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Advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration today endorsed a proposal to make big changes in the nation's approach to vaccinating people against COVID-19.(Image credit: Rogelio V. Solis/AP)
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Oil refineries release billions of pounds of pollution into waterways each year, according to regulatory data. NPR found that pollution is concentrated near places where people of color live. (Image credit: Ryan Kellman/NPR)
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The seat currently held by 89-year-old Dianne Feinstein is safely Democratic. Feinstein has not announced if she will retire, but Democratic hopefuls are already entering the race for her seat. (Image credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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The FBI spent months spying on the ransomware group Hive and secretly helped victims before shutting the entire operation down.(Image credit: Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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The five former officers each face a litany of charges, including second degree murder, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct and official oppression.(Image credit: Shelby County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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Washington Post reporter Drew Harwell says the unpublished report shows that tech companies didn't respond to employees' warnings about violent rhetoric on their platforms.
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There's no reason for alarm — but, a NASA engineer calls it "one of the closest approaches by a known near-Earth object ever recorded." It will be only 2,200 miles above the Earth's surface.(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
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The Department of Transportation says it is looking into the airline's flight scheduling practices and will hold it accountable for refunds. The 16,700 canceled flights cost Southwest $800 million.(Image credit: Seth Herald/AFP via Getty Images)
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Sands, the 65-year-old star of A Room with a View, disappeared while hiking in Southern California. After 13 days, authorities are resuming a search "by air only" amid weather warnings.(Image credit: John Salangsang/John Salangsang/Invision/AP)
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The Biden administration is proposing that the U.S. census and federal surveys change how Latinos are asked about their race and ethnicity and add a checkbox for "Middle Eastern or North African."(Image credit: RussellCreative/Getty Images)
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