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Need2Know: COVID Boosters, Space Race & Spelling Bee Champ
This combination of 2019 and 2016 file photos shows Jeff Bezos with a model of Blue Origin's Blue Moon lunar lander in Washington, left, and Richard Branson with Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo space tourism rocket in Mojave, Calif. The two billionaires are putting everything on the line in July 2021 to ride their own rockets into space. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Mark J. Terrill)
Tropical storm warnings in the Northeast, more extreme heat in the Southwest, and shellfish baked alive in the Northwest. The climate emergency is here. In less depressing news, space history will be made this weekend, Marvel's Black Widow looks at a huge open and our new Spelling Bee champ. Plus, the kitchen junk drawer...love or hate?