LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced tighter restrictions to stem the spread of the omicron variant. He is again urging people to work from home and mandating COVID-19 passes to get into nightclubs and large events. Johnson said it was time to impose stricter measures to prevent a spike of hospitalizations
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LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced tighter restrictions to stem the spread of the omicron variant. He is again urging people to work from home and mandating COVID-19 passes to get into nightclubs and large events. Johnson said it was time to impose stricter measures to prevent a spike of hospitalizations
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By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Elizabeth Holmes’ defense rested its case Wednesday, shortly after the founder and former CEO of Theranos concluded her seventh day on the witness stand in her own criminal trial. While the prosecution called 29 witnesses to testify, the defense’s case relied almost entirely on Holmes. During her testimony, she
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — A snowy owl found covered in oil and suffering from hypothermia is recovering at the Wisconsin Humane Society’s Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. According to the center’s Facebook page, the large bird was spotted at a nearby recycling center in rough shape. WHS says
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GALENA, Mo. (AP) — Three men charged after a tourist boat sank and killed 17 people in Missouri in 2018 are in state court for a preliminary hearing to determine if the case will proceed. The men each face 17 counts of first-degree involuntary manslaughter. Kenneth McKee was the captain of the duck boat that
Continue Reading TALLAHASEE, Fla. (AP) — Advocacy groups are criticizing the Florida Department of Education for removing an anti-bullying webpage from its site, saying the decision will harm LGBTQ students. A spokesman for the state education department on Wednesday said it removed the portal because it contained links to federal sites that “previously provided helpful guidance and information, but
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — “Hasta ahora, el 55% de las personas en América Latina y el Caribe se han vacunado completamente contra el covid-19”, dijo la Dra. Carissa F. Etienne, directora de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS). Durante la sesión informativa diaria de la OPS, Etienne también señaló que todavía hay demasiadas
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Schmitt said Tuesday that he sent letters to school districts that still require masks ordering them to stop enforcing the mandate, including Columbia Public Schools. Schmitt has also sued the district over its mask rule for all students and workers. No hearings have been scheduled in that case.
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has apologized and ordered an inquiry after a leaked video showed senior members of his staff joking about holding a lockdown-breaching Christmas party. The video has poured fuel on allegations that Conservative government officials flouted coronavirus rules they imposed on everyone else.
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By MITCH STACY AP Sports Writer CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow says his injured pinky finger on his throwing hand won’t keep him out of Sunday’s game against San Francisco. The finger was dislocated last Sunday when the second-year quarterback was hit on a strip-sack on the Bengals’ first possession against the
Continue Reading By MATT O’BRIEN and FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writers Robotic vacuum cleaners wouldn’t start. Doorbell cameras stopped watching for package thieves, though some of those deliveries were canceled anyway. Netflix and Disney movies got interrupted and The Associated Press had trouble publishing the news. A major outage in Amazon’s cloud computing network on Dec. 7
Continue Reading By AMY FORLITI and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An attorney for the Minnesota police officer who killed Black motorist Daunte Wright has told jurors that all Wright had to do that day was surrender to police. Prosecutors told jurors earlier Wednesday that former Brooklyn Center Officer Kim Potter violated her training and
Continue Reading By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to make the federal government carbon-neutral by 2050, with a 65% reduction in planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and an all-electric fleet of cars and trucks five years later. The White House says the order shows how the
Continue ReadingBy ANGIE RICONO, CYNDI FAHRLANDER Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Kansas (KCTV, KSMO) — Ahmon Mann has spent more than 20 years in prison for a murder he swears he did not do. News of a federal grand jury targeting KCK police corruption didn’t surprise him. It was first reported by
Continue Reading ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta Hawks forward Solomon Hill is expected to miss the remainder of the season with a hamstring injury, adding to the team’s growing lack of depth on the wing. The Hawks say an MRI showed Hill suffered a torn right hamstring tendon when he slipped and did a split in Sunday’s loss
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN President Joe Biden will sign an executive order Wednesday directing the federal government to get to net-zero emissions by 2050, using the power of the federal purse to buy clean energy, purchase electric vehicles and make federal buildings more energy efficient. The executive order represents something significant the administration can do
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Newsmax says it is not renewing the contract of its former White House correspondent, Emerald Robinson, who was taken off the air last month after spreading false information about COVID-19 vaccines online. Robinson had sent a message to “Christians” on Twitter falsely claiming that vaccines contained a marker called Luciferase that
Continue Reading NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — A car has entered the Niagara River and is stuck in the rapids near the brink of Niagara Falls. It is not yet known how or where the car entered the water and whether anyone is inside. The gray car is almost completely submerged with only part of the roof
Continue Reading By ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — Justin Fields is set to return to the Chicago Bears’ lineup. Coach Matt Nagy said Wednesday the prized rookie quarterback will start when the team visits the Green Bay Packers this week after missing the past two games because of broken ribs. Fields, the
Continue Reading IOWA FALLS, Iowa (AP) — Police in central Iowa say a man who had been stopped by police Wednesday morning for reportedly stalking a woman he used to date was fatally shot by officers when he displayed a gun and tried to flee the stop. The Iowa Department of Public Safety said in a news
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