Clemson Tigers starting quarterback Trevor Lawrence — the favorite to win the Heisman Trophy on college football’s No. 1 team and seen as the likely top pick of the 2021 NFL draft should he leave college early — has tested positive for Covid-19 and will not play in Saturday’s game against Boston College.
Golfers wore red and black in honor of Tiger Woods during Sunday’s play
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Golfers wore red shirts and black pants during the WGC-Workday Championship on Sunday in honor of golf legend Tiger Woods, who is hospitalized after a serious car accident last week. Woods responded on Twitter to th...
Earthquake felt in downtown Anchorage Saturday
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A 5.3 magnitude earthquake was felt in Anchorage, Alaska, on Saturday morning, according to officials. The quake was centered less than 10 miles outside of downtown Anchorage, near Point MacKenzie. "That was quite...
A family is trying to get ‘orbisculate’ into the dictionary to honor their dad who died of Covid-19
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You know when you dig into a grapefruit and, suddenly, its juice squirts you in the eye? There's a word for it. Hello, orbisculate. It's a word that the Krieger family of Boston is trying to get into the dictionary ...
Why Japan took so long to start Covid-19 vaccinations, even with the Olympics looming
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Tokyo With the Olympic games due to start in Tokyo in July, Japan had every reason to move quickly to approve a Covid-19 vaccine and begin inoculations. But the country only started inoculating its population of 126...
Covid-19 cases discovered on one US Navy ship in Middle East, suspected cases on a second
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Washington About a dozen sailors and Marines onboard the USS San Diego tested positive for Covid-19 while the ship was deployed to the Middle East, the Navy said in a statement Thursday. The amphibious transport shi...
What life is like in countries where Covid-19 vaccination is increasingly a success
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This was excerpted from the February 25 edition of CNN's Meanwhile in America, the daily email about US politics for global readers. Click here to read past editions and subscribe. How's life in countries where coro...
US officials ask China not to subject staff to Covid-19 anal swab tests
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Shanghai, China US officials in China have asked local authorities to refrain from subjecting US staff in the country to Covid-19 anal swabs, according to a US diplomat based in China. On Thursday, China responded to...
Garth Brooks announces he is Covid-19 negative as wife Trisha Yearwood tests positive
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While country legend Garth Brooks has tested negative for Covid-19, his wife Trisha Yearwood has contracted the virus. Brooks announced Wednesday that the couple have been quarantining together at home in Tennessee...
North Carolina woman is accused of using her $149,000 Covid-19 relief loan for shopping sprees
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As millions struggle to stay afloat during the Covid-19 pandemic, the last purchases on most minds are Louis Vuitton and diamonds. But in a state facing a 6.5% unemployment rate last August, one North Carolina wom...
DC mayor’s sister dies from Covid-19
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Washington Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser's sister died Wednesday at age 64 from "complications related to Covid-19," the mayor said in a statement. "My family and I are mourning the loss of my sister, Mercia Bowser...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti was the hive and the honey
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Tess Taylor is the author of the poetry collections "Work & Days," "The Forage House" and most recently, "Rift Zone" and "Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange." Views expressed in this commentary are solely he...
Covid-19 devastated this small city. Volunteers are going door-to-door to ensure people get vaccinated
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The last 12 months have been tolling for Linda Harris, who lives in a small Southwest Georgia city hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic. "I'm tired of losing grandparents, grandmamas, granddaddys and some of our sm...