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Visitors enter a restaurant with strict virus precautions in Munich on Nov. 15, 2021. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Michaela Handrek-Rehle

November 25, 2021 at 4:17 pm

As cases climb in Americas, health agency warns Europe’s covid surge could be ‘window into the future’

Global health leaders are urging caution, pointing to a 23% spike in coronavirus cases across the Americas in the past week, a surge that follows... Updated 5:38 am

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Delta Air Lines planes on the tarmac at Terminal C of LaGuardia Airport (LGA) in New York, U.S., on Monday, Aug. 2, 2021. Citing a surge in unruly passengers, U.S.Â aviationÂ regulators are calling on the nation’s airports to encourage the police to arrest offenders, and to prevent people from sneaking alcohol on board. Photographer: Angus Mordant/Bloomberg 775693386

November 4, 2021 at 7:32 pm

FBI to weigh prosecuting 37 unruly passengers amid uptick of incidents on planes

The Federal Aviation Administration announced that it has referred the cases of more than three dozen unruly passengers to the FBI for potential criminal prosecution...

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October 31, 2021 at 11:08 am

One dead, dozens detained after group of migrants tries to swim around U.S.-Mexico border fence

A woman died, and 36 people were detained after they tried to swim around a metal border fence that stretches into the Pacific Ocean and...

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October 25, 2021 at 10:40 am

Abandoned children lived with dead brother’s remains for months in Texas apartment, sheriff says

Authorities discovered the skeletal remains of a child and three abandoned siblings living in a Houston apartment Sunday, police said, remains that may have been...

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FILE – Shoppers at an H-E-B grocery store in San Antonio, Texas, on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. Prosecutors said Christopher Charles Perez wrote on Facebook that items at another H-E-B store had been contaminated with the coronavirus. (Christopher Lee/The New York Times) XNYT121

October 6, 2021 at 8:41 pm

A man said he hired a person with COVID-19 to lick groceries. He got 15 months in prison

A federal jury has sentenced a Texas man to 15 months in federal prison after finding him guilty of staging a COVID-19-related hoax on social...

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September 27, 2021 at 5:22 am

Watch: Staten Island crowd defies vaccine mandate by storming mall food court, video shows

This is the latest public instance of resistance as vaccine mandates have become a hot-button topic across the country. Officials continue to grapple with hesitancy...

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August 22, 2021 at 7:40 pm

Airlines will help the Afghan evacuation through a post-WWII program. Here’s how it came to be.

The Department of Defense recognized the need for airlifts to support national defense emergencies and created the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF) - a program...

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Hundreds of people gather outside the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. The Taliban declared an “amnesty” across Afghanistan and urged women to join their government Tuesday, seeking to convince a wary population that they have changed a day after deadly chaos gripped the main airport as desperate crowds tried to flee the country. (AP Photo) XRG120

August 18, 2021 at 7:55 pm

Afghan refugees in U.S. despair from afar: ‘There is no hope’

Afghan refugees in the United States have been watching in despair as heavily armed Taliban fighters take control of the country they left behind. Seven...

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July 23, 2021 at 1:54 pm

Tennessee resumes most vaccine outreach to children paused after GOP backlash

The state of Tennessee announced Friday that it will resume nearly all forms of coronavirus vaccine outreach for children and teenagers after advocacy was halted...

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Residential properties stand on the city skyline in Reykjavik, Iceland, on Thursday, April 7, 2016. The center-right coalition late on Wednesday named Agriculture Minister Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson, 53, as the premier, taking over from Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson who stepped down on Tuesday after leaks from a Panamanian law firm revealed that he and his wife had investments in offshore accounts. Photographer: Arnaldur Halldorsson/Bloomberg 627739137

July 11, 2021 at 5:00 am

Iceland tested a 4-day workweek. Employees were productive — and happier, researchers say.

Some of the trials' key findings showed that a shorter week translated into increased well-being of employees among a range of indicators, from stress and...

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