A CDC Panel Backs Booster Shots For Older Adults, A Step Toward Making Them Available The advisory committee's recommendation expands on the FDA's authorization of Pfizer vaccine boosters for people 65 and up. Both regulatory moves will inform the U.S. plan to dispense extra doses. Emma Bowman
A Florida Lawmaker Is Proposing A Restrictive Texas-Style Abortion Bill The bill would ban most abortions as early as around 6 weeks, allow people to sue anyone who helps end a pregnancy after that point and fine physicians $10,000 for each such abortion they perform. Rachel Treisman
PHOTOS: How Families Struggle To Feed Their Kids In The Pandemic For millions, the pandemic has meant a loss of income even as food prices are rising. The challenge for parents and grandparents is how to feed the youngsters in the family — and themselves as well. NPR Special Report
EPA Moves To Sharply Limit Potent Gases Used In Refrigerators And Air Conditioners The new rule is intended to decrease the use of greenhouse gases known as hydrofluorocarbons by 85% over the next 15 years. The gases that are thousands of times more powerful than carbon dioxide. The Associated Press
A Pfizer Booster Is Authorized For People 65+ Or At High-Risk For COVID The Food and Drug Administration gave the OK for a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine booster for anyone 65 or older or at high risk for severe disease. People whose work puts them at risk will also be eligible. Rachel Martin
Many Seattle-area kids with Covid are old enough to be vaccinated About half of the Covid patients at Seattle Children’s during this latest surge have been kids who could have been vaccinated, but weren’t. Eilís O'Neill
The FDA OKs Pfizer-BioNTech Booster For People 65+ And At High Risk For Severe COVID A third shot of the vaccine can be given at least six months after the two-dose regimen, according to the authorization. A booster rollout could begin this week. Scott Hensley
New Orleans City Council Launches Investigation Into Mass Power Failure During Ida The New Orleans City Council is grilling power company Entergy about the catastrophic failure of its grid after Hurricane Ida. Mass power outages contributed to at least 11 deaths related to heat. Tegan Wendland
The Fed Says Inflation Is Hotter Than Expected — But It Should Cool Next Year The Federal Reserve is projecting higher inflation this year than it had previously forecast, but says prices will cool more next year. Scott Horsley
Florida Gov. DeSantis Taps A New Surgeon General Who Doesn't Support Vaccine Mandates Dr. Joseph Ladapo comes to Florida from UCLA and is a Harvard Medical School graduate. He says vaccines are not the only way to promote "good health" and the decision to get one is up to each person. Deepa Shivaram
