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Federal Agency Issues New Alerts Targeting Much of Northern US

Canadian wildfire smoke is again inundating parts of the northern United States this week, triggering air quality alerts spanning Montana to Vermont. The alerts have been issued by the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) across about a dozen states on Monday morning, according to a map provided by the agency. Some news outlets estimated that the…


HHS Becomes Latest Federal Agency to Mandate COVID-19 Vaccines for Workers

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday said that it will require all of its frontline health care workers to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, according to agency Secretary Xavier Becerra. HHS is now the third federal agency to require its employees to receive the vaccine, joining the Department of Veterans Affairs and…