Retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, who led a review of security at the US Capitol in the wake of the January 6 riot, said Friday that the fencing surrounding the compound “will do nothing to prevent another attack” and the threat to our democracy “lies within our borders.” “The four miles of fences that now
Continue ReadingThe Biden administration warned Friday that organizations face enormous risks from the recently disclosed Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities that have affected thousands of private organizations. As attacks leveraging the vulnerabilities have escalated, the window for updating exposed servers is incredibly short — “measured in hours, not days,” a senior administration official told reporters. President Joe Biden
Continue ReadingChris Harrison’s journey with “The Bachelorette” is over, at least for now, after a controversy over racially insensitive comments. The longtime host of “The Bachelor” reality franchise will not be back to guide the next “Bachelorette” on her search for love, producers announced on Twitter late Friday. Former “Bachelorette” stars Tayshia Adams and Kaitlyn Bristowe
Continue ReadingWe have passed a year since the initial Covid-19 shutdowns. That means a year of working from home, business casual from the waist up, and staring at your colleagues’ faces in a 13-inch grid. Zoom has become a huge part of today’s work flow, with a 470% increase in customers having more than 10 employees
Continue ReadingI spent the week of March 9, 2020, in the office, sitting across from my patients, one after another, in my office. We talked about relationship issues, depression and anxiety, and the other stressors of everyday life. No distance, no masks. There was this vague idea of an impending pandemic. But we felt if anything
Continue Reading Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert, an outspoken advocate of gun rights, has for years told a dramatic story about why she began openly carrying a gun. She says it was because a man was beaten to death in 2013 outside Shooters Grill, her restaurant in the municipality of Rifle, Colorado. Boebert, a Republican, told the story
Continue ReadingAstronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover Jr. are spending their Saturday conducting a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station. The spacewalk, which assists with continued upgrades to the orbiting laboratory, began at 8:14 a.m. ET. It is expected to last for six-and-a-half hours. You can watch the astronauts working outside the space station live
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Eli Lilly and Company’s experimental intravenous drug donanemab could slow the cognitive decline of patients with Alzheimer’s disease, according to early clinical trial results, published in The New England Journal of Medicine on Saturday. The study included 257 patients with early symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease; 131 received donanemab, while 126 received a placebo. The researchers found
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Americans will start seeing the next round of stimulus payments hit their bank accounts as early as this weekend, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday. The payments are worth up to $1,400 per person and were included in the $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill signed by President Joe Biden earlier in the day.
Continue ReadingScientists are celebrating the first discovery of a dinosaur preserved while sitting on a nest of eggs with fossilized embryos, including at least three that were visible. The oviraptorosaur fossil was uncovered from rocks that are 70 million years old in Ganzhou City, China, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CMNH) said in a news
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It’s been hellish, and it will likely go down as the toughest stretch in many Americans’ lives. One year ago Saturday, the country went into its first stage of lockdown, though some adhered to guidelines better than others. Three hundred and sixty-five days later, Covid-19 has snuffed out more than 530,000 lives in the world’s
Continue Reading Tucked into the massive $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill signed by President Joe Biden on Thursday is about $200 million for public libraries. It’s one of the reasons Republicans have criticized the bill, which they argue is too big and includes funding for things that have nothing to do with fighting Covid or the resulting
Continue ReadingGrowing up as a child of a White woman and a Black man in a small town in Maine, Victoria Anderson was constantly reminded she was different. A close relative nicknamed her “jungle bunny,” she said. Another relative once turned her framed photo so her face wasn’t visible. And she wasn’t allowed to play with
Continue ReadingTamika Palmer has been in the same battle for justice in Breonna Taylor’s death for the last year. Palmer said her daughter was killed senselessly by police and in her eyes no one is being held accountable for it. Facing this reality makes her angry. But Palmer said she will never give up her fight
Continue ReadingA French actress stripped naked at the country’s prestigious César Awards to demand more support for the country’s struggling arts industry, which has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Actress Corinne Masiero, 57, took to the stage at France’s equivalent of the Oscars wearing a fake donkey skin and a blood stained dress to
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It’s customary for pro golfers to buy a drink for all their fellow players after hitting a hole-in-one. Well, the field at the Players Championship probably had an excellent Friday evening after two players achieved the unlikely feat within hours of each other. In the second round of the PGA Tour event, Denny McCarthy was
Continue ReadingTanzania’s Prime Minister has dispelled rumors about President John Magufuli’s health after days of wide speculation that he was ill with Covid-19. Kassim Majaliwa said he was surprised people were questioning the President’s whereabouts, adding that the leader was “fine and continuing with his daily activities,” as he spoke during a Friday prayer session at
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NewsChannel 21’s Max Goldwasser recaps a wild week two of high school football, and brings you the best plays of the night.
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Week two of high school football featured three home games on Friday night in Central Oregon, along with some fans back in the stands!
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Teachers and school staff want to return to the classroom with their students, education experts said. But after a year of the pandemic, managing Covid-19 still poses obstacles to in-person learning. “That’s how they were trained to teach, and work with them, and they miss them. They want to be back in person,” Becky Pringle,
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