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By Andrew Wegley Click here for updates on this story LINCOLN, Nebraska (Lincoln Journal Star) — A Lincoln man who was wanted on two counts of first-degree sexual assault of a child was taken to a local hospital Monday after he barricaded himself in an apartment bathroom and lit a fire as investigators tried to
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlan Collins, Kate Sullivan and Zachary Cohen, CNN It has now been 90 days since President Joe Biden ordered the intelligence community to investigate the origins of Covid-19, but the public may have to wait a few more days to view an unclassified version of that report. In May, Biden told US intelligence agencies
Continue ReadingCNN, PFIZER, NBC, STANFORD MEDICINE, CINCINNATI CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL By Kaitlan Collins, Kate Sullivan and Zachary Cohen, CNN It has now been 90 days since President Joe Biden ordered the intelligence community to investigate the origins of Covid-19, but the public may have to wait a few more days to view an unclassified version of that
Continue ReadingBy Andrea Eger Click here for updates on this story TULSA, Oklahoma (Tulsa World) — One of the youngest critical COVID-19 patients treated at The Children’s Hospital at Saint Francis was released Monday, just a few days after her mother’s plea to vaccination holdouts went viral. After a 12-day hospital stay, 3-year-old Aurora Cannon returned
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has welcomed a group of 124 Afghan media workers and their families who fled their country after the Taliban takeover. The group arrived aboard a flight in the pre-dawn hours of Wednesday. The Afghans had worked for various media outlets, and had requested humanitarian visas because of the Taliban’s hostility
Continue Reading MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A gunman fatally shot a tourist eating dinner with his family at a Miami Beach restaurant as the man protected his 1-year-old son, police and a family member said. Tamarius Blair Davis Jr., 22, of Norcross, Georgia, told investigators he shot Dustin Wakefield, 21, on Tuesday night because he “was
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah believes she can break Florence Griffith Joyner’s 33-year-old record in the 100 meters if she runs in the perfect conditions. Don’t expect it to happen in Lausanne at the Athletissima with the forecast predicting 68 degrees Fahrenheit. That is cooler than ideal temperatures for breaking the record
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CNNEE (CNN Español) — Autoridades paraguayas detuvieron este martes a Kassem Mohamad Hijazi, ciudadano brasileño de origen libanés residente en el país. El operativo se desarrolló en Ciudad del Este, que forma parte de la llamada Triple Frontera, compuesta por Paraguay, Argentina y Brasil. Según una conferencia de prensa dada por la Fiscalía y la
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Moderna anunció este miércoles que concluyó su solicitud a la Administración de Medicamentos y Alimentos de EE.UU. (FDA, por sus siglas en inglés) para la aprobación total de su vacuna contra el covid-19 para personas de 18 años o más. Moderna dijo que solicitó una revisión prioritaria a la agencia. La
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Cathedral City Police said that two teenagers were arrested Tuesday night, accused in an overnight beating. Police were called to the area of Date Palm Drive and Dinah Shore Drive around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. Officials said that they had recieved a call that someone had been assaulted with a firearm. When officers arrived, they found
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By Carma Hassan and Kay Jones, CNN A volleyball coach says administrators at Valor Christian High School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, forced him to leave his job because he refused to denounce being gay. Inoke Tonga said in a Facebook post that administrators asked him if he posted about being gay on social media and
Continue ReadingBy JULIE PARR, KTBS TV Click here for updates on this story TEXARKANA, Ark (KTBS) — A Texarkana, Ark., mother knows all to well the importance of blood and bone marrow donations. Her son was born with a critical illness. He’s had two life-saving donations, first when he was born and mostly recently as last
Continue Reading By DANIEL NIEMANN Associated Press DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — Zarifa Ghafari was a shining example of the new Afghanistan that many of the nation’s people hoped would emerge after years of Taliban rule: a young female mayor appointed in a country where women’s rights were suppressed under the hardline Islamist group. Now the 29-year-old is
Continue ReadingBy JOSH MORGAN Click here for updates on this story ATHENS, Ga. (WGCL) — If you plan on attending a college football game at Georgia’s Sanford Stadium this fall, you won’t have to worry about any extra COVID precautions before heading to the game. As COVID-19 cases continue to surge across the country, there was
Continue ReadingBy JENNA RAE, NEWS 4 REPORTER Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, MO (KMOV) — Seven years after the Ferguson protests, the man considered a pivotal figure in stabilizing the situation is now being tapped for a new task in St. Louis City. “We’re going to take ownership back of our downtown
Continue Reading By Priya Krishnakumar, CNN Black women in the United States are more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth than any other demographic — and the Covid-19 pandemic may be exacerbating one of the starkest disparities in American health care. Health care practitioners and advocacy groups have raised the alarm that the pandemic, which has
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN The bones of a teenage hunter-gatherer who died more than 7,000 years ago on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi tell the story of a previously unknown group of humans. This distinct human lineage has never been found anywhere else in the world, according to new research. The study published Wednesday in
Continue Reading By ROXANA HEGEMAN Associated Press Congress provided hundreds of millions of dollars to shore up the nation’s election system against cyberattacks and other threats, but roughly two-thirds of the money remained unspent just weeks before last year’s presidential election. A recently released federal report says the states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories had
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By ROXANA HEGEMAN Associated Press Congress provided hundreds of millions of dollars to shore up the nation’s election system against cyberattacks and other threats, but roughly two-thirds of the money remained unspent just weeks before last year’s presidential election. A recently released federal report says the states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories had
Continue Reading By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press Mystic Aquarium says that a second of the five beluga whales it imported in May from a marine park in Canada is in failing health. Tuesday night’s revelation comes three weeks after a male beluga, who was also part of the group that arrived from Marineland in Niagara Falls, died
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