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Month: March 2022

Columbia woman charged with hate crime

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Prosecutors have charged a Columbia woman with three felonies in connection with an alleged hate crime that occurred in February.  Ashley D. Dooley, 34, was charged Monday with third-degree assault, assault motivated by discrimination and possession of drug paraphernalia. Police arrested Dooley on Feb. 8 after being called to an apartment complex

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A member of Ukraine's Territorial Defense unit guards a barricade on the outskirts of eastern Kyiv on March 06

Kyiv has transformed into a fortress, with its residents determined to defend it

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Just two weeks ago, residents of the Ukrainian capital were tending to their shops, teaching schoolchildren or parked at their office desks. The Russian invasion changed all that. Fighting literally for their lives, civilians, turned into volunteer soldiers, helped construct defenses with military precision — and they are now manning them.

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Paxlovid and another Covid-19 antiviral pill

A federal program to ease access to Covid-19 antivirals rolls out, but pills have been going unused in many parts of the United States

By Brenda Goodman, CNN The man came to the ER at Charles Regional Medical Center in La Plata, Maryland, wide-eyed and scared. He couldn’t catch his breath. He was middle-aged, overweight and unvaccinated. He had also recently tested positive for Covid-19. Two weeks earlier, a doctor who had diagnosed the man during an urgent care

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Burger King is the latest fast food chain to pull corporate support from its businesses in Russia.

Burger King pulls support from its Russian locations

By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Burger King is the latest fast food chain to pull corporate support from its businesses in Russia. Restaurant Brands International, which owns the burger chain, said Thursday it “has suspended all of its corporate support for the Russian market, including operations, marketing and supply chain.” The company is also stopping

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