Mariana Toro (CNN) — La Agencia Reguladora de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios del Reino Unido dijo este jueves que había autorizado el antiviral oral de Merck y Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, el molnupiravir, para tratar casos de covid-19 de leves a moderados en adultos con riesgo de enfermedad grave. Es el primer antiviral oral del mundo autorizado
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By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer BEREA, Ohio (AP) — A person familiar with the situation tells The Associated Press that Odell Beckham Jr. has been excused from practice for the second straight day as the Cleveland Browns figure out their next move with the wide receiver. The team hasn’t reached a conclusion yet on
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By Nathaniel Meyersohn and Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Get ready to pay even more for the fun stuff in your grocery cart. Top snack makers Kraft Heinz and Mondelez say they will hike prices for retail customers on varieties of Kraft Mac & Cheese, Jell-O, Bagel Bites, Cool Whip, Toblerone, Sour Patch Kids and other items
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus is expanding its COVID-19 vaccination booster shot drive to everyone 50 and over as well as to those who have been diagnosed as obese irrespective of age. A precondition for receiving a booster shot is for six months to have elapsed since a person was fully vaccinated. Cyprus began administering
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Jack Guy, CNN A country estate in southwest England is up for sale for £4.95 million ($6.7 million), and the new owners could be obliged to receive a royal visitor at short notice. Brimptsmead is a six-bedroom Edwardian family home that sits in 9.22 acres of land in Dartmoor National Park, boasting paddocks, woodland and
Continue Reading By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine has reported another record high number of new coronavirus infections, part of an infection surge amid widespread reluctance among the population to get vaccinated. The Health Ministry on Thursday reported 27,377 new infection cases over the past day, about 500 more than the previous high
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey Will Smith reveals in his upcoming memoir that he fell in love with his “Six Degrees of Separation” co-star Stockard Channing. Smith, who was married to his first wife Sheree Zampino at the time, starred in the 1993 movie as Paul Poitier, a young man who enters the lives of an affluent
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN “The Harder They Fall” has a scene which honors the late Chadwick Boseman. The Western features a predominately Black cast, including Idris Elba, Regina King, LaKeith Stanfield and Jonathan Majors. A train appears in the film marked “C.A. Boseman.” Boseman, a beloved and esteemed actor, died in August 2020 after
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — AstraZeneca says it is withdrawing its application for approval of its COVID-19 vaccine in Switzerland because the country’s medical regulator wanted to restrict its use to people over age 50. Switzerland has cleared the BioNTech-Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, but the national medical regulator hadn’t yet granted AstraZeneca marketing authorization.
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BERLIN (AP) — AstraZeneca says it is withdrawing its application for approval of its COVID-19 vaccine in Switzerland because the country’s medical regulator wanted to restrict its use to people over age 50. Switzerland has cleared the BioNTech-Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, but the national medical regulator hadn’t yet granted AstraZeneca marketing authorization.
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Dozens of climate change activists have blocked roads outside the Parliament in London. Some glued themselves to the ground as part of the group’s ongoing protests. About 60 supporters of the group Insulate Britain sat on the ground holding banners, blocking two roads around Parliament. Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle said Thursday it
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Chrissy Teigen says she has no idea if Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson are a couple, but she still has some thoughts about it. Teigen and her husband, singer John Legend, have been close friends with Kardashian and Kanye West whom she filed for divorce from in February. Kardashian has
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KINGSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A southern Texas police officer has died three days after being shot while responding to a reported domestic disturbance. The Kingsville Police Department posted on its Facebook page that Senior Patrolman Sherman Otto Benys Jr. died Thursday at a Corpus Christi hospital. Police say Benys was shot Monday afternoon in the
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Millions of U.S. workers now have a Jan. 4 deadline to get a COVID vaccine. The federal government on Thursday announced new vaccine requirements for workers at companies with more than 100 employees as well as workers at health care facilities that treat Medicare and Medicaid patients. It also extended a
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Millions of U.S. workers now have a Jan. 4 deadline to get a COVID vaccine. The federal government on Thursday announced new vaccine requirements for workers at companies with more than 100 employees as well as workers at health care facilities that treat Medicare and Medicaid patients. It also extended a
Continue Reading Opinion by Gad Levanon for CNN Business Perspectives After enhanced unemployment benefits expired and schools re-opened in person, many expected workers to go back to work and the nation’s labor shortage to ease significantly by September. But recent data suggest that, if anything, the shortage is getting more severe. And though the risk of a
Continue Reading GENEVA (AP) — A diamond bracelet that once belonged to France’s Marie Antoinette and jewels that dangled from a Russian grand duchess are among the featured items going up for auction next week in Geneva. Also going under the hammer in the lakeside Swiss city will be a pair of high-top Nike sneakers from the
Continue Reading GENEVA (AP) — A diamond bracelet that once belonged to France’s Marie Antoinette and jewels that dangled from a Russian grand duchess are among the featured items going up for auction next week in Geneva. Also going under the hammer in the lakeside Swiss city will be a pair of high-top Nike sneakers from the
Continue Reading GENEVA (AP) — A diamond bracelet that once belonged to France’s Marie Antoinette and jewels that dangled from a Russian grand duchess are among the featured items going up for auction next week in Geneva. Also going under the hammer in the lakeside Swiss city will be a pair of high-top Nike sneakers from the
Continue Reading By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A top executive of Myanmar’s military-linked telecommunications company has been fatally shot near his home in an apparent assassination linked to the country’s violent political unrest. The military’s information office confirmed that Thein Aung, chief finance officer of Mytel Telecommunications Co., was shot Thursday morning while walking
Continue Reading By Sana Noor Haq, CNN Business Tastykake cupcakes sold by US retailers including Target and Walmart are being recalled over concerns they might contain tiny fragments of metal mesh wire. Flowers Foods is withdrawing its Tastykake multi-pack cupcakes as a “precautionary measure,” the US Food and Drug Administration said in a statement. The company decided
Continue Reading By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to a fresh pandemic low last week, another sign the job market is healing after last year’s coronavirus recession. Jobless claims dropped by 14,000 to 269,000 last week. Since topping 900,000 in early January, the weekly applications
Continue Reading By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. trade deficit hit an all-time high of $80.9 billion in September as American exports fell sharply while imports, even with supply chain problems at American ports, kept climbing. The Commerce Department reported Thursday that the September deficit topped the previous record of $73.2 billion
Continue Reading By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. trade deficit hit an all-time high of $80.9 billion in September as American exports fell sharply while imports, even with supply chain problems at American ports, kept climbing. The Commerce Department reported Thursday that the September deficit topped the previous record of $73.2 billion
Continue Reading By DAVID KOENIG Associated Press Tens of millions of Americans who work at companies with 100 or more employees will need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan. 4 or get tested for the virus weekly. The new requirements are the Biden administration’s boldest move yet to persuade reluctant Americans to finally get a vaccine
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By DAVID KOENIG Associated Press Tens of millions of Americans who work at companies with 100 or more employees will need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan. 4 or get tested for the virus weekly. The new requirements are the Biden administration’s boldest move yet to persuade reluctant Americans to finally get a vaccine
Continue Reading CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Nathaniel Meyersohn and Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Get ready to pay even more for the fun stuff in your grocery cart. Top snack makers Kraft Heinz and Mondelez say they will hike prices for retail customers on varieties of Kraft Mac & Cheese, Jell-O, Bagel Bites, Cool Whip, Toblerone, Sour Patch Kids and
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By Jason Hoffman, CNN The Biden administration announced Thursday that its vaccine rules applying to private businesses with 100 or more employees, certain health care workers and federal contractors will take effect January 4. The rules stipulate that employees that fall into those groups will need to have received the necessary shots to be fully
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Apple TV+ must really like Tom Hanks, with “Finch” representing the second movie featuring the actor the service scooped up during the pandemic. Like “Greyhound,” this one is in a modest affair that would likely have been hard-pressed to make waves in theaters, casting Hanks in a last-man-on-Earth scenario that’s
Continue Reading After spotting a beach wedding in Santa Monica, iconic actor Tom Hanks decided to congratulate the newly weds.
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