By Betsy Klein and Maegan Vazquez, CNN The Biden administration is coordinating with Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers to develop contingency plans in the event future coronavirus vaccines need to be modified, including to fight the Omicron variant, the White House’s Covid-19 response coordinator said Tuesday. In the first briefing from the White House’s Covid-19 team since
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — DeMarcus Cousins will attempt to boost a Milwaukee Bucks frontcourt that’s missing injured center Brook Lopez. The 31-year-old Cousins is a four-time All-Star. The Bucks have won seven straight games but have been dealing with frontcourt issues. Center Brook Lopez hasn’t played since a season-opening victory because of a back injury. Cousins
Continue Reading By Kate Andersen Brower Robert B. Downing has been named as the new chief usher of the White House, according to a White House source. Downing previously worked for Maryland-based Susan Gage Caterers, and before that he worked in the Reagan administration. The chief usher of the White House manages the residence and works closely
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — An attorney representing a man accused of plowing his SUV through a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee in two other cases has dropped him as a client, citing ties to people he allegedly injured. Investigators say Darrell Brooks injured dozens of people and killed six when he drove through the parade in
Continue Reading ATLANTA (AP) — Police say a man accused of accidentally firing a gun in his bag at the Atlanta airport has turned himself in. Police say 42-year-old Kenny Wells was waiting at a security checkpoint Nov. 20 when his bag was pulled aside for a secondary check. Police say he lunged into his bag and
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld California’s ban on high-capacity magazines in a split decision that may be headed for the U.S. Supreme Court. The San Francisco-based panel acted Tuesday after two appellate judges last year ruled the state’s ban on magazines holding more than
Continue Reading JERUSALEM (AP) — Several dozen Holocaust survivors marked the third night of Hanukkah with a menorah-lighting ceremony at Jerusalem’s Western Wall that paid tribute to them and the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis. The candle-lighting was organized by the Jewish Claims Conference at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City, the holiest place
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By Christina Zdanowicz, CNN The capital of Alabama is coming under fire and facing a large fine after removing a street name honoring president of the Confederacy. Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed says replacing the Jeff Davis Avenue sign, named after Jefferson Davis, was the right thing to do. The street was renamed Fred D. Gray
Continue Reading By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans are working to discredit the bipartisan system they created to run elections in the state after President Joe Biden narrowly won last year’s presidential race. The political battleground becomes the latest front in the national push by the GOP to exert more control over
Continue Reading LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky coach Mark Stoops has agreed to a contract extension that will keep him with the Wildcats through June 2028. Stoops’ deal is being finalized but will continue guaranteed extensions of one year for a seven-win season and two years for a 10-win season. A release stated that the agreement accounts
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Tres personas murieron en un tiroteo en una escuela secundaria en Oxford, en el condado de Oakland, Michigan, y se cree que todas las víctimas fallecidas son estudiantes, según Michael McCabe, sheriff del condado de Oakland. McCabe dijo que otras seis personas recibieron disparos, de las cuales se cree que
Continue Reading By DANIELLA MATAR Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Mario Pašalić scored a hat trick to help Atalanta rout Venezia 4-0 in Serie A. Pašalić scored his first two goals in the opening 12 minutes and added the other in the 67th. Teun Koopmeiners scored the home team’s third goal in the 57th. Atalanta moved level
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By Michael Warren, CNN Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon and television personality, is running for the US Senate in Pennsylvania as a Republican, according to an op-ed published Tuesday in the conservative Washington Examiner. “During the pandemic, I learned that when you mix politics and medicine, you get politics instead of solutions. That’s why
Continue Reading Actor Bradley Cooper says was held at knifepoint while on his way to pick up his daughter from school during an interview on Dax Shepard’s podcast.
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey Bradley Cooper says in 2019 he was held at knifepoint on a New York City subway. The “Star is Born” actor said the whole incident turned “pretty insane” when he was approached by a man on the subway at 11:45 a.m, “I remember seeing the person’s eyes and was taken by how
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN A Houston man was sentenced to nine years in prison for using money he got from Covid-19 relief funds to buy cars, a watch and a pay off a home loan, the Justice Department announced. Lee Price III, 30, was sentenced Monday on charges of wire fraud and money laundering for
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By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California corrections officials have begun limiting medical parole only to inmates so ill they are on ventilators. They are citing a federal rule change as the reason inmates who are quadriplegic or have other severe permanent disabilities no longer can be placed in nursing homes. An
Continue Reading By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Author Alice Sebold has apologized to the man who was exonerated last week in the 1981 rape that was the basis for her memoir “Lucky.” Sebold said Tuesday she was struggling with the role she unwittingly played in a system that sent an innocent man to
Continue Reading By Amir Vera and Taylor Romine, CNN A 15-year-old boy is in custody after three students died and eight were injured in a shooting Tuesday afternoon at a high school in Oxford, Michigan, authorities said. The Oxford High School students killed were Tate Myre, 16; Hana St. Juliana, 14, and Madisyn Baldwin, 17, according to
Continue Reading A suspected shooter is in custody after Oakland County, Michigan, police responded to an active shooter at Oxford High School. Oakland County Undersheriff Michael G. McCabe says at least three people were killed and six were injured in the incident.
Continue Reading 15-year-old freshman Mark Kluska recorded the moment students huddled together and sheltered in their classroom during an active shooter incident at Oxford High School in Michigan. CNN’s Don Lemon explains.
Continue Reading Aiden Page, a senior at Oxford High School in Michigan, describes barricading in his classroom during a shooting that left three people dead and several injured.
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Rapper Travis Scott said he would pay the funeral costs of the people who died in a crowd crush at his Astroworld Festival in Houston — but the youngest victim’s family says it’s declining his offer. The death toll from the November 5 concert now stands at 10, and dozens of
Continue Reading 18-year-old Aden Cruz talks to CNN’s Anderson Cooper about his experience at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival, where eight people were killed in a crowd surge, including a friend of Cruz’s.
Continue Reading GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Quarterback Kenny Pickett and receiver Jordan Addison were among 12 players from No. 17 Pittsburgh to headline the Atlantic Coast Conference’s all-league team. Pickett and Addison were first-team picks for the offense in Tuesday’s release. Tackle Calijah Kancey was a first-team pick on defense. The Panthers will play in Saturday’s league
Continue Reading By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for a handful of states say members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma are abusing the bankruptcy process. They asked a federal judge Tuesday in New York to throw out a settlement between the company and thousands of other government entities
Continue Reading By Lauren del Valle and Eric Levenson, CNN Jeffrey Epstein’s former pilot testified in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking trial Tuesday that a who’s who of powerful men, including former Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, flew aboard Epstein’s private plane. The pilot, Larry Visoski, said he would typically be given notice if Clinton or high-profile
Continue Reading By Maria Santana, CNN The wife of Mexican drug boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison and four years of supervised release, along with a forfeiture of $1.5 million, in connection with drug trafficking and money laundering charges related to her husband’s narcotics empire. Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, pleaded
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By Brian Fung, CNN Business Parag Agrawal isn’t a household name, but he could soon become one as he takes the lead at one of the world’s most influential social media companies. On Monday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced he was stepping down and named Agrawal, the company’s chief technology officer, as his replacement. Agrawal
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – Las Cruces patients suffering from Covid-19 don’t have to drive to El Paso for monoclonal antibody infusion treatment. “We’re pretty busy every day,” said Andrew Cummins, a spokesman for Memorial Medical Center. The Food and Drug Administration granted an emergency use authorization for several monoclonal antibody therapies for patients affected
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