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By Laura Ly and Jason Hanna, CNN Next week’s New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square will be “scaled back,” with fewer revelers and everyone required to wear a mask, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office said Thursday. The celebration in Times Square typically holds around 58,000 people in viewing areas, but this year

By Gregory Lemos, Paul P. Murphy and Judson Jones, CNN Icy road conditions have caused vehicle crashes and runoffs on Interstate 94 in west-central Wisconsin on Thursday morning, and one set of incidents closed a long stretch of the highway for hours, police said. About 40 vehicles, including tractor-trailers, were in crashes on the highway

By Lauren Lee, CNN In 1997 Warrick Dunn signed a multimillion-dollar contract to play professional football with the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers. His coach at the time, Tony Dungy, encouraged the rookie to find a way to give back. “I wanted to do something that was a little bit more impactful, not just handing out

By Laura Ly, CNN New York’s governor signed legislation Wednesday criminalizing fake Covid-19 vaccination cards, according to a news release from her office. The new law makes the falsification of cards a misdemeanor and creates a new felony of “computer tampering in the third degree for intentional entering, alteration or destruction of ‘computer material’ regarding

By Andrew Torgan, CNN Some parts of the US could see a rare white Christmas this weekend. And speaking of the holiday, 5 Things is taking the day off tomorrow to do some last-minute shopping. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get

By Maria Cartaya and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A North Carolina police chief has been placed on unpaid leave and probation for telling officers about a “clinic” that would issue them a Covid-19 vaccination card without actually receiving the shot, local officials said. T.J. Smith — the police chief of Oakboro Town, North Carolina — violated

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN The phone call lasted just three minutes, but it gave Sara Espinoza the first proof in six weeks that her son is alive. His voice was shaky, she said, almost unrecognizable from the confident commentary he would post to YouTube charting his foreign travels. “Towards the end, I guess as they