A health worker administers a dose of the Pfizer vaccine at the Clalit Health Services in the Palestinian neighborhood of Beit Hanina, in the Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, on August 29, 2021. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images Two recent studies found that Pfizer’s immunity protection diminishes rapidly a few months after a person has their second dose. However, […]
The View cohost Joy Bewhar said Thursday that black people don’t need to be afraid of the COVID-19 vaccine anymore because white people did it as an “experiment.” Co-host Sunny Hostin said she was struck by the number of Americans who remain unvaccinated and that the solution may be “fear” — 56% of Americans are […]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Now the uncontested rulers of Afghanistan, the Taliban have set their sights on stamping out the scourge of narcotics addiction, even if by force. At nightfall, the battle-hardened fighters-turned-policemen scour the capital’s drug-ravaged underworld. Below Kabul’s bustling city bridges, amid piles of garbage and streams of filthy water, hundreds of homeless […]
Jeffrey Allen Burnham, 46, is currently being held without bond in Maryland’s Allegany County, and faces two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of second-degree murder. Avid_creative A Maryland man is accused of fatally shooting his pharmacist brother because he was distributing COVID-19 vaccines. Per court documents, Jeffrey Allen Burnham thought his brother was […]
A mountain gorilla whose picture went viral after she photobombed a park ranger’s selfie has died at 14. Ndakazi “took her final breath in the loving arms of her caretaker and lifelong friend, Andre Bauma,” a statement from the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Tuesday. She died last month after […]
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A teacher has resigned from a North Carolina charter school after telling Black students in her class that if not for the Constitution, they would be her “field slaves,” a comment that one parent said brought attention to other racist incidents at the school. Winterville Charter Academy sent a memo which […]
Janice McGeachin Nathan Howard/Getty Images “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em,” William Shakespeare wrote in Twelfth Night, setting up a prank to humiliate a pretentious servant. It isn’t clear which camp Idaho Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin (R) would place herself in, but on Tuesday she took advantage […]
The ‘missing’ man joined his own search party for several hours. Getty Images Brittany Renee Williams, then a 7-year-old of Henrico, Virginia, disappeared from her foster home in 2000. Kaylynn Stevenson, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, said she has DNA evidence proving she is Brittany. She said she lived most of her life in Ohio with […]
Donald Trump announced a new super PAC on Monday ― and his critics couldn’t get over the name: “Make America Great Again, Again.” The awkward moniker has been used before by Trump’s allies, including former Vice President Mike Pence, who tested it out at the Republican National Convention in 2020 to similar confusion on social media […]
Insider A protester’s 18-minute video showed Cassie Laundrie and her husband fielding questions about the case. Cassie and her husband, James Luycx, live in Lakewood Ranch, Florida. Cassie said she answered questions so that the protesters would leave her property. Visit Insider’s homepage for more stories. Brian Laundrie’s sister, Cassie, has broken her silence by […]