BERLIN (AP) — About 700 sheep and goats have been recruited in Germany’s drive to encourage more people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The animals were arranged on Monday into the shape of a roughly 100-meter (330-foot) syringe in a field at Schneverdingen, south of Hamburg. Shepherd Wiebke Schmidt-Kochan said it wasn’t difficult to work
Continue ReadingBy Diane Ako Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU (KITV) — Hawaii’s only rescue shelter for farm animals is asking the public for help in building a new learning center. Aloha Animal Sanctuary houses about 30 animals. Many have special needs – like this duck with a wheelchair. The Kahaluu non-profit also does
Continue ReadingBy RUSSELL KINSAUL Click here for updates on this story ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Illinois (KMOV) — Questions are being raised about a suspicious pop-up COVID testing site that operated for a few hours on Friday in the parking lot of St. Clair Square Mall. A viewer contacted News 4 after visiting the site and become
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey Patton Oswalt shared a heartfelt letter on social media explaining his longtime friendship with fellow comic Dave Chappelle as controversy over Chappelle’s jokes about trans people in his last Netflix special has continued. It started with one post where Oswalt explained he performed a recent show with Chappelle, Oswalt took to social
Continue ReadingBy LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer The U.S. is expanding COVID-19 boosters as it confronts the omicron surge. The Food and Drug Administration on Monday allowed extra Pfizer shots for children as young as 12. Boosters already are recommended for everyone 16 and older, and the FDA says they’re also warranted for 12- to 15-year-olds.
Continue ReadingBy LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer The U.S. is expanding COVID-19 boosters as it confronts the omicron surge. The Food and Drug Administration on Monday allowed extra Pfizer shots for children as young as 12. Boosters already are recommended for everyone 16 and older, and the FDA says they’re also warranted for 12- to 15-year-olds.
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Aoife Beary, una de las sobrevivientes del derrumbe del balcón de Berkeley de 2015 en el que murieron seis personas, murió a los 27 años. Beary sufrió lesiones que le cambiaron la vida después de que el balcón del cuarto piso de un edificio de apartamentos en Berkeley (California) se
Continue ReadingBy MARIYA MURROW Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — A 5-year-old boy is dead after a tree fell onto his home in DeKalb County Monday morning. It happened just after 5 a.m. along Glenwood Road. First responders rushed to the scene where they found the home forcefully split in half. Firefighters
Continue ReadingBy CONNOR MCCARTHY Click here for updates on this story GRESHAM, Oregon (KPTV) — After three deadly shootings in the metro area on New Year’s Day, one anti-gun violence activist group is speaking out. Rev. Mark Knutson of Augustana Lutheran Church said shootings in Gresham and Portland less than 24 hours into the New Year
Continue ReadingCNN By Ben Morse, CNN The NFL season has never been bigger. For the first time in its history, the 2021 season saw teams play 17 regular season games, adding one game from the 16 games played in recent years. There have been two Week 18’s before — one in 1993 and one in 2001
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is suggesting there will be no tightening of measures to slow the current surge in coronavirus infections, in spite of the country’s healthcare system remaining under strain for weeks. The highly transmissible omicron variant has sent Britain’s daily new caseload soaring over Christmas and the New Year,
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Betty White left this world after having had a life well lived and well loved. Her agent and longtime friend, Jeff Witjas, told People magazine that White, who died New Year’s Eve at the age of 99, was aware of how much she was beloved. “She knew it, but I
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story HILLBORO, Oregon (KPTV) — Hillsboro Fire & Rescue said a historic building that houses several businesses burned in a commercial fire in downtown Hillsboro early Sunday morning. The fire department said just before 3 a.m. on Sunday, it responded to the 200 block of East
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN In a video looking ahead to 2022, Alec Baldwin reflected on the fatal shooting on the set of his film “Rust.” The actor and producer posted the almost 13-minute video on his verified Instagram account on New Year’s Day that he captioned, “Another chance to let go of anything that
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN Business) –– Evergrande, la asediada empresa china de bienes raÃces, suspendió la cotización de sus acciones en Hong Kong este lunes. Una decisión que ocurre mientras la compañÃa, fuertemente endeudada, atraviesa una crisis inmobiliaria. Evergrande no puede pagar sus deudas y China se esfuerza por contener las consecuencias Evergrande dijo en un documento
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — Milwaukee’s acting mayor, Cavalier Johnson, has tested positive for COVID-19. Johnson said he tests for the virus every Friday, and he found out he was positive from a routine test taken on Friday, Dec. 31, 2021. Johnson said he is vaccinated and
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press A winter storm hitting the mid-Atlantic combined with the pandemic to further frustrate air travelers whose return flights home from the holidays were canceled or delayed in the first few days of the new year. According to tracking service FlightAware more than 3,000 U.S. flights and more
Continue ReadingBy Kate Sullivan and Maegan Vazquez, CNN The White House on Monday announced it would allocate $1 billion in funding from the American Rescue Plan to independent meat and poultry producers as part of an effort to boost competition in the meat-processing industry and lower prices for consumers. President Joe Biden met virtually with family
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Forecasting economic change in a pandemic was always going to be hard. Now omicron, the new COVID-19 variant sweeping across the globe, has made it even harder. Economists and policymakers, after all, have no real-world experience contending with the economic fallout from a worldwide pandemic. In
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Ryan and Niamh Kennedy, CNN Aoife Beary, one of the survivors of the 2015 Berkeley balcony collapse that killed six people, has died aged 27. She was left with life-altering injuries after the fourth-floor balcony of an apartment building in Berkeley, California collapsed and plunged 40 feet to the ground while she and
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