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Friday 22 October 2021 08:38 BST

Prop Firearm Movie Set (KOAT 7 News)

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VIRUS-OUTBREAK — Millions more Americans can get a COVID-19 booster and choose a different company’s vaccine for that next shot, federal health officials say. Certain people who received Pfizer vaccinations months ago already are eligible for a booster and now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says specific Moderna and Johnson & Johnson recipients qualify, too. And in a bigger change, the agency is allowing the flexibility of “mixing and matching” that extra dose regardless of which type people received first. By Medical Writers Lauran Neergaard and Mike Stobbe. SENT: 660 words, photo, video. With VIRUS-OUTBREAK-BOOSTERS-Q&A — Is it time to get a COVID-19 booster, and if so, which one?

VIRUS OUTBREAK-RUSSIA-HOSPITAL — In Russia’s fifth-largest city, Nizhny Novgorod, seriously ill coronavirus patients at an infectious disease hospital lie in crowded wards with little space between beds. By Yaroslav Gunin. SENT: 680 words, photos.

CAPITOL BREACH-SUBPOENAS — The House votes to hold Steve Bannon a longtime ally and aide to former President Donald Trump, in contempt of Congress after he defied a subpoena from the committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. By Mary Clare Jalonick, Michael Balsamo and Eric Tucker. SENT: 1,100 words, photos, video.

PROP-FIREARM-MOVIE-SET — A prop firearm discharged by veteran actor Alec Baldwin who is starring and producing a Western movie, killed his director of photography and injured the director on the set in New Mexico, authorities say. Halyna Hutchins, director of photography for the movie “Rust,” was fatally shot and director Joel Souza injured. By Morgan Lee and Walter Berry. SENT: 680 words, photos, video.

CONGRESS-BUDGET — The White House and Democrats are hurriedly reworking key aspects of President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion domestic policy plan. They’re trimming social services and climate change programs and they’re reconsidering new taxes on corporations and the wealthy to pay for the package. By Lisa Mascaro, Darlene Superville and Alan Fram. SENT: 1,190 words, photos, video.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-JOBLESS AID CUTOFF — For months this year, an insistent cry arose from business leaders and Republican governors: Cut off a $300-a-week federal supplement for unemployed Americans. Many more people, they argued, would stream back into the workforce and take the millions of jobs that employers have been desperate to fill. Yet three months after about half the states began ending that federal payment, which allowed some recipients to receive more money than when they worked, there's been no significant influx of job seekers. By Christopher Rugaber and Casey Smith. UPCOMING: 1,300 words by 8 a.m., photos, graphic. With AP data distribution.

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