(Reuters) -The average number of daily confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States hit a record high of 258,312 over the past seven days, a Reuters tally showed on Wednesday, as U.S. officials weigh the impact of the more transmissible Omicron variant. The previous peak for the seven-day moving average was 250,141 confirmed cases recorded …
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(This Dec 28 story corrects description of police officer’s death in sixth paragraph to say he died of natural causes, not injuries sustained defending U.S. Capitol) By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump has resolved a dispute with the PGA of America over the golf association’s decision earlier this year to pull …
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By Dan Fastenberg and Hussein al Waiile NEW YORK (Reuters) – New Waterford crystals joined over 2,000 sparkling triangles covering the ball that drops over New York’s Times Square every year, days before the countdown to 2022. “We’re here today replacing 192 of the Waterford crystal triangles on that ball behind me with a new …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Approval of a third COVID-19 vaccine dose for U.S. children aged 12-15 could be days or weeks away, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told CNN in an interview on Wednesday. Asked when children in that age group could receive a booster shot, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said: …
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By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – An unusual winter warm spell in Alaska has brought daytime temperatures soaring past 60 degrees Fahrenheit (15.5°C) and torrents of rain at a time of year normally associated with bitter cold and fluffy snow. At the island community of Kodiak, the air temperature at a tidal gauge hit …
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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Harry Reid, the pugnacious son of a Nevada hard-rock miner who rose from poverty to become the U.S. Senate majority leader and earned a reputation as a fierce partisan fighter during an era of political gridlock in Washington, died on Tuesday. He was 82. Reid, a former amateur boxer who …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York state appeals court on Tuesday put on hold part of a trial judge’s decision blocking the New York Times from reporting on documents prepared by a lawyer for the conservative activist group Project Veritas. Justice William Ford of the Appellate Division in Brooklyn said the …
By Steve Gorman and Brendan O’Brien LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The parents of a girl killed in a clothing store dressing room by a Los Angeles police officer’s stray bullet last week called for justice on Tuesday, the day after police released video showing the chaotic moments leading to the fatal shooting. The 14-year-old girl, …
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By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) – A hotel clerk gravely wounded in a Denver-area shooting spree died on Tuesday, bringing to five the number of people killed in Monday night’s rampage by a gunman, who was slain by police, authorities said. Police in Denver and the adjacent suburb of Lakewood announced the latest death at …
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By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – New York City will stop quarantining entire classrooms exposed to the coronavirus and will instead prioritize a ramped-up testing program so that asymptomatic students testing negative for COVID-19 can remain in school, officials said on Tuesday. A day earlier, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shortened the …
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