The world’s first Covid-19 human challenge study will begin within a month in the UK, deliberately exposing up to 90 healthy young people to the coronavirus. The study received ethics approval this week, the country’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) said Wednesday in a statement. During the trial, up to 90 volunteers
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Retail sales increased sharply last month, the Commerce Department said Wednesday, beating economists’ expectations and marking their first increase since September. Sales grew 5.3% in January from the prior month on a seasonally adjusted basis. That’s the largest monthly increase since June, when the sector was rebounding from the spring’s pandemic lockdown. America’s economy runs
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Here’s a look at the life of Joseph Lieberman, former United States senator from Connecticut. Personal Birth date: February 24, 1942 Birth place: Stamford, Connecticut Birth name: Joseph Isadore Lieberman Father: Henry Lieberman, package-store owner Mother: Marcia (Manger) Lieberman Marriages: Hadassah (Freilich) Lieberman (1983-present); Betty Haas (1965-1981, divorced) Children: with Hadassah Lieberman: Hani, Ethan (stepson);
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Sallisaw, Oklahoma (KFSM ) — Oklahoma’s storied wrestling tradition has long included girls. “There were still tournaments, just not as many girls in it.” Emma Wissman has been wrestling for four years. But now, for the first time, girls wrestling is sanctioned by the OSSAA. One of Wissman’s
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Emma Stone channels meanness perfectly in the new trailer for Disney’s “Cruella.” The movie focuses on a young version of the “One Hundred and One Dalmatians” villain, Cruella de Vil. “In “1970s London, young fashion designer Estella de Vil becomes obsessed with dogs’ skins, especially Dalmatians, until she eventually becomes a ruthless and terrifying legend
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Kansas City, Missouri (KCTV/KSMO ) — Guests at a vacation rental in the Vineyard neighborhood left a house completely trashed and badly damaged by gunfire after a weekend party. The owner, Adrian Wright, said she lived in the house for several years before she bought a new place,
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Gwyneth Paltrow reveals she had Covid-19 early on in the pandemic, and is still suffering from some lingering effects. On her Goop website, Paltrow wrote that she “had COVID-19 early on, and it left me with some long-tail fatigue and brain fog.” “In January, I had some tests done that showed really high levels of
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Concerns are growing over the potential for violence in Myanmar as anti-coup protesters urge supporters to take to the streets en masse, in defiance of the military generals who have deployed troops in major cities. Protests and civil disobedience movements against the military coup on February 1 have been the biggest in decades, with thousands
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After committing one of the “biggest blunders in banking history,” Citibank won’t be allowed to recover the almost half a billion dollars it accidentally wired to Revlon’s lenders, a US District Court judge ruled. Citibank, which was acting as Revlon’s loan agent, meant to send about $8 million in interest payments to the cosmetic company’s
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An army of tiny, parasitic wasps will be unleashed inside the English stately home where Anne Boleyn was born, in order to hunt out and eradicate moths that threaten the mansion’s furniture and artifacts. Blickling Hall in Norfolk, eastern England, has been unable to contain an invasion of clothes moths, which can be damaging to
Continue Reading At age nine, Nicodemus Madehdou moved from Monrovia, Liberia to Philadelphia and discovered how video games could connect him to a new culture. Always a puzzle aficionado, Madehdou liked the ways that visual exercises could be translated into the virtual world through gaming. “I wasn’t immediately into gaming because at first, I was trying to
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CNN is making a series of programming changes in April, starting with a move to the mornings by Brianna Keilar. The new schedule was announced on Wednesday morning. Keilar, who currently anchors from 1 to 3 p.m. Eastern, will join John Berman on the network’s flagship morning show, “New Day.” Weekend anchor Ana Cabrera will
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Early in the pandemic, Jane Cox Childress brought her teenage son warm cookies at his desk during a remote learning session. She received a text message in response: “Mom, could you please not bring me anything when I’m in class?” Childress said she “learned quickly to be more respectful when he was in class.” After
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Rafael Nadal will have to wait to win his 21st grand slam and etch his name into the history books after a stunning comeback from Stefanos Tsitsipas dumped him out of the Australian Open. Having raced into a two-set lead, the Spaniard faced a resurgent Tsitsipas who won three straight sets — the only three
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Many investors are increasingly hesitant to hold shares of oil and gas companies as a global energy transition gathers steam. Not Warren Buffett. What’s happening: Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway just disclosed a new stake in Chevron, the second largest oil firm in the United States. The $4.1 billion investment could have been spearheaded by Berkshire investment
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South Africa has offered its stock of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to the African Union, a senior health official said, as the country pivots to using shots developed by Johnson & Johnson instead. The country paused its rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after preliminary trial data showed it offered minimal protection against mild to moderate illness
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Burger King doesn’t want to come out a loser in fast food’s chicken sandwich wars. So it’s planning an upgrade. The chain said Wednesday that it is replacing its current crispy chicken sandwich with a new, hand-breaded version. The new product, which comes in original or spicy, is made with a savory signature sauce and
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Nestlé will sell its North American bottled water business, including Poland Spring, Deer Park, Ozarka and Arrowhead, in a $4.3 billion deal as it focuses on its premium brands. The Swiss consumer goods giant said in a statement on Wednesday that it has agreed to sell the brands to private equity firm One Rock Capital
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Advocates fighting for Washington, DC, to become the 51st state are more hopeful than ever that they’ll achieve statehood with Joe Biden in the White House and Democrats now controlling both chambers of Congress, though the effort still faces an uphill battle to gain traction. After decades of pushing for representation, supporters of DC statehood
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The Democratic chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee has filed a lawsuit against former President Donald Trump that cites a little-known federal statute that was first passed after the Civil War. The complaint, filed Tuesday by Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, accuses Trump, his attorney Rudy Giuliani, the Proud Boys and the Oath
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