CDC no longer requires unvaccinated to quarantine after being exposed to COVID
Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(ATLANTA) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its COVID-19 guidance Thursday to ease recommendations for people who are unvaccinated and have been exposed to COVID-19.
Previously, the C…
Trump Organization CFO due in criminal court on tax evasion
Kevin C. Downs/The New York Post/Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE(NEW YORK) — Allen Weisselberg, for decades the chief financial officer of former President Donald Trump’s namesake family business, is due in a New York court Friday for a hearing in hi…
Girl missing since 2019 was murdered in New Hampshire, remains not found: Police
Manchester Police Department(MANCHESTER, N.H.) — Authorities have determined that Harmony Montgomery, a little girl who disappeared in 2019, was murdered in Manchester, New Hampshire, in early December 2019, officials announced Thursday.
Harmony would…
Campus femicides in Egypt revive calls to strengthen laws against gender-based violence
Manuel Augusto Moreno/Getty Images(CAIRO, Egypt) — The latest murder of a young woman in Egypt who had allegedly rejected the advances of a fellow student has sparked outrage and renewed calls for Egyptian lawmakers to take action.
Islam Mohamed, a 2…
US has 300,000 teacher, school staff vacancies, NEA President Rebecca Pringle says
Maskot/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The current teacher shortage facing the United States is a “five-alarm crisis,” according to Rebecca Pringle, the president of the National Education Association, the largest teachers’ union in the country.
“We have bee…
Man charged in 2 Albuquerque killings has domestic violence history, police say
Albuquerque Police Department via AFP/Getty Images(ALBUQUERQUE, N.M) — The man charged in the killings of at least two of the four Muslim men killed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in recent months has a history of arrests for domestic violence, police sai…
Congressional Republicans call Garland’s remarks on Mar-a-Lago search insufficient
ABC News(WASHINGTON) — Congressional Republicans were quick to pan Merrick Garland’s Thursday remarks on the FBI search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago — calling the attorney general’s comments insufficient and insisting the Justice Department release mo…
Only half of eligible Americans have gotten their first COVID booster
Thanasis/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — As we approach the fall, there is a renewed push to get Americans vaccinated against COVID-19, particularly the elderly and the vulnerable, who continue to bear the brunt of the nation’s COVID-19 crisis.
Although over…
Instagram personality charged with murder months after allegedly fatally stabbing boyfriend
Hawai’i Police Department(LAUPAHOEHOE, Hi.) — Social media personality Courtney Clenney has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder with a deadly weapon, months after the death of her 27-year-old boyfriend Christian Obumseli.
The 26-year-o…
Watchdog felt it faced delays monitoring DHS, Secret Service texts — but never sent notice to Congress
Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) — Career staff at the government’s watchdog for the Department of Homeland Security prepared a notice to Congress earlier this year about their difficulty obtaining Secret Service text messages connected t…