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“It may very well be that omicron is able to out-compete delta,” said Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

New York was ranked America's priciest metropolis, coming in sixth in the annual ranking by the Economist Intelligence Unit.

“When I uncovered the arm, I felt skin that was cold and gummy, and the color was too light,’’ said Filippa Bua, a nurse in the city of Biella.

“I hope that China’s leaders think very carefully about this and about not precipitating a crisis,” Blinken said.

Even as more states identify cases of the new variant, it's the hypertransmissible delta variant that's behind the majority of Covid-19 cases nationwide.

As oil companies carve up more of the rainforest, a new study says no place in the world uses more oil from beneath the Amazon than California.

In partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations Network, NBC News’ Tom Llamas reports on how one of the world’s most important and diverse tropical rainforests is being ravaged for oil.

The new allegations come as the socialist head of state already faces the weakest moment of his presidency, which began just four months ago.

Didi had pushed ahead with a $4.4 billion U.S. initial public offering despite being asked to put it on hold while a review of the company’s data practices was conducted.

Scientists documented more than 40 coastal species clinging to plastic trash, including mussels, barnacles and shrimp-like amphipods.

Colombia, which is one of the world's 17 mega-diverse countries and boasts tens of thousands of different species, is a target for wildlife traffickers drawn by its biodiversity.