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    • WHO chief expresses alarm over COVID-19 infection rate

      WHO chief expresses alarm over COVID-19 infection rate

      The number of new coronavirus cases per week has nearly doubled globally over the past two months, approaching the highest rate seen so far during the pandemic.

      'Situation is extremely challenging' ยป
      • FedEx gunman ID'd as 19-year-old Brandon Scott Hole

        FedEx gunman ID'd as 19-year-old Brandon Scott Hole

      • No response as divers knock on capsized ship hull off La.

        No response as divers knock on capsized ship hull off La.

      • Law enforcement officers respond to Chauvin trial

        Law enforcement officers respond to Chauvin trial

      • Waters tells Jordan 'shut your mouth' in tense exchange

        Waters tells Jordan 'shut your mouth' in tense exchange

      • 3rd COVID shot likely needed within 12 months: Pfizer CEO

        3rd COVID shot likely needed within 12 months: Pfizer CEO

    • Spain acquits man of sexually abusing 14-year-old stepdaughter who gave birth to his child
      World
      The Telegraph

      Spain acquits man of sexually abusing 14-year-old stepdaughter who gave birth to his child

      A Spanish court has provoked outrage by acquitting a man of sexually abusing his 14-year-old stepdaughter despite the fact she gave birth to his child. The Pamplona court accepted the defendant's claim that the teenager had sat astride him while he was asleep on the sofa and engaged in penetrative sex. The girl's mother reported the father for alleged sexual abuse of her daughter, who initially said she had been raped in the street before changing her story to corroborate her stepfather's claim that he had not been conscious when they had sex.

    • White House: Intel on Russian 'bounties' on US troops shaky
      Politics
      Associated Press

      White House: Intel on Russian 'bounties' on US troops shaky

      The White House says that the intelligence community does not have conclusive evidence that Russian intelligence operatives encouraged the Taliban to attack American troops in Afghanistan. The assessment, revealed Thursday as the U.S. announced a host of new sanctions on the Russian government, undermines one of the sharpest attacks Joe Biden and other Democrats leveled against former President Donald Trump during the 2020 White House race. Biden repeatedly attacked Trump on the campaign trail for not standing up to Russian President Vladimir Putin despite his administration being aware of intelligence suggesting Russian agents were offering bounties to the Taliban.

      • Biden White House unveils new sanctions in response to Russian aggression
        Biden White House unveils new sanctions in response to Russian aggression
        Yahoo News
      • Biden administration reveals the intelligence community is not very confident Russia actually put bounties on US troops
        Biden administration reveals the intelligence community is not very confident Russia actually put bounties on US troops
        Business Insider
    • Exclusive: EU agrees to sanction two companies close to Myanmar military, diplomats say
      World
      Reuters

      Exclusive: EU agrees to sanction two companies close to Myanmar military, diplomats say

      The European Union has agreed to impose sanctions on another 10 individuals linked to the Feb. 1 coup in Myanmar and to target two businesses run by the armed forces for the first time in protest at the military takeover, two diplomats said. The measures, which the diplomats said could take effect next week, would target two companies that generate revenue for the Myanmar Armed Forces. While the EU has an arms embargo on Myanmar and targeted 11 senior military officials last month, the decision to target two companies is the most significant response so far for the bloc since the coup that ousted an elected government led by Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.

    • Bronx Man Arrested For Hate Crime Against Asian Woman
      U.S.
      NextShark

      Bronx Man Arrested For Hate Crime Against Asian Woman

      A Bronx man has been arrested for allegedly harassing a 25-year-old Asian woman in Manhattan. Daniel Negroni, 31, is accused of targeting the unnamed victim in Sutton Place around 1 p.m. on Tuesday, according toย WLNY. The woman reported that Negroni approached her and made anti-Asian comments as she was out on First Avenue and 57th Street on the East Side.

    • Israel says it will 'definitely' stop Iran from getting bomb
      World
      Associated Press

      Israel says it will 'definitely' stop Iran from getting bomb

      Israel's foreign minister said Friday that his country was determined to stop Iran from building a nuclear weapon, after Tehran promised to step up its uranium enrichment process. โ€œWe will do whatever it takes to prevent the extremists (in Iran) from succeeding, and definitely will prevent this regime from having a nuclear weapon,โ€ Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi told reporters on a visit to Cyprus. Iranian officials say the country will begin enriching uranium up to 60% purity following an attack on its nuclear facility at Natanz, in central Iran, on Sunday, that it blamed on Israel.

      • Iran starts enriching uranium to 60%, its highest level ever
        Iran starts enriching uranium to 60%, its highest level ever
        Associated Press
      • Iran, world powers resume nuclear talks amid strains over enrichment, Natanz attack
        Iran, world powers resume nuclear talks amid strains over enrichment, Natanz attack
        Reuters
    • J&J scientists refute 'class effect' to blame for clots in those who got its COVID-19 vaccine
      Health
      Reuters

      J&J scientists refute 'class effect' to blame for clots in those who got its COVID-19 vaccine

      Scientists at Johnson & Johnson on Friday refuted an assertion in a major medical journal that the adenovirus-based design of their COVID-19 vaccine, which is similar AstraZeneca's, may explain why both have been linked to very rare brain blood clots in some vaccine recipients. The United States earlier this week paused distribution of the J&J vaccine to investigate six cases of a rare brain blood clot known as cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST), accompanied by a low blood platelet count, in U.S. women under age 50, out of about 7 million people who got the shot. The blood clots in patients who received the J&J vaccine bear close resemblance to 169 cases in Europe reported with the AstraZeneca vaccine, out of 34 million doses administered there.

      • Coronavirus update: J&J vaccine pause remains, Oxford studies blood clots and COVID-19 vaccines
        Coronavirus update: J&J vaccine pause remains, Oxford studies blood clots and COVID-19 vaccines
        Yahoo Finance
      • America is about to hit a 'vaccine wall' as demand drops โ€” with or without Johnson & Johnson
        America is about to hit a 'vaccine wall' as demand drops โ€” with or without Johnson & Johnson
        Yahoo News
    • New blast at St. Vincent volcano; cruise ship helps evacuees
      World
      Associated Press

      New blast at St. Vincent volcano; cruise ship helps evacuees

      La Soufriere volcano shot out another explosive burst of gas and ash on Friday as a cruise ship arrived to evacuate some of the foreigners who had been stuck on a St. Vincent island coated in ash from a week of violent eruptions. Friday morning's blast โ€œwasn't a big explosion compared to the ones that we last weekend, but it was big enough to punch a hole through the clouds," said Richard Robertson, lead scientist at the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Center, in an interview with local NBC radio. During a comparable eruption cycle in 1902, explosive eruptions continued to shake the island for months after an initial burst killed some 1,700 people, though the new eruptions so far have caused no reported deaths among a population that had received official warning a day earlier that danger was imminent.

      • St Vincent fears COVID-19 outbreak with volcano evacuations
        St Vincent fears COVID-19 outbreak with volcano evacuations
        Associated Press
      • St Vincent volcano: UN warns humanitarian crisis will last months
        St Vincent volcano: UN warns humanitarian crisis will last months
        BBC
    • Daunte Wright shooting: US ex-officer Kim Potter charged over killing
      U.S.
      BBC

      Daunte Wright shooting: US ex-officer Kim Potter charged over killing

      A US former police officer who shot dead a black motorist in Minnesota has been charged with second-degree manslaughter, prosecutors say. Kim Potter was arrested and later released on $100,000 (ยฃ72,000) bail. Police say Mrs Potter shot Daunte Wright accidentally, having mistakenly drawn her gun instead of her Taser.

      • Daunte Wright's mother: 'There's never going to be justice for us'
        Daunte Wright's mother: 'There's never going to be justice for us'
        Yahoo News
      • 16 Amazing Photos You Missed This Week
        16 Amazing Photos You Missed This Week
        HuffPost
    • World
      Yahoo News Video

      Daunte Wright's mother calls for accountability

      On Thursday, Katie Wright, the mother of Daunte Wright, the 20-year-old Black man shot and killed by police in Brooklyn Center, Minn. expressed her grief and called for accountability for her son's death.

    • Beijing warns US, Japan against collusion vs China
      World
      Associated Press

      Beijing warns US, Japan against collusion vs China

      China said Friday it has expressed โ€œserious concernsโ€ to the United States and Japan over what it calls negative moves and collusion between the two countries against China. The statement from Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian came just before President Joe Biden welcomes Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to the White House on Friday in his first face-to-face meeting with a foreign leader. That meeting is seen as reflecting Biden's emphasis on strengthening alliances to deal with a more assertive China and other global challenges.

      • Japan's Suga comes to US for China-focused talks with Biden
        Japan's Suga comes to US for China-focused talks with Biden
        Associated Press
      • Japan's Suga visits for Biden's first White House summit; China tops agenda
        Japan's Suga visits for Biden's first White House summit; China tops agenda
        Reuters
    • Search for kayakerโ€™s body suspended after dog was found in Colorado lake, cops say
      U.S.
      Raleigh News and Observer

      Search for kayakerโ€™s body suspended after dog was found in Colorado lake, cops say

      Crews have suspended the search for a missing man, who is now presumed dead, after officials spotted a capsized kayak on Sunday and rescued his dog from Carter Lake in Colorado, according to officials. The Larimer County Sheriff's Office officials said on Friday that the search has been suspended after teams have spent more than 700 hours looking for the man believed to be from Loveland. Rangers found an uninjured dog wearing a flotation device and a kayak in the lake Sunday afternoon but no kayaker.

    • Johnson & Johnson asked rival COVID-19 vaccine makers to probe clotting risks - WSJ
      U.S.
      Reuters

      Johnson & Johnson asked rival COVID-19 vaccine makers to probe clotting risks - WSJ

      Johnson & Johnson had reached out to rival COVID-19 vaccine makers to join in an effort to study the risks of blood clots, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. AstraZeneca, which had been buffeted by similar blood-clotting concerns for weeks, agreed, while Pfizer Inc and Moderna executive declined, saying their vaccines appeared safe, the report said. https://on.wsj.com/2Q7E4Ho) The U.S. federal health agencies had on Tuesday recommended pausing use of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine for at least a few days after six women under the age of 50 developed rare blood clots after receiving the shot.

      • Coronavirus update: J&J vaccine pause remains, Oxford studies blood clots and COVID-19 vaccines
        Coronavirus update: J&J vaccine pause remains, Oxford studies blood clots and COVID-19 vaccines
        Yahoo Finance
      • 'You will be just fine,' says surgeon general of Johnson & Johnson vaccine, though pause continues
        'You will be just fine,' says surgeon general of Johnson & Johnson vaccine, though pause continues
        Yahoo News
    • โ€˜Alarm is growingโ€™: Michigan governor faces shutdown dilemma as Covid cases rise
      Politics
      The Guardian

      โ€˜Alarm is growingโ€™: Michigan governor faces shutdown dilemma as Covid cases rise

      The coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions that Michigan's governor, Gretchen Whitmer, enacted in March last year were among the nation's toughest, and the governor's leadership is thought to have saved lives. Now, as Michigan faces another surge of cases and hospitalizations, its worst yet, Whitmer has changed tack. Despite past success and growing calls for another lockdown from public health experts, and doctors managing hospitals with Covid patients, the governor is resisting further restrictions, and is instead largely relying on a vaccination rollout and a voluntary suspension of in-person dining services.

      • Michigan governor talks about spring surge of COVID cases in her state
        Michigan governor talks about spring surge of COVID cases in her state
        ABC News Videos
      • Gretchen Whitmer Resists Biden Administration on Coronavirus Lockdowns
        Gretchen Whitmer Resists Biden Administration on Coronavirus Lockdowns
        National Review
    • Russia to expel 10 US diplomats in response to Biden actions
      World
      Associated Press

      Russia to expel 10 US diplomats in response to Biden actions

      Russia on Friday responded to a barrage of new U.S. sanctions by saying it would expel 10 U.S. diplomats and take other retaliatory moves in a tense showdown with Washington. The Russian Foreign Ministry also published a list of eight current or former U.S. officials barred from entering the country, including U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also said Moscow will move to shut down those U.S. nongovernment organizations that remain in Russia to end what he described as their meddling in Russia's politics.

      • US expels Russian diplomats in response to SolarWinds hack
        US expels Russian diplomats in response to SolarWinds hack
        Engadget
      • U.S. sanctions Russia, expels diplomats over hacking, interference
        U.S. sanctions Russia, expels diplomats over hacking, interference
        Yahoo News Video
    • โ€˜Godzilla Sharkโ€™ with 12 rows of teeth now has an official name โ€” inspired by dragons
      Science
      Kansas City Star

      โ€˜Godzilla Sharkโ€™ with 12 rows of teeth now has an official name โ€” inspired by dragons

      A graduate student pierced a pocket knife through shaley limestones in New Mexico, not expecting to find much. That student โ€” John-Paul Hodnett โ€” was part of a group of researchers learning about fossils of Pennsylvanian Period plants and animals in 2013. He had only found fragments of plants and fish scales up to that point, and the group was about to leave the site when Hodnett found something different.

    • Antony Blinken makes surprise stop in Afghanistan to sell Biden troop withdrawal
      World
      USA TODAY

      Antony Blinken makes surprise stop in Afghanistan to sell Biden troop withdrawal

      U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Thursday to sell Afghan leaders and a wary public on President Joe Biden's decision to withdraw all American troops from the country and end America's longest war. Blinken sought to assure senior Afghan politicians that the United States remains committed to the country despite Biden's announcement a day earlier that the 2,500 U.S. soldiers remaining in the country would be coming home by the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that led to the U.S. invasion in 2001.

      • Biden sets Sept. 11 deadline for U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
        Biden sets Sept. 11 deadline for U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
        Yahoo News
      • Biden Visits Arlington Cemetery After Afghanistan Withdrawal Speech
        Biden Visits Arlington Cemetery After Afghanistan Withdrawal Speech
        HuffPost
    • Cubaโ€™s budding civil society asks to be heard as island prepares for historic congress
      World
      Miami Herald

      Cubaโ€™s budding civil society asks to be heard as island prepares for historic congress

      Famous musicians long aligned with the communist government poke a finger at the revolution with a song that mocks a slogan penned by Fidel Castro. Cuba's upcoming Communist Party Congress, in which Raรบl Castro is expected to hand the reins of power to a younger generation of leaders, coincides not just with a deep economic crisis but also the advent of a nascent civil society movement demanding greater freedoms and channeling growing discontent on the island. In the lead up to the conclave, opposition groups have called on Cuba's leaders to open the debate on the island's future to a more diverse range of voices and consider significant reforms to the island's one-party system and Soviet-style economy.

      • A retiring Castro to bring younger face to Cuba's communists
        A retiring Castro to bring younger face to Cuba's communists
        Associated Press
      • Raul Castro confirms he's resigning, ending long era in Cuba
        Raul Castro confirms he's resigning, ending long era in Cuba
        Associated Press
    • The 9 Best Wireless Headphones for Every Kind of Use
      Lifestyle
      Architectural Digest

      The 9 Best Wireless Headphones for Every Kind of Use

      From the most comfortable pair to the best value buy, these headphones will carry you through the spring, summer, and beyond Originally Appeared on Architectural Digest

    • U.S.
      Raleigh News and Observer

      Durham man pleads guilty to shooting grandfather in the head at 16. Why did he do it?

      Nearly six years after William Evans was found shot and cold in a Durham parking lot, his grandson pleaded guilty to shooting the 65-year-old man with his own gun. Under a plea agreement, Dominick Jackson pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to up to nearly 10 years in prison, with credit for the more than five years he spent in jail awaiting trial. Under North Carolina sentencing laws, courts must consider mitigating and aggravating factors that could decrease or increase the sentence.

    • Republicans say less than 6% of Biden's plan is traditional infrastructure. BofA says it's more like half.
      Business
      Business Insider

      Republicans say less than 6% of Biden's plan is traditional infrastructure. BofA says it's more like half.

      Bank of America says about half of Biden's infrastructure plan is traditional, or physical, infrastructure. This contrasts with the GOP argument that less than 6% of Biden's plan goes to roads and bridges. The bank added that nontraditional infrastructure will take longer to prompt economic growth.

      • Infrastructure? Or jobs? Controversy over name of Biden proposal highlights long tradition in politics
        Infrastructure? Or jobs? Controversy over name of Biden proposal highlights long tradition in politics
        The Conversation
      • Senate Republicans are drafting their own infrastructure plan and want to tax people for it, not corporations
        Senate Republicans are drafting their own infrastructure plan and want to tax people for it, not corporations
        Business Insider
    • DC accused of using helicopters to bully George Floyd protesters
      U.S.
      The Independent

      DC accused of using helicopters to bully George Floyd protesters

      An army investigation has revealed that helicopters used during George Floyd protests in June last year showed a โ€œsystemic lack of understandingโ€ by the National Guard โ€œof how to use military aviation to respond to civil disturbances.โ€ The investigation into low-flying helicopters during protesters has now resulted in disciplinary action against those involved in the operation. Major General William Walker, commander of the Washington, DC Guard, launched an investigation after reports of helicopters flying low over demonstrators near Capitol One Arena on the evening of June 1.

    • Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, and other GOP lawmakers who criticized Trump or voted to impeach him have spent tens of thousands of dollars on private security
      Politics
      Business Insider

      Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, and other GOP lawmakers who criticized Trump or voted to impeach him have spent tens of thousands of dollars on private security

      Lawmakers who criticized Trump or voted to impeach him spent thousands to improve personal security after the Capitol attack. Republicans including Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney beefed up their security, per Punchbowl News. Prominent lawmakers spent tens of thousands of dollars on private security guards and other protection following the Capitol riots, a Punchbowl News analysis of campaign finance records shows.

      • Liz Cheney's Answer On If She'd Ever Vote For Trump Stumps Fox News Anchor
        Liz Cheney's Answer On If She'd Ever Vote For Trump Stumps Fox News Anchor
        HuffPost
      • Romney, Cheney, and other Trump critics spend 'tens of thousands' on security after Capitol riot
        Romney, Cheney, and other Trump critics spend 'tens of thousands' on security after Capitol riot
        The Week
    • Lawyer for the police officer who shot Adam Toledo complained that people hadn't asked how his client was doing
      U.S.
      INSIDER

      Lawyer for the police officer who shot Adam Toledo complained that people hadn't asked how his client was doing

      Eric Stillman fatally shot the 13-year-old Adam Toledo in Chicago on March 29. A lawyer for the police officer who fatally shot the 13-year-old Adam Toledo in Chicago has complained that few people have asked how his client is doing. The lawyer for Eric Stillman said in a statement quoted by The Daily Beast: "What is amazing and disheartening is that very few have asked about the welfare of the officer."

      • Chicago Releases Video Of Police Fatally Shooting 13-Year-Old Adam Toledo
        Chicago Releases Video Of Police Fatally Shooting 13-Year-Old Adam Toledo
        HuffPost
      • Chicago releases video of fatal police shooting of 13-year-old boy
        Chicago releases video of fatal police shooting of 13-year-old boy
        Yahoo News Video
    • Mesh mask lands Capitol riot defendant in hot water with judge
      U.S.
      Politico

      Mesh mask lands Capitol riot defendant in hot water with judge

      A federal judge is demanding that a Pennsylvania woman arrested for her alleged role in the Capitol riot, Rachel Powell, explain why a video of her circulating online shows her wearing a porous, mesh mask despite another judge's order to comply with Covid mask requirements while she awaits trial. U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth said Powell's decision to wear the obviously noncompliant mask โ€œmocksโ€ the initial requirement decreed by the court's chief judge, Beryl Howell, soon after Powell's release in February. Defendant must wear a mask whenever she leaves her residence,โ€ Howell ruled at the time.

    • Shop Troye Sivanโ€™s Eclectic Home Style
      Entertainment
      Architectural Digest

      Shop Troye Sivanโ€™s Eclectic Home Style

      Take a page out of the stylish young star's book, from must-have splurges to affordable accessories Originally Appeared on Architectural Digest

    Companies speak out on voting rights
    • โ€œThereโ€™s no โ€˜both sides of the debateโ€™ when it comes to active voter suppression.โ€

    • โ€œCompanies that do this ooze contempt for their own customers and employees who are not in the leftmost quarter of opinion.โ€

    • โ€œThe truth is that Fortune 500 companies were never taking moral stances from the goodness of their corporate hearts.โ€

    • โ€œThe truth is, the companies hold the cardsโ€ฆIf companies stick to their guns, Georgia is likely to back down as well.โ€

    • โ€œWhen a company folds to the unfounded outrage of a few misinformed nuts, they are forever at the mobโ€™s beck-and-call.โ€

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