WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators say they are no longer considering authorizing second COVID-19 booster shots for all adults under 50 this summer. Instead the Food and Drug Administration said it will await revamped vaccines targeting the newest viral subvariants that are expected by September. Some members of the Biden administration had been pressing regulators to open a fourth dose…
Kentucky governor on catastrophic flooding: “We’ve never seen something like this.” (Source: CNN via CNN Newsource) JACKSON, Ky. (AP) — Search and rescue teams backed by the National Guard are searching flooded Appalachian communities for missing people. Record floods have wiped out entire communities in some of the poorest places in America. Kentucky’s governor said 16 people have died, a…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Twitter is warning that governments around the globe are making more requests of the company to remove posts or snoop on accounts. The social media company revealed in a new report Thursday that local, state and national governments made a record number of legal demands for Twitter to take down content or reveal confidential information such as…
Floodwaters up to the windows at Buckhorn, KY school. (Source: Marlene Abner Stokely via CNN Newsource) JACKSON, Ky. (AP) — Heavy rains have caused flash flooding and mudslides as storms pound parts of central Appalachia. Gov. Andy Beshear says at least three people have died from flooding in Kentucky. He says oproperty damage has been massive, with hundreds losing their…
Hard-won progress against HIV has stalled, putting millions of lives at risk. That’s according to an alarming report Wednesday on how the collision with the COVID-19 pandemic and other global crises set back efforts to end AIDS. Declines in new infections are leveling off. Cases are rising in some spots. COVID disrupted HIV care and widened inequalities that left already…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Higher mortgage rates have sent home sales tumbling. Credit card rates have grown more burdensome, and so have auto loans. Savers are finally receiving yields that are actually visible, while crypto assets are reeling. The Federal Reserve’s move to further tighten credit raised its benchmark interest rate by a sizable 0.75 percentage point for a second straight…
(Source: CNN via CNN Newsource)DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A giant Mega Millions lottery jackpot ballooned to $1.02 billion after no one matched all six numbers and won the top prize. After no winner on Tuesday, the estimated jackpot for Friday’s drawing will be the nation’s fourth-largest lottery prize. The jackpot has grown so large because there have been 29…
(Source: CNN via CNN Newsource)DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The chances are steadily rising that someone will win the massive $830 million Mega Millions jackpot on Tuesday night, but will it be you? It’s unlikely. That’s because while a surge in sales means more possible number combinations are covered for the jackpot, your odds of winning remain the same. They’re…
Mugshot from October 2021 of Portia Odufuwa. (Source: Dallas County Sheriff’s Office via CNN Newsource)DALLAS (AP) — Authorities say a woman fired several gunshots, apparently at the ceiling, inside of Dallas’ Love Field Airport before an officer shot and wounded her. Dallas police Chief Eddie Garcia said at a news conference that the woman was dropped off at the airport…
LONDON, Ky. (AP) — Officials say three people were killed in a wrong-way crash on Interstate 75 in southern Kentucky. The Laurel County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that the crash happened late Monday in the southbound lanes near Exit 38. The London Police Department said in a Facebook post that the crash was caused by a wrong-way driver…
