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Daily U.S. Covid Cases Hit All-Time High As Omicron Fuels Winter Wave Of Virus  Deadline The US just hit a record average of daily new Covid-19 cases  CNN Coronavirus live updates and omicron variant news  The Washington Post US averaging near 200,000 new

Prosecuting scientists who have broken the law without slipping into McCarthyism is hard

An expected decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the coming year to severely restrict abortion rights or overturn Roe v. Wade entirely is setting off a renewed round of abortion battles in state legislatures across the U.S.

Video released Monday showed Los Angeles police firing at a man suspected of assaulting customers last week at a clothing store, a shooting that also killed a 14-year-old girl hiding in a dressing room who was struck by a bullet

Black patients and their families are less likely to sign up for end-of-life comfort care. To reach them, investors are starting hospice agencies run by people who look like the patients they serve. (Image credit: Erica Calhoun for NPR)

The Omicron variant is causing an increasing share of coronavirus infections in the U.S., though its climb to dominance has been gentler than earlier estimates indicated, according to an updated federal model. Omicron accounted for an estimated 58.6% of sequenced

Former President Donald Trump’s golf resorts in Scotland claimed nearly $4 million in COVID aid from the British government while he was in office, financial filings in the U.K. show. The ex-president’s struggling resorts, Trump Turnberry in Ayrshire and Trump

Britain, France and Germany warn there are ‘weeks’ left to reach agreement before Tehran’s ‘escalation of its nuclear program will have completely hollowed out’ the 2015 pact

Police open probe into death of man, in his 20s, gunned down in Nahaf, two days after most recent killing in violence-plagued minority

Society for Protection of Nature in Israel calls to strengthen existing communities rather than create new ones, protect nature and include public in planning