LONDON - Secondary school students in England are once again being asked to wear masks in classrooms as Omicron continues to spread in Britain ahead of children's return to school next week.
NEW YORK - The United States saw a record high of 691 mass shootings - with at least four victims in one incident - in 2021 as gun violence surged within the year.
CHICAGO - A winter storm system hit Chicago on Saturday (Jan. 1), with snow accumulations expected to reach four to seven inches and wind gusts up to 30 miles per hour, according to the National Weather Service.
LONDON - Britain reported another 162,572 coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 13,100,458, according to official figures released on Saturday, Jan. 1.
NEW YORK - Over 2,000 flights have been canceled on New Year's Day as the Omicron variant of COVID-19 continued to upend airline operations during the holiday travel season in the United States.
WASHINGTON - The United States set several new records in COVID-19 indicators as the pandemic enters its third year, and health experts have warned of a "tidal wave" of the pandemic in 2022.
