California will set aside 40% of its vaccines for underserved communities in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus and hasten the reopening of the economy. The state has the most Covid-19 cases in the country. The largest disparities are present among Latinos in California — only 17% of doses administered have been given
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T-Mobile has been popular with consumers, but an underdog when it comes to serving businesses. The “Uncarrier” wants to change that with the rollout of 5G. The company announced Thursday a series of of new offerings for business customers: corporate wireless plans with unlimited data and 5G access, cloud-based workplace communication tools and a “Home
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The solar system’s largest and smallest planets will be in alignment this Friday. In the morning, Mercury and Jupiter will be in conjunction and appear just above the horizon, according to NASA. A conjunction is when two objects appear close together in the sky, but they can actually be millions of miles apart, according to
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Growing up in coastal Maine, Lynda Doughty spent a lot of time out on the ocean, where she regularly encountered seals, turtles and whales. She developed a passion for the marine wildlife living along the coast and knew from an early age that she wanted to dedicate her life to protecting them. “I just remember
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T-Mobile has been popular with consumers, but an underdog when it comes to serving businesses. The “Uncarrier” wants to change that with the rollout of 5G. The company announced Thursday a series of of new offerings for business customers: corporate wireless plans with unlimited data and 5G access, cloud-based workplace communication tools and a “Home
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The top State Department diplomatic security official in Afghanistan was removed from his role for declaring the “death of America” and making racist comments about Kamala Harris in a post on his Facebook page when President Donald Trump lost November’s presidential election, according to four sources familiar with the matter. “Sad day in American history.
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“Coming 2 America” was clearly designed to be crowd-pleasing back when crowds were possible, and as such it’s among the few movies redirected from theaters to streaming that have genuinely lost something because of it. That said, it’s still a good deal of fun, reassembling old faces from the 1988 original while adding plenty of
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TONIGHT: Clouds increase along with gusty easterly winds. Lows in the mid-upper 30s. TOMORROW: Decreasing clouds with rain chances staying mainly south of Mid-Missouri. Breezy with highs in the mid-50s. EXTENDED: Clear skies overnight tomorrow will bring morning temperatures on Saturday into the low 30s. This weekend looks wonderful with highs in the upper 50s Saturday and into the low 60s
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WABC) — Police are investigating yet another unprovoked attack on a person of Asian descent, this time in a subway station on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. It happened just before 9 p.m. Tuesday at the East Broadway F train station near Rutgers Street. Eyewitness News obtained
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The Senate is now engaged in a marathon effort to take up President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill, a process that could stretch into the weekend before a final vote in the chamber takes place. The chamber voted Thursday afternoon to open debate on the legislation. But Republican opposition is expected to draw
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Jay-Z has 99 problems but figuring out a buyer for his struggling music streaming service is no longer one. Square, the payments company founded and run by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, announced Thursday it has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Jay-Z’s Tidal platform. In a press release, Square said it expects to pay
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Mississippi moved one step closer to banning transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports after the state House approved a bill on Wednesday that could make the state the first in the country to add anti-transgender legislation to its books this year. Senate Bill 2536, which prohibits transgender athletes from competing on women’s sports teams
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While tens of thousands of Americans are infected with the coronavirus each day and more research suggests variants threaten another surge, some state leaders are loosening Covid-19 restrictions against the recommendations of health experts. The decision to roll back measures is “inexplicable,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and
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Italy invoked European Union powers to block the export of 250,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses to Australia on Thursday, in a dramatic escalation of a dispute between the EU and drug giant AstraZeneca. Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s spokesperson Paola Ansuini confirmed the move to CNN, adding that Italy and the European Commission had agreed on the
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Federal prosecutors have charged Eric Gene Barber of West Virginia in connection to the Capitol riot, alleging he stole C-SPAN employee equipment while participating in the January 6 insurrection. Barber, a former city council member from Parkersburg, West Virginia, was charged with entering restricted buildings, unlawful activity at the Capitol and theft. Writing in an
Continue Reading Lisa Racine hasn’t been able to visit her dad in-person at the nursing home he lives at because of the coronavirus pandemic. So, she decided to get a part-time job there to see him more often. Racine, 58, works fulltime as a project manager for a printing company. She said she can adjust her schedule
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LINCOLN, Nebraska (Lincoln Journal Star) — A former University of Nebraska-Lincoln student is suing the school for failing to stop a retaliation campaign against her after she reported being sexually assaulted and harassed by a member of the faculty. The federal lawsuit, filed in Nebraska on Sunday by
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Federal investigators are examining records of communications between members of Congress and the pro-Trump mob that attacked the US Capitol, as the investigation moves closer to exploring whether lawmakers wittingly or unwittingly helped the insurrectionists, according to a US official briefed on the matter. The data gathered so far includes indications of contact with lawmakers
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story RACINE, Wisconsin (The Journal Times) — She was training a once-wild mustang. She raised birds from egg to flight. She had a daughter. On the night of Jan. 6, 1982, her life was taken. Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer, a Racine native born Barbara Burns, was trying to hitchhike home
Continue Reading Last week, Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky used part of his allotted time during the Senate confirmation hearing for Dr. Rachel Levine, President Joe Biden’s pick for assistant secretary of health and human services, to draw a comparison between genital mutilation and gender confirmation surgery. Dr. Levine, who previously served as Pennsylvania’s health secretary,
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