HELSINKI (AP) — Norway says it is lifting almost all remaining COVID restrictions as it doesn’t see a major health threat to citizens any more, even though the omicron variant is still spreading in the Nordic nation. “This is the day we have been waiting for,” said Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere during a
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Spencer Foo made history against Germany by netting China’s first-ever goal in Olympic hockey competition.
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Meet the dozen athletes that comprise the U.S. bobsled team for the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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Germany took down China 3-2 to earn its first win in hockey competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Wallace, CNN Deaths and crashes linked to drunken driving dropped almost 20% in Utah, the only state with a lower legal limit of .05, according to a new study. The conclusions are a piece of encouraging news for highway safety, where the number of deaths rose at the highest rate ever recorded during
Continue ReadingASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) — Turkmenistan will hold snap presidential elections after the country’s authoritarian leader announced he is ready to relinquish power to a new generation. President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov’s statement that the country should be directed by younger people appeared to suggest that his son Serdar would succeed him; the son has risen through a
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A fan with a giant inflatable pretzel cheers on Germany’s Katharina Mueller and Tim Dieck during their ice dance performance.
Continue ReadingHONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong has reported its daily record of confirmed COVID-19 cases, at 1,514. The city is struggling with the worst outbreak of the pandemic as it tries to implement China’s zero-tolerance strategy using a mandatory quarantine for all travelers and mass testing. Hong Kong imposed new restriction this week, limiting in-person
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Jordan Stolz, a 17-year-old from Wisconsin, made his Winter Olympic debut in the men’s 500m speed skating competition. Stolz won the 1000m and 500m events at U.S. Olympic Trials to qualify.
Continue ReadingBy JAKE SEINER AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — The biggest questions at the Beijing Olympics hardly centered on who would win the six gold medals up for grabs. Not with the fate of 15-year-old figure skater Kamila Valieva still undecided. Will the Russian be allowed to compete after testing positive for a ban substance?
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William Flaherty will represent Puerto Rico in the men’s giant slalom at the 2022 Winter Olympics, completing a harrowing journey that began with his life in peril at age 3.
Continue ReadingCOTABATO, Philippines (AP) — Gunmen in the southern Philippines have killed a Muslim rebel and eight of his companions in a road ambush authorities said was apparently sparked by a land dispute. Police and officials say attackers raked two SUVs with assault rifle fire Saturday in a remote farming village in Maguindanao province, killing nine
Continue ReadingJacqui Palumbo, CNN This weekend when the Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals take the field on Super Bowl Sunday, it will mark the return of cheerleaders to the biggest sports event in the United States, after they were barred from the field last year due to pandemic restrictions. And though today the commercials and
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand, Maegan Vazquez, Jasmine Wright and Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that the US and its allies will respond “decisively and impose swift and severe costs” on Russia should Putin decide to invade Ukraine. In a roughly hour-long phone call, the White House said Biden made clear
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Paris police fired tear gas against a handful of demonstrators Saturday who defied a police order by taking part in a protest against virus restrictions inspired by Canada’s horn-honking truckers. Police deterred over 500 vehicles but a few dozen were able to get past myriad police checkpoints.
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China defeats Italy 12-9 in the men’s curling round robin. China is now tied at fourth with the U.S., ROC, Norway and Canada. Italy continues to rank ninth in the standings with no wins in three games.
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Finland defeated Japan Saturday morning and will next take on the United States in the women’s hockey semifinals.
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Australia’s Jaclyn Narracott led Germany’s Hannah Neise and Tina Hermann halfway through the women’s skeleton competition.
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN A contentious decision from the US Supreme Court in a Voting Rights Act case from Alabama this week previewed what could be a momentous legal battle over the 1965 law, which over the past several years has been repeatedly whittled down by the conservative justices. After lower courts ordered Alabama to
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Gao Tingyu becomes the first man to win a speed skating gold medal for China and breaks an Olympic record along the way!
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