9:00 AM UPDATE: Doctor Thomas Dobbs, Mississippi State Health Officer said Tuesday morning, “MSDH is instructing all physicians, clinics and hospitals to refrain from using Johnson and Johnson until additional guidance available from CDC and FDA.” He went on to…
LONDON (AP) - Buckingham Palace officials say Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, has died. He was 99. Philip spent a month in hospital earlier this year before being released on March 16 to return to Windsor Castle.…
Crews in Florida are working to prevent the collapse of a large wastewater pond to avoid a “catastrophic flood.”
A prayer vigil is planned outside the suburban New York hospital where rapper DMX remains on life support following a heart attack.
WASHINGTON (AP/NBC NEWS) — A car has rammed a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol, injuring two Capitol Police officers and leading to the driver being shot. That’s according to two law enforcement officials who spoke to The Associated Press on Friday afternoon on condition of anonymity as the event was unfolding. At least one […]
The number of new applications for U.S. unemployment benefits rose to a one-month high of 770,000 in the middle of March. According to the latest numbers from the U.S. Labor Department, initial jobless claims increased by 45,000…
By JIM MUSTIAN, Associated Press Louisiana State Police troopers joked in a group text about beating a Black man after a high-speed chase last year, saying the "whoopin" would give the man "nightmares for a long time," according to new…
Fewer Americans expect to fill out brackets for the NCAA’s college basketball tournament this year, but the overall number of people making bets on March Madness should remain about the same as the last time the tournament was held, according to the gambling industry’s national trade association.
Source: NASA Perseverance is sending back wind sounds from Mars. The super cam microphone is located at the top of the rover's mast. The recording might sound a bit muffled because the mast was still down.…
By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden signed into law the $1.9 trillion relief package that he says will help the U.S. defeat the coronavirus and nurse the economy back to health. He had been set…
BY EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill Thursday to ban transgender athletes from competing on girls or women’s sports teams. Mississippi is the first state this year to enact such…
He said the royals are “very much not a racist family.”
By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress has sent President Joe Biden the landmark $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill. The House approved the bill Wednesday over solid Republican opposition in a vote that gives the new president and…
A former Army captain serving three life sentences for the 1970 murders of his pregnant wife and two young children has asked a federal judge to free him due to his age and failing health.
By SARAH SKIDMORE SELL As the latest federal pandemic relief package makes its way to President Joe Biden’s desk, Americans may be wondering when the benefits will reach them. The $1.9 trillion known as the “American Rescue Plan” is massive,…
Fully-vaccinated Americans can gather with other vaccinated people indoors without wearing a mask or social distancing, according to long-awaited guidance from federal health officials. The recommendations also say that vaccinated people can come together in the same way with people…
By ZEKE MILLER and LINDA A. JOHNSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden says the U.S. expects to take delivery of enough coronavirus vaccines for all adult Americans by the end of May, two months earlier than anticipated,…
By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - Authorities say golf star Tiger Woods was injured in a vehicle rollover in Los Angeles County. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says Woods had to be extricated from the vehicle…
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Scientists have cloned the first U.S. endangered species, a black-footed ferret duplicated from the genes of an animal that died over 30 years ago. The slinky predator named Elizabeth Ann, born Dec. 10 and announced Thursday,…
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (AP) — Residents, some of whom lack heat or basic amenities in their own homes due to the unusually chilly weather, have been rescuing cold-stunned sea turtles and taking them to a convention center in a South Texas resort town.…
By The Associated Press PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Rush Limbaugh, the talk radio host who ripped into liberals, foretold the rise of Donald Trump and laid waste to political correctness with a merry brand of malice that made him…
The new coronavirus relief bill from House Democrats would offer a generous, though temporary, increase in subsidies for people covered by the Affordable Care Act.
A milestone in the race to vaccinate Americans against the coronavirus. According to the latest numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than $10 million people in the United States have received two doses…
About 1 in 3 Americans say they definitely or probably won’t get the COVID-19 vaccine.