Pfizer expects to file for full US Food and Drug Administration approval for its Covid-19 vaccine for people ages 16 to 85 this month, and will seek emergency use authorization for its vaccine for children ages 2 to 11 in September, the company said during an earnings call on Tuesday. The company’s vaccine safety and
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Imagine casting off most of your worldly possessions to live on a sailboat you bought on the Internet — perhaps without even seeing it, or knowing how to tie a knot or hoist the mainsail. For some newbie sailors who embarked on boat life during the pandemic, the past year provided an unexpected push to
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Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore City Fire Chief Niles R. Ford addressed allegations Tuesday that the department did not have any units to respond to a quadruple shooting in Carroll Park over the weekend. A 22-year-old man is dead and three others are injured from that shooting. It happened
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Demand for goods is skyrocketing as the US economy reopens from the pandemic. But there’s a big problem: American factories can’t find enough people to do the work. Even though US manufacturing activity surged to a 37-year high in March, the industry has more than half a million job openings. Factories are struggling to find
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — “When you look that kind of behavior up in the encyclopedia, it says ‘psychopath,’” said Jason Fincher. Not long ago, Fincher had gotten a pair of Great Dane puppies. “They are absolutely great dogs. I love them, they’re amazing,” he said. They lived in
Continue Reading Sean Combs is at it again. The mogul who went from Puffy to Puff Daddy to P. Diddy, to Diddy, and then P. Diddy again really did change his middle name to “Love.” While there were reports last year that he had integrated “Love” into his name, Sean John Combs posted his Florida driver’s license
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President Joe Biden’s coronavirus advisers told governors during a call Tuesday that they plan to redistribute vaccine doses should states not order all the vaccines allocated to them each week, the White House confirmed. States will still get allocations based on their population, but the change means if a certain state does not order all
Continue Reading You can’t make this stuff up. Two of the attorneys on opposite sides of the Bill and Melinda Gates divorce case also represented the opposing sides in the 2019 divorce of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his ex-wife MacKenzie Scott. Ted Billbe, one of the lead lawyers for Bill Gates in this case, represented Scott
Continue Reading Elected officials and advocacy groups from cities across the country are calling for the pace of police investigation announcements by the Justice Department to increase. Last month, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced pattern or practice investigations against the Louisville Metro and Minneapolis police departments following the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd in March
Continue Reading The question of whether former President Donald Trump should be allowed back on Facebook is the biggest, most contentious and most controversial single content moderation decision the company has ever made. So who’s going to make that call? Well, surprisingly, not company founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The decision will instead be made by the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE (WSMV) — Whitney Pastorek got her annual mammogram from a hospital in her insurance network, not thinking twice about it, as she’d never paid for the preventative checkup before. Until the bill game; $403.02 from a doctor she didn’t know. “I was shocked. I didn’t know who
Continue Reading “The Simpsons” executive producer Al Jean and the show’s team could have used a little of The Force’s power when producing the new Disney+ short — “Maggie Simpson in ‘The Force Awakens From Its Nap’” — in a mere four months. “We wrote the first draft around January 28. It was me, Michael Price and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — Detectives are trying to find the person who broke into Atlanta firefighters’ cars overnight. The break-in happened in southeast Atlanta at Fire Station 2 located at the 1500 block of Jonesboro Road in southeast Atlanta. According to Atlanta police, firefighters were responding to a fatal
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Shaunasty Townsend, 33, of Columbia was charged Tuesday with first-degree assault and first-degree robbery in connection with the attack April 16 on Elm Grove Drive in northeast Columbia.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — The University of Mobile will award the doctor of humane letters to Sarah Bailey Thomas, a UM graduate who shattered glass ceilings and became the first female official to work a Super Bowl earlier this year. Thomas will deliver the commencement address at the
Continue Reading Amazon and Google owner Alphabet are two of the most valuable companies on the planet. They dominate their industries, generate tons of cash and are obscenely profitable. Yet neither of the companies are in the prestigious Dow Jones Industrial Average — and for a good reason. Both Amazon and Alphabet have stock prices in the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MAGGIE VALLEY, North Carolina (WLOS) — Two owners from a Maggie Valley Inn are going viral after posting what some are calling a gross message on their kiosk. Maggie Valley Inn owners say ‘no regrets’ after posting divisive sign “Right now, the kiosk says ACAB, the barrel is
Continue Reading Democratic Rep. Charlie Crist is launching a campaign to get his old job as Florida governor back. Crist announced Tuesday that he will be entering the Florida 2022 race for governor, joining a potentially tough and crowded Democratic primary in a pivotal swing state. Republican incumbent Ron DeSantis has not yet formally announced whether he’ll
Continue Reading A woman allegedly assaulted a flight attendant during an American Airlines flight from Miami to New York City, according to a complaint released by federal prosecutors. The altercation between Chenasia I. Campbell and the flight attendant happened midway through American Airlines Flight 1357, according to the federal complaint filed in New York. The flight left
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The pandemic has caused more than 1 million deaths worldwide. Experts say that toll has contributed to mental health problems including anxiety, depression and other trauma and stress-related disorders.
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