By Eliza Mackintosh, CNN As Covid-19 cases skyrocketed across Britain in late December, Stuart Guest spent his vacation poring over scientific reports about air cleaning and filtration systems. Guest, a head teacher at an elementary school in Birmingham, England, scoured Amazon for affordable air purifiers in the hopes of stopping the more transmissible Omicron variant
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Post reported this week that the CDC is considering updating its mask guidance to recommend that people opt for the highly protective N95 or KN95 masks worn by health care personnel.
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By Marianne Garvey, CNN The College Football Playoff National Championship wasn’t all sports. Katy Perry and DJ Alesso premiered the video for a new song during the game between between Alabama and Georgia. During halftime, ESPN aired the global debut of “When I’m Gone,” marking the first time the network has premiered a global music
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Jeevan Ravindran, CNN The remains of a vast Roman trading settlement have been discovered by a team of archaeologists working along a future high-speed railway route in England. Hundreds of Roman coins, jewelry, pottery and a pair of shackles were among the artifacts to be discovered at the site near a village in Northamptonshire, according
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By Travis Caldwell, Jason Hanna and Christina Maxouris, CNN The number of patients hospitalized with Covid-19 across the US is the highest it’s ever been, pushing officials to enact emergency procedures amid an ongoing case surge fueled by the highly contagious Omicron variant. More than 151,000 Americans were in the hospital with Covid-19 nationwide on
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri System Board of Curators declined to change its COVID-19 protocols amid a spike in the number of positive COVID-19 cases among MU students. On Monday morning, the board members released an agenda for the immediate review of the system’s COVID-19 protocols. During the 8 a.m. meeting Tuesday, MU
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By Oren Liebermann, Pete Muntean and Barbara Starr, CNN Business An unusual ground stop was issued to some pilots for a short period of time following a North American Aerospace Defense Command alert of a launch of a North Korean missile, a US official said Tuesday. The official says it was not a national ground
Continue ReadingBy Judson Jones, CNN Meteorologist It was warmer just after midnight Tuesday morning than it will be all day long in the Northeast. Since then, the temperature has been dropping, and it will stay dangerously cold all day in the region, leaving major cities like New York and Boston with the most frigid daytime air
Continue ReadingBy Dan Merica, CNN Both President Joe Biden and Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams are citing a scheduling issue to explain why the state’s most prominent voting rights activist will not be attending the Democratic president’s speech on the topic in Atlanta on Tuesday afternoon. Abrams, who used her 2018 gubernatorial loss to Republican
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TUESDAY We’re off to a chilly start again but we’ll start to warm things up going forward. Winds will pick up, gusting to 30 mph at times today, and plenty of sunshine will push temperatures into the low 50’s. TONIGHT We pick up a few clouds overnight, with the breeze sticking around. Temperatures won’t be
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By Travis Caldwell and Deidre McPhillips, CNN The number of US patients hospitalized with Covid-19 has hit a record high — a situation straining health care networks and pushing states toward emergency staffing and other measures as they struggle to cope. More than 145,900 people were in US hospitals with Covid-19 as of Tuesday —
Continue ReadingBy Steve Almasy, CNN The Georgia Bulldogs won their first Division I football title since the 1980 season, upsetting the No. 1 Alabama Crimson Tide 33-18 in the College Football Playoff National Championship on Monday night in Indianapolis. Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett completed 17 of 26 passes and threw two touchdowns to lead the Bulldogs
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice A federal judge in Washington, DC, questioned former President Donald Trump‘s actions during his speech on January 6, 2021, as he considers for the first time whether Trump is immune from liability related to his supporters attacking the US Capitol. During a court hearing Monday, Judge Amit
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By Catherine Shoichet, CNN The Bronx apartment building that was devastated by a deadly fire Sunday had been a beloved home for many immigrants from The Gambia for years, the West African country’s ambassador to the US told CNN. Around 19 people were killed in the fatal blaze that occurred in a residential apartment building
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By George Ramsay, CNN Even by the standards of Novak Djokovic’s eventful tennis career — replete with trophies and jaw-dropping performances, but also peppered with controversy — the circumstances ahead of this year’s Australian Open have been extraordinary. “I see life as a great learning curve,” Djokovic told CNN in an interview last year, “and
Continue ReadingBy AJ Willingham, CNN The Georgia Bulldogs won their first Division I football title since the 1980 season, toppling the No. 1 Alabama Crimson Tide 33-18 in the College Football Playoff National Championship last night. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get
Continue ReadingBy AJ Willingham, CNN The Georgia Bulldogs won their first Division I football title since the 1980 season, toppling the No. 1 Alabama Crimson Tide 33-18 in the College Football Playoff National Championship last night. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get
Continue ReadingBy Travis Caldwell, CNN The spread of the Omicron variant is causing widespread disruption across the US as hospitalizations reach a level not seen since the 2020-21 holiday surge. More than 141,000 Americans were hospitalized with Covid-19 as of Monday, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services, nearing the record of
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