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Beata Moon sits on the balcony of her Queens, New York, apartment on December 9, 2021. Because she is not fully vaccinated, much of New York City is off limits to her.

For a musician in New York City, not being fully vaccinated comes at a cost

"My ears are my life," says composer, pianist and teaching artist Beata Moon, who experienced ear ringing after her first vaccine dose. Around the same time, she also tested positive for COVID-19.

A health care worker fills a syringe with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at the American Museum of Natural History in New York earlier this year.

FDA expands Pfizer COVID booster, opens extra dose to age 16

The U.S. is expanding COVID-19 boosters, opening a third dose of Pfizer's vaccine to people as young as age 16.

Sen. Patrick Leahy, seen here at the U.S. Capitol in September, announced Monday that he is not seeking another term representing Vermont.

Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy won't seek reelection next year

Leahy, 81, is the longest-serving member of the U.S. Senate.

On November 29, the World Health Organization will convene a virtual summit for its member states to consider the handling of future outbreaks. Pictured above: WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

The WHO is seeking a new treaty on handling future pandemics. It could be a hard sell

At a special session this week, the World Health Organization hopes to start sketching out a new world order. "We don't have rules of the game," says WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Glenda Lima, a surgical tech at Houston Women's Reproductive Services, performs an ultrasound on a patient on Sept. 30. The patient drove to the clinic from Louisiana, and the ultrasound was to determine whether the woman was less than six weeks pregnant and eligible to have an abortion in Texas, which has enacted the strictest anti-abortion law in the United States.

Doctors say the Texas abortion ban is complicating other types of medical decisions

The law bans nearly all abortions, and doctors providing pregnancy care are hoping for more clarity soon, as legal challenges continue.

Hanif Muhammad shows Furquan Maynard how to build a casket for the first time.

INDEPENDENT LENS: Two Gods

Stream or tune in Monday, June 21, 2021 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

1 in 4 American Jews say they experienced antisemitism in the last year

A new report from American Jewish Committee also found that, out of fear of antisemitism, 39% of American Jews changed their behavior, such as by not wearing items that would identify them as Jewish.

A textbook published by Hodder Education asks students whether treatment of Native Americans was "exaggerated." The textbook is no longer being sold, Hodder said.

Textbook that asked if treatment of Native Americans was 'exaggerated' is recalled

Hodder Education, the publisher of the textbook, said it was removing the book from sale and would conduct a review of the content.

People walk by a sign for a COVID-19 testing clinic and a COVID-19 vaccination location outside of a Brooklyn, New York, hospital on March, 29 2021.

A lottery could determine the fate of Biden's vaccine rule for 84 million workers

Lawsuits against the Biden administration's vaccine-or-test requirement for private employers have been filed in almost every federal appeals court.

Operation Noble Eagle was launched by the U.S. and Canadian governments in response to the September 11 attacks. It refers to operations aimed at homeland security and support to federal, state and local agencies. Chief Petty Officer Joshua Ives deployed to Afghanistan in October 2012 and served as a senior medic and photographer with Provincial Reconstruction Team Farah.

A Navy medic and photographer uses art to reflect on his time in Afghanistan

After his military retirement, Chief Petty Officer Joshua Ives sifted through more than 15,000 photographs he took in Afghanistan. He created a mixed-media project called Noble Eagle.

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