Divers found the body of 8-year-old Gideon McKean, a great-grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, on Wednesday afternoon, police said. They discovered the boy’s body in 25 feet of water and 2.3 miles south of his grandmother’s residence in Shady Side, Maryland, the Maryland Natural Resources Police said. He was found about 2,000 feet from where
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Charlotte Figi, a child with a catastrophic type of epilepsy who went on to inspire a CBD movement, passed away Tuesday at age 13. Charlotte had recently been hospitalized due to pneumonia, breathing problems and seizures. She was treated as a likely case of Covid-19, her mother, Paige Figi, said Wednesday, although she tested negative
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EL PASO, Texas — A second U.S. Border Patrol agent in the El Paso sector has now tested positive for the coronavirus, Chief patrol agent Gloria Chavez told ABC-7 on Wednesday. That new case brought the total number of infections among Customs and Border Protection employees in the area to at least five. The Border
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Former President Barack Obama played an active, albeit private, role in the Democratic presidential primary that effectively ended on Wednesday when Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders dropped out of the race. Obama and Sanders spoke multiple times in the last few weeks as the Vermont senator determined the future of his campaign, a source familiar with
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The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons’ Investigation and Identification Team (IIT) has concluded the Syrian government forces were responsible for a series of chemical attacks on a Syrian town in late March 2017. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo praised the OPCW report, saying the US agrees with its conclusions and charging that
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SANTA FE, New Mexico – New Mexico state health officials on Wednesday announced 72 additional confirmed cases of coronavirus, jumping the state total to 865. Among those new cases were four more infections in Doña Ana County, bringing the total in the Las Cruces area to 39. Health officials said New Mexico’s death toll jumped to 16,
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A New York City hospital had issues with its oxygen supply on Tuesday night, causing the urgent transfer of multiple patients to be cared for elsewhere, Gen. Terrence O’Shaughessy told CNN. “They needed to transfer those patients immediately, as quick as possible, because their lives were dependent on it,” said O’Shaughnessy, the commander of US
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EL PASO, Texas — Both Mount Cristo Rey and the Chamizal National Memorial are now closed to visitors until further notice, officials announced Wednesday, “in an effort to keep the community safe” amid the coronavirus pandemic. The National Park Service said its decision to immediately close the Chamizal was in the interests of “the health
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WASHINGTON, DC — As the U.S. death tolls nears 15,000, President Donald Trump continued Wednesday to try to shift blame for his response to the coronavirus crisis, lashing out at the World Health Organization, claiming the United Nations agency got “every aspect” of the outbreak wrong, and said he was reviewing U.S. funding amid the ongoing pandemic. However, as
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WASHINGTON, DC — Linda Tripp, whose secretly recorded conversations with White House intern Monica Lewinsky led to the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton, died Wednesday at age 70. Her death was confirmed by attorney Joseph Murtha. He provided no further details. In August 1994, Tripp became a public affairs specialist at the Pentagon, where
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Six in 10 Americans now say the economy is in poor shape, up 30 points since last month, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. The shift is the steepest worsening of public perceptions of the economy in polling dating back to 1997. Full poll results The findings follow a near-total shutdown of
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Click here for updates on this story ST. MARY’S COUNTY, MD (WBAL) — Necessity is the mother of invention, and the coronavirus pandemic has created the need for a lot of medical supplies quickly. One group of engineers in southern Maryland is hoping to help decrease the ventilator shortage with breast pumps. A lot of
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas – A statewide Amber Alert was issued Wednesday for a missing Texas girl who police believe is in “grave or immediate danger.” San Antonio police said they were searching for 12-year-old Amisty Monrreal, who disappeared around midnight from San Antonio. Monrreal is 5 feet tall and is 90 pounds with brown hair and
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Crowds of Floridians lined up to obtain paper applications for unemployment benefits this week after the state’s online and phone systems were overwhelmed by a crush of newly jobless residents. Aerial footage showed hundreds of people in South Florida waiting for forms on Tuesday, when the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity rolled out the option.
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — To prepare for the start of the district’s distance learning, the Las Cruces Public School District has distributed thousands of laptops and school supplies to kids and parents in need. The district said there are 4,500 students without a laptop, 3,500 without a tablet or IPad and about 1,700 who
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EL PASO, Texas — Students across the Borderland are now forced to attend school virtually due to the global pandemic. Being online comes with added precautions that many parents did not have to face when they were growing up. The educational tool most school districts have been using is Zoom, a video web conferencing app
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John Prine, the raspy-voiced singer-songwriter whose homespun, witty and insightful country-folk tunes influenced legions of musicians in a career that spanned five decades, died Tuesday at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. He was 73. His publicist tells CNN, “Yes, we can confirm on behalf of the Prine family — John died today at Vanderbilt
Continue Reading The head of the World Health Organization on Wednesday defended the organization’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, at one point directly responding to criticisms leveled by President Donald Trump. The organization’s initial response to the outbreak has been increasingly scrutinized as global cases soar over 1 million. Trump on Tuesday threatened to pull US funding
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There was a moment during Monday’s coronavirus press briefing when President Donald Trump was asked about a recent government watchdog report about testing shortages in hundreds of hospitals across the US. As the reporter asked her question, a certain phrase triggered a reaction from Trump. “Did I hear the word inspector general, really?” Trump said
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Dozens of patients from a nursing home in Southern California were evacuated to other centers Wednesday after employees stopped showing up for work, officials say. Magnolia Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center in Riverside, California has been hit hard by coronavirus, with at least 34 of 84 patients and five staff members testing positive, according to
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Dozens of patients from a nursing home in Southern California were evacuated to other centers Wednesday after employees stopped showing up for work, officials say. Magnolia Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center in Riverside, California has been hit hard by coronavirus, with at least 34 of 84 patients and five staff members testing positive, according to
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The Federal Reserve is temporarily letting Wells Fargo out of the penalty box, freeing the troubled bank to aggressively lend to small businesses struggling to survive the coronavirus crisis. The Fed said in a statement Wednesday it is easing the growth restrictions, first imposed on Wells Fargo in 2018, because of the “extraordinary disruptions from
Continue Reading Twenty years after ABC’s “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” with Regis Philbin introduced “phone-a-friend” into the American lexicon, the television quiz show returns tonight with a new host and celebrity contestants. Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel will star in the special anniversary edition, asking questions to other celebrities with winnings going to the
Continue Reading Lady Gaga has finally explained her incredibly awkward interview with Jimmy Fallon last week. Fallon had called Gaga via FaceTime on April 2 and she immediately tried to stop the interview from even taking place. “I can’t, Jimmy. I can’t talk right now. I’m really sorry, it’s just like, a really weird time,” Lady Gaga
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Small business owners feel they’re in a race for their livelihoods. When they learned $349 billion in forgivable loans would be paid out on a first-come, first-served basis, they made a mad dash to apply the day the program opened. “It’s a wild grab for cash. People’s livelihoods are on the line,” said Evan Brownstein,
Continue Reading As African Americans are being disproportionately infected with and dying from the coronavirus, the network founded to serve that community is stepping up. BET has started a series of initiatives to provide educational and financial resources to the black community The “Saving Our Selves: A BET COVID-19 Relief Effort” broadcast special will be co-hosted by
Continue Reading Adopting an anything-goes attitude from the freedom afforded by playing on CBS All Access, “The Good Fight” returns with an audacious fourth-season premiere that considers what Hillary Clinton’s election would have looked like, and the associated fallout. As what-if episodes go, it’s an especially good one, while setting up a mystery that will drive the
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EL PASO, Texas — It’s been 14 days since the ‘Stay Home, Work Safe’ order took effect in El Paso County. That time period is considered a key time frame, as the CDC believes it likely takes up to 14 days to show symptoms when an individual has been infected with Covid-19. However, a local
Continue Reading Peter Weber didn’t choose Kelley Flanagan on “The Bachelor,” but that hasn’t stopped them from getting close. The pair have been staying safer at home — together — and Weber is explaining why. Weber recently ended his run on “The Bachelor” where things didn’t quite work out with the woman he selected, Madison Prewett. In
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AUSTIN, Texas — With more than 9,300 cases reported in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday announced plans to increase testing and face mask production in response to the growing coronavirus outbreak. He said Texas will ramp up testing with the help of drive-thru sites at Walgreens drug stores in various locations across the state.
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