WorldReutersNew Zealand reports first death linked to Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine
WELLINGTON (Reuters) -New Zealand reported its first recorded death linked to U.S. drugmaker Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, the health ministry said on Monday, after a woman suffered a rare side-effect leading to inflammation of the heart muscle. It followed a review by an independent panel monitoring the safety of the vaccines. "This is the first case in New Zealand where a death in the days following vaccination has been linked to the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine," the ministry said in a statement, without giving the woman's age.
U.S.NY Daily NewsDad grabs dying 24-year-old son’s gun after shootout with off-duty NYPD and opens fire
As a man lay dying on a Bronx street from a shootout with police, his father snatched the gun from his fallen son — and used it to continue the gun battle with cops, authorities said. Two off-duty cops spotted the son, Mike Rosado, 24, shooting at a man on Valentine Ave. near 180th St. in Tremont just after 4 a.m. Sunday, police said. The father and son had been in an argument with a group of people on the corner when it turned physical and the son pulled out the gun and fired at an adversary, cops said.
U.S.Charlotte ObserverA new set of fangs, another nightmare encounter for ‘terrified’ Lake Norman woman
A Lake Norman woman still recuperating from a snake attack in May said she was “traumatized” all over again by another unexpected encounter with a staring, slithering serpent. This snake rose from the grass near her Mooresville home, stared at her and followed as she fled with her two dogs, Heatherly Noble told The Charlotte Observer. “I was scared to death,” Noble said of Tuesday's episode.
U.S.Associated PressLake Tahoe threatened by massive fire, more ordered to flee
Fire officials ordered more evacuations around the Tahoe Basin Sunday evening as crews dealt with a two-week old blaze they said was “more aggressive than anticipated," and continued to edge toward the pristine waters of Lake Tahoe. Today's been a rough day and there's no bones about it," said Jeff Marsoleis, forest supervisor for El Dorado National Forest. A few days ago, he thought crews could halt the Caldor Fire's eastern progress, but “today it let loose."
BusinessMiami HeraldThe owner of this iconic building ordered all tenants to leave. Some aren’t going
Maria Ray had a plan. Ray, who works as a business consultant for hospitality companies, is one of the roughly 200 residents of the Hamilton on the Bay apartment tower, located at 555 NE 34 St. in Edgewater, who received a notice on May 16 requiring them to move out by July 16 so the building's new owners, the Denver-based real estate investment and management firm Aimco/AIR, could complete renovations and repairs. The situation at the Hamilton has resulted in a standoff that could serve as a bellwether for future cases in which a building's owner attempts to terminate the leases of all of its tenants in one swoop.
U.S.DeadlineMatthew Mindler Dies: Former Child Star Who Went Missing Found Dead At 19
Former child star Matthew Mindler, who went missing from his rural Millersville University campus in Pennsylvania earlier this week, has been confirmed dead. The university confirmed his death with an announcement to the student body. It is with a grieving heart that I let you know of the death of 19-year-old Matthew Mindler from Hellertown, Pennsylvania, a first-year student at Millersville University.
U.S.Associated Press2 brothers arrested; bodies found buried in Illinois yard
Police discovered two containers Saturday in a backyard in suburban Chicago, a few days after a man told investigators that the bodies of his mother and sister were buried there years ago. The man and a brother were also arrested, though no charges were filed while police try to confirm the identities of the remains, said Lyons Police Chief Tom Herion. The investigation began after officers were called to conduct a wellness check Thursday at the home in Lyons, 12 miles (19 kilometers) southwest of Chicago.
U.S.Kansas City StarMissouri boy dies of a drug overdose during a sleepover, three adults arrested
A 13-year-old boy died of a drug overdose during a sleepover at a friend's house in eastern Missouri over the weekend, and three adults at the house were arrested, police there said. Police were called to a home in Washington around 9 a.m. Sunday and found the boy dead in his 12-year-old friend's bedroom, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The 12-year-old told investigators he and his friend had been experimenting with drugs they found in the house, police Sgt. Steve Sitzes said.
U.S.Washington Examiner67-year-old Al Roker braves lashing waves for Hurricane Ida forecast and tells doubters 'screw you'
NBC weatherman Al Roker gave viewers a fright Sunday morning when he delivered the Hurricane Ida forecast while getting lashed by waves from the approaching storm. The 67-year-old Today co-host, wearing a heavy jacket and struggling to stand amid the tempest in Lake Pontchartrain, appeared in a segment on Meet the Press at a time when the hurricane was already boasting maximum sustained winds of 150 mph as a Category 4 storm. "Al Roker, get out of that unsafe weather there," anchor Chuck Todd remarked after the forecast was given.
WorldReutersDuterte's top aide declines Philippine presidential nomination
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's long-time aide has rejected the endorsement of the ruling party to run as its candidate in the 2022 elections, a development that some analysts said may open the way for Duterte's daughter to stand. Senator Christopher "Bong" Go, in a letter to the PDP-Laban party, said he wanted to devote his attention to helping fight the pandemic, asking his allies to support candidates who will continue Duterte's policies and programmes. "As much as I wish to respond to the clamor of many of our party mates, I most respectfully decline the said endorsement," he wrote in the letter, which was made public on Monday.
U.S.Business InsiderAn 88-year-old professor in Georgia resigned in the middle of class because a student refused to wear a mask over her nose: 'That's it. I'm retired.'
A professor in Georgia resigned last week after a student refused to wear a mask in class. Irwin Bernstein, who taught psychology, resigned minutes into his seminar. The University of Georgia does not require that face masks be worn inside campus facilities.
U.S.The WeekA pair of 'significant' findings from an otherwise inconclusive U.S. intelligence report on coronavirus origins
A review by the United States' intelligence community did not reach a firm conclusion on the origin of the coronavirus that sparked the COVID-19 pandemic, but it still may prove quite helpful moving forward. While the report, ordered by President Biden earlier this year, determined only that both natural spillover from an infected animal and a lab leak were plausible theories as to how the pathogen jumped to humans, an unclassified summary of the report released Friday did show that there was broad agreement among the intelligence community on multiple areas, including that the virus was "not developed as a biological weapon" and that Chinese officials "did not have foreknowledge" of the virus ahead of the initial outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, back in the fall of 2019.
U.S.ReutersWedding certificate and cell phone: How a U.S. veteran's wife fled Afghanistan
Whipped by the Taliban and shoved from behind by other desperate Afghans, marriage certificate in hand, Sharifa Afzali thrust her cell phone at the U.S. soldier barring the Kabul airport gate. On the other end was her husband, a U.S. Army veteran in Oklahoma. "And by the grace of God, he let my wife and my interpreter through," Wright recounted to Reuters.
TechnologyThe ConversationThe Taliban reportedly have control of US biometric devices – a lesson in life-and-death consequences of data privacy
In the wake of the Taliban's takeover of Kabul and the ouster of the Afghan national government, alarming reports indicate that the insurgents could potentially access biometric data collected by the U.S. to track Afghans, including people who worked for U.S. and coalition forces. Many Afghans fear that the identity documents and databases storing personally identifiable data could be transformed into death warrants in the hands of the Taliban. This potential data breach underscores that data protection in zones of conflict, especially biometric data and databases that connect online activity to physical locations, can be a matter of life and death.
U.S.Business InsiderA police captain who refused the vaccine and took the anti-parasitic ivermectin to combat COVID-19 dies from the virus
An anti-vaxx police officer has died in Georgia after a short battle with COVID-19. Captain Joe Manning posted anti-vaxx messages on Facebook and took the drug ivermectin. The CDC has said ivermectin does not help prevent or treat coronavirus and can cause severe illness.
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"It's been a slow death": Loved ones describe cutting ties with parents, siblings over QAnon conspiracy theories
This week on 60 Minutes+, Laurie Segall speaks with men and women who say they have seen their loved ones fall so far into QAnon conspiracy theories that many have had to cut off contact with them.
U.S.NY Daily News‘Accidental’ death ruling for Boston woman after hike with cop up Phoenix mountain
A Boston woman who died last month while hiking with an off-duty police officer she barely knew succumbed to “environmental heat exposure,” according to the coroner's office, which ruled her death accidental. Angela Tramonte, 31, flew out to Phoenix in late July to meet Dario Dizdar, a Phoenix police officer who she knew through social media, according to friends. Dizdar told officials that Tramonte became overheated after forgetting to bring water, but asked Dizdar to “continue to the top to take pictures so that she could share them on her social media,” according to the Phoenix Police Department.
WorldWashington ExaminerMother of Marine slain in Kabul says Biden voters 'killed my son'
The mother of one of the slain Marines in Kabul last week said that people who voted for Joe Biden are responsible for her son's death. Kathy McCollum, mother of 20-year-old U.S. Marine Rylee, who was killed in the suicide bombings in Kabul along with 12 other service members, said on SiriusXM radio that “dementia-ridden” Biden is to blame for her son's death along with all who supported him. Twenty years and six-months-old, getting ready to go home from freaking Jordan to be home with his wife to watch the birth of his son, and that feckless, dementia-ridden piece of crap just sent my son to die,” McCollum said in the radio interview with host Andrew Wilkow on “The Wilkow Majority” show.
BusinessReutersUnited jets with engines involved in Denver incident may not fly until next year - WSJ
The United Airlines flight was heading to Honolulu when it suffered an engine failure. The Boeing 777-200 plane landed safely at Denver International Airport soon after takeoff. United had hoped to resume flying the wide-body jets this summer, the report added, but returning them to service has taken longer-than-expected as federal regulators consider potential new requirements for some Boeing 777 jets powered by Pratt & Whitney (PW) engines.
WorldAxiosU.S., 97 other countries announce deal with Taliban to keep evacuating allies after Aug. 31
The United States, along with 97 other countries, announced Sunday that they had reached an agreement with the Taliban to allow them to continue to get Afghan allies out of the country after the Aug. 31 withdrawal deadline. "We have received assurances from the Taliban that all foreign nationals and any Afghan citizen with travel authorization from our countries will be allowed to proceed in a safe and orderly manner to points of departure and travel outside the country," the statement continued. Sher Mohammed Abas Stanekzai, the Taliban's chief negotiator, said on Friday that the group would not stop people from departing.
U.S.The WrapFarrah Abraham Plans to Sue ‘Haters’ at Harvard for ‘Educational Abuse’
Here's some consolation for those who were not accepted to Harvard — “Teen Mom” alum Farrah Abraham says it sucks there. Abraham detailed the grievances in her Yelp review (which was discovered by fans) regarding a professor in her creative writing Master's program, Patricia Bellanca, and Dean Robert Neugeboren. “Basically an elder teacher in a position of power with a male dean blocked me out of a class and also said lies about my work,” Abraham said.
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Category 4 Hurricane Ida makes landfall
Hurricane Ida made landfall along parts of the U.S. Gulf Coast on Sunday as a category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds of 150 miles per hour. Ida could inundate much of the Louisiana shoreline as the state grapples with a COVID surge already taxing hospitals. Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards on Sunday said it appeared hundreds of thousands living in low-lying areas had evacuated, but evacuating COVID patients was not an option.
U.S.Business InsiderMississippi's governor says people in the state are less scared of COVID-19 because they 'believe in eternal life'
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said people in the state are "less scared" of COVID-19. Health services are struggling under a wave of new infections in the state. Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves, in remarks Saturday, said that people in the state were "less scared" of COVID-19 because they believe in "eternal life," as new infections reach record levels and hospitalizations spike.
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Man grabs gun from dying 24-year-old son’s hands after shootout with off-duty NYPD officers and opens fire
As a man lay dying on a Bronx street from a shootout with police, his father snatched the gun from the son's hands — and used it to continue the gun battle with officers, authorities said. Two off-duty officers spotted the 24-year-old son shooting at a man on Valentine Avenue near 180th Street in the West Bronx just after 4 a.m., police said. The father and son had been in an argument with a group of people on the corner when it turned physical and the son pulled out the gun, cops said.
WorldReutersRussian cosmonauts find new cracks in ISS module
Russian cosmonauts have discovered new cracks in a segment of the International Space Station that could widen, a senior space official said on Monday, the latest in a series of setbacks. "Superficial fissures have been found in some places on the Zarya module," Vladimir Solovyov, chief engineer of rocket and space corporation Energia, told RIA news agency. The space official has said previously that much of the International Space Station's equipment is starting to age and has warned there could be an "avalanche" of broken equipment after 2025.
“As an individual, your choices have very little impact.”
“Doing something bold like giving up flying can have a wider knock-on effect by influencing others and shifting what’s viewed as ‘normal.’”
“Instead of calling for restrictions on people’s behavior … we should focus on the kind of action that’s really going to be effective.”
“Individual actions matter in that they can reduce emissions … But, alone, it is nowhere near enough.”
“Building community around action should be our measure of success, and it can happen right now.”