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Washington CNN  —  President Joe Biden will receive the updated Covid-19 booster shot Tuesday, White House assistant press secretary Kevin Munoz said Sunday evening. It has been more than three months since Biden contracted Covid-19, which is the amount of time the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says people may consider waiting before getting boosted. The bivalent boosters target the original coronavirus strain as well as the Omicron BA.4/BA.5 subvariants. The shots are available for people ages five and up, as long as they have completed all primary doses in their vaccine series. People who are boosted have…

Over the years, people have been fighting to save Scona Pool in the Queen Alexandra neighbourhood. The City of Edmonton permanently closed the 65-year-old facility due to ongoing costly repairs and systems failures earlier in the month.But now a newly formed non-profit called The Scona Pool Community Foundation is diving in head first to try and get the pool reopened.“At this point, what we’ve done is we’re collaborating with the city to investigate the viability and whether it’s possible for them to transfer ownership of the facility to our organization,” Scona Pool Community Foundation director of business development and programing…

Philadelphia is the place to be after the Phillies won the National League Championship Series and punched their ticket to the World Series.It’s the Phillies’ first Fall Classic appearance since 2009, and fans have 12 years of lost time to make up for. Light poles were greased up throughout the city to prevent fans from climbing them.It did not work.This guy took it to another level, chugging a beer atop a pole.NLCS MVP BRYCE HARPER PREDICTS WORLD SERIES VICTORY: ‘WE’RE GONNA BRING THIS S–T HOME’But that was nothing – apparently another fan is getting in as many as he can…

Josh Jacobs rushed for 143 yards and three second-half touchdowns, and the Las Vegas Raiders ran away from the Houston Texans 38-20 on Sunday.In a battle of one-win teams coming off byes, the Raiders (2-4) dominated the Texans (1-4-1) after halftime, outscoring them 28-10 behind 227 yards of offense, including 98 from Jacobs on the ground.Las Vegas, which erased a three-point, fourth-quarter deficit, scored on four straight possessions before safety Duron Harmon sealed the win by intercepting Davis Mills and returning it 73 yards for a touchdown. Derek Carr completed 21 of 27 passes for 241 yards and a touchdown.…

New York’s hotel industry doesn’t seem to have any reservations about Gov. Kathy Hochul — showering her campaign in donations after she delivered a massive post-pandemic bailout. The powerful hotel workers union and owners have directed donations totaling in the six figures to the Democratic incumbent’s re-election bid since she steered a big chunk of her $450 million tourism revival program to the pandemic-ravaged industry last fall, a Post review of campaign records reveals. A key element of the recovery plan included a a $100 million Tourism Worker Recovery Fund that provided a one-time payment of $2,750 to up to 36,000…

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Washington CNN  —  Amid expectations of high turnout this year, there’s also the fear that some voters could be dissuaded from participating. Welcome to the 2022 midterms – the first major election since former President Donald Trump’s failed efforts to thwart the results of the 2020 presidential contest. Nearly 6 million ballots had already been cast across 39 states as of Friday, according to data from election officials, Edison Research and Catalist. But with just two weeks until…

SUNRISE, Fla. — It’s only six games into the season, but already the Islanders are facing real adversity. As the Islanders head home from Florida, coach Lane Lambert and his team are staring down a three-game losing streak following a winless trip that ended with a 3-2 defeat to the Panthers on Sunday. Unlike their loss to the Lightning a night earlier, this one was not as competitive as the score suggests. As Lambert juggled his lines, pairings and power-play units, the Islanders struggled to put together an offensive attack on backup Florida netminder Spencer Knight at five-on-five. Two games…

CNN  —  A couple wanted in connection with a murder in Las Vegas last week were found dead after leading police on a 35-mile car chase and escaping into the Arizona desert Friday, according to the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office. Hunter McGuire, 26, and his girlfriend, Samantha Branek, 32, were found by a Lake Havasu City Police Department SWAT team lying beside each other, each with a single gunshot wound to the head, the sheriff’s office said in a statement. McGuire had a rifle laying on his chest and his wound is believed to be self-inflicted, but the Mohave County…

A 14-year-old girl was stabbed on a train in Manhattan on Sunday after she got into a dispute with two other teenage girls she knew, cops said. The teen was knifed during a fight on a southbound train near the 191st station in Washington Heights around 4 p.m. — the latest violent incident inside the city’s transit system, according to police. The victim suffered a puncture wound to the chest and was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in stable condition, the NYPD said. A 13-year-old boy who was with the victim was also wounded but not stabbed, police and law enforcement…

CNN  —  New York has created three task forces aimed at streamlining the city’s justice system in the hopes of decreasing violence, officials announced Sunday. City officials touted frank discussions on crime solutions with criminal justice stakeholders at a two-day summit with Mayor Eric Adams held at Gracie Mansion, the official mayoral residence, on Saturday and Sunday. The three task forces will address sharing information and discovery – which pertains to getting evidence to defense attorneys – mental health and other urgent action items, such as modernizing the criminal justice system to expedite the length of time it takes to…