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More UK Easter flights disrupted amid COVID staff absences 04/06/2022 07:43am • British travelers faced more disruptions during the Easter holiday break as two major airlines, British Airways and easyJet, canceled about 100 flights Wednesday. British Airways canceled two flights because of coronavirus-related staff absences, on top of more than 70 flights that it had canceled German minister backs off ending compulsory COVID isolation 04/06/2022 07:34am • BERLIN (AP) — Germany's health minister has backed off a decision to end compulsory isolation for people who test positive for COVID-19, declaring that it was a mistake and sent the wrong signal. Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said on Monday that obligatory self-isolation, usually for 10 days — Shanghai to allow parents to stay with COVID-infected kids 04/06/2022 06:05am • BEIJING (AP) — Following a public uproar, Shanghai is allowing at least some parents to stay with children infected with COVID-19, making an exception to a policy of isolating anyone who tests positive. The announcement came as China’s largest city remained in lockdown and conducted more mass te NBA at 75: 2010s featured seismic shifts on, off the court 04/06/2022 02:20am • Two of the NBA's most significant dynasties emerged in the second decade of the 2000s. LeBron James teamed up with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh to form a Miami Heat super team that reached four straight finals, winning a pair of championships. Then came the ascension of Steph Curry’s fling-it- Biden orders push on long COVID, pandemic's shadowy mystery 04/06/2022 12:12am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Confronting the pandemic's lasting shadow, President Joe Biden has ordered a new national research push on long COVID, while also directing federal agencies to support patients dealing with the mysterious and debilitating condition. Biden assigned the Department of Health and Herro scores 35, Heat beat Hornets 144-115 for 5th straight 04/06/2022 12:00am • MIAMI (AP) — Tyler Herro scored 35 points off the bench and the Miami Heat moved closer to clinching the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs with a 144-115 victory over the Charlotte Hornets on Tuesday night. Miami won its fifth straight and posted the second-highest point total in franc ACLU: lawsuit over Va.'s mask-optional law 'blueprint' for parents of immunocompromised students 04/05/2022 09:45pm • As a legal battle over a law in Virginia that makes masking optional for school children continues to brew, one of the plaintiffs in the case said developments so far in the courtroom can serve as a "blueprint" for parents of students at high risk of getting a severe case of COVID-19. Eden Heilma GOP blocks Senate COVID bill, demands votes on immigration 04/05/2022 07:27pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans blocked a Democratic attempt Tuesday to begin Senate debate on a $10 billion COVID-19 compromise, pressing to entangle the bipartisan package with an election-year showdown over immigration restrictions that poses a politically uncomfortable fight for Democrats. A d US pulls GSK's COVID drug as omicron sibling dominates cases 04/05/2022 05:39pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — GlaxoSmithKline’s IV drug for COVID-19 should no longer be used because it is likely ineffective against the omicron subvariant that now accounts for most U.S. cases, federal health regulators said Tuesday. The Food and Drug Administration announced that the company’s antibod Tiger Woods' return and other memorable athletic comebacks 04/05/2022 05:00pm • Tiger Woods' return and other memorable athletic comebacks originally appeared on NBC Sports WashingtonThe comeback is always stronger than the setback.Athletes regularly make inspiring comebacks, whether a healthy return after injury or a return to glory after ineffectiveness. For Tiger Woods, Biden orders push on long COVID, pandemic's shadowy mystery 04/05/2022 04:59pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Confronting the pandemic's lasting shadow, President Joe Biden on Tuesday ordered a new national research push on long COVID, while also directing federal agencies to support patients dealing with the mysterious and debilitating condition. Biden assigned the Department of Health Iowa egg, turkey farms to lose 5 million birds to bird flu 04/05/2022 02:40pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Bird flu has infected two more farms in Iowa, forcing the killing of 5.3 million hens and 88,000 turkeys, officials said Friday. The new cases mean that across the nation, farmers have had to kill about 22 million birds, mostly egg-laying chickens but also including 1.8 mil Tuchel believes absence of Ancelotti would boost Chelsea 04/05/2022 01:58pm • LONDON (AP) — Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel believes the potential absence of rival manager Carlo Ancelotti for the Champions League match against Real Madrid on Wednesday would hand his team a slight edge going into the quarterfinals. Ancelotti tested positive for the coronavirus last week and di Citing decreasing COVID cases, South Africa ends emergency 04/05/2022 01:44pm • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — With declining cases of COVID-19, South Africa on Tuesday ended its national state of disaster, the legal framework used for two years to impose restrictions to combat the pandemic. South African sports fans can now return to stadiums in large numbers to watch soccer, rugby and Lawyer for NYC fired after grilling mayor over kid mask rule 04/05/2022 01:13pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for New York City was fired after she crashed a news conference Monday to confront Mayor Eric Adams about the city's mask mandate for children aged 2 to 4. Daniela Jampel, who had worked for the city law department since 2016, was fired later on Monday, a department spokes