WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Health ministry says that a Polish teenager who flew from Warsaw to China last week is continental China’s first person to test positive for the omicron variant of COVID-19. Ministry spokesman said Tuesday the teenager, who traveled with her mother, has been hospitalized in isolation. She shows no symptoms of
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By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer says that its experimental COVID-19 pill appears effective against the omicron variant. The company also confirmed Tuesday that the pill delivered on promising early results in reducing COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths. The updates come as U.S. regulators are expected to soon decide on whether to
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By Melissa Bell, Dalal Mawad and Richard Allen Greene, CNN “Despite months of persuasion, despite intensive media campaigns, despite discussions in various media we have not succeeded in convincing enough people to get vaccinated.” Those were the words of former Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg last month as he announced the first nationwide vaccine mandate in
Continue Reading By MELISSA LAMBARENA of NerdWallet When you’re trying to stay accountable and motivated while paying down debt, visual aids can offer encouragement and help you celebrate the small wins. They can shift the focus to your progress instead of a distant debt-free date. A simple search online can open the door to a variety of
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By MELISSA LAMBARENA of NerdWallet When you’re trying to stay accountable and motivated while paying down debt, visual aids can offer encouragement and help you celebrate the small wins. They can shift the focus to your progress instead of a distant debt-free date. A simple search online can open the door to a variety of
Continue Reading By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A court in Belarus has sentenced the husband of the country’s opposition leader to 18 years in prison. The charges against Siarhei Tsikhanouski included organizing mass unrest and inciting hatred and have been widely seen as politically motivated. Tsikhanouski, a popular video blogger, planned to challenge
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By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has been stripped of the Arsenal captaincy after his latest disciplinary breach. Arsenal says the striker will not be considered for selection for the English Premier League game against West Ham on Wednesday. Aubameyang was left out for the game against Southampton on Saturday because of what
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By Kylie Atwood, CNN Secretary of State Antony Blinken committed to bolstering US partnerships in the Indo-Pacific as a counterweight to China’s aggressive actions during a speech in Indonesia on Tuesday, coming as the Biden administration has been largely focused on foreign policy challenges in other areas of the world. “I am here, we are
Continue Reading By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer says that its experimental COVID-19 pill appears effective against the omicron variant. The company also confirmed Tuesday that the pill delivered on promising early results in reducing COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths. The updates come as U.S. regulators are expected to soon decide on whether to
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By Matt Egan, CNN Business The Omicron coronavirus variant will cause a “winter wave” that will complicate the return of workers to offices in the United States, according to Andy Slavitt, a former senior pandemic adviser to President Joe Biden. “The beginning of 2022 will be rough,” Slavitt told CNN in a phone interview. Scientists
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By Michael Nedelman, CNN Pfizer’s updated results for its experimental treatment for Covid-19 showed it cut the risk of hospitalization or death by 89% if given to high-risk adults within a few days of their first symptoms, the company announced in a news release Tuesday. Pfizer hopes it can eventually offer the pills, under the
Continue Reading By Jamie Gumbrecht, Amanda Sealy and Jacqueline Howard, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday authorized Merck’s antiviral pill, molnupiravir, to treat Covid-19 “for the treatment of mild-to-moderate coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in adults with positive results of direct SARS-CoV-2 viral testing, and who are at high risk for progression to severe COVID-19, including
Continue Reading BY JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says he has applied to be the next governor of Norway’s central bank in an appointment that would last for six years if he gets the job. The current governor of Norges Bank is retiring in early 2022 after holding the
Continue Reading BY JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says he has applied to be the next governor of Norway’s central bank in an appointment that would last for six years if he gets the job. The current governor of Norges Bank is retiring in early 2022 after holding the
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Police say several windows at a mosque in the eastern German city of Leipzig were broken after dozens of people set off fireworks, set fire to garbage cans and threw bottles at cars. It wasn’t clear on Tuesday whether the mosque was targeted deliberately. Police said the windows were broken on Monday
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN) — La destrucción fue instantánea. Muchas casas y negocios fueron arrojados al aire después de una ola de tornados en ocho estados de EE.UU., pero los que sobrevivieron, muchos de los cuales se quedaron solo con la ropa que llevaban puesta, ahora enfrentan un camino abrumador hacia la recuperación. Aproximadamente el 75% de
Continue Reading By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business As you make your way through the soda aisle, you may notice a lot less of the word “diet” than you used to. That’s because some diet sodas are disappearing — or at least, that packaging is gone. Instead you’ll find those beverages under their new branding: zero sugar. “Zero
Continue Reading New soda flavors aren’t always a hit, but Coke CTO Nancy Quan explains how the company tries to use data to get ahead of global trends.
Continue Reading By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has withdrawn his candidacy for a Senate seat in next year’s elections in his latest change of mind over what he plans to do after his turbulent term ends. Critics say Duterte, once out of power, would likely face an array of
Continue Reading By AMY FORLITI and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A police official says the suburban Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed Daunte Wright with her handgun when she said she meant to use her Taser had been fully trained in their department’s policies on the proper use of force, including stun guns.
Continue Reading Dr. Shabir Madhi, professor of vaccinology at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, says that even though Omicron is spreading at a higher rate than the Delta variant, it is killing people at a lower rate indicating an “uncoupling of infection and severe disease and death.”
Continue Reading The massive storm that brought Cat 1 equivalent gusts to at least five states out West is pushing into the Plains, prompting wind alerts across a 1,700 mile span from LA to Chicago. . CNN Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri has the latest.
Continue Reading Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar tells CNN’s Jake Tapper that “negotiations are continuing” to win Sen. Joe Manchin’s support for President Biden’s Build Back Better bill.
Continue Reading By Andrew Torgan, CNN Nominations for the 79th annual Golden Globe Awards, celebrating the best in television and film, were announced yesterday. But due to diversity issues within the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group behind the event, the ceremony will not be televised next month. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up
Continue Reading CNN’s Don Lemon weighs in on text messages from lawmakers, Fox News hosts and Donald Trump Jr. to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows during the January 6 Capitol Hill riot.
Continue Reading BRUSSELS (AP) — Serbia is taking a significant step toward joining the European Union. Belgrade opened talks Tuesday on a series of policies linked to the environment but it was warned that progress on its European path still depends on normalizing relations with its former territory, Kosovo. Countries wanting to join the 27-country EU must
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN) — España comenzará a vacunar a niños de 5 a 11 años el miércoles, anunció el Ministerio de Salud. El objetivo es vacunar a los 3,3 millones de niños en este rango de edad durante diciembre y enero, según un comunicado. El Ministerio de Salud envió el primer embarque de 1,3 millones de
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — China has detected its second case of the omicron variant in a 67-year-old man who tested positive after more than two weeks of quarantine. State broadcaster CCTV on Tuesday said the man returned from overseas on Nov. 27 and underwent two weeks of quarantine and repeatedly tested negative for the virus. On
Continue Reading By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Toyota is pumping more than $35 billion into electric vehicles as it tries to catch up with other global automakers in the race to cleaner cars. The world’s biggest carmaker announced Tuesday that it would invest 4 trillion yen ($35.2 billion) in developing battery-powered electric vehicles between 2022 and 2030
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — A volcano that has been spewing lava in Spain’s Canary Islands for almost three months has fallen quiet. But scientists are warning that the lull doesn’t necessarily mean the eruption is over. Scientists recorded no seismic activity from the Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma island for almost 12 hours. That’s the
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