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Medical experts say the government should do more to get booster shots into long-term care residents in New York.

Weddington argued the case before the high court twice, in December 1971 and again in October 1972, resulting the next year in the 7-2 ruling that legalized abortion. She died Sunday at age 76. (Image credit: Mike Groll/AP)

The NewsHour Weekend team selected some of our favorite stories of 2021 on nature, climate change and the environment.

Qatari envoy pledges $60 million to build pipeline connecting Israeli gas facilities with Gaza’s only electrical plant; but final deal and implementation could still be years away

El Al employee tested negative twice before takeoff from Israel but then positive in Guangzhou on Thursday; Foreign Ministry aims to have her returned as early as Monday

Former Archbishop Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning icon, died Sunday at 90. Tutu’s passionate voice helped end South Africa’s brutal apartheid regime that oppressed its Black majority for decades. World leaders, South Africans and people around the globe

Elissa Nadworny talks to Russell Unger, a building electrification expert at RMI, a clean energy think tank, about New York City’s recent fossil fuel ban in new buildings.

Neuroscientist and author Magdalena Bak-Maier shares her tips for how to stay well and practice self-care during a holiday season made more stressful by the rapidly spreading omicron variant.

Closures from COVID-19 have affected 1.6 billion children worldwide. Nearly two years into the pandemic, experts say the economic costs are in the trillions and the social costs are incalculable.

Journalist Kate Bartlett speaks with Elissa Nadworny about what Desmond Tutu meant to the people of South Africa and the fight for social justice more broadly.