The Short List
On Vaccine Rollout, 'This Is No Time For Charlie Baker To Lose His Cool'
This week, a Massachusetts legislative oversight committee grilled Governor Charlie Baker over his administration's COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
U.S. Intelligence
U.S. Intelligence: Saudi Crown Prince Approved Operation To Kill Jamal Khashoggi
Saudi Arabia's crown prince approved the operation that led to the brutal 2018 death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the U.S. intelligence community said in a report released Friday. President Biden has been critical of Saudi Arabia and the report is expected to further harm the increasingly fraught relations between the two long-time allies "We assess that Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman approved an operation in Istanbul, Turkey, to capture or kill" Khashoggi, said the report...
Regional News
Environmental Appeal Of PCB Cleanup To Highlight 'Burden And Costs' Of Contamination
Two groups are appealing the Environmental Protection Agency's permit to clean up the Housatonic River.
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Eyewitness Testimony
'I Don't Think You Did This, But I Can't Fix It': How To Improve Eyewitness Evidence
Advocates for the wrongly convicted often say they’d much rather prevent mistakes than fix them after years of incarceration. But how to do that is up for debate.
Medicine
COVID-19 Vaccine Makers' Booster Shots Aim At A Moving Target: Coronavirus Variants
The U.S. is still ramping up its vaccination program, hoping to finally clamp down on the COVID-19 pandemic. But even as vaccine doses are being rolled out, their makers are exploring several strategies to bolster them, hoping to protect people against worrying new variants that have sprung up in recent months, from South Africa to the U.K. The companies that have FDA-authorized vaccines are currently working on the problem, out of concern that mutations in SARS-CoV-2 could make the virus...
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Report: Hybrid Learning Prepares Students Better Than Remote Learning
Hybrid learning is better at preparing Connecticut students to move on to the next grade than remote learning — that’s according to a report from a nonprofit on education during the COVID-19 pandemic.
