'World News Tonight' revisits teachers enduring the pandemic
Teachers across the U.S. have gotten creative during remote learning this year. One Texas teacher built a free library in her garage for students who have limited access to books at home.
Teachers across the U.S. have gotten creative during remote learning this year. One Texas teacher built a free library in her garage for students who have limited access to books at home.
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.
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.
Paul Flores, a former classmate, has been arrested in connection with the murder and 1996 disappearance of California college student Kristin Smart, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office announced Tuesday. Smart, a 19-year-old freshman at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo disappeared in the early hours of May 25, 1996, following a party near school. Flores' father, Ruben Flores, was charged Tuesday as an accessory to the murder, authorities said.
Federal health agencies called for a pause on the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine Tuesday after six people in the United States developed a rare blood clot disorder in the weeks after receiving it. "In a sense, this means our safety monitoring system, which is very comprehensive, is working," said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Pausing J&J vaccinations gives the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration time to review more data on that vaccine and make a recommendation about how to move forward.
President Joe Biden has decided to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that prompted America's longest war, officials said Tuesday. There are roughly 2,500 U.S. troops in Afghanistan now. Biden will announce the withdrawal on Wednesday, the White House said.
"Queer Eye" star Tan France revealed Tuesday on Instagram that he and his husband, Rob France, are going to be dads. "With the greatest gift/help of the most wonderful surrogate, Rob and I are lucky enough to be on our way to being parents, this Summer," he added. France's husband also expressed his excitement on Instagram alongside an illustration.
Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Song, both veterans of the child fame game, quietly welcomed their first child together into the world last week. According to a statement obtained by ABC News, the couple's newborn son, named Dakota Song Culkin, was born Monday, April 5, in Los Angeles at 1:10 p.m. PST and weighed in at 6 pounds and 14 ounces. Culkin, 40, and Song, 33, began dating after meeting on the Thailand set of the 2019 film "Changeland," and were apparently smitten with each other from the get-go.
Minnesota police officer Kim Potter resigned from her position Tuesday after shooting and killing Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, at a traffic stop on Sunday, officials in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, announced. Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon also submitted his resignation Tuesday, Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott announced at a press conference. Potter, a 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center Police Department, submitted her resignation effective immediately.
Sephora is inspiring us all to bloom beautifully into a new season with its annual Spring Savings Event. This year's sale is officially live and will run through April 19 with deep discounts on top brands such as Fenty Beauty, Drunk Elephant, Briogeo, Chanel, Lancôme and many, many, many more. Sephora's Spring Savings event is exclusively available to all three tiers of the company's Beauty Insider membership program, which is free to join at any time.
Lizzo is calling out an alarming trend in the body positivity movement, saying the trend meant to uplift bigger women is starting to fail the people it was meant to empower. Taking to TikTok, the three-time Grammy winner replied to a video in which user Marissa Matthews expressed disbelief after receiving a comment claiming, "everyone has time to lose weight." After catching wind of the video, Lizzo expressed that she believes the body positivity movement is no longer about encouraging bigger women to embrace their body as is, saying its messaging has been "co-opted."
U.S. Capitol Police Officer William "Billy" Evans, who died in the line of duty April 2 when a car struck him and then rammed into a barricade, is lying in honor in the Capitol Rotunda. President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke at a tribute to the fallen Capitol police officer attended by members of Congress. Biden reflected on his own grief, saying that having buried two of his own children he understands the pain of losing a loved one and how painful the memories can be.
There will not be an upcoming "Met Gala Monday" but this year's fashion extravaganza will be happening in September. The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Monday that there will be two upcoming Met Gala events. The first will be a more intimate version of the traditionally gonzo gala and will be held on Sept. 13 "pending government guidelines," the Costume Institute revealed.
President Joe Biden spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday morning and proposed the two hold a summit in a third country "in the coming months to discuss the full range of issues facing the United States and Russia," according to the White House. The call comes days after Biden spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky amid heightened concern about a massive buildup of Russian forces along Ukraine's border and in Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula that has been occupied by Russia since 2014.
The U.S. intelligence community warned in a new report that fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic will "ripple through the world for years" and is likely to escalate existing challenges posed by America’s adversaries -- a sign of the challenges that lie ahead as the nascent Biden administration seeks to stem the virus’ spread and reassert America’s role as a global leader. The Annual Worldwide Threat Assessment, which provides lawmakers and the American people with a vast landscape of threats to the U.S. homeland, found that the "far-reaching effects" of the pandemic, which "extend well beyond global health to the economic, political, and security spheres," may present the governments of Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, an opportunity to "advance their interests at the expense of the United States and its allies."
"Lost" star Daniel Dae Kim recently revealed that his beloved character, Jin-Soo Kwon, was supposed to die in the first season. Kim also explained how "Lost" was groundbreaking in the way that he was able to have open conversations about subverting Asian stereotypes with showrunners Damon Lindelof and J.J. Abrams.
The newest venue on Broadway is a COVID-19 vaccination site for the entertainment community. Mayor Bill de Blasio was joined by "Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, health commissioner Dave Chokshi and Anne del Castillo, the commissioner of the Office of Media and Entertainment, to tour the Broadway COVID-19 vaccine site. "This is the most people I have seen in a year and a half, I'm sure you feel the same way," Miranda said.