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Young adults are now steering the course of this pandemic as the biggest spreaders of coronavirus. But many say they don’t plan to get vaccinated — which has bigger consequences than they might think. “We really need to get people 20 to 49 years old vaccinated because they are the ones driving the pandemic right
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story NASHVILLE (WSMV) — Metro Police released the body worn video from Tuesday night when Officer Brian Sherman was shot responding to a call on Sugarloaf Drive in south Nashville. Police said the call was a set-up to get officers to the house. They said the person who called
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he thinks the Republican Party is going through a “sort of mini-revolution” amid the push by GOP House members to oust Rep. Liz Cheney from her leadership position. “It seems as though the Republican Party is trying to identify what it stands for and they’re in the midst
Continue ReadingGoogle is expanding its options for when, where and how often employees return to the office. The company’s workers around the world can continue working remotely until September, after which they can choose between coming back to their pre-pandemic office, working out of a Google office in a different city or permanently working from anywhere
Continue ReadingDell imagines a future in which businesses are faster, smarter and better. The tech company is building a “world where we see wide-scale connectivity, data-driven insights, automation and embedded intelligence in everything that we do,” Dell Chief Operating Officer Jeff Clarke told CNN Business in an exclusive interview. Now, all eyes are on Dell after
Continue ReadingThe latest plea for a break-up of Tribune Publishing’s newspapers is coming from inside the pages of a Tribune publication. In Wednesday’s edition of the New York Daily News, reporter Larry McShane practically begs someone local to “step up and save New York’s Hometown Paper.” McShane and many of his colleagues fear that Tribune’s current
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Prominent Republicans and right-wing media organizations on Wednesday cited a decision to affirm Facebook’s suspension of former President Donald Trump in their long-running campaign to portray large technology companies as biased against conservatives. The decision was made by the Oversight Board, a court-like panel funded by Facebook that is charged with providing an independent review
Continue ReadingThe New York Times has a new statistic about its reach: The site has more than 100 million registered users. The number of users implies that at least that many people are considering but do not yet pay for The Times. Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien shared the number Wednesday as part of the company’s
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story NAUGATUCK, Connecticut (WFSB) — Emergency crews spent the day searching a Naugatuck dam for a man who may have fallen into the water. Police said they were notified earlier on Wednesday, just after 11:30 a.m., that a man may have fallen into into the Hop Brook Dam, near
Continue ReadingSome of Europe’s biggest supermarkets and food companies have threatened to stop buying agricultural products from Brazil if a bill they say would encourage deforestation in the Amazon becomes law. In an open letter published on Wednesday, 40 grocers, food suppliers and investment firms urged Brazilian lawmakers to reconsider a legislative proposal that would legalize
Continue ReadingFacebook can keep blocking former President Donald Trump from using its platform but must revisit the decision within six months, the social network’s court-like Oversight Board said Wednesday. The landmark decision affirmed the company’s decision to issue the suspension after the January 6 US Capitol riots. The board said it concluded that Trump’s posts on
Continue ReadingGeneral Motors posted strong first-quarter earnings and said it’s on track to hit the high end of its full-year profit target despite the computer chip shortage dogging the industry. The largest US automaker posted net income of $3 billion, about 10 times what it posted in the same quarter a year ago, when it was
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MODESTO, CA (KOVR) — A Modesto man devoted to living a better life was hit and killed by Brandon Howze, who was allegedly drunk at the time. Friends of Ray Galindo say the tragic irony is Galindo was leaving an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting when it happened. Galindo spent
Continue ReadingA booster shot of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine revs up the immune response against two worrying coronavirus variants, the company reported Wednesday. And a booster dose formulated specifically to match the B.1.351 variant first seen in South Africa was even more effective, Moderna said in a statement. Vaccine makers are trying to get out ahead of
Continue ReadingA Tennessee Republican lawmaker wrongly suggested on Tuesday that the infamous three-fifths compromise was an effort by Northern states to curtail the power of Southern slave-owning states with the ultimate aim of ending slavery, when in fact historians say it was the opposite, a dehumanizing concession that had the impact of giving more power to
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story PENSACOLA (WFOR) — A north Florida teen accused of rigging her high school’s homecoming race for queen is facing more serious charges. The State Attorney’s Office in Pensacola said Emily Grover will be tried as an adult in the homecoming hack case after turning 18 just a few
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Blue Origin — after spending more than six years developing its space tourism rocket, New Shepard — has finally set a date for its first commercial passenger mission, July 20, and announced that one of the first passengers will be the winner of an online auction. Anyone can place a bid on the company’s website,
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Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — A Philadelphia social media star recognized around the country is asking for help to move his mission forward. Terrill Haigler has had a heck of a year. “I’ve literally found my purpose,” he said. In June 2020, Haigler was a Streets Department sanitation worker when
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Click here for updates on this story BURLINGTON, Massachusetts (WBZ) — Rachel Small is a teacher doing remote work with her fourth grade class in Burlington and Anisha Ravi is one of her students. “She’s special and different that any of the other teachers I’ve had in the past,” Anisha said. “She’s a lot of
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Click here for updates on this story WAXAHACHIE, Texas (KTVT) — Storm chaser Mike Prendergast was following the path of what turned out to be an EF-2 tornado in Ellis County when he came across a tense scene on I-35E near Waxahachie Monday night, May 3. “I pulled up and there was a tractor trailer
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