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Sellers of the easy-to-assemble firearms known as ghost guns are finding ways to continue to offer their products online, soon after the Biden administration implemented a rule aimed at regulating their sales.
 

Many employees reduce their hours or stop working to help ailing family members. But it may be years before they fully return to the work force, studies indicate.
 

Andy Pekosz discussed the latest on the new round of COVID-19 booster shots authorized by the Food and Drug Administration earlier that week and the fall COVID-19 outlook.
 

The slowdown in some parts of the U.S. – coupled with data about how those at highest risk are protecting themselves and getting vaccinated – are promising signs.
 

With the first few days of a new school year now complete, parents and students across the D.C. region are transitioning from summer schedules to school night routines. But what can parents and students do to ease back into a new school year?
 

While many Americans are acting as if the pandemic is a thing of the past, the Biden administration has warned that the U.S. could see 100 million COVID-19 infections in the fall and winter.
 

The White House is pausing new orders to prevent the country from running out of “our limited remaining supply” of self-administered tests in case of a surge of cases this fall, a senior administration official told The Washington Post.
 

The big question is whether people weary of vaccinations will roll up their sleeves again. Just half of vaccinated Americans got the first recommended booster dose, and only a third of those 50 and older who were urged to get a second booster did so.
 

Recent flooding in Jackson, Mississippi, exacerbated the city's already failing water system. Experts say it's a familiar threat in disinvested communities of color.
 

The Biden administration hopes that the boosters, formulated to target the prevalent subvariants of the omicron variant, willprovide better protection against infection and severe disease, but it's unclear how large an additional effect it will have given that much of the population has already been vaccinated, been exposed to the omicron variant, or both.
 

Administration officials say these new vaccines will be key to controlling a potential fall surge, but they will need to convince an increasingly checked-out public to get the shots.
 

Since the start of the pandemic, gun deaths have reached record highs. In 2019, there were just over 15,000 gun fatalities. A year later, that number was more than 19,000, not including suicides. Meanwhile, in 2020, Americans bought 22.8 million guns, up 6 million from 2016.