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EARLIER: San Francisco has become the first major U.S. city to require residents to be fully vaccinated to enter businesses, including bars, clubs, gyms and restaurants https://trib.al/WSk4Cq6 pic.twitter.com/7ZVrUKNjCq

LATEST: Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee is released on parole after 207 days in prison. Lee was convicted of using bribery and corruption to take control of Samsung https://trib.al/uVGS0vL  #삼성pic.twitter.com/ojUG9nWEL2

Biden is sending thousands of troops to Kabul to evacuate the U.S. embassy amid the "rapidly deteriorating security situation" in Afghanistan, the Pentagon says https://trib.al/gLBJEzO pic.twitter.com/pRtUbcUv3B

New Zealand will focus on getting more people vaccinated before opening its borders in 2022, PM Jacinda Ardern says https://trib.al/IoDTkEE pic.twitter.com/fiHJYiQkaR

Firefighters faced off against wildfires in Croatia and Montenegro as southern Europe continued to swelter under a heatwave Thursdaypic.twitter.com/LwKOGhJ7bU

ICYMI: Officials in Fort Bend County, Texas, filed a lawsuit seeking to override Governor Greg Abbott’s ban on mask mandates amid a surge in Covid hospitalizations https://trib.al/1IE0Elj pic.twitter.com/8OEVXlbzXr

Severe floods and mudslides killed at least 17 people in northern Turkey as the country battles raging wildfires on the southern coastpic.twitter.com/HkMi9j5HAU

The Biden administration is strengthening its guidance and recommending vaccines for all pregnant people or those who are thinking about becoming pregnant https://trib.al/fBpWGJS pic.twitter.com/sntGSu3JQJ

Britney Spears has been freed from her father's conservatorship after 13 years. "Letting go is freedom," she wrote on Instagrampic.twitter.com/fw84f1bapz

"Our first responsibility has always been protecting the safety and the security of our citizens serving in Afghanistan and around the world," said U.S. officials on the Kabul embassy evacuation https://trib.al/bvIgdN7 pic.twitter.com/tfs5onWvJl

Japanese softball player Miu Goto will receive a new #Tokyo2020 Olympic gold medal after the original was bitten by her hometown mayorpic.twitter.com/38RI6k4Afo

NEW: Britney Spears' father, Jamie Spears, will step down from the conservatorship that has controlled her life and money for 13 years #FreeBritney https://trib.al/X1GxKp2 pic.twitter.com/a26kkjXj9O

Only 16,000 Haitians have been vaccinated since the start of the pandemic. Widespread unsubstantiated rumors and misinformation have caused high levels of vaccine hesitancy among the population http://bloom.bg/3CHaWdx pic.twitter.com/v6StUn79hi

NEW: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett refused to block Indiana University’s vaccine mandate after eight students filed an emergency request, saying it violated their constitutional rights https://trib.al/XeN4uIu pic.twitter.com/FcULdEBDvK

Gov. DeSantis says Florida will expand access to monoclonal antibodies, like Regeneron, for people with high-risk Covid cases. "There's clear benefits to this early treatment," he saidpic.twitter.com/9rL8MlNsEj

Greece PM Mitsotakis called the heat-fueled wildfires tearing through the country "the greatest ecological catastrophe of the last few decades" https://trib.al/yrMxRra pic.twitter.com/iMxl9abzQx

Tropical Depression Fred struck the Dominican Republic on Wednesday, causing power outages and two airports to close https://trib.al/MJ1LDiH pic.twitter.com/k2lKwVdWr5

Olympian #HansleParchment reunited with a #Tokyo2020 volunteer who paid for his taxi after he went to the wrong venue. The hurdler called her an "instrumental" part of his gold medal winpic.twitter.com/78XSMY5UJZ