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It was one year ago today the World Health Organization declared that the novel coronavirus was a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. “At the time there were fewer than 100 cases of the disease we now call Covid-19 and no deaths outside China,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday. “This week we reached
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When Karla Semien went to a cemetery to pick out a plot where her late husband would be buried, it was as if she’d stepped back into the 1950’s. Her husband Darrell Semien, a sheriff’s deputy for Allen Parish, Louisiana, died on January 24 after being diagnosed with cancer in December, CNN affiliate KPLC reported.
Continue ReadingAs Covid-19 variants are increasingly found in the United States, experts say Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine candidate would help in the pandemic fight, despite trial reports showing apparently lower efficacy rates than two vaccines already authorized in the US. Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot coronavirus vaccine was shown to be 66% effective in preventing moderate and
Continue ReadingOmar couldn’t believe what was happening. He should have been concentrating on the student he was tutoring in physics — a job he did during his free time while enrolled in a post-baccalaureate pre-med program — but Omar’s eyes kept darting back to the Robinhood app open on his phone. Omar had invested $6,000 in
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden has signed more than 35 executive orders, actions and memorandums in his first week-and-a-half in the Oval Office. And some of Biden’s critics are saying or suggesting that his frequent early use of the presidential pen contradicts a dramatic statement he made on the campaign trail in October. “Biden signed off on
Continue ReadingA NASA spacecraft that took a sample from an asteroid 200 million miles away now has a plan to come back home. On May 10, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will leave the near-Earth asteroid Bennu and begin a nearly three-year journey back to Earth, NASA officials announced this week. The spacecraft, formally known as the Origins,
Continue ReadingFormer President George W. Bush is making it clear that he supports Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the No. 3 Republican in the House, who voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump. Bush’s chief of staff, Freddy Ford, told CNN on Friday that Bush plans to praise Liz Cheney during a Saturday call with his former
Continue ReadingWhen President Joe Biden intensifies his attention next week to selling Republicans and Democrats on his coronavirus relief bill, he won’t be relying on some of the presidency’s most symbolic powers. Out, for now, are arm-twisting sessions in the Oval Office or rides into a lawmaker’s district aboard Air Force One. Instead, administration aides are
Continue ReadingThe Justice Department on Friday announced conspiracy charges against two members of the far-right Proud Boys who allegedly participated in the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6. The new indictment against Dominic Pezzola and William Pepe, both of New York, is the first riot-related case to accuse Proud Boys members of working together
Continue ReadingJohnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 single-shot vaccine was shown to be 66% effective in preventing moderate and severe disease in a global Phase 3 trial, but 85% effective against severe disease, the company announced Friday. The vaccine was 72% effective against moderate and severe disease in the US, the company said. It’s a striking difference from
Continue ReadingMichael Thompson spent more than two decades behind bars for convictions stemming from a marijuana sale. At 4 a.m. on Thursday, he finally walked out of prison to greet his family and the supporters who spent decades fiercely advocating for his release. “I was lost, after 25 years,” he told CNN in an interview Friday.
Continue ReadingTwo soldiers at Fort Bliss received treatment at the intensive care unit of a local hospital Friday for ethylene glycol poisoning, a chemical often used in the making of antifreeze, the Army’s 1st Armored Division said. The soldiers drank a substance during a field training exercise “thinking they were drinking an alcoholic beverage,” the statement
Continue ReadingFederal prosecutors charged a woman in connection to the January 6 riot at the US Capitol in Washington who they say can be heard on video making violent remarks about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The woman, Dawn Bancroft, was charged along with Diana Santos-Smith for violent entry on Capitol grounds, remaining in a restricted area
Continue ReadingHouse Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy will meet with controversial freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene next week, his spokesperson told CNN on Friday. The announcement comes as many House Republicans have been silent about Greene’s newly resurfaced incendiary comments — ranging from supporting violent threats against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to spreading baseless claims pertaining to
Continue ReadingThe city of Philadelphia has cut ties with a Covid-19 vaccine provider, saying it lost “trust in them as an organization,” after a slew of controversial moves by the group and its 22-year-old CEO, who admitted Thursday he took vaccine doses and administered them to four friends. Additionally, Philly Fighting COVID (PFC) unexpectedly shuttered its
Continue ReadingThe European Union’s medicines regulator on Friday recommended authorizing the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine for use among its 27 member states, capping off a turbulent week which saw the bloc attack the drugmaker over delays to supply. The long-awaited decision from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) came after several EU countries warned they were running out
Continue ReadingA New York state judge on Friday ordered a tax firm that has worked with former President Donald Trump to turn over more documents to New York Attorney General Letitia James as part of her office’s investigation into the Trump Organization. The supplemental order is one of several that Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron
Continue ReadingDemocratic Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri announced Friday that she will be moving her office away from GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, following a heated exchange earlier this month where Bush confronted Greene about not wearing a mask in a hallway on Capitol Hill. The fallout led Speaker Nancy Pelosi to take the
Continue ReadingSix workers were killed and several others were taken to a hospital after a liquid nitrogen leak Thursday at a poultry processing plant in Gainesville, Georgia, officials said. Fire crews from Hall County and Gainesville responded to a report of burns at the Foundation Foods facility — formerly Prime Pak Foods — around 10:12 a.m.
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