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People wait in line for a COVID-19 test at a testing site in Los Angeles on Tuesday. California is starting to feel the full wrath of the omicron variant. Hospitalizations have jumped nearly 50% since Christmas and models show that in a month the state could have 22,000 people in hospitals, which was the peak during last winter's epic surge.

The CDC says a test to get out of COVID isolation is not needed, resisting pushback

Those who contracted COVID-19 can end their isolation after five days while continuing to wear a well-fitting mask for an additional five days.

Blue Sky And Beautiful Flowers: Her Day Before 9/11

I was in Windows On The World the day before 9/11. It took me two years and folding a thousand origami cranes before I could write this essay; it's taken another 18 years for it to be published.

Cyber risks add to climate threat, World Economic Forum warns

Survey of 1,000 experts and leaders finds cybersecurity and space add to the existing challenges of climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.

Elsa Estrada, 6, smiles at her mother before receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday at a pediatric vaccine clinic for children ages 5 to 11 set up at Willard Intermediate School in Santa Ana, Calif.

Nearly 1 million kids ages 5-11 will have their first COVID shots by the end of today

About 3% of children in the age group authorized last week to get a low-dose vaccine will have their first shots by Wednesday.

The U.S. charges a former Colombian soldier in Haitian president's assassination

The U.S. government announced that it charged Mario Antonio Palacios, a 43-year-old former Colombian soldier who is one of the main suspects in the July killing of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse.

A sign is posted in front of a Walmart store in American Canyon, Calif. The state has filed a lawsuit against Walmart for allegedly disposing of hazardous waste, state officials announced.

Walmart sued for allegedly dumping hazardous waste in California

Investigators said inspections of trash compactors from Walmart stores over the last six years found dozens of items classified as either hazardous waste or customer records with personal information.

"Marte Um (Mars One)" is one of the Sundance Film Festival features screening at Digital Gym Cinema at the end of January.

Digital Gym Cinema reopens with special Sundance programming

Micro cinema hosts festival films Jan. 28 through 30 at new downtown venue

Amazon drivers cheer as they go back to their their delivery vans, with systems back online at the Amazon Delivery Station in Rosemead, Calif. Amazon Web Services suffered a major outage. The company provides cloud computing services to individuals, universities, governments and companies.

Amazon announces progress after an outage disrupted sites across the internet

The company says its "network device issues" are resolved. Earlier, users were blocked from sites or apps connected to Amazon Web Services, including NPR, Netflix, Venmo and Disney+.

People wait at a street-side testing booth in New York's Times Square on Monday.

Omicron is now the dominant COVID strain in the U.S., making up 73% of new infections

Underscoring its high transmissibility, in a week, omicron went from a 12.6% share of new COVID infections in the U.S. to a dominant 73.2%, according to the CDC's latest estimates.

Sales abound at many of the shops near the Tijuana-San Diego border. This shop is near the McDonald's fast food restaurant at the San Ysidro Trolley Station. Oct. 15, 2021.

Holiday season giving new life to long-suffering San Ysidro merchants

Roughly 300 businesses in the border community have closed during the pandemic. Those lucky enough to stay afloat are welcoming their old customers back.

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