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PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia police are investigating a shooting that left a 17-year-old injured in Olney on Friday, according to authorities. Police say officers responded to Westford Road and Clarkson Avenue for a report of a shooting but they were unable to locate a victim or scene. According to officials, a shooting victim arrived at a nearby hospital shortly after and investigators learned a 17-year-old was walking in an alley near his home when two unknown men approached him. Police say the suspects began firing at the victim, hitting him in the chest, hip and right leg. ___MORE LOCAL HEADLINESHe was transported to the hospital by private vehicle and placed in stable condition, authorities say. AdvertisementAnyone with information is asked to call Philadelphia police. 

DOVER, Del. - Delaware State Police is investigating a fatal single motor-vehicle collision on I-495 on Saturday morning. According to police, at approximately 3:57 a.m., a 35-year-old Philadelphia man in a 2016 Mercedes Benz was traveling southbound on I-495 south of the Philadelphia Pike when it crossed over the partial left shoulder and struck the guardrail. Authorities say as a result of hitting the guardrail, the vehicle traveled southwest, crossed the three southbound travel lanes, rolled down a grass embankment and struck a concrete support and DELDOT pole. According to police, the car also overturned and came to rest on its roof in the area of East Holly Oak Road. Authorities say the driver, who has not yet been identified, was not properly restrained and was pronounced dead at the scene. AdvertisementAnyone with information is asked to call Delaware State Police at 1-800-TIP-3333. 

(Photo: US Coast Guard) PHILADELPHIA - The Coast Guard is searching for a 30-year-old man believed to be in the Delaware River in the area of the Central Waterfront, authorities say. According to the U.S. Coast Guard 5th District, the man went missing on Saturday after the Coast Guard received a notice that a crew member from a Singapore-flagged bulk carrier Weco Josefine was no longer on board at 7 a.m. Authorities say the man was last accounted for on the ship between 5:12 a.m.

Delhi also recorded 1,412 recoveries from novel coronavirus and one Covid pandemic related death, in the last 24 hours.

ANDOVER, Kan. - Severe storms across Kansas produced softball-sized hail and several tornadoes Friday, leaving behind damage and thousands without power.Several videos from Andover, Kansas, showed at least one of the tornadoes moving through areas populated with businesses and homes. Only minor injuries have been reported at this time."We know there was a direct tornado strike that started in Sedgwick County and traveled into Andover. We had many buildings in Andover take very tough damage.

Inmate Casey White, left, and Assistant Director of Corrections Vicki White (Photos courtesy Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office) FLORENCE, Ala. - A prison official from Alabama is missing after escorting an inmate to a courthouse for a hearing.The Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post Saturday that Assistant Director of Corrections Vicki White disappeared while escorting an inmate being held on capital murder charges. The inmate is also missing.White left the detention center with inmate Casey White at about 9:30 Friday morning and neither has been seen since.

GREENBELT, Md. - Two suspects are on the run after being found squatting in an apartment while the residents were on vacation, according to authorities.Police released photos of the suspects, a man, and a woman, in hopes that the public can help identify them.The Greenbelt Police Department said on April 5 the residents of the apartment came home from vacation to find their front door was damaged, and the apartment was mostly empty. The apartment is located in the 9300 block of Edmonston Road in Greenbelt, Maryland.SUBSCRIBE TO FOX 5 DC ON YOUTUBEThe residents reported to police that after entering the apartment, they found two suspects, who they did not know, lying on a bed.

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“Rolling Thunder” protest in Ottawa clashed with police leading to several arrests Friday after a small convoy of vehicles attempted to make their way toward Parliament Hill.Many of the demonstrators were also part of the “Freedom Convoy” demonstration that seized the capital for weeks in February in protest of vaccine mandates, COVID-19 restrictions and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Ottawa police make several arrests as ‘Rolling Thunder’ rally rolls downtown The protest started relatively calmly on Parliament Hill Friday but as night fell a few hours later, a line of big-rigs, campers and other trucks made their way into the core.Protesters gathered around the trucks, and police in tactical gear formed a line and faced them down.In total today:– Seven people were arrested for various charges, including assault police– 24 vehicles were towedThere have been no reported injuries, and police remain in full control of city streets.

Restaurants across Beijing will temporarily ban dining-in and residents will need clear Covid tests to visit public spaces, officials said today, in a major ramp up of virus controls at the start of the Labour Day holiday.

Frank Deshields, 52, of New Castle was sought in connection to the fatal stabbing of a man outside of a New Castle motel.  NEW CASTLE, Del. - Police say a man wanted in a fatal stabbing outside a Delaware motel has been arrested in Maryland. PREVIOUS: Police searching for suspect accused of stabbing, killing man outside New Castle motelDelaware State Police say a warrant was obtained charging Frank Deshields with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Michael White of New Castle. Police say the U.S.

A New Brunswick mother is raising concerns after she says her young daughter waited nearly 19 hours in a hospital emergency room with a broken wrist.

LOS ANGELES - Comic book lovers rejoice! Based on the popular graphic novel, the movie "Corrective Measures" debuted Friday on FOX’s free streaming platform Tubi. Written and directed by Sean Patrick O’Reilly (the "Howard Lovecraft" films), the movie is set in San Tiburon, the world’s most dangerous maximum-security penitentiary, holding the most treacherous superpowered criminals, monsters and supervillains on the planet.As the inmates' tension with the prison staff builds, "The Conductor," played by Tom Cavanagh ("The Flash") sends shocks through the prison system."I’ve always sort-of had a soft spot for a prison-break movie, which sounds like a weird sentence, but it’s really true," Cavanagh told FOX TV Stations Group on Friday. Tom Cavanagh stars in 'Corrective Measures' which streams free on Tubi. (Credit: Tubi/FOX) The 58-year-old actor discussed his character’s evolving development throughout the film, with order eventually turning upside down."It’s nice because he starts off as one thing," Cavanagh continued, adding "But after awhile, dude’s had enough." In the movie, the overseer of the prison, Warden Devlin, played by Michael Rooker ("The Suicide Squad") is as corrupt as his charges.

U.S. FDA approves 1st device to detect COVID-19 through breath samples “When you exert beyond your threshold, you fall into this crash, what you call a crash.  This condition called post-exertional malaise exists in other post-viral illnesses,” Wei said, who contracted COVID-19 in March 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic.According to a December 2020 paper by PLRC, fatigue and post-exertional malaise were the first and third most common symptoms reported in a survey of 3,762 long COVID patients, respectively.

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The total Covid tally in the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras reached 196 on Saturday with 13 more infections being reported, as per news agency ANI reports.  On Friday the institute reported at least 11 more positive cases. 

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PARENTS should devote more time to children rather than constantly snapping their activities for social media, TV’s Supernanny Jo Frost says. The parenting expert warned: “There’s a big danger with wanting to take photographs of every moment.” She added: “I don’t want mums to lose themselves in a virtual world.

lose weight when her wedding dress didn’t fit has lost a whopping 8st 2lbs over the pandemic dropping to a svelte 9st 2lb. And, she claims she did it all while eating what she likes, without exercising much and with a four year old to look after.Alice Bailey, from Ontario, Canada, weighed 17.5st in July 2020 and felt she was growing out of control.The 39-year-old forklift operator had tried multiple diets in the past, but none had helped her shed any weight.Alice felt that she’d grown complacent since meeting her husband who always said she “did not need to lose weight” until steadily the pounds added up.

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (FOX 2) - A Michigan sheriff's deputy and corrections officer has been arrested and charged leave after the sheriff's office said he shot and killed his rescue dog and then dumped him in a ditch, all because the dog nipped him while he clipped his nails.At the Humane Society of Macomb, Rachel Gentz said the dog, named Habs, was a special pup.Last year, the Detroit stray was chosen by Blue Star Service Dogs to be trained by inmates to become a therapy dog for veterans.

TORONTO, ON - APRIL 28: Joel Embiid #21 of the Philadelphia 76ers celebrates during second half of Game Six of the Eastern Conference First Round at Scotiabank Arena on April 28, 2022 in Toronto, Canada. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and PHILADELPHIA - Joel Embiid has a right orbital fracture and a mild concussion and the Philadelphia 76ers said Friday night that the MVP finalist is out for the foreseeable future.Embiid was injured late in Philadelphia’s victory at Toronto on Thursday night, when the 76ers were closing out the Raptors and finishing off a six-game win in an Eastern Conference first-round series.That win sent fourth-seeded Philadelphia into the East semifinals against top-seeded Miami, a matchup that begins Monday night.But Embiid’s status is now very much in doubt.

PHILADELPHIA – The Philadelphia Eagles acquired wide receiver A.J. Brown from Tennessee after swapping picks with Houston to move up and select Georgia defensive tackle Jordan Davis at No. 13 in the first round of the NFL draft Thursday night.The Eagles gave the Titans the 18th overall selection and a third-rounder (No.

File: Bottles of drinks for sale in Publix Grocery Store. (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Don Vultaggio, the chairman and co-founder of AriZona Beverages – the maker of 99-cent iced tea – declared on "Cavuto: Coast to Coast" Thursday that right now he has "no intention" of raising prices even with inflation accelerating to four-decade highs.Vultaggio told host Neil Cavuto.

FILE-President Joe Biden delivers remarks on his Administration efforts to make more in America. Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images WASHINGTON - The Biden administration is taking a key step toward ensuring that federal dollars will support U.S.

WASHINGTON - The White House is hoping to stir up some "egg-citement" when the Easter Egg Roll returns on Monday after a two-year, coronavirus-induced hiatus.President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden expect to welcome some 30,000 kids and their adult chaperones for the egg roll, an egg hunt and other activities.The first lady, who is a teacher, is calling it the "Egg-ucation Roll," aides said, and is turning the South Lawn into a school community with a variety of educational stations.TOPSHOT - US President Joe Biden, alongside First Lady Jill Biden (L) and the Easter Bunny (R), speaks about the Easter holiday and the traditional White House Easter Egg roll, which was not held this year because of Covid, on the South Lawn of the W It’s the first Easter Egg Roll to be hosted by the Bidens, who are expected to address the crowd and join in some of the activities, although rain was in Monday’s weather forecast.The COVID-19 pandemic led the White House to cancel the event in 2020 and 2021.Besides the egg roll and hunt, the all-day event will include a schoolhouse activity area, a reading nook, a talent show, a place to teach children how farmers supply food, a photo-taking station, a physical "egg-ucation" zone with an obstacle course and other exercise stations, and a "cafetorium" where children and their families will learn to make and eat treats.A young boy participates in the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House Monday, April 22, 2019, during the 141st White House Easter Egg Roll. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N.

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department is improving language access to its programs to help people with limited English proficiency better report crimes. The Interior Department is providing technical assistance to Native American tribes to help them apply for grants.

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden on Wednesday approved $800 million in new military assistance to Ukraine, including artillery and helicopters, to bolster its defenses against an intensified Russian offensive in the country’s east.Biden announced the aid after a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to coordinate the delivery of the assistance, which he said included artillery systems, artillery rounds, and armored personnel carriers, as well as helicopters."This new package of assistance will contain many of the highly effective weapons systems we have already provided and new capabilities tailored to the wider assault we expect Russia to launch in eastern Ukraine," Biden said in a statement.Biden said the U.S. will continue to work with allies to share additional weapons and resources as the conflict continues.Advertisement"The steady supply of weapons the United States and its Allies and partners have provided to Ukraine has been critical in sustaining its fight against the Russian invasion," Biden said.

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden said Tuesday his administration will suspend a federal rule that bars higher levels of ethanol in gasoline during the summer. The move, which Biden announced during a visit to Iowa, is intended to tamp down prices at the pump that have spiked during Russia’s war with Ukraine. Iowa is a key producer of the corn-based fuel additive.A look at how that the decision to authorize year-round use of so-called E15 will impact gas supplies, prices and the environment.Most gasoline sold in the U.S.

A gas pump displays current fuel prices, along with a sticker of President Joe Biden, at a gas station in Arlington, Virginia, on March 16, 2022. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) A man was criminally charged last week following his arrest in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, after affixing satirical stickers of President Biden onto the gas pumps at a local Turkey Hill gas station.Thomas Richard Glazewski of Manor Township was charged last week with a misdemeanor of resisting arrest, according to Lancaster Online.

President Joe Biden is visiting corn-rich Iowa on Tuesday to announce he'll suspend a federal rule preventing the sale of higher ethanol blend gasoline this summer as his administration tries to tamp down prices at the pump that have spiked during Russia’s war with Ukraine.Most gasoline sold in the U.S. is blended with 10% ethanol.

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden’s requirement that all federal employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 was uhpheld Thursday by a federal appeals court.In a 2-1 ruling, a panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans reversed a lower court and ordered dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the mandate.RELATED: Canadian truckers, thousands of others protest vaccine mandate in OttawaU.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown, who was appointed to the District Court for the Southern District of Texas by President Donald Trump, had issued a nationwide injunction against the requirement in January.When the case was argued at the 5th Circuit last month, administration lawyers had noted that district judges in a dozen jurisdictions had rejected a challenge to the vaccine requirement for federal workers before Brown ruled.US President Joe Biden speaks before signing H.R.

The United States’ latest round of sanctions on Russia includes two new targets: Russian President Vladimir Putin’s two adult daughters, Katerina and Maria, who U.S. officials believe are hiding Putin’s wealth.

Yesterday President Joe Biden issued a presidential memorandum directing the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to create a national action plan on long COVID.

The United States targeted Russian banks and elites with a new package of sanctions on Wednesday, including banning Americans from investing in Russia, in response to what President Joe Biden condemned as Russian “atrocities” in Ukraine.

Adm. Linda Fagan, the vice commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, in an official portrait.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Ivanka Trump, former President Donald Trump's daughter and one of those closest to him during the insurrection at the Capitol, is testifying before the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.Mississippi Rep.

WASHINGTON - The last time President Barack Obama was in the White House was on Jan. 20, 2017, when he left to escort his successor — bent on overturning "Obamacare" — to the Capitol to be inaugurated.Obama returns to the White House on Tuesday for a moment he can savor.

WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked, 11-11, Monday on whether to send Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination to the Senate floor. But President Joe Biden’s nominee is still on track to be confirmed this week as the first Black woman on the high court. The committee’s tie vote was expected, as there is an even party split on the panel and all of the Republicans are opposing Jackson's nomination to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.

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WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday planned to vote on whether to advance Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate.Jackson would be the first Black woman on the high court in its more than 200-year history, and the sixth woman. After clearing the Senate panel, Democrats will then wind the nomination through the 50-50 Senate — with a final vote in sight for President Joe Biden's pick to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.Jackson previously faced more than 30 hours of hearings and interrogation over her record last month.