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Germany has issued what appears to be the strongest recommendation anywhere for the mixing of Covid-19 vaccines on efficacy grounds.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is refusing to give ground on the effort to investigate the January 6 insurrection. After the House voted to establish a new select committee to investigate the attack on the US Capitol, McCarthy threatened to strip Republicans of their committee assignments if they agreed to join it, according to a CNN report that cited to GOP sources. (He denied the reports on Thursday, saying, "I'm not making any threats" about committee assignments.)

Economists expect a super-strong jobs report on Friday. But don't be fooled: America's labor market problems — millions unemployed, worker shortages and worries about child care and health risks — will persist throughout the summer.

Sitting alongside Afghanistan's President in the Oval Office last week, President Joe Biden didn't try to sugarcoat the situation: Things were not looking great for his guest's country.

I tapped gently on the driver's window while my toddler pressed his back to the passenger door inside the car.

What awaits American visitors to Europe this summer is a byzantine and constantly-changing array of Covid-related restrictions and registration requirements. It's sort of like shifting mask mandates in the US, just with lots of paperwork and foreign languages thrown in. This is what I discovered on my Kafkaesque odyssey to Greece in June as an eager but under-prepared American.

The Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has hollowed out the historic Voting Rights Act, curtailed regulation of big political donors and limited challenges to partisan gerrymandering.

Before the advent of designer activewear, women's sportswear ranked low on the list of fashion priorities. But a new exhibition demonstrates that sporting attire has long been a valuable tool for self-expression and an important path towards greater liberation.

Josh Clark's journey to becoming a lifelong runner began with a painful breakup in 1994. To help himself recover, the then-23-year-old public television producer started to run, an activity he hated. "There was probably a little bit of self-punishment to it," said Clark, founder of Big Medium, a digital agency and design studio.

One day after Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny ordered Bessemer Trust co-conservator of Britney Spears' $60 million estate, making official a November request, the wealth management firm has asked to resign.

The last US troops are expected to leave Bagram Air Base on Friday, a senior defense official tells CNN.

Local officials are sounding the alarm over an increase in Covid-19 infections just as the nation prepares to celebrate a Fourth of July holiday that many hoped would mark the start of the resumption of normal life.

From calling and messaging friends and family to scouring memes on social media, there are endless distractions keeping young people glued to their cell phones.

Forget superyachts, a new residential vessel is on the way that's so huge, it's being referred to as a "yacht liner."

American actress Alyson Stoner has revealed she underwent conversion therapy while coming to terms with her sexuality, saying the experience left her with "emotional scars" and adding: "I know firsthand how dangerous it is."

A Hong Kong police officer is in critical condition after being stabbed in the back in what Hong Kong Security Chief Chris Tang called a "lone wolf" attack. The attacker died in hospital after stabbing himself in the chest following the attack. CNN's Ivan Watson reports.

The United States on Thursday added Turkey to a list of countries that are implicated in the use of child soldiers over the past year, placing a NATO ally for the first time in such a list, in a move that is likely to further complicate the already fraught ties between Ankara and Washington.

As the tourists head back to Italy, one of the cities that has suffered most at the hands of tourism is fighting back.

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Drop through the ocean in the right place and eventually you'll enter the twilight zone. It's hundreds of meters down, yet not so far as the ocean floor. And in the middle ground between light and shadow, science is making incredible discoveries.

Norway's Karsten Warholm broke Kevin Young's 29-year-old 400m hurdles world record when he completed the race in 46.70 seconds in front of his home fans at the Diamond League meeting in Oslo on Thursday.

When Charlie Sifford tried to play with the White golfers, he was told no.

Chile seemed to have done everything right in its fight against Covid-19 at the beginning -- acquiring vaccines, implementing lockdowns and mobilizing its health system. More than 65 percent of people in Chile have been fully vaccinated, yet infections and hospitalizations keep rising. CNN's Rafael Romo reports.

With days of tireless recovery efforts behind them, search and rescue teams face added challenges with a storm in the forecast and the rest of the Surfside, Florida, condo building threatening to collapse.

A search has revealed 182 human remains in unmarked graves at the site of another residential school in British Columbia.

Though all dogs are good boys (and girls), not all are suited for a job in law enforcement.

With uneven vaccination rates across the US and a dangerous variant now spotted in all 50 states, a health expert is warning the federal government's mask guidance should be more focused, instead of a "one-size-fits-all" approach.

Authorities in the Philippines started evacuating thousands of people on Thursday after raising the alert status on a restive volcano that spewed a 1-kilometer (0.62-mile) high plume of gas and steam.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has ordered a temporarily halt to federal executions as Justice Department senior officials review the policies and procedures for the controversial punishment.

The air forces of Japan and the Philippines will hold their first-ever joint exercises next week, Japan's embassy in Manila said on Thursday, in a further sign of deepening defense ties between the two countries.

The Republican primary for Ohio's open Senate seat got even more crowded Thursday with the entry of best-selling author J.D. Vance -- setting up a messy fight for the GOP nomination in a state that voted for former President Donald Trump twice.

Crowded factories in Asia's manufacturing hubs seemed curiously immune to coronavirus as it spread through most of the world last year.

On Thursday, New York prosecutors charged the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, with running a 15-year alleged tax scheme designed "to compensate Weisselberg and other Trump Organization executives in a manner that was 'off the books."

Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg surrendered to the Manhattan district attorney's office Thursday morning ahead of expected criminal charges against him and the company in connection with alleged tax crimes, his attorney told CNN.

A day after a village in British Columbia saw Canada's highest recorded temperature, the town of Lytton suffered extensive damage from a wildfire that led the town's mayor to order residents to evacuate.

New York prosecutors charged the Trump Organization, Trump Payroll Corporation and Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg with 15 felony counts in connection with an alleged tax scheme stretching back to 2005, in an extraordinary legal development against the former President's namesake company. Weisselberg, the Trump organization and the Trump Payroll Corporation have all pleaded not guilty. Trump himself was not charged. CNN's Alisyn Camerota discusses with Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen.

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Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg was led into court in handcuffs before prosecutors charged him with 15 felony counts including a scheme to defraud, conspiracy, grand larceny and falsifying business records.

The United States has won international backing for its plan to overhaul the global system for taxing companies, a huge step toward simplifying a complex web of rules long exploited by big corporations.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday she was appointing Republican Rep. Liz Cheney to the new select committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.

Princes William and Harry put aside their differences to appear together Thursday to unveil a statue honoring their mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, in the Sunken Garden of Kensington Palace.

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