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As At-Home Coronavirus Tests Hit Pharmacies, What Role Can They Play In The Pandemic?

By Mary Louise Kelly & Mano Sundaresan • 8 hours ago

As of this week, you can buy relatively low-priced COVID-19 rapid tests to take at home. The tests are available through pharmacies and do not require a prescription to buy one.

Critics Say The U.S. Isn't Doing Enough To Help Haiti With Its Deteriorating Security

By Carrie Kahn • 9 hours ago

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In 'Crying In H Mart' Michelle Zauner Grapples With Food, Grief And Identity

By Ari Shapiro, Sam Yellowhorse Kesler, Justine Kenin & Connor Donevan • 11 hours ago

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Hundreds Gathered At The Funeral Of Daunte Wright, Who Was Fatally Shot By Police

By David Schaper • 11 hours ago

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Hundreds of people gathered in the Shiloh Temple International Ministries in Minneapolis this afternoon for the funeral of 20-year-old Daunte Wright.

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Scientists Are Working On Booster Shots In Case COVID-19 Vaccines Lose Their Effect

By Joe Palca • 11 hours ago

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Why Did The Chicken Befriend The Widow? Find Out In This Plucky Italian Novella

By Maureen Corrigan • 14 hours ago

The chicken made me read it.

It's not often that I can pay tribute to a book in those words, but Nives, a short novel by Italian writer Sacha Naspini newly translated into English, won me over in its opening pages where a freshly widowed older woman living on a remote farm in Tuscany decides to soothe her loneliness by bringing a chicken into the house for company. The hen, called Giacomina, settles into bed with the widow, whose first name, "Nives," also gives this novella its title.