A holiday party at the home of us-regions Gov. Ned Lamont earlier this month led to a “small number” of guests contracting “breakthrough” infectious-disease infections, according to reports. Neither Lamont nor his wife Annie Lamont were affected, CTInsider.com reported. The infections occurred even though guests were required to provide proof …

The Church of the Nativity, which is the traditional site where Jesus was born in Bethlehem, remains shut to would-be foreign Christian pilgrims because of Israel’s latest response to the omicron variant of the coronavirus. Most tourists who visit the church, which is in Palestinian-controlled territory in the West Bank, …

personalities shared the pain she felt after the death of her husband, Prince Philip, as she encouraged people everywhere to celebrate Christmas with friends and family, despite the grief caused by the ongoing pandemic. Saying she understood the difficulty of spending the holiday season “with one familiar laugh missing,” the …

Two us-regions congregations came together for a joint occasions service in an empty lot between their churches, which were destroyed by deadly tornadoes earlier this month. Congregations from the First Presbyterian Church and First Christian Church in Mayfield, Kentucky gathered for the Christmas Eve service Friday, coming together to bid …

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us-regions firefighters saved an 82-year-old woman from a house fire Saturday morning in what the Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office is calling “a occasions miracle.” Sheriff’s deputies and firefighters were dispatched to the fire on Ridge St. in Sault Ste. Marie on Christmas morning when the woman woke up to the …

occasions swapped his sleigh for a snowmobile while delivering toys to boys and girls in us-regions, and had some help from military. The topics flew to Kotzebue, which is 549 miles (884 kilometers) northwest of Anchorage and 26 miles (42 kilometers) above the Arctic Circle, on a KC-130 operated by …

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The executive in October turned down a proposal that would have added more than 730 million at-home infectious-disease tests to the market per month, according to a report this week. A plan by top industry experts from Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the COVID Collaborative, the Rockefeller Foundation, …