A Texas high school was placed on lockdown Wednesday morning following reports of an armed person on campus. Akins Early College High School in south Austin had a ‘heavy police presence’ just after 10am, according to Austin ISD Police Chief Ashley Gonzalez. Gonzalez shared the information via Twitter, saying, ‘Akins HS currently on LOCKDOWN white […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The Biden administration was blocked on Tuesday (Nov 30) from enforcing two mandates requiring millions of American workers to get vaccinated against Covid-19, a key part of its strategy for controlling the spread of the coronavirus. US District Judge Terry Doughty in Monroe, Louisiana, temporarily blocked the Centres for Medicare & Medicaid […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – It is too early to know whether the Omicron variant of coronavirus will lead to severe disease, but preliminary information from South Africa indicates it does not result in unusual symptoms, top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said on Tuesday (Nov 30). Fauci said there were 226 confirmed cases of the […]
Three students have been killed and eight people wounded after a 15-year-old opened fire at his Michigan high school. The attack happened at Oxford High School in Oxford Township, a community of about 22,000 people 30 miles (48km) north of Detroit. The 15-year-old is in custody after being arrested at the school. Officers also recovered […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has alarmed many scientists because of the sheer number of genetic mutations it carries – about 50 in all, including at least 26 that are unique to it. But more does not necessarily mean worse: Mutations sometimes work together to make a virus more fearsome, […]
LONDON (BLOOMBERG) – Moderna’s top executives reiterated that the Omicron variant’s many mutations suggest new vaccines will be needed, triggering a drop in financial markets. “The number of mutations on this virus are surprising,” co-founder Noubar Afeyan said in a Bloomberg Television interview. “We have to take it for the serious threat that it poses.” […]
SAN FRANCISCO (BLOOMBERG) – Three former Google employees sued the technology giant claiming they were wrongfully fired for challenging a plan to collaborate with the Trump administration’s border security agencies. They claim that in addition to being falsely accused of leaking information about the Alphabet unit’s plans to the media, they were also targeted because […]
A man has been charged with murder over the disappearance of a mum-of-two. Alexandra Morgan, 34, from Sissinghurst, Kent, was last seen at a petrol station near Cranbrook at 7.20am on November 14. Since then, she has vanished and has not been in contact with her family. Petrol station manager Rose McAuley is the last […]
Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial is finally set to start in New York, 17 months after the British socialite was arrested for allegedly trafficking minors on behalf of former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell denies recruiting teenagers as young as 14 for the disgraced paedophile financier to sexually abuse from 1994 to 2004. Prosecutors say Maxwell, 59, befriended girls with […]
For a woman known around the world, who has been the focus of documentaries, podcasts and endless news coverage, Ghislaine Maxwell still remains an enigma. She has said very little publicly in the two decades since sexual abuse allegations about her friend Jeffrey Epstein began to surface. We do not know how Maxwell met the […]