The US Food and Drug Administration expanded the emergency use authorization for Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine on Monday to include people ages 12 to 15. This is the first Covid-19 vaccine in the United States authorized for use in younger teens and adolescents; the vaccine had previously been authorized for people age 16 and older. Covid-19
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Click here for updates on this story NORWICH, Connecticut (WFSB) — A 1-month-old baby died after being attacked by a dog in Norwich on Monday night. Police said around 8:30 p.m. officers responded to a home on McKinley Avenue for the report of a dog attack. When officers arrived, they discovered that the infant had
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Caitlyn Jenner is attempting to defy ideological definition as she runs to unseat Gov. Gavin Newsom in California’s all-but-certain recall election, telling CNN’s Dana Bash that she didn’t vote for former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election — and, in fact, didn’t bother to vote at all. “I didn’t even vote,” Jenner told Bash
Continue Reading The head of Maryland’s NAACP on Sunday lambasted Gov. Larry Hogan’s posthumous pardon of lynching victims as “political posturing,” criticizing the Republican governor for issuing a blanket pardon of dozens of the state’s Black victims even though many were never convicted of any crimes, but merely charged or accused of wrongdoing before they were killed.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — City leaders expressed frustration over the ongoing gun violence as well as preventable nature of the death of a three-year-old boy who accidentally shot himself with a gun over the weekend. The medical examiner’s office identified the boy as 3-year-old Cire J. Walker of Milwaukee.
Continue Reading The Biden administration is open to sharing coronavirus vaccines and other humanitarian assistance to help North Korea combat the deadly pandemic, according to two sources familiar with internal discussions. Administration officials believe that the North Koreans won’t be ready to engage with the US until the threat from the pandemic has passed, which is one
Continue Reading President Joe Biden will receive a regular physical exam later this year, the White House said Tuesday, setting a timeline for when the oldest first-term president in US history might provide more information about his health. The last extensive update on Biden’s medical state came in December 2019, when the doctor he eventually recruited to
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US stocks tumbled out of the gate Tuesday as investors grow increasingly concerned about raw material price spikes, shortages and inflation. Prices are rising all over the place as commodities, shipping costs and more related categories become more expensive. Even though the shortages and global supply issues have been lurking in plain sight for months,
Continue Reading One million people have signed up for Affordable Care Act coverage on the federal exchange during the special enrollment period that President Joe Biden launched in mid-February, the administration announced Tuesday. “Since it became law more than a decade ago, the Affordable Care Act has been a lifeline for millions of Americans. The pandemic has
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Porsha Williams has raised some eyebrows with the news that she is now engaged to a man “Real Housewives of Atlanta” viewers met this season as the husband of one of her friends. Williams posted about her relationship with businessman Simon Guobadia on her verified Instagram account Monday. “Our relationship began a month ago —
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Monday marked the start of swim season for Portland high schoolers but there’s one major problem, the teams have no pools to practice in. “We are a swim team that doesn’t have any water to swim in right now,” Grant Swim Coach Scott Miyako
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BISMARCK, North Dakota (WDAY) — North Dakota will stop offering federal pandemic unemployment benefits to residents on June 19, citing a statewide workforce shortage. Republican Gov. Doug Burgum announced Monday, May 10, the state will pull out of four federally provided programs that offer extra compensation and longer
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Nueva Delhi (CNN) — Al menos 71 cadáveres han sido retirados de las orillas del río Ganges en el este de la India, mientras una segunda ola de covid-19 asola el país y envuelve su sistema de salud. Las autoridades locales están investigando y se llevó a cabo una autopsia de los cuerpos, pero «debido
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas — A man is facing capital murder charges after a shooting at a car club event in San Antonio left a 6-year-old girl dead and her mother injured Sunday night, authorities said. Saryah Perez was struck by gunfire while sitting in the backseat of a vehicle, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus
Continue Reading A Black employee of the Defense Department should not have been stopped by Virginia state troopers, says a prosecutor who dismissed the four charges against her and wants an investigation into what happened. Juanisha Brooks told CNN she was driving to her Alexandria, Virginia, home on March 6 when she was stopped by a pair
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On the eve of a hearing for three men accused in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, his family witnessed the repeal of a Civil War-era law permitting citizen’s arrests in Georgia. Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan Jr. will appear before a judge Tuesday afternoon on federal hate crime and kidnapping charges. The
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By Madeline Holcombe, Angela Barajas and Martin Savidge, CNN The men charged in last year’s killing of Ahmaud Arbery entered not guilty pleas on federal hate crime and attempted kidnapping charges Tuesday. While previous court appearances in their state court proceedings in Glynn County were conducted via video link, Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and William
Continue Reading The Golden Globes will not be airing on NBC next year, temporarily ending a decades-long relationship between the network and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the nonprofit responsible for the awards. The network announced that it would not carry the show in 2022 after controversy surrounding the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s lack of diversity and
Continue Reading Seven children were killed and at least 16 people injured on Tuesday after a gunman opened fire in a school in the Russian city of Kazan, according to the country’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee. The suspected shooter has been detained, state news agency RIA Novosti reported, citing a law enforcement source. Svetlana Petrenko, an official representative
Continue Reading (CNN) — Aproximadamente el 58% de los adultos estadounidenses han recibido al menos una dosis de la vacuna contra el covid-19, pero las tasas difieren según dónde se mire. En la parte superior de la lista está Vermont, donde el 74,5% de los adultos han recibido al menos una dosis de vacuna. Todos los estados
Continue Reading What do stretched supply chains, rising prices and the ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline have in common? They all stem from risks that investors should have had on their radar. For months, it’s been clear that snarled supply chains could hold back the post-pandemic recovery and trigger worrisome inflation. Now, that fear is once
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — Hari Gopal Garg and his wife Komal Garg have been stuck in India since Ottawa banned flights from the country, which has been overwhelmed by its second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Gargs travelled to India to finalize the adoption of a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OTTAWA, Ontario (CTV Network) — Amid a push to have as much of the Canadian population vaccinated as quickly as possible, the federal public health agency says it doesn’t know how many Canadians have received COVID-19 vaccines in other countries. With some Canadians opting to travel to another
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — As Covid-19 vaccines become more accessible, demand continues to decline. Data from the Texas Department of State Health Services shows less doses have been administered in El Paso each week for the past several weeks. The county hit a vaccination peak in early April when more than 72,000 doses were
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The forecast looks great today with breezy winds and plenty of sunshine. Temperatures will climb to the upper 80s and low 90s with gusts near 25 mph. A cold front will drop temperatures to the low 80s Wednesday afternoon.
Continue Reading (CNN) — Entre los muchos motivos de queja que alimentan la ola de protestas más extendidas que ha visto Colombia en años — que incluyen la reforma a la salud, los subsidios para los trabajadores informales y la prohibición de la erradicación forzosa de la coca— el principal es la brutalidad policial y los abusos
Continue Reading Oakland, California (CNN) — La madre de un hombre latino que murió bajo custodia policial en Alameda, California, después de estar inmovilizado durante unos cinco minutos, dice que su hijo pidió ayuda a los policías, pero que no tuvieron compasión por él. Mario González Arenales murió el 19 de abril después de que los policías
Continue Reading Tom Cruise has returned his Golden Globe Awards to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a source close to the actor told CNN on Monday. Cruise won the best actor Globes for his performances in “Jerry Maguire” in 1997 and “Born on the Fourth of July” in 1990, and the best supporting actor award for “Magnolia”
Continue Reading (CNN) — Aproximadamente el 58% de los adultos estadounidenses han recibido al menos una dosis de la vacuna contra el covid-19, pero las tasas difieren según dónde se mire. En la parte superior de la lista está Vermont, donde el 74,5% de los adultos han recibido al menos una dosis de vacuna. Todos los estados
Continue Reading Pediatricians and pharmacies across the US are ready to administer Covid-19 vaccines for 12- to 15-year-olds, a development the US Food and Drug Administration predicts could begin in some places Tuesday — and may begin more broadly Thursday. In what President Joe Biden called a “promising development,” the FDA expanded the emergency use authorization (EUA)
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