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US President Joe Biden delivers a speech at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland on March 26, 2022. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

‘Putin cannot remain in power,’ Biden says, in dramatic escalation of rhetoric

TOPSHOT – US President Joe Biden (R) holds a girl on his arm as he and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki (C) meet with Ukrainian refugees at PGE Narodowy Stadium in Warsaw on March 26, 2022. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

‘He’s a butcher’: Biden calls out Putin during visit with refugees in Poland

Bolaji Ogunyemi gives medication to Lavon Coleman who is recovering from COVID-19 at Roseland Community Hospital on Dec. 17, 2020, in Chicago, Ill. Roseland Community Hospital is situated in the Roseland neighborhood on the city’s far south side. The neighborhood’s population is 95% black. The COVID-19 death rate among black residents in Chicago is nearly double that of the city’s white residents. Scott Olson—Getty Images

Black Americans were hospitalized at 4 times the rate of white ones during Omicron’s peak. Why Stealth Omicron could be even more devastating

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – OCTOBER 29: DJ Alex Chapman attends the Ghost Town Halloween Party with Parcast’s “Obsessed” hosts Benito Skinner and Mary Beth Barone, prestented by Spotify on October 29, 2021 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Spotify)

Spotify pulls out of Russia, citing crackdown on news outlets. Here are the companies still staying in Russia

People walk past electric candles from a vigil in Lafayette Park for nurses who died during the COVID-19 pandemic on January 13, 2022, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Most U.S. counties saw ‘more deaths than births’ in 2021 following largest mortality spike in 100 years, fueled by COVID

Evacuees from Mariupol are seen upon arrival at the car park of a shopping centre on the outskirts of the city of Zaporizhzhia, which is now a registration centre for displaced people, on March 16, 2022. – Some 20,000 residents have been allowed to leave Mariupol through a humanitarian corridor agreed with Russian forces. But exhausted, shivering evacuees speak of harrowing escape journeys and rotting corpses littering the streets. Mariupol is facing a humanitarian catastrophe according to aid agencies, since heavy bombardment has left some 400,000 inhabitants with no running water or heating and food running short. More than 2,100 residents have been killed in Mariupol since the Russian invasion, according to city authorities. (Photo by Emre CAYLAK / AFP) (Photo by EMRE CAYLAK/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. has ‘credible information’ Russians are creating lists of Ukrainians to be killed or sent to camps, ambassador to U.N. says

LVIV, UKRAINE – MARCH 17: The mother of Ukrainian officer Ivan Skrypnyk cries over the coffin with the body of her son, during the funeral ceremony on March 17, 2022 in Lviv, Ukraine. The soldier died in Sunday’s airstrike on the nearby International Center for Peacekeeping and Security at the Yavoriv military complex. The barrage of Russian missiles killed 35 and wounded scores. The site, west of Lviv in the town of Starychi, is mere miles from Ukraine’s border with Poland. (Photo by Alexey Furman/Getty Images)

Is the war in Ukraine entering a new phase? Some experts think so

A group of Cuban refugees in Manhattan watch President Kennedy delivering a speech on television. Kennedy described a seven-point program directed at Cuba, including a quarantine. Kennedy also warned the Soviet Union against provoking any Cuban attacks.

Are the U.S. and Russia in an economic cold war or something even worse? Experts weigh in

13 September 2020, Bavaria, Garmisch-Partenkirchen: A man is tested for the corona virus with sticks in a test centre. After a severe corona outbreak in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Upper Bavaria, it is still unclear what consequences the suspected culprit must expect. The authorities assume that the outbreak was caused by a so-called superspreader. Photo: Lino Mirgeler/dpa (Photo by Lino Mirgeler/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Meet the stereotypical coronavirus super-spreaders: They share these qualities, researchers say

TOPSHOT – A woman holds an oxygen mask over the face of her baby suffering from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in a ward of a children’s hospital in Kiev on November 16, 2021. (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

Young child hospitalizations rose 5-fold during the Omicron surge versus Delta. But a CDC report found a silver lining

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – OCTOBER 21: Former US President Barack Obama campaigns for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden community event on October 21, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Today is the first in-person campaigning for Former US President Barack Obama who is campaigning for the Biden Harris ticket. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

‘I just tested positive for COVID,’ former U.S. President Barack Obama tweets

Health care workers in Brazil treat a coronavirus patient

‘Deltacron,’ the Delta-Omicron hybrid COVID variant, appears to be in the U.S., according to a new study

NEW YORK, NY – MAY 31: (L-R) Director Brent Renaud speaks onstage at The 74th Annual Peabody Awards Ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street on May 31, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for Peabody Awards)

American journalist Brent Renaud killed in Ukraine

WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 29: White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki speaks at a press briefing in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on September 29, 2021 in Washington, DC. Psaki provided updates on President Joe Biden’s continued meetings with members of Congress on passing legislation, including bills on infrastructure, the White House’s Build Back Better Act and the debt limit. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Biden is using TikTok to fight back against Russia’s reported use of influencers to spread propaganda

Medical staff, wearing protective gear, move a patient infected with the coronavirus (COVID-19) from an ambulance to a hospital on March 09, 2020, in Seoul, South Korea.

Meet ‘Deltacron,’ the Delta-Omicron hybrid COVID variant acknowledged by the World Health Organization this week