administration is taking a closer look at the effectiveness of at-home antigen tests. the tests are still beneficial. our reporters are covering the developments from london to beijing. tom foreman has our lead story, reporting in from washington. reporter: nationwide, hospitalizations of children with covid are up, on average, nearly 50% in just one week. new york city is seeing pediatric admissions jump to five-times what they were. in washington, d.c., half the kids coming to children s national hospital are testing positive. all told, an average of more than 300 children are being hospitalized each day. that s not because current variants are uniquely targeting them but because we see children that are hospitalized because of covid, or icu because of covid, they re unvaccinated. they re unvaccinated, the parents are unvaccinated, the siblings are unvaccinated. reporter: others fear the return to school next week could be even worse. i think what we re going to s
who was stabbed to death last month. the home office is to tell councils across the uk to find accommodation for some of the unaccompanied children who have come over from france in small boats. good morning. a controversial change to the way people pay for social care in england has been narrowly backed by mps, despite warnings that poorer households could end up paying disportionately more. the prime minister has insisted the new cap would still be incredibly generous , but a number of his own mps still voted against trhe plans our political correspondent helen catt reports. the cost of paying for care can be high. for some families it can wipe out nearly everything they ve saved for. the government says its plan will stop that, but critics say not for everyone. it won the vote last night, but the result was tight. the ayes to the right, 272. the noes to the left, 246. so the ayes have it, the ayes have it. under the plan, if someone has a house worth £120,000, they ll st
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from becoming governor of pennsylvania, just a general election away from overseeing the presidential vote there in 2024. senator lindsey graham telling cnn voters don t want to think about the last election. senator john thune said his past words aren t ideal. pat tu mee, who says he did not vote for mastriano, didn t say much more than that. what do you think about mastriano winning? are you concerned at all about his candidacy? so, i don t know doug mastriano at all. i ve never met him. i don t think i ve even had a conversation with him. so, i will suspend judgment until i get a chance to get to know him a little bit. reporter: he s said the election is stolen. does that concern you? i m aware he has said things that i would disagree with. but, like i said, until i actually meet the guy, get to know him a little bit, i m going to suspend judgment. we ll talk more about the implications of his candidacy for the state for 2024 and also for whoever wins the senate