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Nearly 23 million kids around the world missed their routine childhood vaccinations last year due to the pandemic, according to a new report from WHO and UNICEF.https://trib.al/XG6IAZn 

COVID-19 misinformation is an "urgent threat" to the U.S. that's putting people's lives at risk and prolonging the pandemic, says Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy.https://trib.al/qIQuA0s 

A jury has found the Capital Gazette gunman criminally responsible for the massacre of five people in 2018 — rejecting his defense that he didn't understand his actions because of mental illness.https://trib.al/HJQ2hyL 

Mac and cheese-flavored ice cream hit stores on Wednesday — and promptly sold out nearly everywhere. The company's website even crashed.https://trib.al/XjyJNsH 

The order is not an outright ban, which can only be done through legislation in Minnesota. Efforts to do so have been blocked by Republican lawmakers in recent years.https://www.npr.org/2021/07/15/1016490666/new-restrictions-in-minnesota-seek-to-sharply-curtail-conversion-therapy-for-min …

Minnesota's governor has issued an executive order seeking to protect LGBTQ minors from conversion therapy — a discredited practice of trying to make someone become straight or cisgender.https://trib.al/GK02vvG 

Who is Mathew Rosengart, the lawyer Britney Spears has chosen to represent her? He's a former federal prosecutor turned high-profile Hollywood lawyer. His celebrity clients have included Steven Spielberg, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Keanu Reeves.https://trib.al/ri5Lqia 

A $3 million grant from the African American Cultural Heritage Fund is aiming to help preserve 40 landmarks across the country — including the Chicago church that hosted Emmett Till's funeral.https://trib.al/2AWhfgZ 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's final visit to the White House marks the end of her steady presence on the global stage since 2005 — and will cap off her years of working with 4 very different U.S. presidents.https://trib.al/9QCwbmu 

Climate change is increasing the risk of seasonal rains turning catastrophic. In a hotter Europe, scientists expect heavy rainfall to get even more intense and flooding to grow more frequent.https://www.npr.org/2021/07/15/1016310282/torrential-rain-and-flooding-are-wreaking-havoc-across-western-germany …

Crews in Surfside are recovering personal items of victims as they sift through the rubble: pictures, rings, keepsakes, safes. Here's how officials are managing them — and attempting to get them back to the families.https://trib.al/O0110fo 

The head of WHO acknowledged it was premature to rule out a potential link between COVID and a laboratory leak — and is asking China to be more transparent as scientists investigate the virus' origins.https://trib.al/XKFXBLN 

Utah is one of at least 5 states — along with Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and New Hampshire — that list law enforcement alongside race and gender in protected categories under their hate crime laws.https://www.npr.org/2021/07/15/1016431004/a-woman-is-facing-a-hate-crime-charge-for-stomping-on-a-back-the-blue-sign-in-ut?utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_term=nprnews …

A 19-year-old woman in Utah has been charged with a hate crime for allegedly stomping on a "Back the Blue" sign and "smirking in an intimidating manner" at a sheriff's deputy.https://trib.al/EKyQeGT 

JUST IN: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is calling for the child tax credit to be made made permanent as the first installment of the monthly allowance was delivered to parents' bank accounts this week.https://trib.al/sn8s1yi 

Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad was the target of an alleged kidnapping plot by Iranian agents that was foiled by the FBI. She tells NPR it was "obvious they were going to execute me."https://trib.al/mHH6aN6