By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Two brand-new COVID-19 pills that were supposed to be an important weapon against the pandemic in the U.S. are in short supply and have played little role in the fight against the omicron wave of infections. The problem is that production is not yet at full
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronomers may have found a moon that’s completely different from anything in our solar system. It’s only the second space object discovered that may be an exomoon, or a moon outside of our solar system. The giant moon was found orbiting a Jupiter-size planet called Kepler 1708b, located 5,500 light-years from
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By Chris Isidore and Allison Morrow, CNN Business Inflation isn’t just an economic headache — it’s become a political blame game that will almost certainly define this year’s midterm election campaigns. But the cause of inflation doesn’t lie with any single government action or lack of action. And fixing it — that is, bringing current
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By Jason Hanna and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN The spread of the highly transmissible Omicron coronavirus variant is forcing some US schools to halt in-person learning because of high case rates and teacher absences. The vast majority of schools are operating as normal. But at least 2,141 schools were not offering in-person learning as of Thursday,
Continue Reading By Jason Hanna and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN The spread of the highly transmissible Omicron coronavirus variant is forcing some US schools to halt in-person learning because of high case rates and teacher absences. The vast majority of schools are operating as normal. But at least 2,141 schools were not offering in-person learning as of Thursday,
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By JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s domestic intelligence service has warned lawmakers that a London-based lawyer has tried to “covertly interfere in U.K. politics” on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party. House of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle on Thursday sent legislators an alert from the MI5 spy agency alleging
Continue Reading By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and EMILY SCHULTHEIS Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A senior Russian diplomat has refused to rule out a Russian military deployment to Cuba and Venezuela if tensions with the United States over Ukraine and NATO’s expansion in Eastern Europe mount. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in televised remarks on Thursday that
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urielblanco (CNN) — Los respiradores N95, el estándar de oro de las mascarillas de filtración, vuelven a ser el centro de atención de la pandemia debido a la variante ómicron de covid-19, altamente contagiosa. A diferencia de lo que ocurría al principio de la pandemia, las mascarillas N95 están ahora ampliamente disponibles, pero el principal
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MORGAN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Versailles man was hurt on Wednesday afternoon after a rollover crash on Highway 5 near Laurie, Missouri. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported the crash happened just after 4:40 p.m. about a half-mile north of Millifork Lane. According to the crash report, Andrew M. Martinez, 32, hit several embankments after
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Stocks wobbled between small gains and losses in morning trading Thursday on Wall Street as investors gauged the latest data on inflation and company earnings. The S&P 500 fell 0.1%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.3% and the Nasdaq fell 0.3%. Industrial companies made solid gains and
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Stocks wobbled between small gains and losses in morning trading Thursday on Wall Street as investors gauged the latest data on inflation and company earnings. The S&P 500 fell 0.1%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.3% and the Nasdaq fell 0.3%. Industrial companies made solid gains and
Continue Reading BY JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the prestigious Peace Prize, has issued a very rare admonition to the 2019 winner, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, over the war and humanitarian crisis in his country’s Tigray region. Abiy partly won the prize for making peace with
Continue Reading NEW DELHI (AP) — At least five people have died and more than 45 were injured when a train derailed in India’s West Bengal state. Twelve coaches of the train went off the rails and three capsized. Images from the scene show passengers stuck in twisted metal and debris as rescuers rushed to pull them
Continue Reading By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An investigation has found that Utah police made “several unintentional mistakes” when they stopped Gabby Petito and her boyfriend before she was killed in what became a high-profile missing person case. The independent report released Wednesday examines a stop by police in the tourist town
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Forecasters are predicting that a winter storm could dump nearly a foot of snow on parts of Iowa. The National Weather Service said the the storm could move into central Iowa on Friday, with wind gusts of 20 to 25 mph producing pockets of blowing and drifting snow, especially in
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By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Wall Street had another day in the red at the start of this shortened trading week as investors grapple with earnings seasons and rising Treasury bond yields. All three major indexes spent the entire day sharply lower. The Dow closed 1.5%, or some 540 points, lower, after falling as many
Continue Reading By David Hixon Click here for updates on this story AINA HAINA, Hawaii (KITV) — The Honolulu Fire Department (HFD) extinguished a blaze that broke out in an Aina Haina home’s attic on Jan. 11, 2022, at around 2:56 p.m. HFD said in a press release that the 911 caller who reported smoke billowing from
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN en Español) — El Gobierno de Argentina dispuso la modalidad de trabajo a distancia para este jueves y viernes en la administración pública nacional desde el mediodía para reducir el consumo de energía eléctrica. Su objetivo es que la población mantenga los servicios de agua y electricidad en momentos en que
Continue Reading By DREW MARINE Click here for updates on this story VANCOUVER, Washington (KPTV) — Every summer kids from Oregon and across the country head to the coast with the Cascade Pacific Council Boy Scouts of America. In the last few years, they’ve started up a mountain bike program where scouts can ride along a 2.5
Continue Reading By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates jumped again this past week, reaching their highest level since March 2020, just as the coronavirus pandemic was breaking in the U.S. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the average rate on the benchmark 30-year home loan rose
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