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WHO: global COVID cases up 11% last week, omicron risk high

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Medical workers wearing protective gear prepare to take samples at a temporary screening clinic for the coronavirus in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

US move to shorten COVID-19 isolation stirs confusion, doubt

yesterday
FILE - People wait in a long line to get tested for COVID-19 in Times Square, New York, Dec. 20, 2021. U.S. health officials' decision to shorten the recommended COVID-19 isolation and quarantine period from 10 days to five is drawing criticism from some medical experts and could create confusion among many Americans. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, file)

Harry Reid remembered as a fighter, skilled Senate dealmaker

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FILE - Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., delivers a speech at the YearlyKos convention in Las Vegas on June 10, 2006. Reid, the former Senate majority leader and Nevada’s longest-serving member of Congress, has died. He was 82. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
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John Madden, Hall of Fame coach and broadcaster, dies at 85

today
FILE - Former Oakland Raiders coach John Madden gestures toward a bust of himself during his enshrinement into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, Aug. 5, 2006. John Madden, the Hall of Fame coach turned broadcaster whose exuberant calls combined with simple explanations provided a weekly soundtrack to NFL games for three decades, died Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021, the NFL said. He was 85. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)

Decades of DOD efforts fail to stamp out bias, extremism

today
FILE - Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin pauses while speaking during a media briefing at the Pentagon, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021, in Washington. In February, with the images of the violent insurrection in Washington still fresh in the minds of Americans, the newly confirmed defense secretary took the unprecedented step of signing a memo directing commanding officers across the military to institute a one-day stand-down to address extremism within the nation’s armed forces. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Tutu’s advocacy for LGBTQ rights did not sway most of Africa

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FILE - Women in Cape Town, South Africa, protest a sentence given to two men under Malawi's anti-gay legislation on May 20, 2010. Desmond Tutu is being remembered for his passionate advocacy on behalf of LGBTQ people as well as his fight for racial justice. But the South African archbishop's campaign against homophobia had limited impact in the rest of Africa. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam, File)

Asia keeps omicron at bay, but a surge may be inevitable

today
Medical Technologist Erika Alvarado performs a COVID-19 test on a patient who just delivered a baby outside a hospital in Manila, Philippines on Friday, Dec. 24, 2021. In the Philippines, one of the worst-hit by the pandemic in Southeast Asia, daily COVID-19 infections have considerably dropped from an average 22,000 cases just three months ago during an alarming spike set off by the delta variant to just a few hundred in recent days after a delayed vaccination campaign considerably intensified with more vaccine shipment deliveries. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

DA: No charges for Cuomo from allegations by 2 women

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FILE - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo prepares to board a helicopter after announcing his resignation on Aug. 10, 2021, in New York. Westchester County District Attorney Mimi Rocah announced Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021, she couldn't pursue charges under New York law against Cuomo stemming from allegations from two women that he planted unwanted kisses on their cheeks. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

White House, Jan. 6 committee agree to shield some documents

yesterday
FILE - Violent insurrectionists loyal to then President Donald Trump climb the west wall of the the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol has agreed to defer its request for hundreds of pages of records from the Trump administration, bending to the wishes of the Biden White House. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Hong Kong pro-democracy news site closes after raid, arrests

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Editor of Stand News Patrick Lam, center, is escorted by police officers into a van after they searched evidence at his office in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2021. Hong Kong police raided the office of the online news outlet on Wednesday after arresting several people for conspiracy to publish a seditious publication. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
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Judge refuses to dismiss alleged Proud Boys leaders’ charges

today
FILE - Proud Boys members Joseph Biggs, left, and Ethan Nordean, right with megaphone, walk toward the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. A federal judge on Tuesday, Dec. 28 refused to dismiss an indictment charging four alleged leaders of the far-right Proud Boys, Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Charles Donohoe, with conspiring to attack the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's electoral victory. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Mom: 14-year-old shot by LA police ‘died in my arms’

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Soledad Peralta, mother of Valentina Orellana-Peralta, cries at a news conference outside Los Angeles Police Department Headquarters in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021. The parents of Valentina Orellana-Peralta -- the 14-year-old girl killed by a stray bullet fired by an LAPD officer at a North Hollywood clothing store last week, and their attorneys held a news conference to discuss the family's demand for transparency from the Los Angeles Police Department. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

Police: Gunman in Denver who killed 5 targeted some victims

today
Bouquets of flowers are placed outside the door of a tattoo parlor along South Broadway Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021 in Denver, one of the scenes of a shooting spree that left five people dead—including the suspected shooter Monday evening—and left a few more people wounded. The spree spread from the core of Denver to the western suburb of Lakewood where the suspect was shot and killed by police near a busy intersection in a bustling shopping district. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)


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