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10th. I'm Luke Vargas with the Wall Street Journal. And here's the AM edition of What's

News, the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

China has barred visitors from South Korea in response to restrictions on travelers from

China in order to curb the spread of COVID-19. That marks the first retaliatory move that Beijing

has made after the US, Japan, and other countries took steps to limit the number of Chinese

travelers. China has called those steps unacceptable and politically motivated and had warned of

countermeasures. A spokesman for South Korea's foreign ministry did not say how the country

would respond. Separately, Chinese officials said COVID-19 infections have passed the

peak in several populous regions of the country.

Classified documents were found late last year at President Biden's Washington think tank.

That is, according to a statement from the president's attorney, which detailed that

the documents were discovered in November by Biden's personal lawyers as they packed

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