News from the note…
A roundup of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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LATEST: Over 400,000 Americans received a booster shot at a pharmacy since Friday and nearly 1 million more have scheduled appointments in the next few weeks, according to the White House. https://t.co/UsAivWMf5a pic.twitter.com/9VXBUVeAlg
— ABC News (@ABC) September 28, 2021
A North Carolina-based hospital system has fired roughly 175 unvaccinated employees for failing to comply with its vaccine mandate.
— Axios (@axios) September 28, 2021
It's one of the largest-ever cases of mass terminations spurred by a vaccine requirement.https://t.co/EOXcqzsnYZ
Connecticut doctor's license suspended for providing blank, signed Covid-19 exemption forms, health department says https://t.co/mEvguqrzgk
— CNN (@CNN) September 28, 2021
Sec. Austin: “We helped build a state but we could not forge a nation. The fact that the Afghan army that we and our partners trained simply melted away—in many cases without firing a shot—took us all by surprise. It would be dishonest to claim otherwise.” https://t.co/I32LHbVYSs pic.twitter.com/m4Ynvznv4g
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) September 28, 2021
Gen. Mark Milley defends calls he made to a Chinese official at the end of Donald Trump's presidency, saying other admin. officials were aware of the calls and they were not intended to "usurp authority." https://t.co/9dug1tXGrS
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 28, 2021
On Jan. 6, more than 30 minutes after the first attackers breached barricades erected to protect the Capitol, the Department of Homeland Security sent an incongruous update to the Pentagon:
— POLITICO (@politico) September 28, 2021
“There are no major incidents of illegal activity at this time."https://t.co/oBHV0Cg4oH
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the federal government could run out of money by Oct. 18 unless Congress raises the debt ceiling.https://t.co/2MqFwwNkgh
— NPR (@NPR) September 28, 2021
JUST IN: A Maryland man who fatally shot 5 people in a 2018 attack at the Capital Gazette newspaper has been sentenced to life behind bars without the possibility of parole. https://t.co/wVSdvkJnqM
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 28, 2021
Los Angeles County will dismiss about 58,000 more marijuana convictions dating back more than three decades, an action spurred in part by the state's legalization of recreational marijuana a few years ago, the county district attorney said https://t.co/56FNePxXJR
— CNN (@CNN) September 28, 2021
Former President Obama says at the groundbreaking of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago that it will not be a "static museum," but a "living, thriving home" for cultural events, summits and concerts https://t.co/Nj065D03oX pic.twitter.com/moRckB4qGz
— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 28, 2021
New book sheds light on Trump's mysterious Walter Reed visit in November 2019 https://t.co/rEGlVLGf9l pic.twitter.com/URWvVxEA2F
— The Hill (@thehill) September 28, 2021
