By Katherine Dillinger, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its recommendations for the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine booster on Wednesday to include children as young as 12, at least five months after they finish the primary vaccine series. On Monday, the FDA expanded the emergency use authorization for Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine boosters
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A court in Canada has ruled that Iran should pay 107 million Canadian dollars — about $84 million — in punitive damages to families of six people with Canadian citizenship or residency who were killed in the Iranian military’s downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane in 2020. The military’s
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By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer No. 25 Texas Tech is diving into a challenging stretch of games to open its Big 12 schedule. The Red Raiders first visit No. 11 Iowa State on Wednesday before returning home to host sixth-ranked Kansas on Saturday. There’s also a looming matchup with top-ranked and reigning national champion
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By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer No. 25 Texas Tech is diving into a challenging stretch of games to open its Big 12 schedule. The Red Raiders first visit No. 11 Iowa State on Wednesday before returning home to host sixth-ranked Kansas on Saturday. There’s also a looming matchup with top-ranked and reigning national champion
Continue Reading By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer No. 25 Texas Tech is diving into a challenging stretch of games to open its Big 12 schedule. The Red Raiders first visit No. 11 Iowa State on Wednesday before returning home to host sixth-ranked Kansas on Saturday. There’s also a looming matchup with top-ranked and reigning national champion
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By Jason Hanna, Steve Almasy and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN A 50-mile stretch of Interstate 95 in eastern Virginia reopened Tuesday night after a severe winter storm left some motorists stranded on the highway for more than 24 hours. All disabled vehicles were removed from I-95 in that stretch in the Fredericksburg area between Richmond and
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By Laura He, CNN Business Troubled Chinese real estate developer Evergrande is trying to reassure investors about the impact of an official order to demolish a few dozen buildings in China. Chinese media reported over the weekend that authorities in Hainan province — a tropical resort island off the coast of southern China — had
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mostly higher despite worries about rising numbers of cases of coronavirus in the region. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 jumped 1.8% in Tokyo’s first trading day of 2022. Among the gainers were Toyota, Sony and SoftBank. Shares rose in Australia and South Korea, but
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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mostly higher despite worries about rising numbers of cases of coronavirus in the region. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 jumped 1.8% in Tokyo’s first trading day of 2022. Among the gainers were Toyota, Sony and SoftBank. Shares rose in Australia and South Korea, but
Continue Reading By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The fraud conviction of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes could offer Silicon Valley some valuable lessons about the dangers of hype and hiding problems. Will anyone take them to heart? Don’t count on it. Holmes was convicted of duping investors into believing her startup
Continue Reading By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The fraud conviction of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes could offer Silicon Valley some valuable lessons about the dangers of hype and hiding problems. Will anyone take them to heart? Don’t count on it. Holmes was convicted of duping investors into believing her startup
Continue Reading By ALBERTO ARCE Associated Press SALAMANCA, Spain (AP) — The Catholic church has been the dominant religious force in Spain for centuries. It’s still the largest denomination by far in terms of numbers. But there’s a surge of energy among Spain’s growing population of evangelical Protestants as attendance at Catholic churches shrinks. There are more
Continue Reading BURTONSVILLE, Md. (AP) — Three people were killed and another person is in critical condition after a vehicle crashed in the back of a snowplow in Maryland on Monday evening. WUSA9-TV reports that according to Pete Piringer, chief spokesman for Montgomery County (MD) Fire & Rescue, the crash happened on northbound Route 29 Columbia Pike
Continue Reading By NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer Cade Cunningham and Franz Wagner are giving the Eastern Conference’s bottom two teams reasons for optimism. The Detroit Pistons and Orlando Magic have seven victories apiece this season, but they also have two of the NBA’s top rookies. Detroit took Cunningham No. 1 overall in last year’s draft, and
Continue Readingolivertapia Nueva York (CNN Business) — Ni siquiera Little Caesars es inmune a los aumentos de precios: la pizza Hot-N-Ready de US$ 5 de la cadena ahora cuesta un 11% más. Little Caesars venderá una versión “nueva y mejorada” de la clásica pizza, que tiene un 33% más de pepperoni y un nuevo precio de
Continue Reading By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Police in India have arrested a man alleged to be behind the offering for sale of prominent Muslim women through a fake online auction, in a case that has sparked outrage across the country. The technology minister for Maharashtra state says the cyber unit of the
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, ofrecerá este martes breves comentarios sobre la rápida propagación de la variante ómicron del nuevo coronavirus en el paÃs y los pasos que está tomando su administración para abordar dicha situación, según la Casa Blanca. “El presidente se reunirá con su Equipo de Respuesta Covid-19
Continue Reading SYDNEY (AP) — Alexander Zverev beat Taylor Fritz in straight sets to clinch a victory over the U.S. team and get Germany’s ATP Cup campaign back on track. Jan-Lennard Struff opened with a three-set win over John Isner to give Germany the lead and Zverev sealed it with his win in the second of the
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By Brad Lendon and Jessie Yeung, CNN Five of the world’s largest nuclear powers pledged on Monday to work together toward “a world without nuclear weapons” in a rare statement of unity amid rising East-West tensions. “A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought,” said the joint statement, which was issued simultaneously
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — American activists are appealing to Tesla Inc. to close a new showroom in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang, where officials are accused of abuses against mostly Muslim ethnic minorities. The appeals add to pressure on foreign companies to take positions on Xinjiang, Tibet, Taiwan and other politically charged issues. The ruling Communist
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