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Russian skater can compete, but medal ceremony won’t be held
Feb 14, 2022 by Rick Watts
By JAMES ELLINGWORTH and GRAHAM DUNBAR BEIJING (AP) — Russian teenager Kamila Valieva has been cleared to compete in the women’s figure skating competition at the Winter Olympics despite failing a pre-Games drug test, setting…
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Biden to split frozen Afghan funds for 9/11 victims, relief
Feb 11, 2022 by Rick Watts
By AAMER MADHANI WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is expected to issue an executive order on Friday to move $7 billion of the Afghan central bank’s assets frozen in the U.S. banking system to…
US inflation jumped 7.5% in the past year, a 40-year high
Feb 10, 2022 by Rick Watts
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation soared over the past year at its highest rate in four decades, hammering America’s consumers, wiping out pay raises and reinforcing the Federal Reserve’s decision to begin raising…
Can you get long COVID after an infection with omicron?
Feb 09, 2022 by Rick Watts
By LAURA UNGAR AP - Can you get long COVID after an infection with omicron? It’s too early to know for sure, but many doctors believe it’s possible to have long-term effects from the omicron variant of the…
White House: File your taxes to get full child tax credit
Feb 08, 2022 by Rick Watts
By JOSH BOAK AP - The Biden administration is kicking off an outreach campaign to get millions of families to file their taxes — so they can receive the second half of payments from the…
Ukraine crisis talks move to Moscow and Washington
Feb 07, 2022 by Rick Watts
By SYLVIE CORBET and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV MOSCOW (AP) — International efforts to defuse the standoff over Ukraine intensified Monday, with French President Emmanuel Macron holding talks in Moscow and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Washington…
China’s pandemic Olympics begin, with lockdown and boycotts
Feb 04, 2022 by Rick Watts
By SARAH DiLORENZO BEIJING (AP) — The country where the coronavirus outbreak emerged two years ago launched a locked-down Winter Olympics on Friday, proudly projecting its might on the most global of stages even as some Western…
Biden says US forces killed IS leader during raid in Syria
Feb 03, 2022 by Rick Watts
By GHAITH ALSAYED, LOLITA C. BALDOR, BASSEM MROUE and ZEKE MILLER ATMEH, Syria (AP) — An elite U.S. military force killed one of the world’s most wanted terrorists, the leader of the Islamic State group,…
Punxsutawney Phil predicts six more weeks of winter
Feb 02, 2022 by Rick Watts
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — There will be six more weeks of winter, Punxsutawney Phil predicted as he emerged from his burrow on Wednesday to perform his Groundhog Day duties. Thousands of people gathered at Gobbler’s…
Omicron amps up concerns about long COVID and its causes
Feb 01, 2022 by Rick Watts
By LAURA UNGAR and LINDSEY TANNER AP - More than a year after a bout with COVID-19, Rebekah Hogan still suffers from severe brain fog, pain and fatigue that leave her unable to do her…
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