Ten people are dead, including a police officer, after a shooting at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado. CNN reports. The Wall Street Journal looks at legal questions facing workers and managers about requirements to get COVID vaccines. Last night, the city council of Evanston, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, voted to pay reparations to Black residents for historical housing-discrimination. The Washington Post reports on the nation’s first government reparations program for Black people. Doctors are concerned about a spike in cases of alcoholic liver disease among younger women that started before the pandemic and may be intensifying. NPR looks at the research. The two cousins behind the company that provides the bulk of America’s COVID-19 swabs despise each other. Bloomberg Businessweek has the story of how family drama got tied up with the national effort to boost testing.

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