a late-night shooting Thursday at a FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport — the latest mass shooting on an already long list in 2021 after a lull during the COVID-19 pandemic — President Joe Biden called on Congress to act immediately on gun control legislation.The Gun Violence Archive recorded 147 mass shootings and 11 mass murders this year alone, as the Biden administration ramps up its response to gun violence in America.RELATED: Police: 8 killed in shooting at FedEx facility in IndianapolisThe Indianapolis shooting overnight was at least the third mass shooting this year in the city alone.

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Japan's prime minister meets with Biden, urges strong alliance to counter China

US President Joe Biden (L) and Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (2R) take part in an expanded bilateral meeting in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC on April 16, 2021.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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