Category: Uncategorized

By MATTHEW PERRONE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The government’s top vaccine official working under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently restricted the approval of two COVID-19 vaccines, disregarding recommendations from government scientists, according to federal documents released Wednesday. The new memos from the Food and Drug Administration show how the agency’s vaccine chief,…
Read more

By COLLEEN SLEVIN, Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday ended an order blocking the deportation of the family of the man charged in the fatal firebomb attack in Boulder, Colorado, noting government lawyers say the man’s relatives are not being rushed out of the country as the White House originally stated.…
Read more

By CURT ANDERSON and MARTA LAVANDIER, Associated Press OCHOPEE, Fla. (AP) — The first group of immigrants were scheduled to arrive Wednesday night at a new detention center deep in the Florida Everglades that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” the state’s attorney general said. “Alligator Alcatraz will be checking in hundreds of criminal illegal aliens…
Read more

EL SEGUNDO — For Bronny James, the focus over the next couple of weeks will be on his summer league play with the Lakers. Not the growing speculation surrounding his dad, LeBron James, and his future with the franchise after comments from his agent, Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul, made it less clear how much…
Read more

By MICHELLE L. PRICE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump will meet at the White House on Thursday with Edan Alexander, the last living American hostage in Gaza, who was released in May. “The President and First Lady have met with many released hostages from Gaza, and they…
Read more

MONROE TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — At least 15 people were taken to a hospital when a small skydiving aircraft went off the end of a runway at an airport in southern New Jersey and crashed in a wooded area on Wednesday evening, according to authorities. The incident at the Cross Keys Airport, about 21 miles…
Read more

By DAVID KLEPPER and ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A declassified CIA memo released Wednesday challenges the work intelligence agencies did to conclude that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election because it wanted Republican Donald Trump to win. The memo was written on the orders of CIA Director John Ratcliffe, a Trump…
Read more

By RIO YAMAT, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Duane “Keffe D” Davis, who is awaiting trial in the 1996 killing of rap icon Tupac Shakur, has lost a bid for a new trial in a separate battery case tied to a jailhouse fight. The ruling came Wednesday after a tense hearing in a Las…
Read more

By LAURAN NEERGAARD, Associated Press The Trump administration appears to be expanding RSV vaccinations to some adults starting at age 50, down from 60, following the advice of a recently fired panel of government vaccine advisers. The decision appears on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage but as of Wednesday wasn’t on the…
Read more

Five Southern California residents and several activist organizations are suing the Department of Homeland Security, alleging that recent immigration raids have violated the constitutional rights of residents who have been detained, the American Civil Liberties Union in Southern California announced Wednesday. The lawsuit accuses federal immigration authorities of racial profiling, making unlawful arrests, not properly…
Read more