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Month: January 2022

Biden highlighting federal ‘surge’ to help weather omicron

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is highlighting the federal government’s efforts to “surge” COVID-19 testing and medical personnel to help overwhelmed medical facilities. The effort comes amid the upswing in coronavirus cases and staff shortages due to the omicron variant. Starting next week, 1,000 military medical personnel will begin

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UK ministers rally around embattled Boris Johnson, for now

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Senior British government ministers have expressed support for Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson and rejected demands he resign for attending a garden party during the country’s first coronavirus lockdown. Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis said Thursday that Johnson had made a “very, very sincere” apology, and Foreign

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New York firefighters battled a smoky fire in 1986 at the same Bronx building where 17 were killed this week

By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN New York firefighters battled a fire with “great volumes of smoke” nearly 36 years ago at the same Bronx apartment building that caught fire Sunday, leaving 17 dead — all from smoke inhalation, officials said. The March 1986 fire was documented in FDNY’s official training publication, WNYF, in which members of

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President Joe Biden is expected to deliver remarks announcing a new wave of federally deployed medical teams to six states to help hospitals combat Covid-19

Biden says his administration will make free high-quality face masks available to all Americans

By Kate Sullivan, Kaitlan Collins, Betsy Klein, Jeremy Diamond and Paul LeBlanc, CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday announced his administration would make “high-quality masks” available to Americans for free, as the US struggles to contain the new surge of the Omicron variant and hospitalizations from Covid-19 reach new highs. The President also announced his

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Biden administration officials will meet with key software developers and major tech firms like Apple and Google to discuss ways of making open-source computer code more secure

Biden administration will meet with big tech firms Thursday over national security concerns in software

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Biden administration officials will meet with key software developers and major tech firms like Apple and Google on Thursday to discuss ways of making open-source computer code more secure after a critical vulnerability emerged last month that US officials said could have affected hundreds of millions of devices worldwide. The virtual

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