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By Brett Samuels President Biden’s to-do list in 2022 in many ways resembles the one he had when he took office in 2021. Biden campaigned on...

The Reuters Daily Briefing Friday, December 31, 2021 by Linda Noakes Here's what you need to know. South Africa says its COVID fourth wave has peaked, Russia test-fires...

The Reuters Daily Briefing Thursday, December 30, 2021 by Linda Noakes Hello Here's what you need to know. Ghislaine Maxwell faces a high legal bar in her bid to...

Dec 29, 2021 View in browser Good morning. Here is today's selection of top stories from The Associated Press at this hour to begin the U.S....

By Keith Coffman DENVER, Dec 27 (Reuters) - A lone gunman shot four people to death and wounded three, including a police officer, on Monday...

Dec 28, 2021 Good morning. Here is today's selection of top stories from The Associated Press at this hour to begin the U.S. day. The Associated...

Dec 27, 2021 The Associated Press The Rundown Cape Town bells to toll in honor of Archbishop Desmond Tutu JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Bells will ring in at midday...

JOHANNESBURG, Dec 26 (Reuters) - Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of South Africa's struggle against white minority rule, died on...

Dec 24, 2021 The Associated Press   The Rundown Omicron is latest blow to pandemic-weary front-line workers BOSTON (AP) — Staff absences for COVID-19 tripled this month in London’s...

Some of the longest sentences have gone to rioters charged with ‘assaulting a police officer with a dangerous weapon’ A federal judge sentenced Jacob Chansley,...

Dec 23 (Reuters) - Canada met its target of granting 401,000 foreigners permanent residency in 2021 by focusing its efforts on temporary residents already...

By Caroline Vakil The Hill Kim Potter, the former Brooklyn Center, Minn., police officer who fatally shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright earlier this year after...

Dec 23, 2021 The Associated Press The Rundown To grandmother's house or no? Omicron disrupts holiday plans Dave Fravel and his wife invited several relatives to their Cape...

By David Ljunggren   OTTAWA, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Canada will temporarily expand support programs to help people and businesses hit by the Omicron variant of...

Dec 22, 2021 The Associated Press The Rundown South Africa's case drop may show omicron peak has passed JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's noticeable drop in new COVID-19...

Today's biggest stories People queue to be tested for COVID-19 in Times Square, New York City, U.S., December 20, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly U.S. The Biden administration...

Dec. 20, 2021 The COVID-19 omicron variant is “just raging around the world,” the White House’s top medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, says as President...

Dec 17, 2021 The Associated Press The Rundown AP Exclusive: Afghans push through snowy Alps toward new lives in Europe CLAVIERE, Italy (AP) — When suicide attackers and...

By Anna Mehler Paperny and Steve Scherer TORONTO, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Canada's government implored residents on Wednesday not to leave the country as provinces...

Dec 15, 2021 The Associated Press The Rundown Major fire traps hundreds in Hong Kong tower, 12 injured HONG KONG (AP) — Hundreds of people were trapped on...