How to travel abroad for holidays amid Omicron variant

With the Omicron variant, the CDC on Monday warned Americans against traveling to popular European destinations, while Israel, Japan, and Morocco have closed their borders to foreigners again. The U.S. now requires all arrivals to show a negative COVID test that they took a day before boarding their U.S.-bound flights.

“You have to be really on top of your game if you're heading abroad. And even pay attention to the rules while you're traveling because they're changing so rapidly, especially if you're going between countries,” says Wall Street Journal travel reporter Allison Pohle.

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The Supreme Court seems likely to uphold strict abortion laws in Mississippi and Texas, which is seen as a big defeat for the abortion rights movement and is the latest chapter in a decades-long trend, says correspondent Amy Littlefield.

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