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COVID-19 live updates: WHO warns of rising cases of omicron sub-variant
Go Nakamura/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.6 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 868,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by [Read More…]
Idaho activates crisis standards of care in 3 districts
Xavier Lorenzo/Getty Images (BOISE, Idaho) — Faced with a severe medical staffing shortage due to a surge in the COVID-19 cases and dwindling blood supply, Idaho health officials have activated crisis standards of care guidelines [Read More…]
2nd NYPD officer dies from Harlem shooting
Free Agents Limited/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A second NYPD officer has died after being shot at a domestic violence call in Harlem this weekend. Officer Wilbert Mora, 27, who died Tuesday, is “3 times [Read More…]
Coast Guard searching for 39 people after boat capsizes near Florida
@USCGSoutheast/Twitter (FORT PIERCE INLET, Fla.) — The Coast Guard was combing the waters off eastern Florida Tuesday afternoon, looking for 39 people on a boat that capsized. The vessel may have been part of a [Read More…]
Black correction officer mistaken for shoplifter sues Walmart for ‘racial profiling’
Google Maps Street View (FAYETTEVILLE, Ga.) — A Black law enforcement officer is alleging that he was racially profiled in a Georgia Walmart store after he was handcuffed and wrongfully accused of shoplifting — and [Read More…]
COVID-19 live updates: Scale of education lost ‘nearly insurmountable,’ UNICEF warns
John Moore/Getty Image (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.5 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 866,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by [Read More…]
Police investigate homicide of six people found dead at Milwaukee home
Yegor AleyevTASS via Getty Images (MILWAUKEE) — Six people were found dead at a home in Wisconsin’s largest city in what police are investigating as a homicide. Officers were conducting a welfare check at a [Read More…]
Another violence interrupter killed in Baltimore as community reels from gun violence
Andre Chung for The Washington Post via Getty Images (BALTIMORE) — A man who worked on the front lines of preventing gun violence in Baltimore, Maryland, was shot and killed on Wednesday night in a [Read More…]
‘Multiple’ dogs may have been sickened by rat-transmitted illness, NYC official says
WABC-TV (NEW YORK) — New York City dog owners are being warned after several pets may have been sickened by leptospirosis, a disease commonly associated with rats. A city council member said this week his [Read More…]
Hazardous weather conditions after winter storm hits southeastern US with snow, ice
GETTY/Andrew Bret Wallis (NEW YORK) — The southeastern United States is weathering snow and ice yet again a week after the region was slammed with hazardous winter conditions. Two to 4.5 inches of snow have been [Read More…]
NYPD officer killed, 2nd officer and suspect in critical condition after shooting
GETTY/Alan Schein Photography (NEW YORK) — A rookie New York City officer is dead and another officer was in critical condition after they were shot responding to a domestic violence call in Harlem Friday night, police [Read More…]
Worker shortages, flight delays contributing to slow delivery of rapid tests
bunhill/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Rebeca Andrade had been waiting days for a shipment of COVID-19 rapid tests to help keep her school open. The superintendent of a school in Salinas, California, Andrade said she [Read More…]
‘Critical missing’ 11-year-old boy found safe, police say
iStock/ijoe84 (DALLAS) — Dallas police said an 11-year-old boy who was missing for two nights and last seen wearing only shorts and socks during frigid temperatures has been found safe. Traveon Michael Allen Griffin left [Read More…]
Two years after COVID first hit the US, hundreds of thousands of Americans are still falling ill
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — At the beginning of 2020, as the nation celebrated the start of a new year, many Americans were still unaware of the “mysterious pneumonia” that had sickened dozens of [Read More…]
COVID-19 live updates: Breakthrough cases grew fourfold during omicron
PAU BARRENA/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.5 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 860,000 Americans, according to real-time data [Read More…]
4 people, including infant, freeze to death being smuggled across US-Canada border
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (MANITOBA, Canada) — Four people, including two adults, a teen and an infant, have been found frozen to death about 40 feet from the U.S.-Canada border while being smuggled into North [Read More…]
Jury seated in federal trial of 3 former cops accused in George Floyd’s death
Mario Tama/Getty Images (MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.) — Opening statements in the joint federal trial of three former police officers accused of civil rights violations in the death of George Floyd are expected to begin next week [Read More…]
International flight turns around after passenger refuses to wear mask: Officials
Alicia Llop/Getty Images (MIAMI) — A first-class passenger who allegedly refused to wear a mask disrupted a London-bound American Airlines flight Wednesday night and prompted the pilot to turn back to Miami so the customer [Read More…]
2 Marines killed, 17 injured in rollover crash near Camp Lejeune; driver charged with death by motor vehicle
ABC News/FILE (JACKSONVILLE, N.C.) — Two Marines have been killed and more than a dozen injured in a rollover accident Wednesday near Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina, according to officials. Seventeen Marines were injured [Read More…]
COVID-19 live updates: Fauci predicts most states will be past omicron peak by mid-February
Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.5 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 853,000 Americans, according to real-time data [Read More…]