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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators on Monday granted full approval to Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine, a shot that's already been given to tens of millions of Americans since its emergency authorization over a year ago.

CHICAGO (AP) — Sam Lay, a Chicago blues drummer and vocalist who played with Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bob Dylan and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, has died at age 86. Lay died Saturday of natural causes in Chicago, Alligator Records said Monday.

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The sun was shining when Kim Williams hopped in her Honda Odyssey to visit a friend at a nursing home. But an unexpected downpour on the drive back left her trapped in a maze of flooded streets.

“What the Fireflies Knew” by Kai Harris (Tiny Reparations Books) One of the joys of reviewing books is reading things you otherwise never would. So let me disclose up front that I chose this book because the title sounded cool.

WASHINGTON (AP) — NBA player Steph Curry and musical artists H.E.R.

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.

TORONTO — The Canadian Press newswire is making Sony Electronics its exclusive provider of cameras. The deal equips CP's photojournalists and videographers with Sony devices and lenses including the Alpha 1 and Alpha 9 II products.

NEW YORK (AP) — In a powerful new book for children, a little girl looks at a crowd of street protesters and asks: Why are those people marching? A few pages later, a child asks her family: Why are buildings burning? “Why?: A Conversation About Race”

“Black Cake” by Charmaine Wilkerson (Ballantine Books) The debut novel of former journalist and short fiction writer Charmaine Wilkerson opens with a one-paragraph prologue called “Then/1965.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Feb. 6-12: Feb. 6: Actor Mamie Van Doren is 91. Actor Mike Farrell is 83. NBC news anchorman Tom Brokaw is 82. Actor Gayle Hunnicutt is 79. Singer Fabian is 79. Actor Michael Tucker (“L.A. Law”) is 77.