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Year: 2021

2 sailors are hospitalized after a shooting at Maryland’s Fort Detrick. Here’s what we know

Two sailors are hospitalized following a shooting Tuesday at a military installation in Frederick, Maryland, authorities said. The US Navy identified the gunman as Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet, a Navy hospital corpsman who was fatally shot by police. Fort Detrick officials told CNN he was posted at that installation. One victim is in critical condition but

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California says it will fully reopen in June, citing falling Covid-19 case rates

California, the first state to implement a lockdown for the coronavirus pandemic, plans to fully reopen activities and businesses beginning June 15, state officials said Tuesday. Falling infection rates, low hospitalizations and rising vaccinations are reasons this can be done, state Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly said. California’s mask mandate, however, would remain

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GOP’s Trump obsession is giving Biden an opening

Donald Trump has left the White House, but the Republican Party just can’t quit his stunt politics. As President Joe Biden sells a popular Covid-19 rescue plan, highlights a quickening national vaccine effort, positions himself to benefit from an economic growth spurt after the pandemic and tackles economic inequity in American society, the GOP seems

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April 6 coronavirus news

THE VIRUS OUTBREAK: — Biden makes all U.S. adults eligible for vaccines by April 19 — Nearly half of new U.S. virus infections are in just five states — North Korea tells WHO it’s still virus-free in latest report — California plans to lift most pandemic restrictions June 15

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El gobierno de Chile distribuyó píldoras anticonceptivas defectuosas. Ahora más de 150 personas están embarazadas

Santiago, Chile (CNN) — En el árido desierto de Atacama en Chile, Tabita Daza Rojas está tratando de reunir suficiente dinero para terminar la construcción de su casa antes de que llegue su bebé, que nacerá en cualquier momento. Ochocientos kilómetros al sur, en La Pintana, un suburbio de la capital Santiago, Cynthia González está

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Virginia lieutenant governor says he was treated like George Floyd or Emmett Till when told to resign over sexual assault allegations

Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax compared the calls for him to resign following sexual assault allegations against him in 2019 to the high-profile killings of two Black men, using the comment to attack former Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Tuesday during the first debate in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. “We can’t just talk theoretically about what

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Arrests and deportations of immigrants in U.S. illegally drop under Biden with shift in priorities

WASHINGTON, DC — The number of people arrested and deported for being in the U.S. illegally has dropped under President Joe Biden after his administration narrowed its enforcement focus to those who may pose a threat or have criminal backgrounds, marking a shift from the policies under the Trump administration. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under

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The real key to the Chauvin verdict

I perform autopsies for a living, on people who have died suddenly, violently, or unexpectedly. I often testify in criminal and civil cases, where I explain medical terminology to juries. The medical evidence in George Floyd’s death is complex — and likely key to whether Derek Chauvin, the former officer accused of killing Floyd, will

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Republicans keep their distance from Matt Gaetz

It’s been one week since the federal investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz burst into the public sphere, and almost all of Gaetz’s colleagues in the House Republican conference are keeping quiet. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said he’d speak to Gaetz about the matter, though it’s not clear that’s happened. The Republicans Gaetz has attacked

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After Las Cruces code officers clean elderly man’s yard, he tells them: ‘Thank God for people like you’

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A 94-year-old Las Cruces man was overwhelmed by emotion Tuesday after code enforcement officers cleaned his yard. “I can’t get around,” said Bill Jackson. “Happy is not the word. Ecstatic.” “One of our citizens needed assistance, so that’s why we’re out here,” said Michael Roach, a field supervisor with the

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