The AstraZeneca vaccine is showing to be 79 percent effective at preventing symptomatic coronavirus infections and 100 percent effective against severe disease. That’s according to a press release from AstraZeneca published Monday. Read the full release here: https://bit.ly/3rd6lc1 They tested their vaccine on 32,449 participants in the U.S. This vaccine is now heading to the
Continue ReadingGoldman Sachs’ CEO says the bank will strengthen enforcement of its “Saturday rule” and speed up hiring of junior bankers after a group of analysts described “inhumane” working conditions, including 95-hour weeks and instances of workplace abuse. “This is something that our leadership team and I take very seriously,” CEO David Solomon said in a
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School districts within the Coachella Valley have varied reopening plans. While some students at Desert Sands Unified School District are already in school, other students at Palm Springs Unified School District will be heading back to the classroom on April 12. Coachella Valley Unified School District submitted its reopening plans to Riverside County last week
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden got almost everything he wanted with his $1.9 trillion economic rescue plan. Goldman Sachs thinks Biden will face far more resistance in his quest to unwind former President Donald Trump’s tax cuts. Biden campaigned on hiking the corporate rate from 21% to 28%, raising the tax on foreign income and instituting a
Continue ReadingReluctance among conservatives to get vaccinated against Covid-19 has caused growing concern inside the White House, according to people familiar with the matter, even as President Joe Biden’s administration rapidly scales up nationwide efforts to administer shots. The topic has been the subject of several high-level conversations between administration advisers and health experts, including at
Continue ReadingOne of the buzziest apps of the moment is now in disarray, with its social media star cofounder stepping down amid a controversy that sparked a backlash from at least one investor in the company and multiple advertisers with ties to him. David Dobrik, who has tens of millions of followers across YouTube, TikTok and
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Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (KETV) — A Nebraska family has more reason than most to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. “My mom was born march 17th, 1954, and I was born march 17th 1989,” said Katherine Chisholm, a new mom. Now, on March 17th, 2021, they welcomed baby Charlotte Jean into
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OVERLAND PARK, Kansas (KCTV/KSMO) — Overland Park police pulled over a driver on Sunday for going 149 miles per hour on Interstate 435. The driver’s excuse? She thought she was only doing 129 mph. An officer stopped the driver at 1-435 and U.S. 69 Highway. She was issued
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KCTV/KSMO) — As more mass vaccination events are planned and underway in the St. Louis area, some residents said they’re still traveling hours to get an appointment. Michael Meredith, from Creve Coeur, said he was pre-registered with almost every health department and hospital system nearby. As
Continue ReadingTesla shares have slumped in recent weeks, losing 26% of their value between a record high in late January and its closing price Friday. But at least one analyst sees better times ahead — much, much better. Ark Invest, run by the influential Cathie Wood, expects Tesla shares to reach at least $3,000 by 2025.
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Members in the city of Twentynine Palms are fighting to keep a convicted serial child rapist out of their neighborhood. News Channel 3’s Dani Romero has more on the push to keep him out. “ I can’t even really grasp it in my mind,” said Gary Link, a Twentynine Palms resident. “I don’t even know
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Jami Webb was planning to celebrate her mother’s 50th birthday last week. But Xiaojie Tan, the owner of Youngs Asian Massage in Acworth, Georgia, was killed Tuesday along with seven others at three Atlanta-area spas in a shooting rampage that has rattled the nation. “I just want to hold her tight,” Webb told CNN about
Continue ReadingUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced new sanctions against members of Myanmar’s military on Monday for the ongoing crackdown on pro-democracy protests since the military seized power in a February 1 coup. The penalties were the second set that the US announced in coordination with allies on Monday. Earlier in the day, the US
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Hamdayet, Sudan — More evidence of sexual violence being used as a deliberate weapon of war is emerging from Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, where an armed conflict has been raging for months. Women are being gang-raped, drugged and held hostage, according to medical records and testimonies from survivors shared with CNN. In one case a
Continue Reading Abraham began burying the bodies in the morning and didn’t stop until nightfall. The corpses, some dressed in white church robes drenched in blood, were scattered in arid fields, scrubby farmlands and a dry riverbed. Others had been shot on their doorsteps with their hands bound with belts. Among the dead were priests, old men,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — An armed carjacker has been sentenced in federal court to seven years in prison, according to a U.S. attorney’s office. U.S. Attorney Sean P. Costello of the Southern District of Alabama announced Monday that Dorian Lakeith Webb Jr., 19, of Mobile, was sentenced for
Continue Reading A fire has swept through a sprawling Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, destroying shelters and endangering the lives of tens of thousands of refugees, the UN refugee agency UNHCR reported Monday. Fire services, Bangladesh’s Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner, and rescue and response teams remained at the scene on Monday evening, where they
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story POCOLA, Oklahoma (KFSM) — A man accused of killing his girlfriend with a lawnmower blade in eastern Oklahoma has pleaded guilty to the crime and will spend life in prison. In August of 2018, Steven Asher of Hackett, Arkansas, was charged with first-degree murder for the stabbing death
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CENTERVILLE, Utah (KSL) — A woman is safe Sunday after she was trapped overnight on the Parrish Creek Trail with two dogs. The woman was extracted from the mountain about 10:25 a.m. by a Utah Department of Public Safety helicopter, a live Facebook video shows. A Davis County
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The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a lower court opinion that wiped away the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the brothers convicted in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three spectators and injured hundreds. Last July, a federal appeals court said that Tsarnaev will remain in prison for the rest
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