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It's taking more time to cast a ballot in US elections – and even longer for Black and Hispanic voters

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the November 2020 election brought out about 155 million voters. That represented 67% of Americans over 18, and it was the highest voter turnout of any modern election.

The Conversation

Hong Kong tries to stop brain drain

HONG KONG: Hong Kong is considering easing property taxes and visa restrictions as authorities seek to curb a pandemic brain drain that has threatened the city’s status as an international financial hub.

Bangkok Post

Glasgow to host Santa Dash for first time in three years with brand new route

The iconic Glasgow Santa Dash has been cancelled for the previous few years due to the pandemic, but is making a return this year with a brand new route through Glasgow Green.

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Public health commissioner: COVID challenges remain, even with relatively low hospitalizations

Kentucky’s public health commissioner says hospitalizations, intensive care admissions, and ventilated patients for COVID are at some of the lowest levels since the beginning of the pandemic.

WEKU

Exxon’s Exodus: Employees Have Finally Had Enough of Its Toxic Culture

The 140-year-old oil company is making more money than ever. Yet the pandemic exposed deep cultural problems—and talent is fleeing.

Businessweek

“An inverse tsunami”: How inflation and drought are making it harder to feed West Texans in need

Food banks across Texas are now struggling to keep up with growing demand even more than they were during the pandemic.

The Texas Tribune

Boris Johnson’s Covid laws took away our rights with flick of a pen. Don’t let that happen again

Ministers ruled by decree for more than two years. That’s not true democracy and it remains a risk, says barrister Adam Wagner

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COVID took over their high school experience. They want senior year to be different

For the class of 2023, every year of high school was disrupted by the pandemic. NPR talked to five seniors about what that's been like.

WEKU

Faye Flam: An NYU professor got fired. Then everyone missed the point

The disruption associated with the COVID-19 pandemic is loosening society’s grip on some stubborn assumptions about different facets of life, especially work and education. The latest: that the hardest college classes are the most rigorous, as exemplified in last week’s hullabaloo over the case of an New York University professor…

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Commentary: The labor market’s double-edged sword

The unemployment rate now matches the pre-pandemic, half-century low of 3.5 percent. But with 2.8 million missing workers, low unemployment is both a blessing and a curse.

Tribune News Service

Innovative fundraising tournament set to spread rugby fever up and down the country as Women's World Cup kicks off

Ahead of World Mental Health Day on 10 October, the focus of Wooden Spoon's Vets Fest 22 event centred around supporting mental health projects, with an estimated £1.5 million children and young people needing mental health support as a result of the pandemic

Wales Online

Covid furlough scheme lost billions of pounds to error and fraud, says watchdog

‘Billions went to people whose incomes increased during the pandemic, and billions more was lost in fraud and error,’ the National Audit Office said.

The Independent UK

In drawn-out recovery, NYC inches out from COVID's shadow

It's becoming clearer that New York City's recovery from the pandemic will be drawn out and that some aspects of the city's economic ecosystem could be changed for good

The Independent UK

Hong Kong eyes property tax cut, visa moves to reverse Covid brain drain

Hong Kong is considering easing property taxes and visa restrictions as authorities seek to curb a pandemic brain drain that’s threatened the city’s status as an international financial hub.

Bangkok Post

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Four out of five pupils in England say progress suffered due to Covid

State school pupils twice as likely to feel they have fallen behind than peers in private schools, landmark study finds

Birmingham Post

'You can't put a jumper on a Komodo dragon': Chester Zoo boss on how cost-of-living crisis is hitting popular visitor attraction

The zoo was forced to close for 208 days during the pandemic

Pedestrian.tv

‘Painful To See’: Rising Rents Contributed To A 10% Spike In Homelessness In NSW Since 2020

Homelessness in New South Wales has increased 10% since the pandemic began, a new report found. Meanwhile, rents reached a new record high.

Tribune News Service

ACT test scores drop to 30-year low nationwide; Nevada’s scores are lowest of all

PHOENIX — Scores on the ACT college admissions test by this year’s high school graduates hit their lowest point in more than 30 years with Nevada receiving the lowest average composite score in the nation — the latest evidence of the enormity of learning disruption during the pandemic.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Give it another shot: Get the latest COVID-19 booster

Only 10% of Chicagoans have gotten their updated COVID-19 booster. Perhaps we need a jolt of that urgency and desperation we once felt to protect ourselves from coronavirus at the height of the pandemic.

AAP

New approach to suicide prevention in NSW

The NSW government is shifting its approach to suicide prevention with a five-year plan focusing on people and communities, early intervention and aftercare.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Treasury Department to investigate Florida’s use of COVID funds for migrant flights

WASHINGTON — A watchdog group with the U.S. Treasury Department plans to examine whether Florida’s state government properly used federal pandemic recovery money in connection to last month’s efforts to relocate migrants, a top official with the agency told the Massachusetts congressional delegation last week.

The Independent UK

Treasury probing Florida Gov. DeSantis' migrant flights

The Treasury Department’s internal watchdog is investigating whether Florida Gov_ Ron DeSantis improperly used federal pandemic aid to fly migrants to Martha’s Vineyard as part of his effort to “transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations.”

WEKU

How this Brazilian doc got nearly every person in her city to take a COVID vaccine

Dr. Gabriela Kucharski's city of Toledo had virtually no vaccines. And it's a bastion of support for Brazil's vaccine skeptic president. Here's why that didn't matter.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Treasury Department to investigate Florida’s use of COVID funds for migrant flights

WASHINGTON — A watchdog group with the U.S. Treasury Department plans to examine whether the Florida government properly used federal pandemic recovery money in connection to last month’s efforts to relocate migrants, a top official with the agency told the Massachusetts congressional delegation last week.

ABC News

COVID-19 mandatory isolation is lifting. How can I best protect myself against infection?

If you've not yet had COVID and want to keep it that way, or just don't want to get it again, what are the most effective, evidence-based ways of doing so — while still having a social life?

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