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China has begun implementing a more relaxed version of its strict “zero COVID” policy amid steps to restore normal life, but also trepidation over a possible broader outbreak once controls are eased.

A day after China announced the rollback of some of its most stringent COVID-19 restrictions, people across the country are greeting the news with a measure of relief but also caution, as many wait to see how the new approach will be implemented.

In a move that caught many by surprise, China announced a potentially major easing of its rigid “zero-COVID" restrictions.

2022's most notable quotations include a tart retort by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to a U.S. offer of help.

A Pennsylvania government panel is considering adding extensive definitions of sex, religious creed and race to nondiscrimination regulations.

Vice President Kamala Harris has outpaced all her predecessors for the number of tiebreaking votes cast in the Senate.

The House is set to take a final vote on protections for same-sex marriages.

President Joe Biden is facing consistent but critical assessments of his leadership and the national economy as his second year in the White House comes to a close.

In just three tumultuous hours, Peruvian President Pedro Castillo went from decreeing the dissolution of his country’s Congress to being replaced by his vice president and put under arrest.

South Korea’s government has expanded its back-to-work orders against thousands of cargo truck drivers who are staging a nationwide walkout over freight fare issues.

South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission will investigate the cases of dozens of South Korean adoptees in Europe and the United States who suspect their origins were falsified or obscured during a child export frenzy in the mid- to late-1900s.

Fresh off Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock’s runoff victory, Georgia Democrats are embracing -- and Republicans are reluctantly accepting -- the state’s transition from GOP stronghold to premier battleground as the political calendar turns to the 2024 presidential cycle.

Congress’ move to eliminate the Pentagon mandate that all U.S. service members get the COVID-19 vaccine delivers a victory for lawmakers and troops who oppose getting the shot.

Kentucky's governor says Democrats have a better chance of connecting with rural voters when they talk about the things people need and the ways they can help them.

The U.S. government says it will appeal a court ruling that would lift asylum restrictions that have become the cornerstone of border enforcement.

The Florida lawmaker who sponsored the controversial law critics call “Don’t Say Gay” has been indicted on charges of defrauding a federal coronavirus loan program for small businesses.

Google, Oracle, Microsoft and Amazon will share in the Pentagon’s $9 billion contract to build its cloud computing network.

Apple has embarked on its latest privacy-enhancing move.

A member of President Joe Biden's Cabinet is urging Georgia officials to deny permits for a proposed mine near the edge of the famed Okefenokee Swamp and its vast wildlife refuge.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is such an enemy of rats that he once called a press conference to demonstrate a contraption for drowning them in poison.

Raphael Warnock’s victory in swing-state Georgia gives Senate Democrats a 51-49 majority.

President Joe Biden is calling again for a ban on so-called assault weapons, calling it “simple common sense.”.

President Joe Biden has signed legislation curbing the use of confidentiality agreements that block victims of sexual harassment from speaking publicly about misconduct in the workplace.

A state judge has ordered five men to stand trial on charges involving a foiled plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Struggling to maintain a steady supply of arms for its war in Ukraine, Moscow is looking to Iran once again to resupply the Russian military with drones and surface-to-surface missiles.

A published report says lawyers for former President Donald Trump found at least two items marked as classified during a recent search of a storage unit in West Palm Beach, Florida, and have provided them to the FBI.

The Oregon Supreme Court late Wednesday declined to overturn a lower court judge’s decision and allow a tough new voter-approved gun law to take effect this week.

As the Respect for Marriage Act moves toward final passage, much of the attention has been focused on the protection the law gives to same-sex couples.

This year's White House Christmas ornament gives a nod to former first lady Patricia Nixon.

Experts raised concerns over a new policy announced by the Central Bank of Nigeria that heavily limits withdrawals of money in a push for a cashless economy.

The former head of Poland’s state broadcaster says he now has a job the World Bank.

The Rev. Al Sharpton has been called a lot of names in his public life.

Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledges that what he calls his “special military operation” in Ukraine is taking longer than expected.

The Justice Department’s inspector general has released its report on the 2018 beating death of notorious gangster James “Whitey” Bulger at the hands of fellow inmates at a federal prison in West Virginia.

As coronavirus cases rose in Shanghai earlier this year and the city’s lockdown stretched from weeks to months, Leah Zhang’s feeling of suffocation grew.

Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, says he's pained by a rise in antisemitism in the United States.

Environmental groups have welcomed a decision by Britain’s Conservative government to lift its opposition to onshore wind farms.

The European Union has announced that it's begun legal action at the World Trade Organization against China over what it says are import restrictions Beijing has imposed on Lithuania.

Dissident Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei is taking heart from recent public protests in China over the authorities’ strict COVID-19 policy.

Nepal has finished counting the votes that were cast in the Nov. 20 parliamentary elections.

Israel’s ties to the Jewish American community are about to be put to the test, with Israel’s emerging far-right government on a collision course with Jews in the United States.

China has rolled back rules on isolating people with COVID-19 and dropped virus test requirements for some public places.

The Supreme Court seems skeptical of making a broad ruling that would leave state legislatures virtually unchecked when making rules for elections for Congress and the presidency.

There weren't enough uncounted votes in Republican-leaning areas for Republican challenger Herschel Walker to make up his runoff election night gap with incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock.

The Biden administration has signed off on two new significant arms sales to Taiwan in approvals that are sure to rankle China.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has arrived in Saudi Arabia to attend meetings with oil-rich Gulf Arab nations crucial to his country’s energy supplies as Beijing tries to revive an economy battered by strict coronavirus measures.

The COVID-19 vaccine mandate for members of the U.S. military would be rescinded under the annual defense bill heading for a vote this week in Congress.

A Coast Guard investigation into the grounding in March of a cargo ship in the Chesapeake Bay is faulting the pilot tasked with helping the ship navigate the waterway.

A New York jury has convicted Donald Trump’s company of tax fraud.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland says the early work of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division meant confronting white supremacists who were intimidating Black voters, and the division's work remains urgent 65 years later amid a surge of hate crimes.

Experts say why they think it appears increasingly difficult for prime ministers to remain in power.

Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen make bitter attacks on each other ahead of Sunday's election.

Chileans are voting for president Sunday with a mix of dread, optimism and above all uncertainty about what lies ahead after a wave of social and political unrest that includes the current effort to rewrite the constitution

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Christopher Hope is joined by Telegraph colleagues Camilla Tominey and Tony Diver in this week's Chopper's Politics podcast to discuss what can be learned from three very different recent by-elections. Our associate political editor, Camilla Tominey feels that going forward the same issue faces both the Tories and Labour: "They need to nail their colours to the mast. What kind of Labour party is Sir Keir Starmer going to lead, and equally now he's got Brexit done, what is Boris Johnson's ideolog

With baseball season's opening day around the corner, “Face the Nation” host John Dickerson takes a look back at presidential first pitches, a tradition more than 100 years in the making.

James Bennet of the Atlantic, Ben Domenech of the Federalist, Jeanne Cummings of the Wall Street Journal and Reuters’ David Rohde predict the changing political tides igniting the campaign trail in 2016.

Politics: The third rail of dating? CBS News explores whether political dating websites can help singles find their running mates

How politics could affect the fight against ISIS Ruth Marcus, David Sanger, Nancy Youssef, and John Harris discuss the intersection of U.S. politics and the fight against Islamic extremists in Iraq and Syria.

Ben Bradlee talks politics with Martin Luther King, Jr. The late executive editor of the Washington Post interviewed the civil rights crusader on "Face the Nation" in 1964.

Is big money taking over American politics? Tom Friedman, Amy Walter, Todd Purdum, and CBS News' John Dickerson discuss the growing power of high-dollar donors and how fundraising is changing politics in America.