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With the Olympic games due to start in Tokyo in July, Japan had every reason to move quickly to approve a Covid-19 vaccine and begin inoculations. But the country only started inoculating its population of 126 million people with Pfizer-BioNTech shots last week, more than two months after the vaccine rolled out in other major

A New Orleans law enforcement officer was fatally shot intervening in an altercation at a high school basketball game Friday, authorities said. Cpl. Martinus Mitchum was a Tulane University police officer and a reserve officer for the Second City Court, New Orleans Police Superintendent Shaun Ferguson said. “Corporal Mitchum was a dedicated police professional who

A 5.3 magnitude earthquake was felt in Anchorage, Alaska, on Saturday morning, according to officials. The quake was centered less than 10 miles outside of downtown Anchorage, near Point MacKenzie. “That was quite a shaker,” the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities tweeted. The department said it had no reports of damage, but it

The reconstructed wreckage of Trans World Airlines Flight 800, which exploded minutes after taking off from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on July 17, 1996, will be decommissioned and destroyed, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. All 230 people on board the Paris-bound flight were killed. The Boeing 747 was destroyed, and

For the thousands of people who work on a spacecraft that journeys to Mars, the result of their efforts often remains unseen once it leaves Earth. That all changed this week when NASA’s Perseverance rover returned the first-ever video of a descent through the Martian atmosphere and safe landing on the red planet. The footage

Click here for updates on this story     Hendersonville, North Carolina (WLOS) — The volume of food at Interfaith Alliance Ministry speaks to the need and an outpouring of generosity. Meanwhile, the devotion of volunteers speaks volumes about the need to give back. Sometimes, that happens later in life. Tuesday mornings include some fun-loving and hardworking

Three people were killed Friday when their single-engine plane crashed into a ravine shortly after takeoff in Gainesville, Georgia, officials said. The plane, a single-engine Cessna-182, crashed about two miles northeast of Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport in Gainesville shortly after takeoff, said Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson Emma Duncan in a statement to CNN. Hall County

Click here for updates on this story     Omaha, Nebraska (WOWT) — A deputy from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office arrested two men Friday morning. Michael Aponte from New York and Rawy Correa Perez from Wisconsin was arrested for possession of a controlled substance and failure to affix a tax stamp. A Toyota 4Runner was stopped

The windows blew open. The building shook. At 1:30 a.m. local time Friday, a resident of al-Bukamal, a city near the Syrian-Iraqi border, was jarred from his sleep. Speaking under the condition of anonymity for security reasons, he told CNN the explosions were unlike anything he had heard before. What he likely heard was the

When one troop of Girl Scouts in Iowa was given the goal of selling more than 1,000 boxes of cookies, the girls put on their signature sashes and got to work, flexing their entrepreneurial skills. As of Feb. 26, the girls in Troop 64224 of Council Bluffs, Iowa, have sold over 5,000 boxes of cookies,