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subject: Omicron Update: NY Shatters COVID Case Record for 2nd Straight Day, Hospitalizations Rise
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subject: 3 NYC subway lines suspended due to COVID staffing shortages, testing being offered in some stations
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subject: More than 200 Marines removed for defying COVID vaccine mandate
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subject: Omicron not showing up in wastewater like Delta, despite surging cases
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subject: Idaho sheriff, charged with felonies, must surrender guns
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subject: CDC: 'Avoid cruise travel, regardless of vaccination status'
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subject: Richmond's Robert E. Lee statue will move to the city's Black History Museum
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subject: New Documents Prove Tennessee County Disproportionately Jails Black Children, and It's Getting Worse
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subject: Epstein settlement with Giuffre to be made public, affects Prince Andrew case
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subject: Times Square show will go on despite virus surge, mayor says
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subject: U.S. CDC says people should 'avoid cruise travel, regardless of vaccination status'
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subject: The Marine Corps Is Rapidly Forcing Out Vaccine Refusers, As Promised
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subject: Georgia is the latest state to ask the National Guard to help hospitals.
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subject: Covid: Woman isolates in toilet for five hours after positive mid-flight test
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subject: Pentagon building new secret courtroom at Guantánamo bay
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subject: Marchers enter Covid test and trace centre in 'disgraceful' protest in England
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subject: About 25% of Ohio coronavirus tests are coming back positive. Gov. Mike DeWine says actual positivity is higher.
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subject: Colorado police officer hailed a hero after she was shot during deadly 'rampage' and reportedly took down the suspect while wounded
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subject: Why deforestation in Brazil's Amazon has soared to its highest level in 15 years
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subject: Colorado Gov. Jared Polis reduces I-70 truck driver Rogel Aguilera-Mederos' sentence to 10 years
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subject: U.S. ends case against Jeffrey Epstein's jail guards
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subject: South Africa says that it has passed its fourth wave of cases, and counts few added deaths
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subject: Two boys, 16, charged with murder in shooting of 14-year-old girl in Nebraska
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subject: "Our absences are through the roof. And the patients are so sick — not just with covid but with everything. It's so, so bad," Ranney added. "The next few weeks are going to be terrifying for patients and families and providers."
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subject: T Cells Come to the Rescue as Studies Show They Buck Omicron
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subject: Multiple homes destroyed due to fire and high winds in Boulder County Colorado. December 30th, 2021
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subject: Colorado town evacuated by wind-driven wildfire
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subject: Travelers infected one another across hallway in Covid-19 quarantine facility, New Zealand research shows
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subject: It's another tough day for air travel, with more than 1,100 U.S. cancellations.
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subject: The U.S. breaks its single-day virus case record for the second day in a row
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subject: The expanded child tax credit expires Friday after Congress failed to renew it
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subject: A new coronavirus vaccine heading to India was developed by a small team in Texas. It expects nothing in return.
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subject: Alaska reached temperatures warmer than Southern California in December
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subject: Smithsonian Closes Five Museums Temporarily Due To COVID-19
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subject: Studies indicate J&J Covid-19 vaccine booster protects people against severe illness from Omicron variant
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subject: How Australia went from Covid-zero to Covid-central in just a few months
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subject: J&J COVID-19 booster cuts Omicron hospitalizations by 84%, study suggests
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subject: OzSage experts warn 'let it rip' Covid strategy will condemn vulnerable Australians to death
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subject: NYC EMS Faces Record Staffing Shortage As 911 Calls For COVID-Like Symptoms Surge
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subject: Record snowfall offers reprieve to dry California – but drought remains
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subject: Police officer killed, another injured in Illinois shooting; suspect sought
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subject: Elon Musk rejects claims that his satellites are hogging space
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subject: Santander: Bank hands out £130m in Christmas blunder
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subject: U.S. Energy Dept approves release of 2 mln bbls of oil from SPR to Exxon
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subject: Metro Safety Commission Says No 7000-Series Cars Allowed on Tracks
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subject: US affirms new interpretation for high-level nuclear waste
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subject: 'We just don't have an adequate supply': Amid boom, CT manufacturers struggle to fill open jobs
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subject: U.S. jobless claims drop, showing no Omicron hit yet
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subject: Gov. Jared Polis pardons 1,351 Coloradans convicted of marijuana possession; commutes sentence for three incarcerated people
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subject: Analysis: Experts question new U.S. CDC policy on COVID isolation period
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subject: Quebec reintroduces 10 p.m. curfew as infection rates skyrocket
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subject: Russia's Excess Death Toll Hits 930K
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subject: World tops one million new daily COVID-19 cases: tally
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subject: Quebec imposes curfew, closes restaurant dining rooms and further delays return to school
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subject: With rising Omicron numbers in Israel, Almost half the children tested negative for COVID with fast antigen tests and tested by PCR later were found positive
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subject: COVID Vaccine Safe in Kids 5-11, Only 100 'Serious' Events in 9 Million Doses, CDC Says
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subject: Medical labs face understaffing and burnout as demand for COVID tests skyrockets in Texas
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subject: Ghislaine Maxwell's little black book under FBI review, says report
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subject: Big Ben rings on New Year's Eve after four years of silence
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subject: More than a million Americans have died from overdoses during the opioid epidemic
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subject: Putin threatened Biden with a complete collapse of US-Russia relations if he launches more sanctions over Ukraine
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subject: Unvaccinated are 'rolling the dice' with omicron, Arizona health expert says - KTAR.com
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subject: Covid-19 in France: 206243 new cases in 24 hours, at least 1 in 100 French people tested positive during the week
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subject: Hundreds of Colorado buildings lost and tens of thousands of residents told to evacuate due to fast-growing wildfires
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subject: Father allegedly drove 14-year-old son to store to commit murder, police say
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subject: Māori journalist becomes first person with facial markings to present primetime news
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subject: Ontario shatters previous single-day record with almost 14,000 new COVID cases | Globalnews.ca
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subject: Association of Surgical Weight Loss With Risk and Severity of COVID-19 Infection
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subject: California's New Covid Quarantine & Isolation Guidelines Are Stricter Than CDC's
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subject: 1 in 15 people in London likely has COVID-19
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subject: Florida doesn't plan to open COVID testing sites amid surge, Orange County official says
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subject: Omicron hospitalisation risk around one third of Delta, UK analysis shows
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subject: Omicron Spares the Lungs, Studies Say, Suggesting Why It's Less Severe
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subject: Are COVID hospitalizations high where you live? Look up your hospital : Shots
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subject: South Africa 'may have passed' peak of fourth COVID wave | Health officials reported a nearly 30% drop in new COVID cases, suggesting the country has passed the peak of its fourth wave of infections, and prompting the easing of some restrictions.
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subject: Covid vaccines rarely lead to problems in younger children, according to two C.D.C. reports.
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subject: Worker attacked by tiger at Florida zoo could face charges, officials say
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subject: 'I hear shelling': Fear grips Ukrainian villages near Russia
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subject: Cold weather is rolling across Texas this weekend. The grid operator says generators are ready
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subject: Man arrested after Covid deniers storm Liverpool hospital and accuse NHS staff of 'aiding genocide'
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subject: Virginia AG sues town where police threatened Black Army lieutenant during stop
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subject: Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine Demonstrates 85 Percent Effectiveness against Hospitalization in South Africa when Omicron was Dominant
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subject: North Carolina shatters one day record as 18,571 COVID-19 cases reported
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subject: UK Covid case numbers hit another record high at more than 189,000
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subject: Betty White dies at 99, weeks before 100th birthday, according to reports
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subject: Pa. Supreme Court says warrantless searches not justified by cannabis smell alone
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subject: Lafayette judge linked to video featuring racist remarks resigns
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subject: Over 65 shots fired on busy Philadelphia street; 6 wounded
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subject: Virginia Giuffre's lawyers demand proof that Prince Andrew can't sweat

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