The tribe in Oklahoma is facing a problem that is likely to become more commonplace across the country: how to vaccinate everyone not eagerly lining up for a shot. By Jack Healy TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — As people across the United States jockey and wait to get vaccinated, a surprising problem is unfolding in the Cherokee […]
The big increase in the murder rate in the United States in 2020 has carried over to 2021. A sample of 37 cities with data available for the first three months of this year shows murder up 18 percent relative to the same period last year. In the midst of a volatile period in crime, […]
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The man convicted of slaughtering his parents and four siblings in a home that later inspired the “The Amityville Horror” book and movies has died, prison officials said Monday. Ronald DeFeo, 69, died Friday at Albany Medical Center, where he was taken Feb. 2 from a prison in New York’s Catskill […]
BUFFALO — On the day that embattled Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo lost the support of the New York State Senate leader, marking the start of the most perilous week of his career yet, the woman who could succeed him in office was celebrating National Cereal Day. “Nothing like waking up to the smell of Cheerios […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The man who blew himself up inside his recreational vehicle in a Christmas Day bombing in Nashville was grappling with paranoia and eccentric conspiracy theories, but there are no indications he was motivated by social or political ideology, the FBI said Monday in closing out the investigation into the blast. The FBI […]
MINNEAPOLIS — Expressing grave concern that the City of Minneapolis’s $27 million settlement with the family of George Floyd last week will tarnish his client, the lawyer for Derek Chauvin asked the judge on Monday to delay the trial and move it outside of the city. The lawyer, Eric J. Nelson, also asked that the […]
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (REUTERS) – Moderna Inc said on Monday (March 15) it had dosed the first patients in an early-stage study of a new Covid-19 vaccine candidate for evaluation as a next-generation shot. The company said its new candidate, mRNA-1283, could potentially be stored in refrigerators instead of freezers, making it easier to distribute, especially […]
More New Yorkers believe that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has committed sexual harassment than not, but half of those surveyed say that he should not resign, according to a Siena College poll released on Monday. Slightly more than a third of voters, 35 percent, said they believed the governor had committed sexual harassment, while 24 […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A longtime adviser to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo leading the state's COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been calling county executives to gauge their loyalty to the Democratic governor amid a sexual harassment investigation, according to reports in The Washington Postand The New York Times. One Democratic county executive, who was not […]
NEW YORK (REUTERS) – Facebook, which has been criticised by lawmakers and researchers for allowing vaccine misinformation to spread on its platforms, said on Monday (March 15) that it has started adding labels to posts that discuss the safety of the shots and will soon label all posts about the vaccines. The social media company […]