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FILE - Edward Williams, 62, a resident at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, receives a COVID-19 booster shot in New York, Sept. 27, 2021. COVID-19 infections are soaring again at U.S. nursing homes because of the omicron wave, and deaths are climbing too. That's leading to new restrictions on family visits and a renewed push to get more residents and staff members vaccinated and boosted. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

COVID deaths and cases are rising again at US nursing homes

COVID-19 infections are soaring again at U.S. nursing homes because of the omicron wave, and deaths are climbing too
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in now recommending COVID-19 booster vaccines for adolescents 12 to 15 years old.

CDC expands guidance on COVID-19 boosters to adolescents 12 to 15

Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expanded eligibility for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 booster shots to adolescents 12 to 15 years old. That means it's now recommended that everyone from age 12 on up should receive a booster shot five months after their second dose of the vaccination.

Body of newborn found in duffle bag near Chicago firehouse

 Chicago Police are investigating the death of a newborn baby found near a fire station on the city's near North Side

Springfield museum exhibit features artists from Illinois

A museum exhibit in Springfield is featuring a range of work from Illinois artists, including Muddy Waters, Earth Wind and Fire and Chance the Rapper
Smoke and flames fill the air from a large chemical fire in Passaic, N.J. on Friday Jan. 14, 2022. Authorities say the fire Friday night and Saturday morning at Majestic Industries and the Qualco chemical plant in Passaic spread to multiple buildings and threatened their collapse. (Anne-Marie Caruso /The Record via AP)
Catastrophe averted as fire near chemical plant is contained
Catastrophe has been averted after a dramatic fire near a chemical plant burned through the night and into Saturday morning in northern New Jersey
Chicago cites restaurants, gyms for COVID vaccine violations
Chicago officials have handed out more than 30 citations to businesses for failing to enforce the city's requirement that people show proof of COVID-19 vaccination in many places
Vehicles navigate hazardous driving conditions along Interstate 85/40 as a winter storm moves through the area in Mebane, N.C., Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
Snow, ice blasts through South with powerful winter storm
A dangerous winter storm combining high winds and ice was sweeping through parts of the U.S. Southeast on Sunday, knocking out power, felling trees and fences and coating roads with a treacherous, frigid glaze
Police stand in front of the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue, Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022, in Colleyville, Texas. A man held hostages for more than 10 hours Saturday inside the temple. The hostages were able to escape and the hostage taker was killed. FBI Special Agent in Charge Matt DeSarno said a team would investigate "the shooting incident." (AP Photo/Brandon Wade)
British national ID'd as hostage-taker at Texas synagogue
Authorities have identified a 44-year-old British national as the man who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue for 10 hours before an FBI SWAT team stormed the building, ending a tense standoff that President Joe Biden called 'an act of terror.'
FILE - Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita poses for a group photograph during the G5 Sahel summit in Nouakchott, Mauritania, June 30, 2020. Mali's former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has died nearly 18 months after he was ousted in a military coup. Keita's death was announced Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022 in Bamako, where the 76-year-old had been battling health problems in recent years. (Ludovic Marin/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Mali's ex-President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita dies at 76
Mali's former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has died nearly 18 months after he was ousted in a military coup
The new Amazon warehouse along Freeman Road in Huntley is expected to open this summer, company officials said. The warehouse is expected to bring 1,000 jobs to the village.
Amazon warehouse, expected to bring 1,000 jobs to Huntley, on schedule
The Amazon warehouse in Huntley is on track to open this summer, and construction is progressing on time, according to people involved with the project.
This photo provided by the Rev. Lucy Robbins shows a "For Sale" sign in front of the Biltmore United Methodist Church in Asheville, N.C. in July 2021. Already financially strapped because of shrinking membership and a struggling preschool, the congregation was dealt a crushing blow by the coronavirus. Attendance plummeted, with many staying home or switching to other churches that stayed open the whole time. Gone, too, is the revenue the church formerly got from renting its space for events and meetings. (Rev. Lucy Robbins via AP)
At many churches, pandemic hits collection plates, budgets
Biltmore United Methodist Church of Asheville, North Carolina, is for sale
FILE - In this April 15, 2019, file photo, a vendor makes change for a marijuana customer at a cannabis marketplace in Los Angeles. An unwelcome trend is emerging in California, as the nation's most populous state enters its fifth year of broad legal marijuana sales. Industry experts say a growing number of license holders are secretly operating in the illegal market - working both sides of the economy to make ends meet. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)
In California pot market, a hazy line between legal and not
An unwelcome trend is spreading in California, as the nation's most populous state enters its fifth year of broad legal marijuana sales
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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Flowers are displayed at the Hollywood Walk of Fame star of the late actress Betty White, Friday, Dec. 31, 2021, in Los Angeles. White, whose saucy, up-for-anything charm made her a television mainstay for more than 60 years, whether as a man-crazy TV hostess on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” or the loopy housemate on “The Golden Girls,” has died. She was 99.
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People fire flare as they celebrate the new year in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Dec. 31, 2021.
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