Lakshmi Singh

The CDC says that most of the cases are among those who are unvaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown.

The agency falls under the direction of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has long expressed doubts about vaccine safety.

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stocks opened lower this morning after a better-than-expected report from the Labor Department on inflation.

NPR's Scott Horsley reports.

So far on Wall Street, we see the Dow is up 215 points at 49,667.

The S&P is up 37 points.

The Nasdaq has gained 89 points.

Four people are headed to the International Space Station after today's pre-dawn liftoff from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

The Crew-12 mission includes two NASA astronauts, a French astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut.

The four are scheduled to spend eight months aboard the orbiting outpost.

NASA's last mission, Crew 11, departed earlier than planned in January, a month ahead of schedule.

NASA had said that a crew member had a serious but stable health condition.

It was the first medical evacuation in the orbital lab's 26-year history.

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Some relief from sharp price hikes in the U.S.

reflected in the latest reading of the Consumer Price Index.

The key measure of inflation cooled last month to 2.4 percent, lowest level in nearly five years.