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READ THIS NEXT: Walmart Just Issued This Urgent Warning for Shoppers at Over 100 Stores. No matter what they’re used to treat, medicines are designed to keep us safe and healthy. But every so often, officials are forced to pull products that could put the people they intend to help in harm’s way. And in some recent cases, this can even come down to how the medication is packaged. For example, on June 29, the FDA announced that Bryant Ranch Prepack Inc....

Read the original article on Best Life. In an interview with Face the Nation on Jan. 3, Operation Warp Speed Chief Advisor Moncef Slaoui, PhD, said that, in an effort to get the most people vaccinated in the shortest amount of time with the limited number of vaccines currently available, U.S. officials were in talks with Moderna and the FDA to potentially give younger, healthier individuals just half the recommended dose of Moderna’s COVID vaccine....

Editor’s note: This post previously referred to the First Dogs’ Instagram page, which has since been revealed as possibly not being associated with the White House. The quotes from the account have been removed. “Champ and Major have joined us in the White House!” Jill Biden tweeted on Monday, along with heart and paw print emojis. And they certainly look thrilled to be there. In one shot by White House photographer Adam Schultz, Major, the younger of the boys, gets his zoomies out in front of the Washington monument....

In 2012, as the Lisa Frankaissance started to take hold, Urban Outfitters headed out to Tucson, Arizona, where the brand has long been headquartered, to talk to the notoriously private Lisa Frank. In the interview, which went viral at the time, Frank revealed details about the origins of her characters. “We actually really try to base our characters off of people who are in our lives or who have been in our lives, and sometimes it’s in memory....

RELATED: The IRS Warns You’ll Be Charged More for This Starting April 1. The White House has put a temporary pause on the IRS’ Child Tax Credit tool, Politico reported on March 3. According to the tax agency, the Child Tax Credit portal was built out as an online app that allows non-filers to report basic information in order to still receive their child tax credit payments. Generally, people who earn less than $12,400 individually or $24,800 as a couple do not have to file a tax return....

RELATED: If You Get This Letter From the IRS, Don’t Throw It Out, Experts Warn. In March 2021, President Joe Biden announced the third and final round of stimulus payments for Americans by signing the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Qualifying recipients were eligible for a check worth up to $1,400. Many received their payments earlier in the year, but the IRS had still been sending checks throughout the last few months....

The 25-second spot, comprised of a flash of video clips of the Cambridges at work and play and timed to the beat of techno music, showcases the couple’s ubiquity in Britain and abroad. There are quick takes of a delighted Kate shearing sheep and meeting school children. William is seen flying a helicopter and talking with an array of different people, including Sir David Attenborough, who has worked with the prince promoting his Earthshot Prize for the environment....

READ THIS NEXT: The Zodiac Sign Most Likely to Break Your Heart, Astrologers Say. If you know one thing about Taurus, it’s that they’re the most stubborn sign of the zodiac, and it’s this tendency that lands them on our list. “Ruled by haughty Venus… Taureans lack the spontaneity of many other signs and can become moody when pushed out of their comfort zones,” explains Rachel Clare, an astrologer at Mysticsense....

READ THIS NEXT: The Most Vindictive Zodiac Sign, According to Astrologers. Capricorn people are known for being hard-working and ambitious—sometimes to a fault. “If Sea-Goats let their dark dreams carry them away, they can emotionally detach themselves from others, not letting anyone into their life,” says Alice Alta, the resident astrologer for the Futurio horoscope app. “In the worst-case scenario, they may even start stepping on people on the way to their goals....

The messages started making rounds on social media when someone falsely stated that the wire in the top of your surgical mask is actually a 5G antenna that the government can use to track your whereabouts via radio waves. They also claim it can give you brain cancer. In reality, that harmless wire is only there so you can fit the mask around the bridge of your nose. Face masks should not gap there, so few respiratory droplets can escape....

1 The Queen Didn’t Sit Down on the Throne According to Maisie Williams, aka Arya Stark on the hit HBO show, the Queen and her late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh visited the set. However, when she was offered a seat on the fictional throne, she wasn’t inclined to accept. “She didn’t necessarily refuse – no one said, ‘Sit on that chair because it is going to be funny.’ We all just sort of smiled and were like, ‘Is she going to do it?...

1 The Prison Is Park of Duchy of Cornwall According to the New York Times, King Charles’s fortune has doubled in value over the past decade due to clever investments and a spectacular team managing his money and property. “The duchy has been steadily commercializing over the past few decades,” Laura Clancy, the author of Running the Family Firm: How the Monarchy Manages Its Image and Our Money, told the publication....

As eager as Bourla is to get the vaccine, he is currently waiting his turn. Pfizer confirmed on Feb. 1 via email that Bourla has not yet received the COVID vaccine. “The focus of the initial doses is on priority groups defined by health authority guidelines,” said a spokesperson for Pfizer. The priority groups include people in long-term care facilities, people over 65, and people with underlying conditions, though they vary from state to state....

In a July 2020 study published in the journal Science, researchers found that people sticking closer to home amid the pandemic has lessened the amount of noise caused by human beings by approximately 50 percent on a global scale. By tracking data from 117 countries, the scientists found that human-generated noise dropped dramatically in the beginning of 2020, starting with a reduction in noise in China in January, shortly after the virus had begun spreading....

1 Meghan and Harry’s Biographer Says It Is “Significant” Omid Scobie, the Royal biographer for Meghan and Harry tweeted that the invitation to Harry and Meghan was extended at the last minute. “The Waleses had always been scheduled to greet well-wishers at Windsor Castle, but royal sources say the decision to invite the Sussexes was made in the eleventh hour. It is, without a doubt, a significant moment in the history of the relationship between the two brothers,” he wrote in a tweet....

READ THIS NEXT: If You’re Offered This at the Airport, Just Say No, Experts Warn. After more than two years of challenges created by COVID-19, the airline industry is facing a new set of issues as airports begin to fill back up. In a June 25 tweet, TSA spokesperson Lisa Farbstein explained that passenger loads were starting to return to pre-pandemic levels. Citing TSA throughput data, she wrote that 2,454,781 people were screened at security checkpoints across the U....

RELATED: Unvaccinated People Will Be Barred From Here Completely, Starting Feb. 21. On Feb. 10, Minnesota’s Twin Cities Mayors Melvin Carter and Jacob Frey made a joint statement, announcing the repeal of their vaccine mandates for restaurants, bars, and entertainment venues, as reported by the Star Tribune. Since January, people in Minneapolis and St. Paul have been required to show proof of vaccination to enter these spaces. If not, they had to provide a negative COVID test result....

READ THIS NEXT: The Most Judgmental Zodiac Sign, According to an Astrologer. Everyone is approval-seeking to some degree, and there’s nothing wrong with the desire to belong. However, of all the zodiac signs, Libra is the most known for their need to fit in. They strive to be part of the exclusive group or in-crowd. People who desperately seek approval from the masses are much more likely to join a cult....

Once healthcare personnel and people in long-term care facilities are vaccinated, the CDC suggests moving on to essential workers and anyone over 75. Essential workers include teachers, police officers, emergency responders, firefighters, grocery store workers, transportation workers, and others whose jobs can’t be done from home. After those two groups, the CDC recommends that adults with high-risk medical conditions and anyone over 65 be vaccinated next. However, these are just recommendations, and ultimately the order of vaccinations will be determined by each individual state, which will lead to some discrepancies over who will have access to the vaccine sooner....

The national case average in the U.S. continued to plummet to its lowest levels since early August over the past week, dropping 16 percent in the last seven days to 88,552 as of Oct. 11, according to data from The Washington Post. But experts cautioned that the virus still posed a serious threat in the face of disappearing safety measures and upcoming gatherings during the holiday season, especially for those who had yet to receive vaccines or necessary booster shots....