The Covid-19 variant first identified in the UK is spreading in the US and could become dominant as the country races to administer vaccines, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday. “It seems to be very efficient in spreading from person to person,” the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease told CNN’s Chris
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A consultant has been fired after he was heard making a racist slur during a break in a Vermont Senate Transportation Committee meeting held via Zoom video conferencing, according to his employer. The man, identified on the committee’s agenda as Steven Gayle, a consultant for Resource Systems Group, Inc., had been scheduled to testify to
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President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats are backing a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package that would include $1,400 checks for most individuals.
Continue Reading Azeneth Perry traced the sign of the cross on her body as she watched the ambulance drive away. Her husband, Paul, felt fine the day before, but he woke up with pain in his legs January 25. Later that morning, she dropped him off at the hospital in Del Rio, Texas. She got a call
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The global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss and species extinction, and a shift to plant based diets is needed to curb the damage being done to nature, according to a new report. Biodiversity, which is crucial to both human well-being and a healthy planet, is declining faster than at any time
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Vale has agreed to pay nearly $7 billion in compensation after a dam collapsed at one of its mines in Brazil two years ago, killing 270 people and causing huge damage to the local environment. The settlement with the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, which was announced on Thursday, is the largest in the country’s
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Dr. Alfonso Velandia starts each hospital shift by counting his troops in the battle against coronavirus. The 46-year-old emergency specialist manages intensive care units (ICUs) at the Cardiovascular Hospital in Soacha, a working-class suburb of Colombia’s capital Bogotá. Since the pandemic began, he says he has seen the number of healthcare workers under his watch
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The fatal shooting of a New Mexico State Police officer Thursday led to a high-speed chase that ended in a shootout with the suspect. State Police said Officer Darian Jarrott was killed on Interstate 10 near the town of Akela in Luna County, about 70 miles northwest of El Paso, Texas. Jarrott, 28, initiated a
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I woke to the sound of my fiancée muttering “f*@!” under her breath on Christmas Eve. While we were sleeping, the Hong Kong government had announced that all residents of the city returning from abroad must now spend three weeks in hotel quarantine instead of two, at their own expense — effective Christmas Day. We
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) MU Health Care held its first mass vaccination clinic today giving over 2,000 people their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine. ABC 17 News spoke with MU Health pharmacy head Brad Myers and Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services spokeswoman Sara Humm today and they answered questions live on air about
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Here are the local high school basketball scores from Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. COLLEGE MEN’S HOOPS Missouri Baptist (70) Columbia College (93) FINAL HS BOYS HOOPS California (47) Sweet Springs (42) FINAL South Callaway (63) Calvary Lutheran (41) FINAL Glasgow (49) Salisbury (61) FINAL HS
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In the first two weeks of the Joe Biden presidency, through the medium of Thursday’s powerful speech, sweeping executive orders, a raft of phone calls to leaders on every continent, and an astonishingly, at time exhaustingly regular, series of press conferences, the first outlines of a Biden foreign and defense policy have begun to emerge.
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“Rendezvous on Champs-Elysees. Leave Paris in the morning with T-E-E. In Vienna we sit in a late-night café. Straight connection, T-E-E.” Kraftwerk’s minimalist 1976 tribute to the pleasure of long-distance train journeys will likely be familiar to music fans, but to a generation of Europeans, Trans Europe Express remains a byword for fast, luxurious international
Continue Reading Kuaishou’s stock more than doubled in value Friday as the TikTok-like video app scored the world’s biggest IPO since the coronavirus pandemic began. As of 12:30 p.m. local time, shares were trading at 303.60 Hong Kong dollars ($39.20) apiece, marking a 164% jump. At its peak, its stock had climbed 200% to reach 345 Hong
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Federal prosecutors have charged three men, in three states, for their alleged actions against law enforcement officers during the Capitol riot and insurrection on January 6. Peter Schwartz of Owensboro, Kentucky, and Kyle Fitzsimons of Lebanon, Maine, were charged with forcibly assaulting, resisting or impeding officers. Lake St. Louis, Missouri, resident Paul Scott Westover’s affidavit,
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CAMDENTON, Mo. (KMIZ) A confidential informant gave a tip to members of the Lake Area Narcotics Enforcement Group that 500 pills that contained Fentanyl and a large amount of money were at a trailer home in Camdenton. Amber Rodriguez According to court documents, Layne Elmore and Amber Rodriguez are accused of delivering the drugs out
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San Quentin State Prison, where a deadly coronavirus outbreak was reported last summer, has been fined more than $400,000 by the California Department of Industrial Relation’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health for workplace safety violations. According to the notification of penalty issued Monday, the prison, California’s oldest, failed to report coronavirus illnesses or deaths
Continue Reading Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York has been mocked and criticized by some Republicans and conservatives over a vivid story she told on Instagram Live on Monday about her experiences and emotions during the Capitol insurrection on January 6. We fact-checked three of her critics’ attacks. One was false, one was missing essential context
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There is some encouraging news in the fight against Covid-19 as more vaccines are being distributed and several states announced they will ease certain coronavirus restrictions amid decreasing case levels and hospitalizations, but despite the promising developments experts insist Americans need to remain cautious, especially with the arrival of differing variants in the United States.
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