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Tuesday, October 26, 2021

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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Moderna said Monday that a low dose of its COVID-19 vaccine is safe and appears to work in 6- to 11-year-olds. It is the second U.S. vaccine aimed at eventually being offered to children.

Moderna says its low-dose COVID shot works for kids 6 to 11

Moderna said Monday that a low dose of its COVID-19 vaccine is safe and appears to work in 6- to 11-year-olds, as the manufacturer joins its rival Pfizer in moving toward expanding shots to children.
FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2016, file photo, Richard Spencer, who leads a movement that mixes racism, white nationalism and populism, speaks at the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas. A trial is beginning in Charlottesville, Virginia to determine whether white nationalists who planned the so-called 'Unite the Right' rally will be held civilly responsible for the violence that erupted. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

'Unite the Right' rally's planners accused in civil trial

Jury selection has begun at a civil trial in Charlottesville, Virginia to determine whether white nationalists who planned the so-called 'Unite the Right' rally will be held responsible for the violence that erupted

Merck asks EU regulator to authorize pill that treats COVID

Pharmaceutical company Merck has asked the European Medicines Agency to authorize its COVID-19 antiviral treatment
Palestinians built new houses in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Bruchin near the Palestinian town of Nablus, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021. Israel is expected to move forward with thousands of new homes for Jewish settlers in the West Bank this week, a settlement watchdog group said Sunday. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel OKs 1,300 settlement homes, testing fragile coalition

A senior Israeli minister has spoken out against a government decision to advance construction of more than 1,300 housing units in West Bank settlements, exposing disagreements between the country's ideologically divided coalition members
Japan's former Princess Mako, right, the elder daughter of Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko, and her husband Kei Komuro, look at each other during a press conference to announce their marriage at a hotel in Tokyo, Japan Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021. Former Princess Mako married the commoner and lost her royal status Tuesday in a union that has split public opinion after a three-year delay caused by a financial dispute involving her new mother-in-law. (Nicolas Datiche/Pool Photo via AP)
Japan's Princess Mako marries commoner, loses royal status
Japanese Princess Mako says she'll 'walk together' in a new life with her husband after they married without celebrations Tuesday in a union that has split public opinion
President Joe Biden delivers remarks at NJ Transit Meadowlands Maintenance Complex to promote his "Build Back Better" agenda, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, in Kearny, N.J. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
EXPLAINER: What's a 'wealth tax' and how would it work?
To help pay for his big economic and social agenda, President Joe Biden is looking to go where the big money is: billionaires
A pro-democracy protester flashes the victory sign as thousands take to the streets to condemn a takeover by military officials, in Khartoum, Sudan, Monday Oct. 25, 2021. Sudan's military seized power Monday, dissolving the transitional government hours after troops arrested the acting prime minister and other officials. The takeover comes more than two years after protesters forced the ouster of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir and just weeks before the military was expected to hand the leadership of the council that runs the African country over to civilians. (AP Photo/Ashraf Idris)
EXPLAINER: How months of tensions led to Sudan's coup
The military coup in Sudan threatens to wreck the country's fragile transition to democracy, more than two years after a popular uprising forced the removal of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir
Greece: Search for missing migrants after dinghy sinks
Greek authorities have launched a search and rescue operation off the coast of the eastern island of Chios after a dinghy transporting migrants from the coast of Turkey sank early Tuesday
FILE - In this April 28, 2019, file photo, China's President Xi Jinping, right, shakes hands with Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan before a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Pakistan and China are urging the international community to send humanitarian help to Afghanistan, where people are facing shortages of food and medicine in the shadow of winter. A government statement said Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed the situation in Afghanistan by phone(Madoka Ikegami/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Pakistan, China urge world to send humanitarian aid to Kabul
Pakistan and China are urging the international community to send humanitarian help to Afghanistan, where people are facing shortages of food and medicine in the shadow of winter
Moderna to supply Africa with up to 110 million COVID doses
Moderna says it will make up to 110 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine available to African countries
Monday Sports in Brief
MLB HOUSTON (AP) - Charlie Morton is becoming a Fall Classic fixture, set to start in the World Series for the third time in five seasons this week.
Tense quiet after Sudan coup, protesters block some roads
Pro-democracy protesters have blocked some roads in Sudan's capital with makeshift barricades and burning tires
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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In this Feb. 15, 2001 file photo, Secretary of State Colin Powell looks on as President Bush addresses State Department employees at the State Department in Washington. Powell, former Joint Chiefs chairman and secretary of state, has died from COVID-19 complications. In an announcement on social media Monday, the family said Powell had been fully vaccinated. He was 84.
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