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Hospitals in China have been struggling to contain a rising COVID-19 outbreak as authorities scale back on over two years of strict COVID policies, The Washington Post reports. 

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More than 30 years after being imprisoned for a violent crime they didn't commit, a group of five Black and Latino men will have a gate in Central Park named in their honor, The New York Times reported Monday. 

Dave Chappelle's latest comedy show featured a surprise — and, clearly, controversial — guest star. 

One of Germany's top officials said Sunday that the country's gun laws needed to be strengthened in the aftermath of a suspected coup d'etat attempt by far-right insurrectionists. 

Only three women have ever won Best Director at the Golden Globes, and in 2023, no one will have the opportunity to become the fourth. 

Iran publicly executed a man on Monday by hanging him from a crane, BBC News reported, making him the second person to be put to death by the government in relation to the country's ongoing protests. 

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The rate of inflation has slowed a bit in recent months, and there are even indications that it has topped out. "Peak inflation is probably behind us," Megan Greene, chief economist at Kroll Global, said on CNBC's Squawk Box. Still, it's unlikely high prices are going anywhere anytime soon. As Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said in early November: "We have a ways to go."

Three women were killed in Rome on Sunday when a man opened fire in a cafe, in what Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri called a "grave episode of violence." Four other people were injured in the shooting, which appeared target a meeting of an apartment residents' committee. The shooter was reportedly overpowered by people in the meeting and restrained until police arrived. The 57-year-old man in custody is believed to have been involved in a bitter dispute with the committee, BBC News reports.

Germany last week arrested a minor member of the country's abolished nobility plus two dozen others accused of plotting to overthrow the German government, execute the chancellor, and replace the republic with an authoritarian state modeled on pre-1918 Germany. The minor noble tapped to lead this new reich was a wealthy former real estate broker who calls himself Prince Heinrich XIII of Reuss. The plot was hatched, and the weapons were stored, in the basement of Heinrich XIII's ancestral hunting... Читать дальше...

Democrats basking in the glow of their narrowly expanded Senate majority were treated to a rude awakening on Friday morning, with Arizona Sen. Krysten Sinema's surprise announcement that she was "declaring my independence from the broken partisan system in Washington," and officially registering as an independent in her home state. 

Nigerian author Uwem Akpan is a professor at the University of Florida, a former Jesuit priest, and author of the story collection Say You're One of Them, a 2008 best-seller. His debut novel, New York, My Village, is now out in paperback.

In November, the European Commission ruled that airlines can provide 5G technology on their planes, allowing passengers on flights within the European Union to use their cell phones to make calls mid-air. Could the United States soon follow? Here's everything you need to know:

The U.S. Energy Department will announce Tuesday that government scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have for the first time produced a net energy gain in a fusion reaction, a major step toward limitless, inexpensive clean energy, the Financial Times and The Washington Post reported Sunday. Scientists have been trying since the 1950s to recreate the kind of fusion reaction that powers the sun, but none have been able to produce more energy than the process consumes. Читать дальше...

Karen Bass, a former Democratic congresswoman and speaker of the California State Assembly, was sworn in on Sunday as Los Angeles' 43rd mayor.

During her 18-hour flight back to the United States, WNBA star Brittney Griner spoke about what it was like in captivity and the time she spent at a Russian penal colony, Roger Carstens, the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, said on Sunday.