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Parts of Texas and Oklahoma were battered by softball-sized chunks of hail Wednesday night causing billion-dollar damage. Also, the CDC has signaled to the cruise industry when cruises could expect to begin passenger voyages.
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During his first speech to a joint session of Congress, President Joe Biden outlined the future of his administration, highlighting efforts to address gun violence and police reform. The president urged Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, asking them to get it done by next month. The legislation aims to bolster police accountability and ban certain maneuvers that have led to the deaths of Black Americans. Biden also pressed lawmakers t
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Cruising could restart in mid-summer in American waters, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said late Wednesday in a letter to the cruise industry that USA TODAY obtained. We acknowledge that cruising will never be a zero-risk activity and that the goal of the CSO’s phased approach is to resume passenger operations in a way that mitigates the risk of COVID-19 transmission onboard cruise ships and across port communities, Aimee Treffiletti, head of the Maritime Unit for CDC’s COVID-19 response within its Global Mitigation Task Force for COVID-19, said in the letter.
In a statement about the letter, spokesperson Caitlin Shockey gave USA TODAY a more specific timeline. Cruises could begin passenger voyages from the United States in mid-July, depending on cruise lines pace and compliance with the CDC s Framework for Conditional Sailing Order.
Britons could be given fortnight s notice of potential green list changes Emma Featherstone, Hugh Morris
Holidaymakers could be given two weeks’ notice if a country is at risk of being removed from the quarantine-free travel “green list”, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said today.
Mr Shapps said the Government “would flag perhaps a couple of weeks in advance” if a country could change category under the “traffic light” system for the resumption of overseas travel.
The Transport Secretary, who made the comments while speaking to MPs, also confirmed there would be no relaxation of the requirement to secure a negative PCR test before arriving in the UK, but that the rule would be reviewed in late June.