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The Biden administration warned Wednesday that second Covid-19 vaccine booster shots — or a new type of vaccine, if needed — will not be free and readily available to the general public, if and when they are authorized, without additional funding from Congress.
Washington Republicans are privately resigned to the likelihood that Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson will be confirmed by the Senate. But even if Republican senators don’t expect to block Jackson, the four-day televised hearing is still a proving ground for a number of potential GOP presidential candidates.
A rare face-to-face meeting between Russian and US military officials last week led to an “outburst” of emotion from a normally stoic Russian general, a “revealing moment” that the Americans present believe hinted at larger morale problems in Russia’s military, according to a closely held US military readout of what transpired.
