(NBC News) President Trump claims a coronavirus vaccine could be available as early as next month. Few others agree. Even the doctor running Operation Warp Speed, President Trump’s program to fast-track a vaccine, Moncef Slaoui, says that’s “extremely unlikely.” Former Vice President Joe Biden has called for “full transparency” from the Trump administration regarding the approval of any vaccine, saying…
(KSL/NBC News) For Lauren Langley, her cats are family. “I am already the crazy cat lady,” she says. She got Flo from the Humane Society. “Anytime I’d pack a suitcase, she was on my suitcase telling me not to go,” Langley says. Peaches was an orphan. “She was actually a street cat, found as a kitten at just 4 weeks…
(WSMV/NBC News) Andrew and Joc didn’t become best friends the first day they met or even the second. On the third day, though, they began to realize something. “We had a lot of stuff in common,” says 12-year-old Andrew. “Games, Minecraft,” Joc quickly adds. That’s not all. There’s also Pop Tarts. They love Pop Tarts. Keeping up with the appetite…
(WLEX/NBC News) — The coronavirus pandemic has brought an end to an incredible streak for one Kentucky Derby superfan. Phillip Perkins attended his first Kentucky Derby in 1948 when he was 12 years old, and has been in the stands for every Derby since. That’s 72 races for the now 84-year-old Perkins. No fans will be allowed at Saturday’s event…
(WNYT/NBC News) — An Albany, New York man says his prayer for help was answered in an unexpected way when he recently capsized his kayak on Lake George. Jimmy MacDonald says he drifted away from his wife and stepkids because he was taking pictures with his new smartphone “and not really paying attention.” As he tried to make his way…
(WPXI/NBC News) — Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation executed search warrants at Pennsylvania nursing homes Thursday. The Department of Justice confirmed agents from the FBI, the office of inspector general for Health and Human Services, IRS-Criminal Investigation and state attorney general’s office were at Brighton Rehabilitaiton and Wellness Center in Beaver and at Mt. Lebanon Rehabilitation and Wellness…
(WAVE/NBC News) — An Indiana man pleaded guilty Thursday to the murder of his wife in front of their young son. Judson Hoover, 50, of New Albany, pleaded guilty to one count of murder in Floyd County Superior Court. Rebecca Hoover was last seen on August 2nd. Later that month, Hoover’s eight-year-old son told an elementary school counselor that his…
(NBC News) — Dangerous social media trends are being linked to a growing number of injuries and even deaths. First gaining traction on the app TikTok, the “Benadryl challenge” encourages users to take multiple doses of allergy medicine to induce hallucinations. Cook Children’s Medical Center in Texas reported three hospitalizations last month related to the challenge, and one Oklahoma teen…
(NBC News) — Nurses at Children’s Mercy Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri have noticed that since the COVID-19 pandemic began, fewer sexual abuse victims are coming in for care. “We can attribute some of that, just when we look at national trends, to the fact that kids aren’t coming in contact with mandated reporters — teachers, therapists, people they typically…
(NBC News) — President Trump has once again called for Americans to vote twice, which is illegal. Mr. Trump made the comments during a campaign stop in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. “Sign it and send it in and then you have to follow it. And if, on election day or early voting, that is not tabulated and counted, you go vote,” Mr….
