By Andrea Eger Click here for updates on this story TULSA, Oklahoma (Tulsa World) — One of the youngest critical COVID-19 patients treated at The Children’s Hospital at Saint Francis was released Monday, just a few days after her mother’s plea to vaccination holdouts went viral. After a 12-day hospital stay, 3-year-old Aurora Cannon returned
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has welcomed a group of 124 Afghan media workers and their families who fled their country after the Taliban takeover. The group arrived aboard a flight in the pre-dawn hours of Wednesday. The Afghans had worked for various media outlets, and had requested humanitarian visas because of the Taliban’s hostility
Continue ReadingBy TERRY SPENCER and DAVID FISCHER MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A gunman walked into a Miami Beach restaurant and fatally shot a tourist who was protecting his 1-year-old son. Tamarius Blair Davis told investigators he shot 21-year-old Dustin Wakefield on Tuesday night because “was high on mushrooms, which made him feel empowered. He told
Continue ReadingLAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah believes she can break Florence Griffith Joyner’s 33-year-old record in the 100 meters if she runs in the perfect conditions. Don’t expect it to happen in Lausanne at the Athletissima with the forecast predicting 68 degrees Fahrenheit. That is cooler than ideal temperatures for breaking the record
Continue ReadingCNNEE (CNN Español) — Autoridades paraguayas detuvieron este martes a Kassem Mohamad Hijazi, ciudadano brasileño de origen libanés residente en el país. El operativo se desarrolló en Ciudad del Este, que forma parte de la llamada Triple Frontera, compuesta por Paraguay, Argentina y Brasil. Según una conferencia de prensa dada por la Fiscalía y la
Continue ReadingSALEM, Ore. (AP) — With COVID-19 cases surging in Oregon, at least four school districts have delayed their start date. The Alsea School District in Benton County was set to start Monday. But on Aug. 21, Superintendent Marc Thielman announced the school would being Aug. 30 because an elementary staff member tested positive for COVID-19.
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Moderna anunció este miércoles que concluyó su solicitud a la Administración de Medicamentos y Alimentos de EE.UU. (FDA, por sus siglas en inglés) para la aprobación total de su vacuna contra el covid-19 para personas de 18 años o más. Moderna dijo que solicitó una revisión prioritaria a la agencia. La
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities are expanding a ban on harmful fertilizers around a saltwater lagoon on the country’s Mediterranean coast, where over the past 10 days several tons of dead fish have washed up. The regional government of Murcia, southeast of Madrid, announced Wednesday that the use of inorganic nitrogen fertilizers at farms around
Continue ReadingBy Carma Hassan and Kay Jones, CNN A volleyball coach says administrators at Valor Christian High School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, forced him to leave his job because he refused to denounce being gay. Inoke Tonga said in a Facebook post that administrators asked him if he posted about being gay on social media and
Continue ReadingBy JULIE PARR, KTBS TV Click here for updates on this story TEXARKANA, Ark (KTBS) — A Texarkana, Ark., mother knows all to well the importance of blood and bone marrow donations. Her son was born with a critical illness. He’s had two life-saving donations, first when he was born and mostly recently as last
Continue ReadingBy DANIEL NIEMANN Associated Press DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — A former mayor of a central Afghanistan city is in Germany after having fled her homeland along with thousands of others who feared the Taliban’s takeover put their lives at risk. As a young female mayor appointed in 2018, Zarifa Ghafari was a shining example of
Continue ReadingBy JOSH MORGAN Click here for updates on this story ATHENS, Ga. (WGCL) — If you plan on attending a college football game at Georgia’s Sanford Stadium this fall, you won’t have to worry about any extra COVID precautions before heading to the game. As COVID-19 cases continue to surge across the country, there was
Continue ReadingBy JENNA RAE, NEWS 4 REPORTER Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, MO (KMOV) — Seven years after the Ferguson protests, the man considered a pivotal figure in stabilizing the situation is now being tapped for a new task in St. Louis City. “We’re going to take ownership back of our downtown
Continue ReadingBy Priya Krishnakumar, CNN Black women in the United States are more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth than any other demographic — and the Covid-19 pandemic may be exacerbating one of the starkest disparities in American health care. Health care practitioners and advocacy groups have raised the alarm that the pandemic, which has
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN The bones of a teenage hunter-gatherer who died more than 7,000 years ago on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi tell the story of a previously unknown group of humans. This distinct human lineage has never been found anywhere else in the world, according to new research. The study published Wednesday in
Continue ReadingBy ROXANA HEGEMAN Associated Press A federal report finds that in the run up to the 2020 presidential election U.S. states and territories had spent less than a third of the $805 million Congress had provided to shore up security for state and local election systems. A state-by-state snapshot released last month by the U.S.
Continue ReadingBy PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press Mystic Aquarium says that a second of the five beluga whales it imported in May from a marine park in Canada is in failing health. The female whale is suffering from several health issues including a low white blood cell count and gastrointestinal issues, the aquarium said in a Facebook
Continue ReadingBy FOX 12 STAFF Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) — Kids will head back to school in just a week and parents might be wondering how to talk to their young ones about how to stay safe as they reunite with friends in the classroom. Especially if they’re too young
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Gray, CNN Meteorologist Everyone from Texas to Florida should be on alert as a new, potentially strong storm threatens to impact the northern Gulf Coast less than a week after Henri made landfall in New England. A disorganized cluster of thunderstorms just north of South America has an 80% chance of developing into
Continue ReadingBy FOX 12 Staff Click here for updates on this story ALOHA, OR (KPTV) — A 12-year-old Golden Retriever was rescued by firefighters on Monday afternoon after he had fallen into an abandoned well in Aloha. Dickson Patton says he was out mowing when he realized his dog Calvin was missing. After searching for him
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