Myanmar police shot dead at least four protesters Sunday and wounded several others in the deadliest day since the military seized power on February 1. As demonstrations against the military coup, which ousted the democratically elected government of civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, entered their forth week, security forces began a violent crackdown on
Continue Reading When Florida resident Ernesto Sorzano picked up his fried rice and shrimp from a Chinese takeout, he got a fortune cookie that would change his life. Sorzano, who is in the process of moving to Huntersville, North Carolina, used the set of lucky numbers from the fortune cookie to purchase a North Carolina Powerball lottery
Continue Reading Three Wichita, Kansas, police officers were injured in a possible explosion Saturday while responding to a call at a vacant home, authorities said. “Just after 4:00 officers were dispatched to check a vacant residence in the area. After making entry into the residence, three officers sustained injuries from a possible explosion from an unknown device,”
Continue ReadingThe Food and Drug Administration gave Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine the green light for emergency use on Saturday — another historic milestone experts say will help get the country a step closer to returning to normalcy. “This is really great news,” Dr. Esther Choo, a professor of emergency medicine at Oregon Health & Science
Continue Reading Myanmar police shot dead at least two protesters Sunday and wounded several others in one of the bloodiest days since the military seized power on February 1. As demonstrations against the military coup, which ousted the democratically-elected government of civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, entered their forth week, security forces began a violent crackdown
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A Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputy was hospitalized after being injured in a Riverside traffic collision. Information about the Saturday evening crash was posted on Twitter. The incident happened around 7:30 p.m. A section of Van Buren Blvd. between Jurupa rd. and Limonite Ave was closed while the investigation continued. People were being asked to avoid
Continue Reading Myanmar police shot dead one protester on Sunday and wounded several others as they moved to end weeks of demonstrations against the military coup, according to a local politician and news reports. Police opened fire in the southern town of Dawei, local politician Kyaw Min Htike said. The Dawei Watch media outlet reported that one
Continue Reading Two people suffered critical injuries in a 30-vehicle pileup outside of Billings, Montana, on Saturday, authorities said. The victims jumped from the Yellowstone River Bridge during the accident to avoid being hit by one of the cars, the Montana Highway Patrol (MHP) tweeted. They were hospitalized and are expected to recover. “The cause appears to
Continue Reading A man accused of stabbing an Asian man Thursday outside the federal courthouse in the Chinatown neighborhood of New York City was arraigned Saturday on charges including attempted murder. Salman Muflihi, 23, was arraigned on charges of second-degree attempted murder, first-degree assault, second-degree assault, and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, court records show. Although
Continue Reading Two adults and four children were rescued Friday by the US Coast Guard off the Georgia coast after their boat struck an object and started sinking. The 17-foot boat was near the entrance to the St. Marys River on the Florida-Georgia border when it hit something and started taking on water, the Nassau County, Florida,
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Despite promising to punish senior Saudi leaders while on the campaign trail, President Joe Biden declined to apply sanctions to the one the US intelligence community determined is responsible for the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi: Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The choice not to punish Prince Mohammed directly puts into sharp relief the type
Continue ReadingThe Department of Justice has filed an appeal of a federal judge’s decision this week that declared the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eviction moratorium unconstitutional. Judge John Barker, a Trump appointee in the Eastern District of Texas, stopped short of issuing a preliminary injunction but said he expected the CDC to respect
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Former NFL player Emmanuel Acho will be hosting “The Bachelor: After the Final Rose,” replacing host Chris Harrison who stepped aside following a controversial interview. Acho, the host of the YouTube series “Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man,” announced on Saturday he would host the one-hour special for the 25th season. “I’ve accepted the Rose
Continue Reading With the Olympic games due to start in Tokyo in July, Japan had every reason to move quickly to approve a Covid-19 vaccine and begin inoculations. But the country only started inoculating its population of 126 million people with Pfizer-BioNTech shots last week, more than two months after the vaccine rolled out in other major
Continue ReadingMany of the world’s leading financial institutions have pledged in recent years to slash their support for the coal and oil industries. But a new report has found that hundreds of billions of dollars are still being channeled into fossil fuels, and Asia’s banks are doing much of that business. Globally, 380 commercial banks lent
Continue Reading A New Orleans law enforcement officer was fatally shot intervening in an altercation at a high school basketball game Friday, authorities said. Cpl. Martinus Mitchum was a Tulane University police officer and a reserve officer for the Second City Court, New Orleans Police Superintendent Shaun Ferguson said. “Corporal Mitchum was a dedicated police professional who
Continue ReadingUnusually visible, involved in practically everything, and free in sharing his opinions on what has become the new administration’s must-follow Twitter feed, White House chief of staff Ron Klain has emerged as the building’s most central figure aside from the President himself. His combination of deep Washington experience and long professional ties to President Joe
Continue Reading A 5.3 magnitude earthquake was felt in Anchorage, Alaska, on Saturday morning, according to officials. The quake was centered less than 10 miles outside of downtown Anchorage, near Point MacKenzie. “That was quite a shaker,” the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities tweeted. The department said it had no reports of damage, but it
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A slew of ambitious Republicans eyeing bids for the party’s 2024 nomination used the two days ahead of former President Donald Trump’s appearance at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference to begin staking their own claims as the eventual leaders of the movement built around the former President. Though it will take years for the 2024 race
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The U.S. now has a third vaccine to prevent COVID-19. The Food and Drug Administration on Saturday cleared a Johnson & Johnson shot that works with just one dose instead of two. Health experts have anxiously awaited a one-and-done option to help speed vaccinations. The virus has already killed more than 510,000 people in the
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