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Protester drives at New Zealand police as cordon tightens 02/21/2022 09:43pm • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — One protester drove a car toward a New Zealand police line, narrowly avoiding officers, while other protesters sprayed officers with a stinging substance, police said Tuesday, as they tightened a cordon around a convoy that has been camped outside Parliament for two NFL scouting combine loosens virus rules after blowback 02/21/2022 09:25pm • Players attending the NFL's scouting combine won't have to stay in a “bubble” as originally ordered after organizers loosened regulations Monday night after getting blowback for strict COVID-19 rules issued over the weekend. In a memo sent to all invitees and obtained by The Associated Press on New omicron subvariant not expected to lead to another COVID-19 surge 02/21/2022 09:20pm • As omicron cases continue to decline across the region, health departments in the District, Virginia and Maryland have reported new cases of a subvariant strain of the illness, but one expert said it doesn’t appear the newest version of COVID-19 will lead to another spike in cases. The original Analysis: China's bubble Olympics kept reality at a distance 02/21/2022 08:37pm • BEIJING (AP) — They did it — that much seems obvious. But what, exactly, was the “it” that they did? China pulled off a logistically adept Olympics with very few mechanical glitches — no small affair in the pandemic era. It made that happen primarily by creating what it called, in inimitab Boris Johnson scraps remaining COVID restrictions in England 02/21/2022 03:36pm • LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is scrapping the last domestic coronavirus restrictions in England, including the requirement for people with COVID-19 to self-isolate, even as he acknowledged Monday the potential for new and more deadly variants of the virus. Johnson told lawmak AP Top U.S. News at 10:53 p.m. EST 02/21/2022 12:00am • Tribe grapples with missing women crisis on California coast Jury adjourns for day without verdict in Ahmaud Arbery case Defense rests in federal trial in George Floyd's killing New Census director has faith in quality of 2020 numbers Trump's social media app launches year after Twitter ban Analysis Beijing's Olympics close, ending safe but odd global moment 02/20/2022 10:17pm • BEIJING (AP) — A pile of figure-skating rubble created by Russian misbehavior. A new Chinese champion — from California. An ace American skier who faltered and went home empty-handed. The end of the Olympic line for the world’s most renowned snowboarder. All inside an anti-COVID “closed loop Queen Elizabeth II tests positive for COVID; mild symptoms 02/20/2022 09:59pm • LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday and is experiencing mild, cold-like symptoms, Buckingham Palace said, adding that she still plans to carry on working. The diagnosis prompted concern and get-well wishes from across Britain's political spectrum for the famousl 64-year-old Langer breaks own PGA Tour Champions age record 02/20/2022 06:34pm • NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Already the oldest winner in PGA Tour Champions history, Bernhard Langer completed a wire-to-wire victory Sunday for his record fourth Chubb Classic title. Langer won at 64 years, 5 months, 23 days to push his victory total to 43 on the 50-and-over tour, two behind Hale Irwin f US virus cases, hospitalizations continue steady decline 02/20/2022 04:40pm • Average daily COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are continuing to fall in the U.S., an indicator that the omicron variant’s hold is weakening across the country. Total confirmed cases reported Saturday barely exceeded 100,000, a sharp downturn from around 800,850 five weeks ago on Jan. 16, accor Djokovic says he's at his 'peak' returning to tour in Dubai 02/20/2022 11:54am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic said on Sunday that despite weeks away from competition and emotional distress over his recent detention and deportation, he feels he's at his “peak” as he returns to tour. The world’s top male tennis player sounded an up UK: People with COVID in England won't need to self-isolate 02/20/2022 09:37am • LONDON (AP) — People with COVID-19 won't be legally required to self-isolate in England starting in the coming week, the U.K. government has announced, as part of a plan for “living with COVID” that is also likely to see testing for the coronavirus scaled back. Prime Minister Boris Johnson sai Hong Kong says anti-virus controls might be tightened 02/20/2022 05:24am • HONG KONG (AP) — Stringent anti-virus controls that ban public gatherings in Hong Kong of more than two people might be tightened to stop a surge in infections, the territory’s top health official said Sunday, as 14 deaths and more than 6,000 new cases were reported. Health Secretary Sophia Cha After Beijing bubble bursts, can the IOC save the Olympics? 02/20/2022 04:35am • BEIJING (AP) — Before he got out of town, the great Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris called the Beijing Games a version of “sports prison.” He was joking — sort of — but his vision wasn't that far off. The cordoned-off Olympic bubble that folds up when the closing ceremony ends Sunday h AP Top U.S. News at 11:35 p.m. EST 02/20/2022 12:00am • US virus cases, hospitalizations continue steady decline Some school systems pause diversity programs amid pushback Rents reach 'insane' levels across US with no end in sight Wright family, activists see injustice in Potter's sentence Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff's sister, husband found dead Human ri