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A recreational marijuana smoker indulges in smoking weed on April 14, 2020 in the Bushwick section of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. 

New York legalizing weed could mean big things for the future of the cannabis industry

Alicia Wallace, CNN Business April 1, 2021

(CNN) -- New York this week became the latest state to legalize recreational cannabis, and in doing so, it's poised to become one of the nation's largest markets.Another multibillion-dollar business...

Pfizer Manufacturing

Manufacturing moonshot: How Pfizer makes its millions of Covid-19 vaccine doses

By Amanda Sealy, CNN April 1, 2021

 (CNN) -- When the coronavirus pandemic began, the challenge for Pfizer and BioNTech wasn't just developing a Covid-19 vaccine -- they also had to make it, and by the hundreds of millions.This was no...

Biden administration launches $10 million ad campaign, leaders' network to encourage vaccination

Biden administration launches $10 million ad campaign, leaders’ network to encourage vaccination

By Jeremy Diamond, CNN April 1, 2021

(CNN) -- The Biden administration on Thursday unveiled a large-scale effort to encourage Americans to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, rolling out its first national ad campaign and announcing...

A handout photograph made available by the Suez Canal Authority, shows floatation work being carried out on the Ever Given container ship which ran aground in the Suez Canal, Egypt, 28 March 2021. The Ever Given, a large container ship ran aground in the Suez Canal on 23 March, blocking passage of other ships and causing a traffic jam for cargo vessels. The head of the Suez Canal Authority announced on 28 March that efforts for the floatation of the Ever Given are continuing. Its floatation is being carried out by 14 tugboats that are towing and pushing the grounding vessel, it has on 27 March moved by two inches and the authorities hope that the ship will move further after the water starts running underneath it. Suez Canal blocked as container ship runs aground, Egypt - 28 Mar 2021

Ever Given container ship freed in the Suez Canal

Asmaa Khalil, Mostafa Salem, Magdy Samaan, Ben Wedeman, Mick Krever, Jessie Yeung and Zamira Rahim, CNN March 29, 2021

(CNN) -- The Ever Given container ship has been dislodged and is now floating, after blocking the Suez Canal for almost a week, authorities said Monday.Tug boats had spent several hours on Monday working...

US President Joe Biden speaks during remarks on the implementation of the American Rescue Plan in the State Dining room of the White House in Washington, DC on March 15, 2021. 

Biden pressed over crisis at the southern border in his first White House news conference

Maegan Vazquez, CNN March 25, 2021

 (CNN) -- President Joe Biden spent much of his first presidential news conference on Thursday facing questions about the crisis on the southern border, promising conditions for unaccompanied minors...

First dogs Champ and Major Biden moved into the White House on Sunday, January 24.

Biden’s dogs are back at the White House

(CNN) -- Both of the President and first lady's dogs, Major and Champ, have returned to the White House after spending some time in Delaware following a biting incident involving Major, according to...

Bottles of red wine are displayed for sale inside Albertsons Cos. grocery store in San Diego, California, U.S. on Monday, June 22, 2020. Existing shareholders of Albertsons Cos., including Cerberus Capital Management, are seeking as much as $1.3 billion in its U.S. initial public offering, as grocery remains of the the few businesses to get a boost from the pandemic. 

Americans spent the pandemic stocking up on booze. That may be changing

Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business March 23, 2021

(CNN) -- The bender appears to be over for booming booze sales sparked by the pandemic.For the first time in a year, since Covid-19 began spreading across the United States forcing Americans to stay...

BOULDER, CO - MARCH 22: Police respond at a King Sooper's grocery store where a gunman opened fire on March 22, 2021 in Boulder, Colorado. Ten people, including a police officer, were killed in the attack. (Photo by Chet Strange/Getty Images)

10 dead in shooting at a grocery store in Colorado — less than a week after the spa killings in Atlanta

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN March 23, 2021

 (CNN) -- Ten people, including a police officer, were killed Monday when a gunman opened fire in a supermarket in the Colorado city of Boulder, in one of several mass shootings in the US over the...

This picture taken on March 17, 2021, shows a general view of the Super Nintendo World during a media preview at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP) (Photo by PHILIP FONG/AFP via Getty Images)

Super Nintendo World opens in Osaka, Japan

By Selina Wang, CNN March 18, 2021

(CNN) -- Children and adults alike waited in line for their turn to experience the world's first Super Nintendo World and its life-sized Mushroom Kingdom, which opened Thursday at Universal Studios Japan...

Law enforcement personnel are seen outside a massage parlor where a person was shot and killed on March 16, 2021, in Atlanta, Georgia. - Eight people were killed in shootings at three different spas in the US state of Georgia on March 16 and a 21-year-old male suspect was in custody, police and local media reported, though it was unclear if the attacks were related. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage / AFP) (Photo by ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP via Getty Images)

Suspect in Atlanta-area spa shootings might have intended more shootings in Florida, mayor says

By Jason Hanna, Amanda Watts and Madeline Holcombe, CNN March 18, 2021

(CNN) -- A man suspected of killing eight people at three Atlanta-area spas was headed to Florida "perhaps to carry out additional shootings" when he was arrested Tuesday night, Atlanta's mayor said Wednesday,...

Ohio State University clinic manager Paige Blankenship, left, administers one of the first Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines to Osvaldo Campanella Tuesday, March 2, 2021, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)

Biden to announce plans to purchase 100 million more Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine doses

(CNN) -- President Joe Biden will announce Wednesday that he is directing the US Department of Health and Human Services to purchase an additional 100 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine,...

Democratic presidential candidate and Ohio congressman Tim Ryan speaks at the Iowa Democratic Party's Hall of Fame Dinner on June 9, 2019 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Nearly all of the 23 Democratic candidates running for president were campaigning in Iowa this weekend. President Donald Trump has two events scheduled in the state on Tuesday. 

‘Stop talking about Dr. Seuss and start working with us’: Democratic congressman lashes out at GOP colleagues over pro-union bill

Originally Published: 10 MAR 21 12:00 ET By Devan Cole, CNN March 10, 2021

 (CNN) -- Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan lashed out at his Republican counterparts on Tuesday as the House debated a pro-union bill, urging the party to end its preoccupation with the recent shelving of...