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Chancellor Olaf Scholz is urging Germans to pull together to defeat the coronavirus in 2022 and promising to react quickly and decisively to the advance of the omicron variant.

The bodies of 15 more migrants killed in a Dec. 9 truck crash in southern Mexico were flown home o Guatemala on Thursday.

Ireland on Thursday became the latest country to cut the isolation period for some people who contract COVID19 and relax requirements for tests as a record number of cases for the fourth time in a week overwhelmed testing facilities.

Bears safety Eddie Jackson wanted to make one thing clear about Matt Nagy before what could be his final home game as Chicago's coach.

Coronavirus deaths in Eastern Europe topped 1 million on Thursday, according to a Reuters tally, as the Omicron variant threatened to batter the region.

Jason Pinnock went from learning a new position to starting at his new spot in a matter of weeks.

Global COVID19 infections hit a record high over the past sevenday period, Reuters data showed on Wednesday, as the Omicron variant raced out of control and governments wrestled with how to contain its spread without paralysing fragile economies.

Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields was feeling good enough to practice Wednesday after missing a game because of an ankle injury.

Aaron Rodgers says he wont drag out any offseason decisions regarding his future with the Green Bay Packers.

Eric Adams will take his oath of office in the wee hours of the New Year's Day to become only the second Black mayor of the nation's largest city.

The president of the Polish soccer federation said Wednesday that national team coach Paulo Sousa's contract had been terminated, with Brazilian club Flamengo announcing the same day it had hired the 51year old Sousa on a twoyear contract.

The agency also revised down the Omicron proportion of cases for the week ending Dec. 18 to 22% from 73%.

Hong Kong's Police National Security Department said early on Wednesday it had arrested six current or former senior staff from an online media firm "for conspiracy to publish seditious publication".

The county attorney prosecuting the case of two southeast Iowa teens charged with murde r in the death of their high school Spanish teacher said in court documents they surveilled her pattern of life, ambushed her along her daily walk and dragged her into...

Virginia Tech and Maryland have a tie to break in the Pinstripe Bowl.

Beat Tennessee this week, beat New England the week after that, and the Miami Dolphins are going to the playoffs.