Skip to Content

Month: February 2021

FDA advisers to consider EUA recommendation for single-dose Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine this week

Vaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration will meet Friday to discuss whether to recommend Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use authorization. The vaccine is the third under consideration for the US market, and would be the first single-dose Covid-19 shot available here. Like the earlier Covid-19 vaccines, it was developed

Continue Reading

Woody Allen Fast Facts

Here’s a look at the life of Oscar-winning filmmaker Woody Allen. Personal Birth date: December 1, 1935 Birth name: Allan Stewart Konigsberg Birth place: Brooklyn, New York Father: Martin Konigsberg, worked various jobs Mother: Nettie (Cherry) Konigsberg, bookkeeper Marriages: Soon-Yi Previn (December 22, 1997-present), Louise Lasser (divorced), Harlene Rosen (divorced) Children: daughters adopted with Soon-Yi

Continue Reading

Investigators release preliminary findings on the United Airlines flight engine failure. Here’s what we know

The investigation into the engine failure of a Boeing 777 could take more than a year, officials said, but already the picture is becoming clearer about what happened to the United Airlines flight on Saturday. According to investigators, the Pratt & Whitney engine failed minutes into United Airlines flight 328, headed from Colorado to Hawaii,

Continue Reading

Elijah McClain’s mother relieved he ‘is no longer labeled a suspect’ after investigation into officers’ actions

Sheneen McClain cried reading an independent investigative report Monday that said Colorado police officers involved her son’s death did not have the legal basis to stop, frisk or restrain Elijah McClain. “It was overwhelming knowing my son was innocent the entire time and just waiting on the facts and proof of it,” Sheneen McClain told

Continue Reading

Black History Month: Audre Lorde

“Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” That’s how Audre Lorde famously introduced herself. Her career as a teacher and a writer spanned decades and though she died almost 30 years ago, much of the work she left behind is still cherished and quoted today. Born to immigrant parents from Grenada, Lorde was raised in Manhattan and

Continue Reading

«Lo hemos hecho peor que la mayoría de los demás países», dice Fauci mientras Estados Unidos llega a sombrío número de muertos por covid-19

(CNN) — Estados Unidos ha superado ahora el devastador hito de medio millón de muertes por covid-19. Es una cifra impactante que, según los expertos, no tenía por qué ser tan alta. «Creo que si miras hacia atrás históricamente, lo hemos hecho peor que la mayoría de los demás países y somos un país rico

Continue Reading

ANÁLISIS | La batalla por la confirmación del gabinete envía una señal de advertencia a Biden

(CNN) — Los duelos por la confirmación del gabinete escogido por Joe Biden se han vuelto repentinamente desagradables, haciendo sonar las alarmas sobre la naturaleza de suspenso de un Senado empatado 50-50 y las amargas peleas por llegar a la ambiciosa agenda del presidente. La creciente intriga sobre un trío de seleccionados presidenciales controvertidos también

Continue Reading

NHL star taking leave of absence after Russian media report left him ‘shaken and concerned’

New York Rangers forward Artemi Panarin is taking a leave of absence from the NHL team, the Rangers announced Monday. The Russian star is “shaken and concerned” following “unfounded allegations” made against him, according to a team statement posted to Twitter. The statement refers to a report from Russian tabloid newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda in which

Continue Reading

More child migrants are arriving alone in Spain’s holiday islands than ever before. This is what happens to them

Elementary school children don’t typically venture far from home on their own, but 11-year-old Abou managed to cross a stretch of the Atlantic Ocean, from Africa to Europe, in the hands of strangers. Abou, from West Africa’s Ivory Coast, boarded an inflatable dinghy alongside four other children, and a mother and her baby, all bound

Continue Reading
Skip to content