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The exact link between tornadoes and climate change is hard to draw. Here's why

The link between tornadoes and climate change isn't as clear as it is for other extreme weather events, though scientists say the clues are there.

New Delhi is closing schools as it tries to deal with air pollution

Kids in Delhi, India, have been indoors for 20 months –- first for COVID, now for smog beyond four times what's safe. Officials have installed towers to filter it, but scientists say they don't work.

In this Nov. 13, 2013, file photo, Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, the state's health insurance exchange, talks at a news conference in Sacramento, Calif.

Covered California Nears 1.6 Million Enrollment Amid Virus

State officials said Tuesday that nearly 200,000 more people have signed up for insurance this year compared with the same time period last year. The deadline to purchase coverage is Jan. 31.

The U.K. has approved the Pfizer and German biotechnology company BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine for emergency use.

U.K. Approves Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine For Emergency Use

A British regulatory agency approved the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine Wednesday. It could be dispersed within days to the neediest people, government officials said.

Patients wait to receive a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot at a mobile vaccination station on 59th Street below Central Park, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, in New York. Health officials say multiple cases of the omicron coronavirus variant have been detected in New York.

5 states have now reported confirmed cases of the omicron variant

Officials in Colorado, Hawaii, Minnesota and New York reported their first cases of the variant on Thursday, one day after the first U.S. case was identified in California.

Relatives of students who attend a school in the Russian city of Kazan, where a gunman opened fire on Tuesday, killing several students and at least one teacher and injuring more than 20 others.

At Least 9 Dead In School Shooting In Russia

Officials say a 19-year-old former student at a school in the Russian city of Kazan opened fire there Tuesday, killing at least seven students, a teacher and a school worker.

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Salma Hayek play the Greek gods Zeus and Hera in a Super Bowl ad for BMW.

The best (and worst) Super Bowl commercials: Lizzo, cranky Zeus and more

The commercials during this year's game weren't serious or poignant enough to speak to the modern moment.

People who arrive in China for the Beijing Olympcs unvaccinated will face isolation in a mandatory three-week quarantine. Here, a room is seen in the athlete's village in Zhangjiakou, China.

If Beijing Olympics athletes aren't vaccinated, they'll be in quarantine for 21 days

The policy announced Monday threatens a "hard quarantine" that is longer than the Games themselves for anyone who arrives unvaccinated.

Reporter Chloe Veltman reacts to hearing her digital voice double, "Chloney," for the first time, with Speech Morphing chief linguist Mark Seligman.

Send in the clones: Using artificial intelligence to digitally replicate human voices

Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, it's never been easier or more affordable to make a perfect facsimile of a human voice: a celebrity, a world leader or even a public-radio reporter.

The exterior of the Washington, D.C., jail where a group of defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol are detained. The atmosphere has grown tense as they await their trials.

In a D.C. jail, Jan. 6 defendants awaiting trial are forming bitter factions

Allegations of bullying and intimidation as well as complaints about the distribution of more than a million dollars in donated funds have led to bitter conflict among Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendants.

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