By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Covid-19 vaccines could be authorized for the United States’ youngest children as early as June, according to the US Food and Drug Administration’s latest meeting schedule. The agency announced Friday it is reserving dates in June for its Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) to meet to discuss updates
Continue ReadingISTANBUL (AP) — A Turkish court has acquitted two reporters for the U.S.-based Bloomberg news agency who were accused of trying to undermine Turkey’s economic stability with a story on Turkey’s currency crisis in 2018. Istanbul-based reporters Kerim Karakaya and Fercan Yalinkilic had faced up to five years in prison over the article they wrote
Continue ReadingBy ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe has launched a late bid to buy Chelsea for 4.25 billion pounds. Rival offers featuring American investors were already being assessed as the sale process is nearing a conclusion. The English Premier League club was put up for sale in March after Russia owner
Continue ReadingBy ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe has launched a late bid to buy Chelsea for 4.25 billion pounds. Rival offers featuring American investors were already being assessed as the sale process is nearing a conclusion. The English Premier League club was put up for sale in March after Russia owner
Continue ReadingBy ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe has launched a late bid to buy Chelsea for 4.25 billion pounds. Rival offers featuring American investors were already being assessed as the sale process is nearing a conclusion. The English Premier League club was put up for sale in March after Russia owner
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s state gas giant says it is gradually restoring the flow of gas to the municipalities that lost it after a Russian energy firm that faced Polish sanctions halted energy supplies. The state gas company said Friday that the Russian firm Novatek Green Energy complied without any problems with Poland’s demand
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s state gas giant says it is gradually restoring the flow of gas to the municipalities that lost it after a Russian energy firm that faced Polish sanctions halted energy supplies. The state gas company said Friday that the Russian firm Novatek Green Energy complied without any problems with Poland’s demand
Continue ReadingBy TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti says Karim Benzema and Vinícius Júnior will likely be rested on Saturday for the match that can give the team the Spanish league title. Madrid needs a draw against Espanyol at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium to clinch its record-extending 35th league
Continue ReadingBy Juli McDonald Click here for updates on this story BOSTON (WBZ) — A West Roxbury dad is defeated. Just so tired of the headaches and the hounding – trying to get his special needs sons safely to school. “It doesn’t matter who you call. Nothing gets done. No one cares,” Barry Wiener said. “All
Continue ReadingBy Marlee Ginter Click here for updates on this story LINCOLN, California (KOVR) — A Lincoln city leader is accused of hurling insults and even hitting one of his constituents at a local debate—and it was all caught on camera. Now, city leaders are asking City Councilman William Lauritsen to resign, but he refuses, saying
Continue ReadingBy KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban spokesman says a powerful explosion at a Sunni mosque in Kabul has killed at least 10 worshippers and wounded as many as 30. The blast struck as hundreds had gathered at the mosque on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Continue ReadingBy WBZ Staff Click here for updates on this story MALDEN, Massachusetts (WBZ) — Surveillance video captured the moment a good Samaritan tried to stop a man police say had stolen an Amazon truck in Malden. Police say 42-year-old Michael Cunha of Somerville jumped into an open Amazon truck in the area of Bickford Road
Continue ReadingNICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus police have detained two men on suspicion of helping two dozen Syrian asylum-seekers reach the east Mediterranean island nation aboard a rigid-hulled inflatable boat. A court on Friday ordered the two men — aged 28 and 30 — held in police custody for eight days following their arrest a day
Continue ReadingBy Darleene Powells Click here for updates on this story SAN BERNARDINO, California (KCAL) — San Bernardino police on Wednesday released disturbing video of an intruder breaking into a home, and standing over the residents, looking at them, as they slept in their bed. Investigators say the intruder has been identified and arrested, but is
Continue ReadingGREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — American Hunter Armstrong has set a swimming world record in the men’s 50-meter backstroke. Armstrong posted a time of 23.71 seconds in the non-Olympic event at the International Team Trials at Greensboro, North Carolina. The meet is selecting the U.S. team that will compete at this summer’s world championships in Budapest,
Continue ReadingBy Toyin Owoseje, CNN Michael Douglas has spoken out for the first time about refusing to work with actress Debra Winger after she allegedly bit him on the arm. Appearing on the 100th episode of Rob Lowe’s podcast “Literally!,” the 77-year-old star confirmed longstanding Hollywood rumors that Winger lost the female lead role in the
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN Thousands of emperor penguins cluster on the ice of Atka Bay in Antarctica, mostly unaware that an interloper lives among them. Slightly shorter than the average adult emperor, the 3-foot-tall (1-meter-tall) autonomous robot sits silently within the colony, nondescript compared with humans who sometimes emerge from a nearby research station. The
Continue ReadingCNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN We all need room to roam. It’s instinctual to crave the freedom of having our own space to thrive. The same is true for animals, which are critical to the survival of delicate, diverse ecosystems around the world. But we’re not doing so well on that score. One-fifth of all
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN These days it feels like everything is coming back, so why not Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman? In a recently published interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the actress said she’s not against the idea. “It would depend on the context but, yeah, I’d consider it,” said Pfeiffer. It sounds like that
Continue ReadingNEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris will be this year’s commencement speaker at the Coast Guard Academy. Officials at the academy said Friday that Harris will deliver the keynote address at the May 18 ceremony in New London, Connecticut. Vice presidents traditionally address the graduating class at one of the service academies
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