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States, business sort out what new CDC mask guidance means
A customer exits a corner market while wearing a protective mask in the retail shopping district of the SoHo neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of New York, Friday, May 14, 2021. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has yet to say whether he will change his state’s mask mandate in light of new federal guidance that eases rules for fully vaccinated people. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Teachers Union Presidents Support Full Return to In-person Schooling in Fall
The president of one of the largest teachers unions in the country announced Thursday that the union wants all schools to reopen for in-person schooling in the fall.
“The United States will not be fully back, until we are fully back in school. And my union is all in,” Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), said in an announcement.
Unions like AFT have been a major obstacle to districts trying to return to in-person learning, claiming that the risk of teachers contracting COVID-19 was too high in many locales and attempting to force safety measures that critics say were unreasonable.
Time to panic-buy an electric pickup truck?
With help from Renuka Rayasam and Myah Ward
RUNNING ON EMPTY Electric vehicles are the automotive vanguard of a greener world, and they’ve never generated more buzz.
Tesla is now the world’s most valuable car company, worth more than its top four competitors combined. Its CEO, Elon Musk, now the world’s richest man, just hosted Saturday Night Live.
General Motors has pledged to go all-electric by 2035, Volkswagen by 2027 and Jaguar by 2025. President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan calls for $174 billion in electric vehicle investments. When the Colonial pipeline hack created a gas shortage this week, his energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm, slyly noted that it wouldn’t affect EV owners.
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The couple in the website videos could be hawking any number of products.
“You’re going to love owning the platinum package,” Charlene Bollinger tells viewers, as a picture of a DVD set, booklets and other products flashes on screen. Her husband, Ty, promises a “director’s cut edition,” and over 100 minutes of additional footage.
Click the orange button, his wife says, “to join in the fight for health freedom” or more specifically, to pay $199 to $499 for the Bollingers’ video series, “The Truth About Vaccines 2020.”
The Bollingers are part of an ecosystem of for-profit companies, nonprofit groups, YouTube channels and other social media accounts that stoke fear and distrust of COVID-19 vaccines, resorting to what medical experts say is often misleading and false information.