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US President Joe Biden greets children during a visit at a Covid-19 vaccination clinic at the Church of the Holy Communion in Washington, DC on June 21, 2022. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP) (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

Twin Omicron subvariants have taken over the U.S., but they’re not quite identical. One is ‘the worst version of the virus we’ve seen’

WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 24: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks to abortion-rights activists in front of the U.S. Supreme Court after the Court announced a ruling in the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization case on June 24, 2022 in Washington, DC. The Court’s decision in the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health case overturns the landmark 50-year-old Roe v Wade case, removing a federal right to an abortion. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

AOC says she was grateful to have the option of abortion after she was raped a decade ago

GRUENHEIDE, GERMANY – MARCH 22: (Alternate crop of #1239417601) Tesla CEO Elon Musk contemplates during the official opening of the new Tesla electric car manufacturing plant on March 22, 2022 near Gruenheide, Germany. The new plant, officially called the Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg, is producing the Model Y as well as electric car batteries. (Photo by Christian Marquardt – Pool/Getty Images)

Elon Musk’s Tesla is reportedly laying off new workers, withdrawing employment offers: ‘Damn, talk about a gut punch’

Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic adviser of Allianz SE, listens during a Bloomberg Television interview on the sidelines of the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore, on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. The New Economy Forum, organized by Bloomberg Media Group, a division of Bloomberg LP, aims to bring together leaders from public and private sectors to find solutions to the world’s greatest challenges. Photographer: Wei Leng Tay/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Stagflation is here, even if recession isn’t yet, top economist Mohamed El-Erian says

Emergency Committee Chair Dr Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele at the first meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the multi-country monkeypox outbreak, held at WHO Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr Okwo-Bele is a Public Health Consultant and Former Director of the Vaccines and Immunization Department in WHO. The meeting was held on 23 June 2022 at WHO Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland with virtual participation of some of the committee members. https://www.who.int/news/item/23-06-2022-ihr-emergency-committee-regarding-the-multi-country-outbreak-of-monkeypox The Emergency Committee will provide its views to the WHO Director-General on whether the event constitutes a public health emergency of international concern — and will propose temporary recommendations on how to better prevent and reduce the spread of the disease and manage the global public health response. More information: https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/emergencies-international-health-regulations-and-emergency-committees

Global monkeypox outbreak isn’t an international public health emergency ‘at present,’ WHO rules

A person looking at a picture of an abortion pill on their phone

The future of abortion in U.S. states where it’s illegal: Medication mailed from overseas, reproductive law expert says

UNITED STATES – SEPTEMBER 30: Demonstrators from the Center for Popular Democracy Action walk up the U.S. Supreme Court steps dressed in Handmaids Tale costumes to voice opposition to Judge Amy Coney Barretts nomination to the court on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Reversal of Roe creates an ‘Orwellian dystopia,’ editors of prestigious New England Journal of Medicine write

A map of likely abortion bans and restrictions after Roe was overturned

These states have banned abortion. Here’s what abortion laws will likely be in every state

By Colin Lodewick, Christine Mui, and others

WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 01: Two pro-choice demonstrators are surrounded by anti-abortion demonstrators outside the U.S. Supreme Court on November 01, 2021 in Washington, DC. On Monday, the Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a challenge to the controversial Texas abortion law which bans abortions after 6 weeks. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade in historic but anticipated reversal: ‘This is an invasion of a woman’s body’

By Erin Prater and Chris Morris

Emergency Committee Chair Dr Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele speaks during the first meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the multi-country monkeypox outbreak, held at WHO Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr Okwo-Bele is a Public Health Consultant and Former Director of the Vaccines and Immunization Department in WHO. The meeting was held on 23 June 2022 at WHO Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland with virtual participation of some of the committee members.

Monkeypox cases surge 52% worldwide in one week. WHO holds emergency committee

A woman pulls down her mask to eat ice cream at Gantry Plaza State Park in Long Island City, N.Y.

‘Stealth Omicron’ was just overtaken in the U.S. by a new subvariant that evades immunity

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – OCTOBER 02: Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Chris Dixon speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019 at Moscone Convention Center on October 02, 2019 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch)

Is crypto crumbling, or is it merely in the ‘incubation phase’? One of Silicon Valley’s top Web3 investors says don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater

Employees assist customers at an Apple Inc. store in Munich, Germany, on Saturday, June 10, 2022. Confidence in the German economy improved a little, while remaining depressed, as fewer investors predict the outlook will deteriorate further in the face of record inflation and the war in Ukraine. Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Apple workers vote to unionize at Maryland store: ‘They made a huge sacrifice for thousands of Apple employees’

BANGKOK, THAILAND – 2022/02/16: A young boy receives first dose of covid-19 vaccine.<br />
Young children aged 5-11 years old, non-formal education children and students who have not been vaccinated before received the 1st dose of Pfizer covid vaccine at Central vaccination center, where parents have to agree before vaccination. (Photo by Teera Noisakran/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Children ages 6 months through 5 years can now get the COVID vaccine, CDC announces

WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 09: Activist Lourdes Naulty poses with her child and other demonstrators during a demonstration urging the Food and Drug Administration authorize vaccines for children under 5 at the FDA on May 09, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Protect Their Future)

CDC advisers have recommend COVID-19 vaccines for children under 5. Final approval is expected later today