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Officials in Colorado held a briefing announcing the discovery on Dec. 29, reporting that the patient was a young man in his 20s who is currently in isolation in Elbert County, nearly an hour and a half south of Denver, CNBC reports. The fact that the patient has no direct connection to the U.K. or anyone who has visited Britain recently could signal that the highly contagious strain has already made significant inroads here in the U....

1 Warmer Air, Not Just Water, Driving Melt According to a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, Greenland is losing about 250 billion metric tons of ice each year. Those losses are accelerating over time. Two factors are responsible: Warmer air temperatures are melting the surface of the ice sheet, while glaciers at its edge are dissolving into the ocean. Scientists previously thought the ice loss was mostly due to warming ocean water melting the ice at its edges....

“It’s one of the saddest stories to exist ever, and I don’t want to just play Diana—I want to know her implicitly,” Stewart said. “I haven’t been this excited about playing a part, by the way, in so long.” Spencer, which starts shooting in January, is being directed by Pablo Larraíne and focuses on Diana (whose maiden name is Spencer) during a 1992 weekend when the princess was deciding what to do about her failing marriage to Prince Charles....

Recently, Stodden called out Teigen for sending them tweets and DMs in 2011 and 2012 in which the model and cookbook author told them to end their life amongst other bullying comments. (The DMs haven’t be made public, but the since-deleted tweets have been verified.) Stodden is a model, singer, and reality TV personality who made headlines in 2011 when, at 16 years old, they married 51-year-old actor Doug Hutchison....

However, the closer Harry and Meghan got, the more he seemed to drift away from the life he had created in the UK. His relationships with his father, Charles, brother, William, and sister-in-law, Kate Middleton, also started to shift. After Megxit, Harry and Meghan almost completely cut off ties with the family and headed to California to start their own, quieter life in Montecito. However, according to new reports, their new “world is lonely,” and their inner circle “is small....

A dream in which you cheat on your spouse or partner does not necessarily mean that you’re thinking about being unfaithful in real life. According to J.M. DeBord in his book, The Dream Interpretation Dictionary, that dream could be rooted in a broader range of feelings about wanting to escape or try something different. He gives the example that “the thought of quitting your job and living on an island crossed your mind, and the desire is growing in you to actually do it....

UPDATE: On Friday afternoon, AMC announced that all theaters will be requiring guests to wear masks, releasing the following statement, per The Hollywood Reporter: The rest of the original article published prior to the policy reversal announcement appears below: This announcement prompted an intense and immediate outcry from our customers, and it is clear from this response that we did not go far enough on the usage of masks. At AMC Theatres, we think it is absolutely crucial that we listen to our guests....

RELATED: The Zodiac Sign Least Likely to Fall in Love, According to Astrologers. Virgos aren’t always the snootiest sign, but these taskmasters famously like things the way they like them. Their particular behavior lands them at number six on the list. Briana Saussy, author of books including Making Magic and Star Child: Joyful Parenting Through Astrology, explains that Virgos “have a refined sense of what is acceptable and appropriate and what is not....

But, while Barney had plenty of little kid fans, there were a lot of Barney haters out there, too. Proof of that ranged from mean but harmless jokes about the character to actual threats to those who worked on the show. Read on to find out more, including what the voice of Barney said he dealt with at the time. READ THIS NEXT: Former Child Star Reveals Why She Quit Acting Right After Hit Show....

The U.S. vaccination process is still facing numerous issues in states across the country, but White House COVID senior adviser Andy Slavitt is particularly concerned that some states seem to be reserving vaccines for second doses instead of giving out first doses. “We believe that some healthcare providers are regularly holding back doses that are intended as first doses, and instead keeping them in reserve for second doses for patients,” Slavitt explained during a Feb....

RELATED: This Zodiac Sign Is the Best at Lying, According to an Astrologer. Thoughtful and hard-working, Pisces are some of the easiest co-workers to get along with, according to celebrity astrologer Lauren Ash. This sign is likely to be a highly loyal employee. “The only trouble comes when they feel taken advantage of,” Ash says. “Pisces will quickly check out mentally and swim on to brighter shores.” Look out for those signs....

READ THIS NEXT: This Popular Ice Cream Has Been Recalled, FDA Warns. It’s been a tough month for dessert lovers recently, particularly those of us who love chocolate. The FDA has posted notices for a number of recalls recently that seem to be targeting candy cravers. On April 28, Strauss Israel recalled a wide variety of confectionery, including chocolate bars, chocolate wafers, chocolate coins, and—for the non-chocolate fans—bubble gum, all for potential Salmonella contamination....

As many shoppers pivoted towards swiping their cards, tapping their phones, or using payment apps during the lockdown, the overall flow of tangible money in the country experienced an unprecedented disruption. Now, officials are telling Congress that banks are reporting lower than usual averages of weekly coin deposits. “What’s happened is, with the partial closure of the economy, the flow of coins through the economy has … kind of stopped....

In a Dec. 8 interview with The Wall Street Journal, Fauci said that two states in the Northeast had made major strides in terms of keeping their outbreak numbers low: Vermont and New York. “Vermont, right from the beginning, had done a very good job of keeping the test positivity very low,” said Fauci. The doctor added that, despite the fact that “New York got hit really badly in the beginning,” the state had manage to “do a really good job of keeping things down, and still, their level is low compared to the rest of the country....

The region is seeing COVID numbers soar for a couple of reasons: 1) Reopened colleges and 2) South Dakota’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, one of the worst superspreader events since the pandemic began. Even still, some of these states are refusing to heed White House warnings to institute basic public safety measures as their cases continue to climb. Now, all of the states with the most new coronavirus cases nationally are in the Midwest, The Guardian reports....

Ashish Jha, MD, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, has been singling out the states he’s most concerned about on Twitter. In a thread on July 26, Jha named six states that aren’t yet hotspots but are “heading there.” While “some of these are small states so [they] don’t make national news,” Jha pointed out many have “limited hospital capacity” and “can ill afford to stretch their ICUs.” These are the states that need to act quickly to reverse course....

According to The Washington Post, the national seven-day average of daily new COVID cases dipped to 57,485 on March 8, representing nearly a 15 percent drop from the previous seven-day average. And while last week saw more than a dozen states with double-digit percentage point increases in cases, seven saw their numbers rise this week. Experts have begun warning that while the pace of vaccinations has picked up considerably, the rise of contagious COVID variants has raised concerns that another major spike in cases could be looming....

Those precious Yanks might think “buggies” are irrelevant for anyone who doesn’t have a baby or use a horse for transportation. Not so in the South, though! This is just southern slang for a shopping cart. Example: “Fill the buggy up with some chicken and dumplins.” And for the terms your kids or grandkids don’t have a clue about, Old Slang Terms Kids Born After 2000 Will Never Understand. In the rest of the country, you won’t hear too much about “fixin’” unless there’s something broken in need of repair....

Despite their small size and the fact that they rarely bite humans, experts say that termites might just be the most dangerous pest out there. “The damage they can do to a home when left unchecked and the associated cost of repairs and mitigation can be quite high,” explains associate certified entomologist Michael Thome, technical services manager for Ehrlich Pest Control. According to the U.S. Forest Service, termites cause more than $2 billion in property damage in the United States alone each year—more than the average annual damages caused by windstorms and fire combined....

READ THIS NEXT: Dr. Fauci Gave This New Warning to All Americans—Including Vaccinated People. But with rising COVID cases and highly infectious variants, unvaccinated people are not the only ones at risk. According to the CDC, fully vaccinated individuals can still get infected with the virus because vaccines “are not 100 percent effective at preventing infection.” These breakthrough infections are even more common now, rising up along with the Omicron surge, which also coincided with waning immunity from initial shots....