By Tara John, CNN As the pace of Covid-19 vaccinations in Europe shows signs of a slowdown, leaders are racing to find answers to a key dilemma of the rollout’s next phase: how to convince reluctant citizens to roll up their sleeves. From cash payments to phone data, free football stadium tours to free grilled
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By Nectar Gan and Steve George, CNN The Olympics has long been an occasion for celebrating national pride. And for an increasingly confident China, the Tokyo Games is seen as the latest opportunity to showcase its national strength, as it looks to challenge the United States for top spot on the medal table. So far,
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Mask mandates are back in St. Louis city and county as the state continues to grapple with a sharp increase in coronavirus infections.
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By Helen Regan, CNN Two men have been charged with animal cruelty for allegedly striking a police horse during anti-lockdown protests in Sydney, Australia on Saturday, police said, as daily Covid-19 cases in New South Wales state continue to rise. Thousands of people breached coronavirus measures and marched through the center of Australia’s biggest city
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By Steven Jiang and Steve George, CNN The breakdown in US-China relations is due to some people in the United States treating China as an “imaginary enemy,” Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng was quoted as saying during a meeting with US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman on Monday, according to a statement provided
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By Hollie Silverman and Gene Norman, CNN Eight people are dead and several more were critically injured when authorities say a sand or dust storm caused visibility issues that led to a series of crashes involving 20 vehicles in Utah Sunday evening. The crashes happened on I-15 near Kanosh, the Utah Department of Public Service
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As COVID-19 cases continue to surge in the month of July, many have begun to put masks back on in Boone County.
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Two police officers and bystanders saved an 8-month-old baby who became trapped underneath a car after a driver hit a 36-year-old mother and her baby in Yonkers, New York, according to a press release from the Yonkers Police Department.
Continue Reading By Laura Ly and Theresa Waldrop, CNN Two police officers and bystanders saved an 8-month-old baby who became trapped underneath a car after a driver hit a mother and baby in Yonkers, New York, police said. Around 8:30 a.m. Friday, the driver swerved around a corner, struck a curb and hit a parked car before
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Continue ReadingBy Hollie Silverman and Susannah Cullinane, CNN Three people were killed and five more were injured in a series of unrelated shootings in Seattle early Sunday, according to police. The four incidents all took place within three hours, the Seattle Police Department said in a release. The first occurred around 1:48 a.m. outside of a
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The state now has a seven day positivity rate of 14.7% on Sunday. The increase in positivity comes along with 1,253 additional confirmed cases bringing the total to 557,109 since the start of pandemic. Health officials also recorded 367 new probable cases with a total number of 106,018 antigen test results being positive. No new
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A motor vehicle collision at the intersection of Grindstone Parkway and Grindstone Plaza Drive creates delays in the area. As of 5 p.m. on Sunday, Grindstone Plaza Drive is blocked off of the vehicles are still blocking the intersection. Two vehicles were involved in the crash. No other information is available at
Continue Reading By Elaine Ly and Theresa Waldrop, CNN An “unusually large” meteor illuminated the night sky over southern Scandinavia early Sunday morning before at least some of it came rumbling down near Oslo, the capital of Norway. The meteor “lit up the sky for a brief time as if broad daylight,” just after 1 a.m., Steinar
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Trent, CNN Civil rights legend Bob Moses died at age 86, according to a statement from NAACP President Derrick Johnson. A cause of death was not immediately known. Moses was born in New York City in January 1935 and grew up in Harlem, according to his biography on Stanford University’s King Encyclopedia of
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By Rachel Trent, CNN Secure your load. That’s the message the Arizona Department of Public Safety has for drivers after a truck driver in Phoenix failed to secure a load and a metal pole fell off, crashing into a sport utility vehicle behind the truck. On Thursday, a pickup truck hauling a trailer hit a
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By Alta Spells, Deanna Hackney and Susannah Cullinane, CNN An Atlanta university says it is clearing student account balances for spring 2020 through summer 2021 to help students continue their education through the Covid-19 pandemic. Clark Atlanta University, which is located just west of the city’s downtown, said in a news release Friday that it
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OSAGE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Chamois man was charged in connection with a double homicide at a residence in Osage County. Around noon on Saturday, two individuals were found dead in a yard in Osage County. The Osage County Sheriff’s Office responded to a residence in the county for a report of two individuals found
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By Rachel Trent, CNN A rare snow leopard at the San Diego Zoo that hadn’t been vaccinated has tested positive for coronavirus. But the zoo is continuing to roll out shots to protect other animals. Last Thursday, wildlife care specialists noticed the snow leopard had a cough and nasal discharge, the zoo said in new
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By Alaa Elassar, CNN For many parents, taking their babies on a walk or cradling them to sleep is a blessing that’s easy to take for granted. But for Jeremy King, it’s something he feared he would never be able to do. That was until a group of high school students in Maryland designed and
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