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North Korean Missile Test Prompts FAA to Briefly Ground Some U.S. Flights
North Korea’s missile flew at almost 10 times the speed of sound into waters off its eastern coast
World Bank Cuts Global Growth Forecast Due to COVID-19 Case Surge, Supply Chain Disruptions
Global gross domestic product will probably increase 4.1% this year, less than a 4.3% forecast in June, the report said
E.U. Parliament Told to Fix Illegal Export of COVID-19 Data to U.S.
Amid fears of U.S. surveillance, the bloc's top court in 2020 struck down a tool for companies like Facebook to transfer data across the Atlantic.
Facebook Parent Meta Will Require COVID-19 Boosters for Employees to Return to the Office
Meta employees have been working remotely since March 2020, and multiple return-to-office plans have been delayed.
Hong Kong Birthday Bash Lands 30 Officials in Quarantine
All of the some 170 guests at a celebration thrown for a representative for a mainland Chinese agency were being sent to the government quarantine camp in Penny’s Bay.
Inside the Project to Genetically Modify Rice to Emit Fewer Greenhouse Gases
A cup of tea in 2006 changed genetic engineering forever. Jill Banfield, a University of California at Berkeley ecosystem scientist and 1999 MacArthur Foundation fellow, had become curious in 2006 about mysterious repeating DNA sequences that were common in microbes that live in some of the planet’s most extreme environments, such as deep-sea heat vents,…
A Fugitive Evaded Police for 3 Years, But He Couldn’t Evade China’s COVID-19 Tracking Rules
The 42-year-old man gave himself up to authorities amid stringent COVID-19 contact-tracing mechanisms launched across the country
Omicron Now Accounts for 59% of U.S. COVID-19 Cases, According to Public Health Officials
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 U.S. virus cases in the week ending Dec. 25, the Centers for Disease Control and…
COVID-19 Spreads to 89 Cruise Ships, Prompting a U.S. CDC Investigation
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Protection identified 89 cruise ships with COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, nearly all of which have met the threshold for a formal investigation. Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal urged cruise companies and health agencies to stop ships from sailing, saying they are “repeating recent history as petri dishes of Covid-19…
Russian Court Orders Shutdown of One of the Country’s Oldest Human Rights Groups
MOSCOW (AP)—Russia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that one of the country’s oldest and most prominent human rights organizations should be shut down, a move that stirred up public outrage and is the latest step in a months-long crackdown on rights activists, independent media and opposition supporters. The Prosecutor General’s Office last month petitioned the…
New York City Schools Will Reopen Jan. 3, With Increased COVID-19 Testing
New York City will double COVID-19 PCR testing in schools when students return in January, Mayor Bill de Blasio said. De Blasio, Mayor-elect Eric Adams and Governor Kathy Hochul all spoke on Tuesday at a virus briefing of the importance of bringing students back to school in January, for kids and for parents. Schools are…
Anthony Fauci Says U.S. Should Consider Requiring Vaccination for Air Travel
“When you make vaccination a requirement, that’s another incentive to get more people vaccinated,” Fauci said.