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Where LA County’s employee vaccine mandate stands a month after initial deadline
gpointstudio/iStock (LOS ANGELES) — Thousands of Los Angeles County employees are being put on notice in the weeks after a COVID-19 vaccine mandate deadline passed. County employees had by Oct. 1 to submit proof of [Read More…]
Kids and the COVID-19 vaccine: Five questions answered by pediatricians
FatCamera/iStock (NEW YORK) — Children ages 5 to 11 are now eligible to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), on Tuesday signed off on [Read More…]
Scoreboard roundup — 11/3/21
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Boston 92, Orlando 79 Cleveland 107, Portland 104 Indiana 111, New York 98 Philadelphia 103, Chicago 98 Toronto 109, Washington [Read More…]
Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers placed on COVID-19 list
Christian Petersen/Getty Images (GREEN BAY, Wis.) — Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers will miss this Sunday’s game against the Kansas City Chiefs after being put on the NFL’s COVID-19 list, the team said. Packers [Read More…]
NFL player Henry Ruggs driving 156 mph seconds before fatal crash, police say
Ethan Miller/Getty Images (LAS VEGAS) — NFL wide receiver Henry Ruggs III was driving 156 mph seconds before he slammed his Corvette into the back of a Toyota SUV in Las Vegas early Tuesday morning, [Read More…]
Pelosi tells Democratic leaders she wants House votes on infrastructure bills this week
Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As House Democrats scramble to move forward with President Joe Biden’s landmark infrastructure and social spending legislation, Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday told her [Read More…]
Feds charge Russian national who worked on Steele dossier with lying to FBI
Marilyn Nieves/iStock (WASHINGTON) — A researcher who worked with Christopher Steele in assembling Steele’s controversial dossier that contained explosive and unproven claims about former President Donald Trump has been arrested on charges stemming from the [Read More…]
Senate Republicans target Biden vaccine mandate Fauci supports
uschools/iStock (WASHINGTON) — With the nation’s top public health officials as their audience, Senate Republicans on Thursday aired complaints about a new wide-reaching vaccine mandate for large businesses being implemented by the Biden administration. “I’m [Read More…]
CISA issues sweeping federal directive for government cybersecurity
anyaberkut/iStock (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration is ordering federal agencies to fix hundreds of vulnerabilities in software and hardware that hackers have been known to exploit, according to a new government directive released Wednesday. The [Read More…]
Biden appears unaware of possible separated family payments, says it won’t happen
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday denied reports that his administration was planning to pay migrant family members separated by the Trump administration up to $450,000 per person. “That’s not going [Read More…]
Text from McDonald’s CEO appears to blame parents of Jaslyn Adams and Adam Toledo for their deaths
Tony Baggett/iStock (CHICAGO) — Protests erupted at McDonald’s headquarters in Chicago this week after a text exchange between the fast food giant’s chief executive and Mayor Lori Lightfoot seemed to blame the parents of two [Read More…]
COVID-19 live updates: Don’t give kids pain reliever before vaccine, CDC says
AlxeyPnferov/iStock (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 750,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins [Read More…]
FAA refers 37 of the ‘most egregious’ unruly passenger cases to FBI for criminal review
guvendemir/iStock (WASHINGTON) — With the rise in airline passengers has come a rise in violence and aggression in the nation’s airports and onboard flights. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been sounding the alarm on [Read More…]
Juror booted in Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial over Jacob Blake joke
imaginima/iStock (KENOSHA, Wis.) — A juror in the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial in Wisconsin was booted from the case Thursday morning after he acknowledged that he told a tasteless joke to a deputy. The man, [Read More…]
Ahmaud Arbery’s mother ‘very’ discouraged by makeup of nearly all white jury
isayildiz/iStock (BRUNSWICK, Ga.) — The mother of Ahmaud Arbery said it is “very, very discouraging” that the jury impaneled in the trial of the Georgia men accused of chasing down and killing her son is [Read More…]
At Afghanistan’s northern border, worries about what comes next
ABC News (RUZVAT, Tajikistan) — In many places along Tajikistan’s border with Afghanistan, the countries are separated by just a few yards of water — the narrow Panj River. There are no walls or fences, [Read More…]
COP26 updates: Summit focuses on accelerating transition to clean energy
oonal/iStock (GLASGOW, Scotland) — Leaders from nearly every country in the world have converged upon Glasgow, Scotland, for COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference that experts are touting as the most important environmental summit [Read More…]
Up close with Prince William’s Earthshot Prize winners
Alastair Grant – Pool/Getty Images (GLASGOW, Scotland) — Eshrat Waris called just attending the COP26 climate summit and meeting Prince William in Glasgow, Scotland, this week an “out of body experience.” Being handed 1 million [Read More…]
COP26: These are the young activists taking the fight against global warming by storm
piyaset/iStock (NEW YORK) — Young people are taking climate action into their own hands as distrust over lawmakers’ ability to tackle global warming continues to grow. Children and young adults are experiencing “widespread” psychological distress [Read More…]
Missing girl found in Australia, man in custody: ‘Our family is whole again’
Colin Murty/Newspix via Getty Images (CARNARVON, Australia) — A 36-year-old man is now in custody following the rescue of missing 4-year-old Cleo Smith, who disappeared 18 days ago while camping with her family, the Western [Read More…]