Headlines for March 22, 2021
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- Nationwide Protests Call for an End to Anti-AAPI Violence After Atlanta Massacre
- AstraZeneca Vaccine Is 79% Effective in U.S. Trial, Shows No Risk of Blood Clotting
- CDC Updates School Distancing Guidelines to 3 Feet; Miami Beach Imposes Emergency Curfew
- Drug Companies Plan to Hike COVID Vaccine Prices After Pandemic Is Over
- Pakistani PM Khan Has COVID; Tokyo Olympics Bars Int'l Spectators; More European Nations Lock Down
- U.S. Says "Border Is Closed" as Number of Unaccompanied Children in Gov't Custody Tops 15,000
- Defense Sec. Austin in Afghanistan Amid Questions over May 1 Troop Withdrawal Deadline
- Women, Rights Groups Slam Turkish Gov't for Withdrawing from Int'l Domestic Violence Treaty
- 6 People Killed, Over a Dozen Injured in Aleppo Hospital Shelling
- 2-Year-Old Malian Girl Dies of Hypothermia After Refugee Boat Reaches Canary Islands
- Israelis Protest Netanyahu's Corruption Ahead of Tuesday's Elections
- Samia Suluhu Hassan Becomes Tanzania's First Woman President
- Pakistani Court Sentences Men to Death for Rape That Sparked Nationwide Protests
- FBI Probes Cuomo for Shielding Campaign Donors from COVID Liability as New Accuser Speaks Out
- New York GOP Rep. Tom Reed Apologizes for Sexual Misconduct, Won't Seek Reelection
- Julia Letlow, Whose Husband Died of COVID-19 After Election to Congress, Wins GOP Primary
- House Bill Would Bring Self-Determination to Puerto Rico
- Youth Activists Hold Global Strike for the Climate
- Egyptian Feminist Author, Activist and Former Political Prisoner Nawal El Saadawi Dies at 89