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How is the Biden administration planning to make Covid-19 testing more accessible?
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    Biden to offer millions of at-home Covid-19 tests to Americans, says 'we're prepared' for omicron.
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    Biden said Americans will be able to request the free-at-home Covid-19 tests be mailed to their homes by accessing a website. Americans will not be able to request the tests online until January, meaning they can't access the kits before millions are expected to travel for Christmas. The 500 million tests are in addition to 50 million tests the federal government began distributing this month to community health centers.
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    The administration has taken some steps to expand access to test kits, but experts have criticized the government for not doing more – particularly for not making tests as cheap and easy to get as they are in the U.K. and some other countries. The White House's press secretary on Dec. 6 dismissed the idea of sending free tests to all households.
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    The president also announced plans to send six emergency response teams to Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Arizona, New Hampshire and Vermont and will stand up new federal testing sites with the first location in New York City this week.
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    Pressed on test shortage, Biden claims White House was caught off-guard by Omicron.
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    How is Covid-19 testing still this confusing?
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Why was a truck driver sentenced to 110 years in prison for a deadly crash?


    Truck driver Rogel Aguilera-Mederos was sentenced to 110 years in prison for a 2019 crash [near] Denver that killed four people and injured several others – a sentence that...

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Why has a U.K. court ruled that the ruler of Dubai must pay a divorce settlement?


    The settlement concludes a long-running case that has played out in British courts between Princess Haya Bint al-Hussein, 47, daughter of the late King Hussein of Jordan, and her ex-husband, mult...

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Why are aviation executives requesting a delay to 5G infrastructure deployment?


    The executives in a joint letter seen by Reuters asked U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to support postponing AT&T and Verizon's Jan. 5 deployment of C-Band spectrum 5G...

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Should service members be barred from 'liking' posts that promote terrorism?

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Yes - The DoD specifies that it’s only against the rules if social media interactions are done intentionally to promote/show support for an extremist group or affiliate groups. This leaves the burden of proof on the commanding officer to demonstrate that the social media interactions were intended for that purpose. If the content being ‘liked’ isn’t clearly supporting extremist activity but happens to be from an extremist group (and there wasn’t a set of other interactions that are more explicit), they’d get a pass.


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How might a newly approved treatment impact HIV rates in the U.S.?


    The injectable drug — called Apretude — provides an alternative to daily pills for HIV prevention, such as Truvada and Descovy. These pills are up to 99% effective at preventing the sexual transmission of HIV...

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