By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer The U.S. is expanding COVID-19 boosters as it confronts the omicron surge. The Food and Drug Administration on Monday allowed extra Pfizer shots for children as young as 12. Boosters already are recommended for everyone 16 and older, and the FDA says they’re also warranted for 12- to 15-year-olds.
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By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer The U.S. is expanding COVID-19 boosters as it confronts the omicron surge. The Food and Drug Administration on Monday allowed extra Pfizer shots for children as young as 12. Boosters already are recommended for everyone 16 and older, and the FDA says they’re also warranted for 12- to 15-year-olds.
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Aoife Beary, una de las sobrevivientes del derrumbe del balcón de Berkeley de 2015 en el que murieron seis personas, murió a los 27 años. Beary sufrió lesiones que le cambiaron la vida después de que el balcón del cuarto piso de un edificio de apartamentos en Berkeley (California) se
Continue ReadingBy MARIYA MURROW Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — A 5-year-old boy is dead after a tree fell onto his home in DeKalb County Monday morning. It happened just after 5 a.m. along Glenwood Road. First responders rushed to the scene where they found the home forcefully split in half. Firefighters
Continue ReadingBy CONNOR MCCARTHY Click here for updates on this story GRESHAM, Oregon (KPTV) — After three deadly shootings in the metro area on New Year’s Day, one anti-gun violence activist group is speaking out. Rev. Mark Knutson of Augustana Lutheran Church said shootings in Gresham and Portland less than 24 hours into the New Year
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By Ben Morse, CNN The NFL season has never been bigger. For the first time in its history, the 2021 season saw teams play 17 regular season games, adding one game from the 16 games played in recent years. There have been two Week 18’s before — one in 1993 and one in 2001 —
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is suggesting there will be no tightening of measures to slow the current surge in coronavirus infections, in spite of the country’s healthcare system remaining under strain for weeks. The highly transmissible omicron variant has sent Britain’s daily new caseload soaring over Christmas and the New Year,
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Betty White left this world after having had a life well lived and well loved. Her agent and longtime friend, Jeff Witjas, told People magazine that White, who died New Year’s Eve at the age of 99, was aware of how much she was beloved. “She knew it, but I
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DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Schools in Davenport surprised parents Monday with an announcement that classes for the day had been cancelled because there weren’t enough drivers to run school bus routes. The Davenport Community School District informed parents early Monday that classes were cancelled because of a school bus driver shortage. All Saints Catholic School
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story HILLBORO, Oregon (KPTV) — Hillsboro Fire & Rescue said a historic building that houses several businesses burned in a commercial fire in downtown Hillsboro early Sunday morning. The fire department said just before 3 a.m. on Sunday, it responded to the 200 block of East
Continue Reading By COLLEEN LONG and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden only rarely talks about last January’s violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and the conspiratorial lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Likewise, Biden has prioritized other matters ahead of voting rights — a matter that directly relates to the
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN In a video looking ahead to 2022, Alec Baldwin reflected on the fatal shooting on the set of his film “Rust.” The actor and producer posted the almost 13-minute video on his verified Instagram account on New Year’s Day that he captioned, “Another chance to let go of anything that
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN Business) –– Evergrande, la asediada empresa china de bienes raÃces, suspendió la cotización de sus acciones en Hong Kong este lunes. Una decisión que ocurre mientras la compañÃa, fuertemente endeudada, atraviesa una crisis inmobiliaria. Evergrande no puede pagar sus deudas y China se esfuerza por contener las consecuencias Evergrande dijo en un documento
Continue Reading By AAMER MADHANI and PARKER PURIFOY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A winter storm packing heavy snow has closed government offices and schools in the nation’s capital and surrounding suburbs. Monday’s storm dumped between 6 and 11 inches of snow six and grounded the president’s helicopter. Travel was treacherous and more than 500,000 customers lost
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — Milwaukee’s acting mayor, Cavalier Johnson, has tested positive for COVID-19. Johnson said he tests for the virus every Friday, and he found out he was positive from a routine test taken on Friday, Dec. 31, 2021. Johnson said he is vaccinated and
Continue Reading By DAVID KOENIG and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press A winter storm hitting the mid-Atlantic combined with the pandemic to further frustrate air travelers whose return flights home from the holidays were canceled or delayed in the first few days of the new year. According to tracking service FlightAware more than 3,000 U.S. flights and more
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By Kate Sullivan and Maegan Vazquez, CNN The White House on Monday announced it would allocate $1 billion in funding from the American Rescue Plan to independent meat and poultry producers as part of an effort to boost competition in the meat-processing industry and lower prices for consumers. President Joe Biden met virtually with family
Continue Reading By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Forecasting economic change in a pandemic was always going to be hard. Now omicron, the new COVID-19 variant sweeping across the globe, has made it even harder. Economists and policymakers, after all, have no real-world experience contending with the economic fallout from a worldwide pandemic. In
Continue Reading By THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Colo. (AP) — Colorado search teams are looking for two missing people in the smoldering debris from a massive wildfire while people who escaped the flames are sorting through what didn’t burn. Investigators are still trying to pinpoint what caused flames to tear through at least 9.4 square miles.
Continue Reading By THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Colo. (AP) — Colorado search teams are looking for two missing people in the smoldering debris from a massive wildfire while people who escaped the flames are sorting through what didn’t burn. Investigators are still trying to pinpoint what caused flames to tear through at least 9.4 square miles.
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