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Asian shares mostly lower as markets watch Ukraine tensions 02/14/2022 10:22pm • TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Tuesday, echoing a decline on Wall Street, amid concerns about rising tensions in Ukraine over the thousands of Russian troops that have been amassing on their border. Japanese shares started with a boost from bargain-hunting after recent losses, but the DC businesses won't need to check for proof of vaccine; mask requirements getting dialed back 02/14/2022 06:17pm • D.C. is lifting its requirement that city businesses check patrons for proof of vaccination against COVID-19 starting Tuesday, Mayor Muriel Bowser said. Businesses can choose to keep vaccination requirements in place. "We are in a much better place now," Bowser said during a Monday briefing. NYC fires more than 1,000 workers over vaccine mandate 02/14/2022 05:17pm • NEW YORK (AP) — New York City fired more than a thousand workers who failed to comply with the city's COVID-19 vaccine mandate, the mayor's office said Monday. The 1,430 workers who lost their jobs represent less than 1% of the 370,000-person city workforce and are far fewer terminations than expe Insider Q&A: NIH official on testing for infectiousness 02/14/2022 04:31pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic the U.S. is still grappling with its coronavirus tests: how to improve them and how to make more of them. Dr. Bruce Tromberg of the National Institutes of Health is the top government scientist tasked with solving the nation’s test Maryland to lift mask requirement for state buildings 02/14/2022 01:03pm • Starting next week, employees and visitors in state buildings in Maryland will no longer have to wear face masks as COVID-19 rates continue to drop, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced Monday. The new mask guidance for state buildings and leased space in public or shared buildings goes into effec Md. General Assembly moves closer to pre-pandemic normal 02/14/2022 11:27am • The second phase of the 2022 General Assembly session starts Monday. After five weeks of virtual hearings and a limited number of floor sessions — especially in the House, which has met in full just three times since the session opened on Jan. 12 — the legislature is getting closer to a sembl Plans fizzle for major trucker virus protest in Brussels 02/14/2022 10:53am • BRUSSELS (AP) — Plans for a major trucker virus protest near the European Union headquarters in Brussels fizzled Monday, with police filtering traffic during the morning rush hour to leave only a few scattered demonstrators on foot instead. Police narrowed some highways and imposed go-slow traffi Tripwire for real war? Cyber's fuzzy rules of engagement 02/14/2022 10:33am • BOSTON (AP) — President Joe Biden couldn’t have been more blunt about the risks of cyberattacks spinning out of control. “If we end up in a war, a real shooting war with a major power, it’s going to be as a consequence of a cyber breach of great consequence,” he told his intelligence bra Dr. Deborah Birx, COVID adviser under Trump, has a book deal 02/14/2022 08:14am • NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. Deborah Birx has a memoir coming out this spring that will focus on her contentious time as White House coronavirus task force coordinator in the administration of President Donald Trump. Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced Monday that Birx's “Silent Prince Charles' wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, also has COVID-19 02/14/2022 07:58am • ▶ Watch Video: Prince Charles tests positive for COVID London — Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall and the future Queen Consort of the U.K., has tested positive for COVID-19 and is self-isolating, the royal family said on Monday. The news came four days after Camilla's husband, heir Hong Kong to vaccinate 3-year-olds amid new COVID-19 surge 02/14/2022 06:55am • HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong plans to offer COVID-19 vaccines to children as young as 3 as infections rage through the semi-autonomous Chinese city. The announcement late Sunday came ahead of another surge in cases. The city reported a record 2,071 new cases on Monday, with that number expected to d South Korea to allow special voting for COVID-19 patients 02/14/2022 05:11am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s parliament on Monday approved plans to provide a special time for COVID-19 patients to vote during the March 9 presidential election as the country grapples with a record-breaking omicron surge. The proposed revision of an election-related law will take ef At Winter Olympics, virus fight waged with worker sacrifices 02/14/2022 03:40am • BEIJING (AP) — In her mind, Cathy Chen pictures a scene that she herself says could be drawn from a TV drama: Falling into the arms of her husband after long months apart, when he meets her off the plane from Beijing. Scooping up their two young daughters and squeezing them tight. "I just imagine New Zealand's PM signals harsher stance on vaccine protest 02/14/2022 02:35am • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand's prime minister on Monday said protesters who oppose coronavirus mandates were using “intimidation and harassment," as authorities appeared to take a harsher stance toward the convoy of demonstrators that has disrupted the capital of Wellington for nea Today in History 02/14/2022 12:00am • Today in History Today is Monday, Feb. 14, the 45th day of 2022. There are 320 days left in the year. This is Valentine’s Day. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 14, 2018, a gunman identified as a former student opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High Schoo