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A resurgent Covid-19 is breaking through the strictest protocols and upending the return of live professional sports

By Amir Vera, CNN When football season kicked off back in September, it felt like normalcy was returning to a world upended by Covid-19. Fans packed stadiums at both college and professional games, eager to watch their favorite teams play, despite the surging Delta variant of the coronavirus. Basketball and hockey’s respective seasons soon began,

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An aerial view of damaged houses in Bowling Green

Some call this Kentucky town the ‘Heart of America.’ Now its international community is picking up the pieces after a deadly tornado

By Nick Valencia, Jade Gordon and Christina Maxouris, CNN When Leyda Becker heard a weather alert on her phone in the early morning hours of December 11, she wasn’t surprised. Tornado alerts in Bowling Green are not uncommon and often don’t amount to much. But along with her husband and two children, she took shelter

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Zafar Shamoon is chief of the emergency department at the Beaumont Hospital in Dearborn

‘Round after round of Covid.’ Military personnel help a Michigan hospital that’s inundated with Covid patients and short on staff

By Jack Hannah, Jason Carroll and Christina Maxouris, CNN Zafar Shamoon, chief of the emergency department at the Beaumont Hospital in Dearborn, Michigan, said he had been hoping that there wouldn’t be another wave of Covid-19 infections and hospitalizations. But, like a grim deja vu, hospital beds are filled with Covid-19 patients again, most unvaccinated.

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Zafar Shamoon is chief of the emergency department at the Beaumont Hospital in Dearborn

‘Round after round of Covid.’ Military personnel help a Michigan hospital that’s inundated with Covid patients and short on staff

By Jack Hannah, Jason Carroll and Christina Maxouris, CNN Zafar Shamoon, chief of the emergency department at the Beaumont Hospital in Dearborn, Michigan, said he had been hoping that there wouldn’t be another wave of Covid-19 infections and hospitalizations. But, like a grim deja vu, hospital beds are filled with Covid-19 patients again, most unvaccinated.

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Teen rescued his mom by creating a makeshift tourniquet with a shoelace and some inspiration from Grey’s Anatomy

By Sara Smart, CNN After binging on episodes of Grey’s Anatomy, many fans of the show think they can successfully duplicate the medical procedures that the doctors perform on the show. For one Maine teenager, that came true. What started out as a routine morning for Kristen Iarrobino and her 16-year-old son, Cyrus, turned into

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Parents retrieve their kids after the shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan on November 30.

‘I’m hanging by a thread’

By Alisha Ebrahimji and Christina Zdanowicz, CNN One schoolteacher says she’s been badly injured twice by students. Another says she’s so drained at the end of the day she doesn’t have the energy to leave her couch. A third has already made the mental calculation that in the event of a school shooting, she’ll stay

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According to the lawsuit

Lawsuit claims radio host Dave Ramsey discouraged working from home by employees during pandemic

By Amy Simonson, CNN Author, radio host and prominent evangelical Christian Dave Ramsey told the employees at his financial advice company Ramsey Solutions they would not be permitted to work from home because it would show a “weakness of spirit,” according to a lawsuit filed in federal court Monday. The announcement came days after Tennessee

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