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The Taliban has taken four more provincial capitals in Afghanistan in an offensive that is gradually encircling the capital of Kabul. In just the last 24 hours, the country's second- and third-largest cities, Herat in the west and Kandahar in the south, have fallen.
U.S. health officials have acknowledged more than 1 million Americans got extra coronavirus vaccine doses before it was authorized. The Food and Drug Administration this week authorized an extra dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines in people with weakened immune systems.
Some schools and local governments in Texas are openly defying Governor Greg Abbott's ban on mask mandates. The board of the Houston Independent School District passed a mask mandate Thursday night at a heated board meeting.
Extreme heat is invading parts of the US Northeast and mid-Atlantic region. Temperatures were expected to reach 100 Fahrenheit in the Nation's capitalon Friday.
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