Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Boosters for children ages 12 to 15 are one step closer after a panel of advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Wednesday to recommend the third Pfizer shots for adolescents, leaving the final step to CDC Director Rochelle Walensky. Walensky […]
ABCNews.com (HOUSTON) — Houston police are investigating a New Year’s Day shooting that wounded a 4-year-old girl, identified by her family as Arianna Delane, a niece of George Floyd, the unarmed Black killed by a Minneapolis police officer in May 2020. Derrick Delane, the child’s father, told ABC Houston station […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Just two weeks before it was to be held in Park City, Utah, the Sundance Film Festival is canceling its in-person festival and reverting to an entirely virtual edition due to the current coronavirus surge. Festival organizers announced Wednesday that the festival will start as scheduled […]
PROVO, Utah-Wednesday, BYU head football coach Kalani Sitake announced the mid-year additions of graduate transfers tailback Christopher Brooks (California) and fullback Houston Heimuli (Stanford). Both Brooks and Heimuli have enrolled at BYU for the winter semester. The 6-1 235-pound Brooks will have one year of eligibility with the Cougars. During […]
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Defense attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell want a new trial following post-verdict comments made by one of the jurors who helped convict Maxwell of sex trafficking crimes, according to a court filing Wednesday. Earlier Wednesday, federal prosecutors in New York asked a judge to oversee […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Spencer Cox is declaring a liquid petroleum emergency in Utah. Governor Cox said the freezing temperatures and road closures caused by the weather has caused a spike in propane demand in the Beehive State. Declaring an emergency allows the state to suspend federal regulations […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Spencer Cox is speaking out after he and other Utah leaders were sent an anti-semitic email from the founder of a tech company. David Bateman, the founder of Entrata, claimed Jews were using the COVID vaccine to “euthanize Americans.” In a statement on social […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images (CHICAGO) — Chicago officials canceled classes for hundreds of thousands of public school students on Wednesday after reaching an impasse with the city’s teachers union over whether in-person learning was safe during a wave of COVID-19 infections. City leadership, including Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot, had asked teachers […]
Atilano Garcia/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (MELBOURNE) — Fury, shock and widespread confusion unfolded on social media in Australia after tennis great Novak Djokovic announced Tuesday that he was granted a medical exemption to play at the Australian Open, which begins Jan. 17. The announcement was mostly met with heated […]
Pete Bannan/MediaNews Group/Daily Times via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.4 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 827,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering. About 62% […]
