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 | | | 🗳 Did you cast your vote? | | COVID-19 vaccines for kids could be available very soon. And astronauts are getting in on Taco Tuesday – in space. It's Tuesday's news. | | |
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| The 2021 election is in full swing with big races in Virginia and New Jersey. An expert committee has recommended the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11. And astronauts harvested their first crop of Hatch chile peppers in space. |
| 👋 It's Laura and Abbey! We're bringing you Tuesday's biggest news. |
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It's Election Day! |
| Voting is in full swing in the 2021 election, a collection of races that political prognosticators will be watching for clues about the themes that could define the pivotal 2022 midterm. Voters will choose new governors in Virginia and New Jersey, new congressional representatives in two Ohio districts, and new mayors in some of the nation's largest cities. Early voting has been going on for weeks in some states. The results will be dissected for any inkling of what they can tell us about 2022, when Republicans will try to retake control of Congress from the slim Democratic majority. Democrats have an eight-seat advantage in the House and control a split Senate. All 435 seats in the House will be up for election in 2022, along with 34 seats in the Senate. |
| 👉 Election Day 2021: The latest election news and results. |
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Coming soon: COVID vaccines for kids |
| A federal advisory committee unanimously recommended Tuesday that kids ages 5 to 11 receive Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine, setting the stage for mass vaccination of America's elementary school children. Once the CDC director signs off, shots will become available as soon as Wednesday, with delivery ramping up by next week. The vaccine would be delivered at one-third the dose given to adolescents and adults, in two shots at least three weeks apart. |
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 | | Nurse Erin Morgan administers the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to 14-year-old Zach Bilyj, of Wake Forest, N.C., during a vaccination clinic at the Wake County Human Services clinic on Departure Drive, in Raleigh, N.C. Spread of COVID-19 has dropped substantially in North Carolina in recent weeks. The latest data state health officials released on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021, shows cases and hospitalizations at their lowest levels in about three months. | | Robert Willett, AP | |
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New rules aimed at curbing methane emissions |
| The Biden administration announced new rules Tuesday to limit methane emissions from oil and gas drilling as well as actions aimed at protecting forests globally, part of a series of measures unveiled by the White House while President Joe Biden appears at the United Nations' COP26 climate summit in Scotland. As part of Biden's plan to curb methane gas emissions, a new Environmental Protection Agency rule will expand and strengthen measures to regulate leak detection and repairs for the oil and gas industry. Biden said methane gas contributes to about half the world's global warming and called cutting emissions crucial to achieve a goal of preventing temperatures from increasing by 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, by the end of the century. |
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 | | President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021, in Glasgow, Scotland. | | Evan Vucci, AP | |
Police hurt thousands of teens every year. An alarming number are Black girls. |
| Black youths make up the majority of kids that are subject to police violence, and a striking number of them are girls, an investigation by The Marshall Project found. The investigation looked at data for six large police departments on use-of-force incidents from 2015 through 2020 and found nearly 4,000 youths ages 17 and under experienced police violence. Almost 800 of those incidents, roughly a fifth of the total, were Black girls, and more than 2,200 Black boys were involved in the use-of-force incidents in the six cities examined. |
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 | | Brianna Stuart stood in front of the buildings where she encountered the police in 2016 as a 15-year-old, in Hagerstown, Md., on Oct. 8, 2021. | | ASHLEY ARNOLD FOR USA TODAY | |
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🚀Houston, we have some peppers |
| These tacos are out of this world. Astronauts at the International Space Station were in for a treat when they had "space tacos" while orbiting the Earth. Astronauts harvested the station's first round of Hatch chile peppers and added them to their tacos as a part of a larger study about growing foods during long space missions, according to a tweet from the ISS Research account. The seeds arrived at the station in June and are from the NuMex "Española Improved" pepper. According to NASA, the plan is for the astronauts to eat some peppers and send the rest back to Earth for analysis. The peppers will be harvested again for the last time later this month. |
 | | NASA astronaut and Expedition 66 flight engineer Megan McArthur is seen with a taco made using fajita beef, rehydrated tomatoes and artichokes, and chile peppers. The chile peppers were grown as part of the Plant Habitat-04 investigation aboard the International Space Station. | | NASA | |
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