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Flu has been worse than COVID this winter

Flu has been worse than COVID this winter

Updated 8:22 p.m.

Ever since the novel coronavirus reached the United States five years ago, it has unleashed punishing winter waves of illness. But the usual COVID uptick is much more muted this winter and appears to have peaked. The virus is less rampant in wastewater compared with winters past. Hospitalization rates have gone down.

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Dali ship back at sea months after colliding with Baltimore’s Key Bridge

About 10 months after colliding with Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, the Dali container ship is back in business. The vessel underwent temporary repairs in Norfolk and then had extensive repairs, sea trials, validation and recertification in China. Now, the Dali has resumed service under the management of Synergy Marine Group, the Singapore-based company announced Tuesday.
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GOP majority renews focus on abortion

This week marks the first time Republicans will hold a federal trifecta since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, which overturned the federal right to an abortion. For some conservatives, it also marks a new start.

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Supreme Court takes on accountability for police shootings

The Supreme Court seemed inclined Wednesday to make it somewhat easier for individuals to try to hold police officers accountable for using deadly force, in a case involving the fatal shooting of an unarmed Black man during a routine traffic stop in Texas.
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After Trump pardons Jan. 6 rioters, some of his Northwest supporters disagree

WASHINGTON – A little more than four years before President Donald Trump took the oath of office at the Capitol on Monday, some of his most fervent supporters forced their way into the same building in an attempt to stop his presidency from ending, spurred on by Trump’s insistence that he was the rightful winner of an election he had lost.
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Trump crushes Justice Department’s biggest investigation in an instant

The effort to prosecute the violent mob that ransacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and the leaders of far-right groups who egged them on, represented the biggest and most logistically complex investigation in the history of the Justice Department. President Donald Trump erased it in an instant on Inauguration Day.
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Trump administration ousts Coast Guard’s top officer

The Trump administration has ousted the Coast Guard’s top admiral, according to a message to the service’s members circulated Tuesday, in what could be the first of several changes to military leadership under the new commander in chief.
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LA wildfire coverage shows why local TV news matters in a crisis

As the devastating wildfires began to sweep across Los Angeles on Jan. 7, frightened residents were not turning to Netflix. Local TV news broadcasts were the video go-to for residents seeking immediate information on the crisis that engulfed the region. Anchors and correspondents have spent hours in the field and on the air providing life-saving details about evacuations and damage, along with a generous helping of emotional comfort.
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Trump withdraws U.S. from World Health Organization

President Donald Trump moved quickly Monday to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, a move that public health experts say will undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.