Concerns over AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine data
Dr. Jen Ashton talks about the new questions surrounding the company’s efficacy data.
Dr. Jen Ashton talks about the new questions surrounding the company’s efficacy data.
A manhunt is on in Texas for a man suspected of shooting a police officer during an "ambush" at a traffic stop overnight, authorities said. Jerry Don Elders allegedly fired multiple shots at a Burleson police officer when he approached Edlers' car for an equipment violation at about 4:15 a.m. Wednesday, Burleson Police Chief Billy Cordell told reporters. The officer is "alert" and in stable condition, Cordell said, adding that his injuries do not appear to be life threatening.
Prince William and Prince Harry, brothers whose relationship has been strained over the past year, have reportedly spoken to each other as they prepare for the funeral of their grandfather, Prince Philip. William, 38, and Harry, 36, are understood to have spoken by phone at some point since Harry arrived in the United Kingdom last weekend according to the U.K.'s The Telegraph. Harry is currently staying at Frogmore Cottage, his family's home in Windsor, while he quarantines, following COVID-19 protocols after flying from California to the U.K.
The world is reacting after former "Bachelor" star Colton Underwood came out as gay in an exclusive "Good Morning America" interview with Robin Roberts on Wednesday. Underwood, who was first introduced to Bachelor Nation on season 14 of "The Bachelorette" in 2018 before being cast as the lead of season 23 of "The Bachelor" in 2019, told Roberts in the pre-taped chat he's "the happiest and healthiest" he's ever been right now. Underwood said he regretted how he handled his time in the "Bachelor" franchise and apologized for how he treated ex-girlfriend Cassie Randolph after their 2020 split.
Kim Potter, the white police officer who shot and killed Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, will be charged with second-degree manslaughter, the Washington County Attorney said Wednesday. Potter, a 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center Police Department, submitted her resignation on Tuesday following Sunday's fatal shooting. Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott said Tuesday that he had not yet accepted Potter's resignation.
President Joe Biden plans to say Wednesday that he is withdrawing all U.S. troops from Afghanistan before the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks because "it is time to end America’s longest war." "We went to Afghanistan because of a horrific attack that happened 20 years ago," Biden will say in remarks Wednesday afternoon, according to excerpts released by the White House. The president plans to formally announce the withdrawal in the White House Treaty Room -- the same place George W. Bush announced the launch of the war on Oct. 7, 2001 just weeks after the 9/11 attacks.
Katy Perry recently opened up to her fiancé Orlando Bloom's ex-wife, supermodel Miranda Kerr, about the joys of motherhood. Sitting down with Kerr on Instagram Live, the "Smile" singer gushed about her 7-month old daughter Daisy Dove and explained why now was the perfect time for her to start having children. "There was no feeling like the feeling when I had my daughter," Katy said during the Tuesday discussion.
A senior U.S. administration official told reporters during a briefing Tuesday that President Joe Biden's administration will put the "full weight of our government behind diplomatic efforts to reach a peace agreement between the Taliban and the Afghan government." The Taliban's spokesperson tweeted Tuesday that the group will not participate in any negotiations "until all foreign forces completely withdraw from our homeland." Turkey's Foreign Ministry announced hours earlier on Tuesday that both the Afghan government of President Ashraf Ghani and the Taliban had agreed to meet for 10 days "to accelerate and complement the ongoing intra-Afghan negotiations in Doha on the achievement of a just and durable political settlement."
Derek Chauvin's murder trial kicked off Wednesday with Judge Peter Cahill quashing a subpoena for Morries Hall, who was in a car with George Floyd the day he died, to testify. Hall was in the car with Floyd before he was restrained on May 25 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hall has been identified during trial testimony as a suspected drug dealer from whom Floyd obtained narcotics.
A missing hiker has been found safe in California -- and officials credited his rescue in part to one man who recognized the hiker's photo. Rene Compean, 45, was found safe at about 3:45 p.m. Tuesday in the Angeles National Forest, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said. When Compean was reported missing at about 6 p.m. Monday, rescue teams immediately launched a search in the Mt. Waterman area.
Bernie Madoff, the disgraced former financier who ran the largest Ponzi scheme in history, has died, sources confirmed to ABC News. Madoff earned global notoriety by defrauding thousands of investors, to the tune of nearly $65 billion, using a Ponzi scheme that unraveled shortly after the Great Recession of 2008. Madoff's lavish lifestyle and dramatic downfall were the subject of a 2017 HBO film called "The Wizard of Lies," based on a book of the same title by New York Times financial journalist Diana Henriques.
A stalled frontal system responsible for the severe weather along the Gulf Coast Tuesday will not be going anywhere soon. More severe weather is expected Wednesday from eastern Texas into Louisiana, where more straight-line damaging winds are possible. Flash flood watches continue Wednesday for Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
Colton Underwood is ready to live his truth. The former "Bachelor" star came out as gay in an exclusive interview with Robin Roberts on "Good Morning America" on Wednesday. Bachelor Nation was first introduced to Underwood when he was a contestant on Becca Kufrin's season of "The Bachelorette," the 14th season, in 2018.
The murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd has put a spotlight on law enforcement training, as his former supervisors, trainers, and counterparts take the stand to testify. Chauvin’s defense attorney, Eric Nelson, opened the trial by telling jurors that the neck restraint he used on Floyd was “exactly what he had been trained to do over the course of his 19-year career.” Retired Minneapolis Police Department Sgt. David Pleoger -- Chauvin's supervisor at the time of Floyd's death -- testified that “when Mr. Floyd was no longer offering up any resistance to the officers, they could have ended their restraint.”
The Senate will take its first step aimed at combatting the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes Wednesday in what could prove to be an increasingly rare bipartisan Senate effort. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced the Senate will vote Wednesday on whether to begin debate on a bill, sponsored by Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, that would take relatively modest steps to equip law enforcement and communities to better deal with the rise in attacks against Asian American and Pacific Islanders. "In America an attack on one group is an attack on all of us," Schumer said Tuesday.
For colleges and universities, the one-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 shot has been the simplest solution for quickly and fully vaccinating students who will soon disperse around the country in early May, otherwise risking both infection and transmission as they go. Schools that had other vaccine options on hand said they would reschedule students to get Pfizer or Moderna shots -- but students would then have to figure out how to get their second shot in three to four weeks if they planned to be home for the summer by then. While this could be a potential inconvenience for students, finding a second dose elsewhere is also likely possible as vaccine supply continues to increase nationwide.
The police officer who shot and killed Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, on Sunday has resigned from her position amid widespread protests. Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott announced at a press conference Tuesday that Officer Kim Potter, a 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center Police Department, had submitted her resignation effective immediately. Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon also submitted his resignation Tuesday.
Women often talk about finding financial freedom, but single women especially need to think about being financially whole, according to Tiffany Aliche, a personal finance expert who is known as "The Budgetnista" to her hundreds of thousands of followers on social media. Financial wholeness, according to Aliche, is achieved when the 10 core components of a person's financial life are in order. It has put millions of women out of work, and forced many women to tap into their retirement and savings accounts to be able to live.
Maryland State Police are investigating a trooper-involved fatal shooting in Leonardtown that ended in the death of a 16-year-old. A uniformed Maryland state trooper then arrived at the scene and confronted a male teenager, who has now been identified as Peyton Ham. The Maryland State Police Leonardtown Barrack shared the news of the shooting on Facebook Tuesday afternoon, saying a trooper had responded to a report of a possibly armed man.
Colton Underwood is ready to get "deeply personal" Wednesday on "Good Morning America." In a 15-second promo released this afternoon, for a pre-taped interview titled "Colton Underwood: In His Own Words," the former "Bachelor" sits down with "GMA" anchor Robin Roberts. "There is something that you want people to know, so can you tell us what is on your heart that you want to share?” Roberts asks Underwood in the clip.
Officer Rusten Sheskey was acting "within policy" when he fired seven times toward Jacob Blake, a Black man, last year, the Kenosha, Wisconsin, Police Department said. Sheskey, who is white, will not be disciplined for his use of force and is now back on the job after returning from administrative leave on March 31, Chief Daniel Miskinis announced Tuesday. "Although this incident has been reviewed at multiple levels, I know that some will not be pleased with the outcome," Miskinis said in a statement.