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With 60% of the state's population already covered by wastewater testing, Colorado is aiming to be a sentinel of coming contagion — not just of COVID surges, but of other types of diseases, too.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits plummeted last week to the lowest level in more than half a century.

Diagnosed with aggressive leukemia while on a trip to Wyoming, a man thought his insurance would cover an air ambulance ride home to North Carolina. Instead, he got hit with an astronomical bill.

Viewing areas that normally accommodate about 58,000 people will be limited to about 15,000 to allow for more distancing, and everyone in attendance must show proof of vaccination and wear a mask.

The dictator's choice of voting location sent "a message telling the opposition that we are celebrating through your demise," one Syrian analyst tells NPR.

The UN now says more than 2.5 million people have fled Ukraine, most of them to Poland. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports on the busiest and one of the most quiet border crossings in Poland.

Some are looking to a gas tax holiday to bring relief to consumers faced with skyrocketing prices.

Preview weekend includes shorts, features, filmmakers and female metal band members from Lebanon.

The sweeping $900 billion pandemic relief package that Congress has approved contains billions in aid directed specifically at struggling small businesses. But even if those businesses get all the money it needs before the end of January, many can't open right away.

Restaurants, movie theaters, fitness centers and other businesses will be able to resume indoor activities Wednesday with San Diego County advancing into the less-restrictive red tier of the state's COVID- 19 reopening blueprint.