By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has given full approval to the COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer. The Food and Drug Administration’s decision on Monday may help lift public confidence in vaccinations as the nation battles the most contagious coronavirus mutant yet. The FDA has never before had
Continue Reading By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — All New York City public school teachers and other staffers will have to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. Officials announced the new policy Monday as the nation’s largest school system prepares for classes to start next month. The city previously said teachers, like other city employees,
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By Nimi Princewill, CNN It was a roll call of Nigeria’s most powerful political elites during the wedding of Yusuf Buhari, son of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, to the daughter of a prominent monarch in northwestern Kano State, in a lavish ceremony over the weekend. The nuptials, spanning over two days, commenced Friday amid tight
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — China’s microblogging platform Sina Weibo has closed 145 accounts, some of which had defended pop star Kris Wu over his rape allegations. Weibo said Monday the accounts were closed for publishing what it called “information harmful for maintaining social order.” Beijing police have said the Chinese-Canadian pop star was detained last month
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BEIJING (AP) — China’s microblogging platform Sina Weibo has closed 145 accounts, some of which had defended pop star Kris Wu over his rape allegations. Weibo said Monday the accounts were closed for publishing what it called “information harmful for maintaining social order.” Beijing police have said the Chinese-Canadian pop star was detained last month
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By Chris Boyette, CNN Mississippi health officials are warning residents not to take an anti-parasitic drug — in most cases, a formulation purchased at livestock supply centers — to treat or prevent Covid-19. The Mississippi State Department of Health issued an alert on Friday that the Mississippi Poison Control Center has received an increasing number
Continue Reading By TRAVIS LOLLER and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press WAVERLY, Tenn. (AP) — Search crews with dogs continued the grim work of going door-to-door and looking through debris to find the missing after floodwaters roared through rural Tennessee over the weekend, killing at least 22 people. Saturday’s flooding took out roads, cellphone towers and telephone lines
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has opened a facility in Tokyo to provide oxygen for up to 130 coronavirus patients with mild symptoms. The idea is to temporarily give supplemental oxygen to patients who develop a problem while isolating at home or waiting for hospital vacancies. There’s growing concern that people
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EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) — Police say a crash in suburban Kansas City has killed a 6-year-old girl and seriously injured several others, including a 4-year-old boy. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the crash happened Friday night in Excelsior Springs, when a car went off the right side of the road, hit a parked
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By Kara Fox, Tim Lister and Nilly Kohzad, CNN As the Taliban firm up their grip on Afghanistan, there is one remote region whose resistance to the militant group goes back decades. Now, the last major holdout is under threat. The Taliban have been massing forces in and around Panjshir province, the only one yet
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By Atika Shubert, James Briggs and Jack Guy, CNN A nurse who delivered a baby girl on board an aircraft that evacuated people from Afghanistan has said her team was “expecting the worst, hoping for the best.” The Afghan mother went into labor aboard a C-17 transport aircraft full of evacuees fleeing the Taliban takeover
Continue Reading By Atika Shubert, CNN From his office window, Brig. Gen. Joshua Olson can see a daily football match organized by the Afghan children who are temporarily calling his air base home. “This is now my family — at least until they get off our airpatch,” Olson, the installation commander at Ramstein Air Base in Germany,
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According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s crash report, Kegri Ilu was walking on a dock in the Darby Hollow Cove when he slipped and fell into the water.
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — British soldiers in scarlet tunics and bearskin hats have paraded outside Buckingham Palace as the Changing the Guard ceremony resumed after a pandemic-induced 18-month gap. The tourist-pleasing spectacle was halted in March 2020 as Britain went into lockdown to stem the spread of the coronavirus. Soldiers from the Coldstream Guards marched from
Continue Reading HAYS, Kan. (AP) — Police in western Kansas say a man is dead after he was accidentally shot over the weekend by a roommate. Police say the shooting happened late Friday night in Hays, when first responders were called to home for a shooting. Arriving Hays police officers and Ellis County Sheriff’s deputies found a
Continue Reading By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — Filmmaker Beeban Kidron, a member of the House of Lords, has been a driving force behind a U.K. law designed to make the online world safer for children that takes effect on Sept. 2. Tech companies including Facebook’s Instagram, TikTok and Google’s YouTube have already responded
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By Rosa Flores and Ashley Killough, CNN From the front lawn of her friend’s house, Vicky Zapata went live on Facebook recently and burst into tears, praying. “We ask you God, that you heal our town, Father, from this disease,” Zapata said in the livestream. Inside the house, looking out through the glass front door,
Continue Reading By Rosa Flores and Ashley Killough, CNN From the front lawn of her friend’s house, Vicky Zapata went live on Facebook recently and burst into tears, praying. “We ask you God, that you heal our town, Father, from this disease,” Zapata said in the livestream. Inside the house, looking out through the glass front door,
Continue Reading JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Cooling centers have opened in Mississippi’s capital city as a heat wave scorches temperatures in several states in the South and Midwest. The National Weather Service says heat advisories Monday cover parts of 10 states, including Kansas, Missouri and Illinois in the Midwest. In the South, parts of Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma,
Continue Reading By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A lag in routine school immunizations is threatening a smooth start to the school year and risking children’s health. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified a significant lag in 2020 in the standard shot regimen required for adolescent and elementary-age children long
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