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In this April 22, 2021, file photo, White Plains High School students walk between classes in White Plains, N.Y. Dozens of school districts around the country have eliminated requirements for students to wear masks, and many more are likely to ditch mask requirements before the next academic year. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

CDC chief: OK for vaccinated parents to model mask behavior for kids

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday it is an OK idea for fully vaccinated parents to keep wearing their masks -- despite new guidance saying they don't have to -- if it helps their kids maintain the practice while they wait for vaccines in their age group.

May 14, 2021
Residents visit the Yangtze River in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Monday, March 29, 2021. (Chinatopix Via AP) ** FILE **

Scientists: We need a better probe into the coronavirus’ origins

The world of science has learned plenty about how the coronavirus behaves and spreads, but "more investigation is still needed to determine the origin of the pandemic," a group of 18 scientists from top universities and medical centers said Friday.

May 14, 2021
A customer enters a store with a face mask required sign displayed in Dallas, in this Tuesday, March 2, 2021, file photo. Although nearly a fifth of U.S. states don't require people to wear masks to protect against COVID-19, some businesses are requiring employees and customers to be masked on their premises. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Retail, grocery union airs concern about mask revision

A labor union for grocery and retail workers says it fears the Biden administration's decision to relax its mask rules for COVID-19 vaccinated persons will put its members at risk because unvaccinated persons will use it as an excuse to ditch their face coverings.

May 14, 2021
Visitors wearing face masks leave the Alamo, Wednesday, March 3, 2021, in San Antonio. Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas is lifting a mask mandate and lifting business capacity limits next week. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

CDC: Fully vaccinated don’t need masks indoors or outdoors

Fully vaccinated people can ditch their masks and ignore physical distancing both outdoors and indoors, the Biden administration said Thursday in a dramatic shift for a federal team that has been panned as overly cautious and a drag on the return to normal life.

May 13, 2021
House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn, D-S.C., and Chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 15, 2021, on the coronavirus crisis. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool) **FILE**

Emergent BioSolutions execs to testify before House panel

Executives from a company blamed for mishaps in the production of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will testify next week before a House panel tracking the coronavirus response, House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn said Wednesday.

May 12, 2021
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks about President Donald Trump during a campaign rally Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson) ** FILE **

Trump support holds steady, DeSantis second pick in 2024: Poll

Roughly half of GOP voters would "absolutely" vote for former President Donald Trump in a Republican primary and more than a third would back Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis if the ex-president takes a pass in 2024, according to a poll released Wednesday.

May 12, 2021
A sign reading "Out of Fuel" is taped to the window at an Exxon Gas Station on Boonsboro Road in Lynchburg, Va., Tuesday, May 11, 2021. More than 1,000 gas stations in the Southeast reported running out of fuel, primarily because of what analysts say is unwarranted panic-buying among drivers, as the shutdown of a major pipeline by hackers entered its fifth day. In response, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam declared a state of emergency. (Kendall Warner/The News & Advance via AP)

Feds scramble to deliver gas in face of pipeline shutdown, rising prices

The Biden administration on Wednesday scrambled to deliver gasoline to stations running on empty due to the Colonial Pipeline shutdown, authorizing bigger loads on federal interstates and moving to relax maritime laws so ships could deliver fuel to states gripped by panic-buying and long lines at the pump.

May 12, 2021