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National Zoo catches possible flamingo-killing fox
05/14/2022 07:50am • A wild fox that could be responsible for terrorizing and killing dozens of flamingoes at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in D.C. has been caught and killed. Zoo officials say they set a trap for the wild animal and it caught a fox either Thursday night or Friday morning. More D.C. News
North Korea confirms 21 new deaths as it battles COVID-19
05/14/2022 06:19am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Saturday reported 21 new deaths and 174,440 more people with fever symptoms as the country scrambles to slow the spread of COVID-19 across its unvaccinated population. The new deaths and cases, which were from Friday, increased total numbers to 27 deaths
Md. Gov. Hogan gets 2nd COVID booster, encourages others to follow
05/14/2022 05:58am • Gov. Larry Hogan and first lady Yumi Hogan received their second COVID-19 booster and are asking eligible Maryland residents to follow in their footsteps. Gov. Hogan said these booster shots, given by vaccinators with the University of Maryland Medical Center, are the reason why the state has bee
South Africa in new surge of COVID from versions of omicron
05/14/2022 05:36am • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa is experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases driven by two omicron sub-variants, according to health experts. For about three weeks the country has seen increasing numbers of new cases and somewhat higher hospitalizations, but not increases in severe cases and dea
Lewis slam in 9-run inning, Twins beat
virus
-hit Guardians
05/14/2022 12:38am • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Royce Lewis hit a grand slam for his first big league homer, capping a nine-run fifth inning that sent the Minnesota Twins past the corona
virus
-struck Cleveland Guardians 12-8 Friday night. Byron Buxton, Jorge Polanco and Gary Sánchez also homered for Minnesota. The barrage cam
New Zealand leader Jacinda Ardern tests positive for COVID
05/13/2022 08:49pm • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has tested positive for COVID-19 but said she still plans to travel to the U.S. later this month for a trade trip and to give the commencement speech at Harvard University. Ardern on Saturday posted a photo of her positive te
Cleveland Guardians place slugger Naylor on COVID-19 list
05/13/2022 07:24pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Cleveland Guardians first baseman Josh Naylor was added to the team's COVID-19 injured list on Friday, marking the first player to be sidelined by the team's recent outbreak. Cleveland's game at the Chicago White Sox on Wednesday was postponed because of COVID-19 concerns, and t
Louisiana justices toss COVID-related charges against pastor
05/13/2022 06:21pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Louisiana Supreme Court threw out charges Friday against a pastor who flouted restrictions on gatherings early in the corona
virus
pandemic, ruling 5-2 that the governor's executive orders violated freedom of religion. “This is a tremendous win for religious civil liberties
A million empty spaces: Chronicling COVID's ruthless US toll
05/13/2022 11:22am • On the deadliest day of a horrific week in April 2020, COVID took the lives of 816 people in New York City alone. Lost in the blizzard of pandemic data that’s been swirling ever since is the fact that 43-year-old Fernando Morales was one of them. Two years and 1 million deaths later, his brother,
A million empty spaces: Chronicling COVID's cruel US toll
05/13/2022 11:06am • On the deadliest day of a horrific week in April 2020, COVID took the lives of 816 people in New York City alone. Lost in the blizzard of pandemic data that’s been swirling ever since is the fact that 43-year-old Fernando Morales was one of them. Two years and 1 million deaths later, his brother,
Echoes of one million lost in the spaces they left behind
05/13/2022 11:02am • Put your son in Sherman Peebles' barber chair and along with a buzz you could count on Peebles, a sheriff’s deputy who cut hair as a sideline, to issue a fatherly warning about staying out of trouble. Now, seven months after the dapper sergeant died of COVID-19, life goes on at the Columbus, Georg
EXPLAINER: What's behind North Korea's COVID-19 admission?
05/13/2022 07:49am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Before acknowledging its first domestic COVID-19 cases, North Korea spent 2 1/2 years rejecting outside offers of vaccines and steadfastly claiming that its superior socialist system was protecting its 26 million people from “a malicious
virus
” that had killed million
N. Korea reports 6 deaths after admitting COVID-19 outbreak
05/13/2022 05:20am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Six people have died and 350,000 have been treated for a fever that has spread “explosively” across North Korea, state media said Friday, a day after the country acknowledged a COVID-19 outbreak for the first time in the pandemic. North Korea likely doesn’t have su
Shanghai to try to ease 7-week
virus
lockdown in a few days
05/13/2022 04:25am • BEIJING (AP) — Shanghai will try again to reopen in a few days after it has eliminated COVID-19 transmission among the general population as the outbreak in China's largest city subsides, an official said Friday. The strict lockdown of the city — now in its seventh week, but lifted and reinfo
LEADING OFF: Pitch coach Willis to guide
virus
-hit Guardians
05/13/2022 03:44am • A look at what's happening around the majors today: ___ PITCHING IN Cleveland pitching coach Carl Willis will serve as the team's acting manager when the corona
virus
-hampered Guardians start a three-game series against the Twins at Target Field. The Guardians reported no new COVID-19 cases on Thursd
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