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Thursday, December 16, 2021

• The CDC narrows the use of the J&J; vaccine due to concerns about rare blood clots
• Peloton pulls ad featuring actor Chris Noth after sexual assault accusations
• Justice Department Breaks Off Talks On Compensation For Separated Families
• A judge rejects Purdue Pharma's opioid settlement that would protect the Sackler family
• The FDA relaxes controversial restrictions on access to an abortion pill by mail
• After a year of deadly weather, cities look to private forecasters to save lives
• Democrats are forced to regroup as Biden's signature spending bill stalls
• Facebook bans 7 'surveillance-for-hire' companies that spied on 50,000 users
• 'And Just Like That' stars talk race, fashion and whether *that* college scene worked
• She refused to move bus seats months before Rosa Parks. At 82, her arrest is expunged
• Broadway shows — which just reopened after the onset of the pandemic — face new cancellations
• The U.S. set a new record for powerful wind gusts, with 55 in one day
• As child care costs soar, providers are barely getting by. Is there any fix?
• Issa Rae's favorite Tiny Desk concerts
• James Tynion continues to surprise in 'Something Is Killing the Children'
• Biden awards Medals of Honor to 3 soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan
• Reggaeton music producer Flow La Movie dies in a plane crash
• The Senate parliamentarian rejects immigration reform in the Democrats' spending bill
• From blood clots to infected neurons, how COVID threatens the brain
• How is the COVID-19 vaccination campaign going in your state?