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FDA 計画(する)s to 承認する 2nd COVID-19 ワクチン after パネル盤 裏書,是認

WASHINGTON (AP) - The 長,率いる of the Food and 麻薬 行政 said late Thursday that his 機関 will move to quickly 権限を与える the second COVID-19 ワクチン to fight the pandemic, hours after the 発射 won the 重要な 裏書,是認 of a 政府 (a)忠告の/(n)警報 パネル盤.

FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn said in a 声明 that regulators have communicated their 計画(する)s to drugmaker Moderna, which co-developed the ワクチン with the 国家の 学校/設けるs of Health. The 告示 (機の)カム after a パネル盤 of FDA 助言者s, in a 20-0 投票(する), 支配するd that the 利益s of the ワクチン outweighed the 危険s for those 18 years old and up.

Once FDA's 緊急 use authorization is 認めるd, Moderna will begin shipping millions of doses, (ーのために)とっておくd for health 労働者s and nursing home 居住(者)s, to 上げる the largest ワクチン接種 成果/努力 in U.S. history.

The (選挙などの)運動をする kicked off earlier this week with the first ワクチン 承認する'd in the U.S., developed by Pfizer and BioNTech. Moderna´s 発射 showed 類似して strong 有効性, 供給するing 94% 保護 against COVID-19 in the company´s 現在進行中の 熟考する/考慮する of 30,000 people.

After eight hours of discussion over technical 詳細(に述べる)s of the company´s 熟考する/考慮する and follow-up 計画(する)s, nearly all 討論者/講師s 支援するd making the ワクチン 利用できる to help fight the pandemic. One パネル盤 member 棄権するd.

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切り開く/タクシー/不正アクセス against US is '墓/厳粛/彫る/重大な 脅し,' cybersecurity 機関 says

WASHINGTON (AP) - 連邦の 当局 表明するd 増加するd alarm Thursday about a long-undetected 侵入占拠 into U.S. and other computer systems around the globe that 公式の/役人s 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑う was carried out by ロシアの hackers. The nation's cybersecurity 機関 警告するd of a "墓/厳粛/彫る/重大な" 危険 to 政府 and 私的な 網状組織s.

The 切り開く/タクシー/不正アクセス 妥協d 連邦の 機関s and "批判的な 組織/基盤/下部構造" in a sophisticated attack that was hard to (悪事,秘密などを)発見する and will be difficult to undo, the Cybersecurity and 組織/基盤/下部構造 安全 機関 said in an unusual 警告 message. The Department of Energy 定評のある it was の中で those that had been 切り開く/タクシー/不正アクセスd.

The attack, if 当局 can 証明する it was carried out by Russia as 専門家s believe, creates a fresh 外交政策 problem for 大統領 Donald Trump in his final days in office.

Trump, whose 行政 has been 非難するd for 除去するing a White House cybersecurity 助言者 and downplaying ロシアの 干渉,妨害 in the 2016 大統領の 選挙, has made no public 声明s about the 違反.

大統領-elect Joe Biden, who will 相続する the 潜在的に difficult U.S.-Russia 関係, spoke up forcefully about the 切り開く/タクシー/不正アクセス, 宣言するing that he and 副大統領-elect Kamala Harris "will make 取引,協定ing with this 違反 a 最高の,を越す 優先 from the moment we take office."

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In historic 選ぶ, Biden taps Haaland as 内部の 長官

大統領-elect Joe Biden selected New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland as his 指名された人 for 内部の 長官 on Thursday, a historic 選ぶ that would make her the first Native American to lead the powerful 連邦の 機関 that has (権力などを)行使するd 影響(力) over the nation's tribes for 世代s.

部族の leaders and 行動主義者s around the country, along with many Democratic 人物/姿/数字s, 元気づけるd Haaland's 選択 after 勧めるing Biden for weeks to choose her to lead the Department of 内部の. They stood behind her 立候補 even when 関心s that 民主党員s might 危険 their 大多数 in the House if Haaland 産する/生じるd her seat in 議会 appeared to 脅す her 指名/任命.

With Haaland's 指名/任命, Indigenous people will for the first time in their lifetimes see a Native American at the (米)棚上げする/(英)提議する where the highest 決定/判定勝ち(する)s are made - and so will everyone else, said OJ Semans, a Rosebud Sioux 投票(する) 行動主義者 who was in Georgia on Thursday helping get out the Native 投票(する) for two 上院 runoffs. "It´s made people aware that Indians still 存在する," he said.

Haaland, 60, is a member of the Pueblo of Laguna and, as she likes to say, a 35th-遺伝子 ration 居住(者) of New Mexico. The 役割 of 内部の 長官 would put her in 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金 of an 機関 that has tremendous sway not only over the nearly 600 federally 認めるd tribes, but also over much of the nation´s 広大な public lands, 水路s, 野性生物, 国家の parks and mineral wealth.

Haaland tweeted after the news was made public that "growing up in my mother's Pueblo 世帯 made me 猛烈な/残忍な.

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Nigerian 公式の/役人 says over 300 誘拐するd schoolboys 解放する/自由なd

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) - More than 300 schoolboys 誘拐するd last week by 武装した men in northwest Nigeria have been 解放(する)d, the Katsina 明言する/公表する 知事 said Thursday.

In an 告示 on Nigerian 明言する/公表する TV, NTA, Gov. Aminu Bello Masari said the 344 搭乗 school students were turned over to 安全 公式の/役人s and were 存在 brought to the 資本/首都 of Katsina, where they will get physical examinations before 存在 再会させるd with their families.

"I think we can say ... we have 回復するd most of the boys, if not all of them," Masari said. He did not 公表する/暴露する if the 政府 paid any 身代金.

大統領 Muhammadu Buhari welcomed their 解放(する), calling it "a big 救済 to their families, the entire country and to the international community," によれば a 声明 from his office. まっただ中に an 激しい抗議 against the West African country's 政府 over insecurity in the north, Buhari 公式文書,認めるd his 行政's successful 成果/努力s to 安全な・保証する the 解放(する) of 以前 誘拐するd students and 追加するd that the leadership "is acutely aware of its 責任/義務 to 保護する the life and 所有物/資産/財産 of the Nigerians."

"We have a lot of work to do, 特に now that we have 再開するd the 国境s," Buhari said, 公式文書,認めるing that the Northwest 地域 "現在のs a problem" that the 行政 "is 決定するd to を取り引きする."

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Some 明言する/公表するs say Pfizer ワクチン allotments 削減(する) for next week

O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) - Several 明言する/公表するs say they have been told to 推定する/予想する far より小数の doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 ワクチン i n its second week of 配当, 誘発するing worries about 可能性のある 延期するs in 発射s for health care 労働者s and long-称する,呼ぶ/期間/用語 care 居住(者)s.

But 上級の Trump 行政 公式の/役人s on Thursday downplayed the 危険 of 延期するs, 特記する/引用するing a 混乱 over semantics, while Pfizer said its 生産/産物 levels have not changed.

The first U.S. doses were 治めるd Monday, and already this week, hundreds of thousands of people, mostly health care 労働者s, have been vaccinated. The pace is 推定する/予想するd to 増加する next week, assuming Moderna gets 連邦の authorization for its ワクチン.

成果/努力s to help 区 off the coronavirus come まっただ中に a staggering death (死傷者)数 that より勝るd 300,000 on Monday. Johns Hopkins University says about 2,400 people are dying daily in the U.S., which is 普通の/平均(する)ing more than 210,000 事例/患者s per day.

In 最近の days, 知事s and health leaders in at least a dozen 明言する/公表するs have said the 連邦の 政府 has told them that next week´s 出荷/船積み of the Pfizer-BioNTech ワクチン will be いっそう少なく than 初めは 事業/計画(する)d.

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Hot 位置/汚点/見つけ出す: California hospitals buckle as ウイルス 事例/患者s 殺到する

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Hospitals across California have all but run out of 集中的な care beds for COVID-19 患者s, 救急車s are 支援 up outside 緊急 rooms, and テントs for triaging the sick are going up as the nation´s most populous 明言する/公表する 現れるs as the 最新の 震源地 of the U.S. 突発/発生.

On Thursday, California 報告(する)/憶測d a staggering 52,000 new 事例/患者s in a 選び出す/独身 day - equal to what the entire U.S. was 普通の/平均(する)ing in 中央の-October - and a one-day 記録,記録的な/記録する of 379 deaths. More than 16,000 people are in the hospital with the coronavirus across the 明言する/公表する, more than 3倍になる the number a month ago.

"I´ve seen more deaths in the last nine months in my ICU than I have in my entire 20-year career," said Amy Arlund, a nurse at Kaiser 永久の Fresno 医療の 中心.

While the 殺到するing ウイルス has 押し進めるd hospitals どこかよそで around the country to the breaking point in 最近の weeks , the 危機 is 深くするing with alarming 速度(を上げる) in California, even as the 全国的な rollout of COVID-19 ワクチン接種s this week and the 差し迫った 解放(する) of a second ワクチン have 上げるd hopes of 結局 敗北・負かすing the 天罰(を下す).

集中的な care 部隊 capacity is at いっそう少なく than 1% in many California 郡s, and morgue space is also running out, in what is ますます 似ているing the 災害 last spring in New York City.

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'Unbelievable' 降雪 一面に覆う/毛布s parts of the Northeast

GLENVILLE, N.Y. (AP) - The Northeast´s first whopper snowstorm of the season buried parts of upstate New York under more than 3 feet (1 メーター) of snow, broke 記録,記録的な/記録するs in cities and towns across the 地域, and left 骨折って進む drivers struggling to (疑いを)晴らす the roads as snow piled up at more than 4 インチs (10 センチメートルs) per hour.

"It was a very difficult, 急速な/放蕩な 嵐/襲撃する and it dropped an unbelievable 量 of snow," Tom Coppola, 主要道路 superintendent in 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金 of 持続するing 100 miles (160 キロメーターs) of roads in the Albany 郊外 of Glenville, said Thursday. "It's to the point where we're having trouble 押し進めるing it with our 骨折って進むs."

The 嵐/襲撃する dropped 30 インチs (76 センチメートルs) on Glenville between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. Thursday, leaving a silent scene of snow-覆う? trees, buried cars and laden roofs when the sun finally peeked through at noon.

"If you do not have to be on the roads, please don't travel," said New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who 宣言するd a 明言する/公表する of 緊急 for 18 郡s. He said there were more than 9,000 力/強力にする outages, 600 事故s and two fatalities by midmorning Thursday.

In New Rochelle in Westchester 郡, where a foot of snow was 記録,記録的な/記録するd, the roof of a Mavis 割引 Tire 蓄える/店 部分的に/不公平に 洞穴d in but no 傷害s were 報告(する)/憶測d, によれば CBSN New York.

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Family behind OxyContin attests to its 役割 in opioid 危機

Two owners of the company that makes OxyContin 定評のある to 議会 on Thursday that the powerful prescription painkiller played a rol e in the opioid 疫病/流行性の but they stopped short of わびるing or admitting 悪事を働くこと.

"I want to 表明する my family´s 深い sadness about the opioid 危機," David Sackler, whose family owns Purdue Pharma, said at a rare 外見 in a public 会議. "OxyContin is a 薬/医学 that Purdue ーするつもりであるd to help people, and it has helped, and continues to help, millions of Americans."

The company´s marketing 成果/努力s have been 非難するd for 与える/捧げるing to an 中毒 and overdose 危機 that has been linked to 470,000 deaths in the 部隊d 明言する/公表するs over the past two 10年間s.

Kathe Sackler, David Sackler´s cousin, told the House Oversight and 改革(する) 委員会 that she knows "the loss of any family member or loved one is terribly painful and nothing is more 悲劇の than the loss of a child."

"As a mother," she said, "my heart breaks for the parents who have lost their children. I am so terribly sorry for your 苦痛."

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Jeremy Bulloch, Boba Fett in first '星/主役にする Wars' trilogy, dies

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jeremy Bulloch, the English actor who first donned a helmet, cape and jetpack to play Boba Fett in the 初めの "星/主役にする Wars" trilogy, died Thursday.

Bulloch died at a London hospital from health 複雑化s after years of living with Parkinson´s 病気, his スパイ/執行官s at Brown, Simcocks & Andrews said in a 声明. He was 75.

As the Mandalorian bounty hunter Boba Fett, Bulloch made off with a froze-in-carbonite Han 単独の in 1980´s "The Empire Strikes 支援する," then zoomed around the 砂漠 of Tatooine in a jet pack in 1983´s "Return of the Jedi."

"Today we lost the best bounty hunter in the 星雲," Billy Dee Williams, whose Lando Calrissian appeared in 重要な scenes with Bulloch in the films, said on Twitter.

示す Hamill tweeted that Bulloch was "the quintessential English gentleman."

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Trump's move to his Florida 広い地所 challenged by neighbor

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - 大統領 Donald Trump's 推定する/予想するd move to his 損なう-a-Lago club after he leaves office next month is 存在 challenged by a lawyer who says a 1990s 協定 許すing Trump to 変える the Florida 所有物/資産/財産 into a 商売/仕事 禁じるs anyone from living there, 含むing him.

弁護士/代理人/検事 Reginald Stambaugh sent a letter this week to the Town of Palm Beach 説 he 代表するs a neighbor who doesn't want the 大統領,/社長 to (問題を)取り上げる 住居 at the 17-acre 所有物/資産/財産 because it would 減少(する) the area's 所有物/資産/財産 values. He also 主張するs that a microwave 安全 障壁 operated by the Secret Service is 害(を与える)ing his (弁護士の)依頼人, who he says is 展示(する)ing symptoms of microwave (危険などに)さらす. He did not give the (弁護士の)依頼人's 指名する.

The 大統領,/社長 and first lady Melania Trump changed their 合法的な 住居 from New York City to Palm Beach last year. Stambaugh says that 侵害する/違反するs the 1993 協定 between Trump and the town that 許すd him to turn 損なう-a-Lago from a 私的な home into a club that has 10 guest rooms for rent.

The 協定 says only members can stay 夜通し and for no more than 21 days per year, divided into three one-week stays that cannot run consecutively. The question is whether Trump is a club member and covered by those 支配するs. Stambaugh believes he is - and comments Trump's lawyer made in 1993 支援する that up.

"ーするために 避ける an embarrassing 状況/情勢 for everyone and to give the 大統領 time to make other living 手はず/準備 in the area, we 信用 you will work with his team to remind them" of the 協定, Stambaugh wrote. "Palm Beach has many lovely 広い地所s for sale and surely he can find one which 会合,会うs his needs." He did not すぐに 答える/応じる to a call and email Thursday 捜し出すing その上の comment.

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