Japan considers downgrading Covid-19 to same level as seasonal flu
By Emiko Jozuka, Junko Ogura, Gawon Bae and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Japan will consider downgrading Covid-19 to the same category as seasonal influenza…
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By Emiko Jozuka, Junko Ogura, Gawon Bae and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Japan will consider downgrading Covid-19 to the same category as seasonal influenza…
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EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Police in Indiana said Friday that heroic actions by a Walmart employee and law enforcement officers kept a gunman who shot…
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By Stephanie Elam and Andy Rose, CNN Mexican authorities investigating the case of an American attorney who was found dead at a resort hotel earlier…
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By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers A rough week on Wall Street dominated by worries about a weakening economy ended Friday with a broad…
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has announced plans to downgrade the legal status of COVID-19…
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By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Republicans are trying to pry open correspondence that Democratic Gov. Andy…
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By DANIEL POLITI and FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Peru’s capital Friday…
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By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Florida judge sanctioned former President Donald Trump and one of his attorneys, ordering them to…
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By GARANCE BURKE and MICHAEL TARM Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — In more than 140 cities across the United States, ShotSpotter’s artificial…
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Federal Security Service says it has initiated an espionage case against a U.S. citizen. In a brief statement, the FSB…
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By ASHRAF KHALIL and CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A half century after Roe v. Wade, March for Life supporters on Friday…
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By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AP) — Ukraine will have to wait longer to find out if it will get…
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By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN The arrest of Cosa Nostra mob boss Matteo Messina Denaro at a private health clinic in Palermo on…
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By ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer HONG KONG (AP) — As the week-long Lunar New Year holidays in China draws near, children have something more than…
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By Uliana Pavlova, CNN Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy head of Russia’s Security Council and key ally of President Vladimir Putin, warned on…
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By Tina Burnside, Hannah Sarisohn and Sara Smart, CNN At least one person was wounded in a shooting at a Walmart in Evansville, Indiana, on Thursday…
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By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — The U.S. wireless carrier T-Mobile said Thursday that an unidentified malicious intruder breached…
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By Ehsan Popalzai and Kathleen Magramo, CNN At least 78 people have died in freezing conditions in Afghanistan in the last nine days, a Taliban…
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By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — When Jacinda Ardern announced this week she was stepping down as New Zealand’s…
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By Pamela Kirkland and Theresa Waldrop, CNN Seven people were arrested and charged with domestic terrorism following the fatal shooting of one person…
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By Michelle Watson and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN An Indiana court has entered not guilty pleas for the man who prosecutors say is the father of the…
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By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former New York City police union president, known for his combative style and insulting…
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By Jessie Yeung, Gawon Bae and Heather Chen, CNN Around 500 people were evacuated from their homes on Friday after a fire broke out in Guryong…
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By Artemis Moshtaghian, Hande Atay Alam, Jonny Hallam and Mostafa Salem, CNN An Iranian man who beheaded his 17-year-old wife in February 2022 was…
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By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — The Sundance Film Festival met the moment by going virtual for the past two years because of…
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BEIJING (AP) — More bodies have been found following an avalanche that buried vehicles outside a highway tunnel in Tibet, raising the death toll to…
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By Alaa Elassar, CNN Prosecutors have decided to charge actor Alec Baldwin and the film’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, each with two counts…
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NEW YORK (AP) — A former New York City narcotics detective is on trial on charges of lying about witnessing drug deals. The allegations prompted…
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By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A fire has destroyed about 60 makeshift homes in a densely packed neighborhood…
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ST. ANTHONY, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho judge says a couple accused in a bizarre triple murder case will not be allowed to meet face-to-face to talk…
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By ROBERT JABLON Associated Press David Crosby, the brash rock musician who evolved from a baby-faced harmony singer with the Byrds to a mustachioed…
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OPELIKA, Ala. (AP) — Alabama police say they have identified the remains of a young girl that were found in 2012 and arrested her father in…
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DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio police officer has been put on administrative leave after video showed him punching a Black woman several times as she…
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By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A federal jury has convicted a Kansas man who admitted he threatened to kill a congressman.…
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The owner of a West Virginia restaurant that was heavily damaged by fire has his coveted hot dog statue back. The Kanawha…
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By JOHN DUERDEN Associated Press Iraq has won the Gulf Cup for the first time since 1988 with a 3-2 victory over Oman but the triumph was marred by a…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN Climate change is sending the world hurtling towards a series of catastrophic tipping points, which risk setting off feedback…
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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A nonprofit group that aims to protect endangered species has asked the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reintroduce sea…
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By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A state Corrections Department official says testing to determine the reason…
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By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — CIA Director William Burns visited Kyiv last week to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr…
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By MARIA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Concern is growing in Mexico over the fate of two environmental and community activists who…
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By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Summer Myomick bundled her baby against the freezing winds whipping off the Bering Sea…
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By ZEKE MILLER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press APTOS, Calif. (AP) — A frustrated President Joe Biden said Thursday there is “no there there”…
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By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says the U.S. will send 90 Stryker combat vehicles and an…
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By Nicole Chavez and Justin Gamble, CNN A committee in San Francisco has released an extensive proposal for reparations that includes a one-time…
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By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — A federal judge is ordering Boeing to appear in court next week and be arraigned on a felony…
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By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Sports Writer A California lawmaker has introduced a bill that would require schools that play major college sports to…
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By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Advocates say the Biden administration has agreed to lower part of a border wall planned in the…
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By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra has visited Minnesota to affirm…
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GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan authorities have arrested a lawyer representing the jailed director of an investigative newspaper and are pursuing…
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By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A detention hearing has been scheduled for a felon and failed political candidate…
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By Lauren del Valle, CNN A federal judge on Thursday dismissed charges against a New York City police officer who was accused in 2020 of working as a…
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By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization has had a rocky start, but Secretary of…
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By Eric Levenson, CNN They gathered on set at Bonanza Creek Ranch outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, in October 2021 to film a movie in the Old Western…
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By Eric Levenson, CNN They gathered on set at Bonanza Creek Ranch outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, in October 2021 to film a movie in the Old Western…
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By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Look who’s in line for coveted House committee assignments. The most far-right House…
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By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Department of Correction has fired its top attorney and another employee…
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By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyers for a Black transgender woman who sued Georgia prison officials over alleged mistreatment…
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By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Five days after the U.S. Energy Department announced a $700 million conditional loan to an…
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By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer PARIS (AP) — NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and French President Emmanuel Macron met this week in Paris to talk…
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By Brian Todd, Steve Almasy and Michelle Watson, CNN The family of the 6-year-old Virginia boy who allegedly shot his first-grade teacher at a…
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By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Russian spy ship has been patrolling off the coast of Hawaii but so far has remained in…
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By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University has announced it plans to offer a fellowship to a leading human rights activist…
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By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers must consult with a federal…
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By Ray Sanchez, CNN Actor Alec Baldwin will be charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna…
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By Elizabeth Wolfe, Josh Campbell and Jay Croft, CNN Despite facing involuntary manslaughter charges connected to the “Rust” set shooting…
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By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — U.S. agents in southern Arizona say they seized up to 440 pounds of what they suspect is a precursor…
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By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida lawmakers can fine local government officials who attempt to restrict gun…
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By KATHLEEN FOODY The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Attorneys say the family of an Illinois man whose death prompted murder charges against two…
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By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A group of religious leaders who support abortion rights has filed a lawsuit challenging…
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By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says it hasn’t determined who leaked a draft of the…
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By CHRIS MEGERIAN and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When Hillary Clinton was running for president, her campaign wanted a gentler…
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By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — U.S. authorities have handed over to Mexico a key suspect in the 2014 disappearance of 43…
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The nation’s largest public utility has appointed an independent panel to look into power failures that spurred the…
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By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Colombia has extradited to the U.S. on narcotics charges the brother of a powerful leftist senator…
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By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Every year, the night sky grows brighter, and the stars look dimmer. A new study that…
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By Chuck Johnston and Eric Levenson, CNN Police have arrested the owner of an art gallery in San Francisco after he was seen on video spraying water…
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By Chuck Johnston and Eric Levenson, CNN Police have arrested the owner of an art gallery in San Francisco after he was seen on video spraying water…
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By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press The Biden administration’s big push to engage more with Africa is underway as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen…
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By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press Prosecutors in northeastern Nebraska are seeking the death penalty for a man charged in the killings of four…
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard said Thursday that high inflation in the…
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By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The European Union’s digital policy chief has warned TikTok’s boss that the social media app…
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By MARLON GONZÁLEZ Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — The family of one of two environmental activists killed in a rural part of…
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By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A judge heard arguments Thursday over control of a 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh and said he hoped…
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By Josh Campbell, Paul Vercammen, Holly Yan and Travis Caldwell, CNN Actor Alec Baldwin, who fatally shot a cinematographer on the set of the Western…
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By Paul R. La Monica, CNN The market is bracing for a perfect storm of bad news. The latest worry? The impending debt ceiling drama in Washington.…
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By Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent When Judy Stines first heard about cryptocurrency, “I always thought it was smoke and…
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By Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent When Judy Stines first heard about cryptocurrency, “I always thought it was smoke and…
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By Heather Chen, CNN Thought your winter was cold? Temperatures in the world’s coldest city have plunged to minus 62.7°C (minus 80.9 degrees…
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MIAMI (AP) — In a story published Jan. 19, 2023, about the boat crash that killed Anton Walkes, The Associated Press erroneously reported based on…
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By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Most adults in the US consider the quality of the country’s health care to be unfavorable, according to a new survey.…
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By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Charges against a New York City police officer accused of spying on behalf of China have…
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By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business The US government is set to hit its self-imposed borrowing limit today and both Wall Street and Washington are…
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By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — An official in northwestern Congo says at least 145 passengers are missing and feared…
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By Alicia Wallace, CNN The number of first-time claims for unemployment insurance fell unexpectedly to 190,000 for the week ending January 14,…
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By Tami Luhby, CNN The US hit the debt ceiling set by Congress on Thursday, forcing the Treasury Department to start taking extraordinary measures to…
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By Anna Bahney, CNN US home building fell in December, as the housing market continued to slow. December housing starts, a measure of new home…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN A new survey of the Milky Way galaxy has unveiled 3.3 billion celestial objects. Our galaxy is brimming with hundreds of…
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By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani man named by the United Nations as a global terrorist in connection to the Mumbai…
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By Kristen Rogers, CNN The world’s population of North Atlantic right whales has been decimated in recent years by human-caused vessel strikes…
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