The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now urging summer camp operators to check for documentation of immunity from measles through vaccination or prior infection for all children, staff and volunteers, amid a deadly year of outbreaks that is now near record levels. “Measles can spread quickly in summer camps …
Read More »Gun deaths among children rise in states with lax firearm laws, new study finds
Gun deaths among children have risen over a 13-year period in states with lax firearm laws, according to a new study published this week in JAMA Pediatrics, a peer-reviewed medical journal. Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho and Georgia were among the states that saw a jump in pediatric gun deaths after amending …
Read More »OpenAI tools ChatGPT, Sora image generator are down
OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Sora image generator, and other tools were down Tuesday as the company suffered an outage. Reports of outages spiked early this morning, according to website status tracker Downdetector. By around 8 a.m., it had received more than 1,300 reports of outages from users who were unable to access …
Read More »ABC News suspends correspondent Terry Moran over X post attacking Trump, Stephen Miller
ABC News on Sunday suspended a senior correspondent following a since-deleted social media post where he criticized White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller and President Trump. Shortly after midnight on Sunday, senior national correspondent Terry Moran wrote on X that Miller is “richly endowed with the capacity for …
Read More »Teen jumps in to help Burger King coworkers on his graduation night and is rewarded with big donations
Dacula, Georgia — At a Burger King in Dacula, Georgia, 18-year-old Mykale Baker is known for his whopper of a work ethic. He shows up early, stays late, and looks at every shift like a privilege. “I like helping people and not expecting anything back from it,” Baker told CBS …
Read More »Men found guilty of supplying bomb that killed investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta
Two men have been convicted in Malta of supplying the explosives that killed journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in the Mediterranean island state in 2017. Following a six-week trial, Robert Agius, 41, and Jamie Vella, 42, were both found guilty late Thursday of complicity in the assassination of the 53-year-old investigative …
Read More »White House asks Congress to claw back $9.4 billion in funding for foreign aid, NPR, PBS in rescission package
Washington — The White House on Tuesday sent a formal request to Congress to claw back funding for NPR, PBS and international aid that lawmakers had previously approved. The package would cancel $9.4 billion appropriated by Congress, aiming to make permanent some of the Department of Government Efficiency’s spending cuts. …
Read More »Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent “confident” U.S.
Washington — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that he’s “confident” a U.S.-China trade dispute “will be ironed out” when President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have a conversation, after Mr. Trump said China was violating its trade agreement with the U.S. late last week. Of a call between …
Read More »CPAC comes to Europe as alliance between the Trump White House and the international right grows
MAGA influencers and far-right leaders gathered in Poland and Hungary this week as the Conservative Political Action Conference, known as CPAC, held two international events — a show of strength in the increasing trans-Atlantic alliance between the Trump White House and Europe’s populist conservative movement. On Thursday in Budapest, Hungary’s …
Read More »Alaska man unscathed after being pinned for hours by 700
An Alaska man who was pinned facedown in an icy creek by a 700-pound boulder for three hours survived the ordeal with only minor injuries, thanks in part to his wife’s quick thinking and lots of luck. Kell Morris’ wife held his head above water to prevent him from drowning …
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