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Pfizer said Wednesday that its COVID-19 vaccine is safe and strongly protective in kids as young as 12, a step toward possibly beginning shots before they head to school this fall.
The former Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd went on trial Monday, with prosecutors showing the jury video of Derek Chauvin pressing his knee on the Black man’s neck for several minutes as onlookers yelled at him repeatedly to get off and Floyd gasped that he couldn’t breathe.
Suez Canal officials say the massive container ship that was stuck in vital waterway for nearly a week has been set free and is on the move.
Around 10% of world trade flows through the canal, which is crucial for the transport of oil. The closure also could affect oil and gas shipments to Europe from the Middle East.
Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state would start vaccinating anyone 50 and over in a week and the population more broadly on April 15.
Police on Tuesday identified a 21-year-old man as the suspect in the killing of 10 people at a Boulder, Colorado, supermarket.
Police have arrested a suspect after 10 people, including a police officer, were killed Monday in Boulder, the third mass shooting in Colorado following incidents at Columbine High School in Littleton in 1999 and at a movie theater in Aurora in 2012.
Miami Beach commissioners voted unanimously Sunday to empower the city manager to extend the curfew in the South Beach entertainment district until at least April 12, effectively shutting down a spring break hot spot in one of the few states fully open during the pandemic.
Thirteen hikers have fallen and died from Angels Landing since 2000. The tally includes two Utah men who have died this year.
U.S. health officials are relaxing social distancing recommendations for schools, saying students can sit as close as 3 feet apart in classrooms.
A judge on Friday denied a defense request to delay or move the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death after a $27 million settlement for Floyd’s family raised concern about a tainted jury.
Robert Aaron Long, 21, told police the attack was not racially motivated, claiming to have a “sex addiction” and apparently he lashed out at what he saw as sources of temptation.
Vice President Kamala Harris visited with health care providers at UNLV and workers packing food boxes for those in need at the Culinary Academy of Las Vegas on Monday.
The driver, a 71-year-old man, appeared to lose control of his Volvo station wagon shortly after 9 a.m. near a community college.
