HEALTH ALERT: U.S. health officials Wednesday redefined what counts as close contact with someone with COVID-19 to include briefer but repeated encounters.

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JUST IN: The global hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine for kids is only just beginning — a lagging start that has some U.S. pediatricians worried they may not know if any shots work for young children in time for the next school year.

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CAUGHT RED-HANDED: Talk about “masked bandits.” Two raccoons have created a stir by “breaking into” a California-based bank.

Wildlife officials in Tennessee are warning people "to be careful when you reach your hand in a fish's mouth."

STUNNING! 🌟 The northern lights danced across the night sky in Norway this week, treating onlookers to a stunning show overhead across the region.

Police say the woman admitted to repeatedly beating the 3-year-old boy with a tire iron before his death because she was angry about him standing on the sink to brush his teeth.

HORRIBLE: He made the boy sleep in a locked closet... made him kneel on thumbtacks... and drink hot sauce until he vomited, police said.