Budget session of Parliament resumes from Monday, Covid restrictions to stay

CYPRESS, Texas - Authorities have a wanted man behind bars, who admitted to killing his grandmother in Cypress and assaulting another family member a month before. MORE CYPRESS NEWSDeputies with the Harris County Sheriff's Office say they were called out to a home Saturday in the 16100 block of Golden Sands Dr. to check on a family's 80-year-old grandmother.

Elon Musk's Twitter profile displayed on a computer screen and Twitter logo displayed on a phone screen are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on April 9, 2022. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) As Twitter’s newest board member and largest shareholder, Elon Musk is already floating suggestions for changes he’d like to see on the social media platform.In a series of tweets late Saturday, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO said that the company should include an "authentication checkmark" as a feature of its Twitter Blue premium subscription service, which costs $2.99 a month.Twitter adds a checkmark logo next to a user name when the account has been verified "authentic, notable and active."RELATED: Elon Musk to join Twitter's board, teases 'significant improvements'Musk also suggested Twitter make the authentication checkmarks of premium subscriber accounts different than those granted to official accounts belonging to public figures, for example.Elon Musk is now the largest shareholder of Twitter, purchasing a little more than 9% of the company this week, and then posting a poll on the social media giant asking if users want an edit button.

decision was announced last week after Smith pre-emptively resigned from the academy during the run-up to the meeting, calling his actions "shocking, painful, and inexcusable.""I accept and respect the Academy’s decision," Smith said in the aftermath.Meanwhile, talk of whether Smith should have to return the Best Actor Oscar he won for "King Richard" is ongoing, but only one Oscar has ever been revoked in the award’s 94-year history. In 1969, the Oscar for the documentary "Young Americans" was rescinded because it was deemed to be ineligible for that year. Smith will likely be keeping the Oscar he won, and will remain eligible to be nominated for and win more of them in the 10-year period he’s banned from the show, though he wouldn’t be able to show up to accept the award — virtually or in person.Will Smith accepts the award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for "King Richard" during the show at the 94th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 27, 2022. (Myung Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Smith isn’t the first person to face this punishment.RELATED: Oscars slap scandal: The Academy announces Will Smith's punishmentA handful of other notable celebrities and filmmakers have either been banned from attending academy events — like Smith — or gotten expelled from the academy altogether:Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s membership ended abruptly in October 2017 after reports by The New York Times and The New Yorker about sexual harassment and rape allegations against Weinstein went back decades. Those reports, which prompted other accusers to come forward, led to Weinstein being convicted of rape in New York and sentenced to 23 years in prison.

Paxlovid COVID-19 antiviral pill for use against COVID-19 in January this year, but with a large supply of these pills available, experts say there is a lack of awareness among the public for who qualifies and how to access them.According to Health Canada, Paxlovid can be given to adults 18 and older who are positive for COVID-19 and experiencing mild to moderate illness and at high risk of becoming seriously ill.The agency currently recommends prioritizing severely immuno-compromised patients, people over 80 who haven’t had all their vaccine shots, and people over 60 living in remote and rural locations, long-term care homes and First Nations.The treatment, which has to be prescribed, involves taking three pills of two different drugs — nirmatrelvir and ritonavir — twice a day, for five days. It should be started after a positive COVID-19 test and within five days from the onset of symptoms, according to Dr.

MAYFAIR - Philadelphia Police are still looking for the shooter who killed 15-year-old Sean Toomey. He was killed more than a month ago, yet his impact on the community remains, as they came together for a fundraiser to benefit Sean’s family."I know Sean Toomey’s father had already lost a wife and now his child. I know that he’s suffering a lot.

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 27: Jada Pinkett Smith attends the 2022 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 27, 2022 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/FilmM LOS ANGELES - Jada Pinkett Smith is back on the red carpet.The 50-year-old actress had her first public appearance on Saturday night since The Academy banned Will Smith from the Oscars for slapping Chris Rock. Pinkett Smith was joined by Shonda Rhimes and Debbie Allen at the grand opening of the Rhimes Performing Arts Center, which will also be the home for Debbie Allen’s Dance Academy. Pinkett Smith was all smiles on the red carpet and was seen a strapless, gold dress, with matching earrings and heels.RELATED: Chris Rock reveals when he'll talk about Will Smith dramaSmith acknowledged the motion picture academy’s decision to ban him from the Oscars for 10 years on Friday.Will Smith slapped Chris Rock during the Oscars after he made a joke about his wife's hair loss.

SOCIETY HILL - It’s a terrible sight, walking out to a vehicle to find a flat tire. That was the reality for a lot of people this weekend.

PHILADELPHIA - Officers with the Philadelphia Police Department are investigating a carjacking and shooting in Frankford that took place on Sunday. According to police, the incident happened on the 1400 block of E Cheltenham Avenue at 4:46 a.m. Authorities say 27-year-old Raheem Bell was shot once in the stomach during a reported carjacking. He was transported to Temple University Hospital by private vehicle. A 27-year-old man is in critical condition after police say he was shot during a carjacking in Frankford.

CHATHAM COUNTY, Ga. - The Georgia Bureau of Investigation responded to the scene of a deadly shooting involving law enforcement in Savannah.Savannah police were called to the intersection of Oglethorpe Avenue and McDonough Street around 3:41 a.m. Sunday morning to investigate a fight between two men.Officers found a man in all black clothing "talking irrationally and carrying a makeshift weapon" on nearby Abercorn Street.

The Queen has spoken about her bout of Covid, saying it left her "very tired and exhausted", as she sympathised with a former virus patient who lost his brother and father to the illness.

WASHINGTON - A new study finds most dog owners are improperly feeding their pets according to guidelines from the Food and Drug Administration. Researchers from North Carolina recently published their findings in PLOS ONE. They conducted a survey of 417 dog owners to gather data on their pets including their pet’s signalment, health status and diet.

(Pixabay)ERIE, Pa. - Metal detectors will be installed at schools in the northwestern Pennsylvania district in which a student was injured in a shooting, school authorities said.Erie's Public Schools announced last week that planned changes to safety and security protocols will include "the installation of fully functioning metal detectors." The Erie Times-News said the portable detectors are planned at the district's two high schools and three middle schools.Also planned are audible alarms at exterior doors, other "updates to the intrusion system" and changes to interior doors, where necessary, to allow all teachers to lock classroom doors from the inside. Officials said the security camera system is being reviewed "to eliminate identified blind spots."School officials said those changes will not be in place by the end of spring break on April 18, so "a period of virtual learning will be necessary." All security changes are to be in place by the time students return to school in person, officials said.Multiple shots were fired just after 9:20 a.m.

RELATED: Corn could be the answer to high gas pricesLundberg said prices dropped dramatically in the past two weeks, in part because higher prices reduced demand during the second half of March.However, the drop isn't predictive of further declines because among other things, the global oil supply is tight due to a dip in output last month by OPEC, Lundberg said.The war in Ukraine also has sparked global uncertainty. The U.S.

Queen has revealed that her own private battle with Covid in February this year left her "very tired and exhausted" as she hit out at the "horrible pandemic".The monarch, who turns 96 later this month, tested positive for coronavirus earlier this year and, despite having what Buckingham Palace said were “mild cold-like symptoms”, continued with as many remote public duties as she could.At the time of diagnosis, royal insiders were supposedly "terrified" and even "holding their breath". She has since beaten the virus.And for the first time, on a virtual visit to the Royal London Hospital on Wednesday (April 6), Her Majesty shed some more light on what her experience had been like – even agreeing with another patient that having Covid was "very frightening".The remote Royal visit was held to mark the official opening of the hospital's Queen Elizabeth Unit.During a video call with workers and medical staff, the Queen listened to their stories of coping with the huge influx of Covid patients, and was told by one senior nurse “we held their hands, we wiped their tears and we provided comfort”.Around 800 people from across north-east London were treated at the 155-bed Queen Elizabeth Unit, built in five weeks to meet the demand instead of the normal time period of five months, and the Queen hailed the "Dunkirk spirit" on show during that time.Speaking to former Covid patient Asef Hussain, and his wife Shamina, the Queen said about the virus: “I’m glad that you’re getting better…It does leave one very tired and exhausted, doesn’t it? This horrible pandemic.

Ukraine, Western sanctions are starting to have an impact on Russia’s economy, experts say.“Their economy is really starting to shrink,” Mark Manger, associate professor at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, told Global News.Russia’s gross domestic product is estimated to shrink by 15 per cent by the end of the year, according to the International Institute of Finance.If levels drop to this level, Russia will see its greatest recession since 1992, according to data from The World Bank. This would also be twice as severe as the 2009 recession.Here’s a look at how Western sanctions are affecting Russia’s economy.

₹1,200 per dose to ₹225, Serum Institute of India announced a price cut from Rs600 to Rs225 per dose.

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POTTSVILLE, Pa. - Genetic material will be needed to positively identify the six people killed during an 80-vehicle pileup on a Pennsylvania interstate during a snow squall last month, authorities said.Dr. David Moylan III, the Schuylkill County coroner, told The (Pottsville) Republican-Herald on Friday that "we need to get some DNA samples" from relatives of the four men and two women killed in the March 28 crash on I-81.Officials said earlier that the victims of the March 28 crash near the Minersville exit of I-81 were all between 40 to 70 years old and all burned beyond recognition.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - A prominent civil rights attorney is joining the community to demand the release of body cam video after a man was shot and killed by an officer during a traffic stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Patrick Lyoya, 26, was shot by a Grand Rapids officer who he fought with, Grand Rapids police said, after the officer stopped his vehicle Monday over a license plate issue."Every Black family lives in fear that a routine traffic stop will turn deadly," Attorney Ben Crump said in a statement posted on Twitter. "Patrick's fate is the nightmare we live with every day.

Russia is being accused of committing another horrific war crime—this time at a railway station in eastern Ukraine. The devastating fallout and the condemnations from world leaders.

said the shooting happened just after 2 a.m. Sunday outside a live music venue called The Green Room on Beale Street.

RELATED: Rainbow python goes viral on social media: ‘Stunning’Stolz said his son has been a professional guide at one of the Big 5 safari reserves in South Africa for 11 years.

RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas - A murder charge against a 26-year-old Texas woman will be dropped, says 229th Judicial District Attorney Gocha Allen Ramirez, who serves Starr, Jim Hogg and Duval counties.In a release, Ramirez says he reached out to Lizelle Herrera's counsel to say that his office would be filing a motion to dismiss the indictment against her on Monday, April 11. According to Ramirez, a review of applicable Texas law showed that Herrera "cannot and should not be prosecuted for the allegation against her." However, Ramirez says that the Starr County Sheriff's Department "did their duty in investigating the incident brought to their attention by the reporting hospital".Herrera was charged with murder after authorities said she caused "the death of an individual by self-induced abortion," in a state that has the most restrictive abortion laws in the U.S. It is still unclear whether Herrera is accused of having an abortion or whether she helped someone else get an abortion.Herrera was arrested Thursday and remained jailed Saturday on a $500,000 bond in the Starr County jail in Rio Grande City, on the U.S.-Mexico border, sheriff's Maj.

HEALDSBURG, CA - MARCH 22: A farmer riding a tractor cleans out the weeds in an old vine zinfandel vineyard on March 22, 2022, near Healdsburg, California. After record winter rainfall battered the North Coast last year in October and December, Mothe For the third month in a row, precipitation was below average across the contiguous U.S., expanding western drought conditions and areas of record dryness.(FOX Weather) According to NOAA’s U.S.

Raymond Disabatino (left) and Christopher Disabatino (right) were arrested by Delaware State Police for thefts of copper wiring.  (Delaware State Police)DOVER, Del. - Delaware State Police announced the arrest of two suspects allegedly connected to thefts, including wire copper. According to police, 26-year-old Christopher Disabatino of Historic New Castle and 54-year-old Raymond Disabatino of Newark were arrested on multiple felony criminal charges. Authorities say state police began investigating a series of copper wire thefts from the 900 block of Center Road on March 25. During the thefts, the suspects damaged the victim's property and removed about $50,000 worth in copper wiring, investigators say. According to police, the two were developed as suspects. ___MORE LOCAL HEADLINESOn April 8, police took both men into custody at Eastern Metal Recycling where they were attempting to sell the stolen copper wiring, authorities say. Raymond Disabatino, 54, of Newark, Delaware was arrested for thefts of copper wiring.  Investigators say detectives also had information linking Christopher to a burglary at Odyssey Charter School in Wilmington on December 2.

COLOMBO (News 1st); The meeting between the President, and the Independent MPs from the ruling coalition & the contituent parties on Sunday (10) evening, ended inconclusively.“No discussion on was made on forming an interim government during meeting between President, Independent MPs, & 11 constituent parties,” said Former Minister Vasudeva Nanayakkara.He said the meeting was based on maintaining relations among parties.The meeting took place at the President’s Office in Colombo.Notably, the vehicles of the MPs used a separate entrance to enter the premises as Sri Lankans continue to occupy the Galle Face stretch. 

Gentleman Jack returns this Sunday evening for its long-awaited second season. Suranne Jones once again takes the lead as Anne Lister for the BBC One hit period drama.

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“The West Block” host Mercedes Stephenson is joined by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland to talk about Canada’s next steps in dealing with Russia. Freeland says that Ukraine will have to be rebuilt and wants to see seized Russia assets help cover that cost.

Chrystia Freeland says there is no better source of extra funds for Ukraine‘s recovery from the Russian invasion than from the assets of those backing the war.In an interview with The West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson, Freeland emphasized the proposal in the budget she tabled last week that would allow Canada’s minister of foreign affairs to not only freeze Russian assets, but seize them, too.“Right now, we can freeze assets. What we need to do is have the power to seize those assets,” she said.“Ukraine is going to need to be rebuilt.

PHILADELPHIA - Officers with the Philadelphia Police Department are investigating a shooting in Frankford that took place on Sunday. According to police, the incident happened on the 1400 block of E Cheltenham Avenue at 4:46 a.m. Authorities say a 27-year-old man was shot once in the stomach and transported to Temple University Hospital by private vehicle. Police say he is currently listed in critical condition. At this time, no arrests have been made and no weapon was recovered, police say. The investigation is active and ongoing.___MORE LOCAL HEADLINES___DOWNLOAD: FOX 29 NEWS APP | FOX 29 WEATHER AUTHORITY APPSUBSCRIBE: Good Day Digest Newsletter | FOX 29 Philly on YouTubeAdvertisementFOLLOW: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Hundreds of people rallied Oct. 2, 2021, in support of abortion rights at Lawyers Mall outside the Maryland State House in Annapolis. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/Baltimore Sun/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Maryland lawmakers have overridden GOP Gov.

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Éric Duhaime arrived at a rally last Tuesday, he wore a mask, unlike most of the supporters he was greeting.In a province where opposition parties have generally backed the government’s COVID-19 restrictions, Duhaime has built support through his opposition to lockdown measures. His party, which received less than two per cent of the vote in Quebec’s 2018 provincial election when it was led by Adrien Pouliot, is now regularly polling in second or third place.“There’s a lot of people currently in Quebec who are upset, and I think we’re becoming the voice of those people,” Duhaime said in an interview last week.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Former President Donald Trump endorsed Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania's crowded Republican Senate primary, ending months of jockeying for his support.In a statement Saturday evening, Trump said his decision was "all about winning elections" as he formally backed the celebrity heart surgeon best known as the host of daytime TV’s "The Dr. Oz Show.""The Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has a tremendous opportunity to Save America by electing the brilliant and well-known Dr.

AUGUSTA, Ga. - Tiger Woods used to turn weekends at Augusta National into gripping theater, relentlessly charging up the leaderboard one fearless drive, one feathery iron, one nervy putt at a time.Not now. Maybe not ever again.The magic the five-time Masters champion summoned so easily for so long was nowhere to be found during another labored four-plus hour journey underneath the Georgia pines on Saturday.

The Only Way Is Essex pals after they struggled to understand his mental health struggle last year.The former TOWIE star, 36, first opened up about his battle with body dysmorphia back in October when he appeared on the popular Channel 4 chat show, Steph’s Packed Lunch.And over the past year the fitness coach has been working hard to improve his mental health by attending regular therapy sessions and helping raise awareness for the condition on his social media.Now, speaking exclusively to Daily Star, the TV hunk has opened up about how his fellow ITVBe co-stars supported him after he shared his relationship with body dysmorphia on the beloved daytime show.He said: “I think it was something that a lot of people connected with what I had to say and my friends who are in the industry, they understand we all feel that pressure from time to time.But not all of his co-stars were as understanding about his mental health journey as the reality star revealed how he was forced to cut ties with some of his fellow TOWIE stars.Charlie added: “I was in such a low place that I couldn’t be the person that they [his friends] wanted me to be and some people stayed around and supported me and other people didn’t get it and I had to remove them.“[But] The people that have been supportive and got in touch over the past year, they're the ones that I've stuck close to.”“It’s been a massive learning curve,” he noted.When asked which one of his celebrity friends struggled to support him during the particularly dark period in his life, he revealed that it was his friendship with Gemma Collins which had deteriorated over the last 12 months.The fitness guru continued: “As I say, me and Gemma Collins haven’t spoken for a year now [and] we were

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has been ousted from leadership in a historic no confidence vote. Critics blame Khan for mismanaging the country and failing to revive a country hit hard by the pandemic.

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CHICAGO - Editor's note: This review originally ran as part of our coverage of the SXSW Film Festival. It has been expanded and republished timed to the film's expansion into theaters nationwide on April 8.

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CNN. The unverified footage shows a Covid-19 prevention worker dressed in a full hazmat suit chasing the corgi along a street.The dog tries to escape by hiding near parked cars however the worker catches up and hits the poor dog three times with a shovel.The dog is then seen lying on the ground, not moving.The MailOnline reports the dog's body was later taken away in a plastic bag.The savage attack comes as Shanghai continues to endure a harsh city-wide lockdown which has devastated the city and seen many residents reach breaking point.Currently, Chinese government workers are enforcing a zero-covid policy through strict lockdowns, mandatory quarantines and mass testing which has seen livelihoods collapse and households go hungry, unable to go out to get food.The unfortunate corgi's owners themselves were in a government run isolation facility after testing positive for Covid-19 at the time their beloved pet was bludgeoned to death.What's On Weibo reports the corgi's owners released the dog into the streets as they were out of dog food and worried the pooch would starve to death inside the home.In a community Weibo chat group the dog’s owner wrote: “We hoped to let him outside and be like a stray dog.

HAMLIN, Texas - Two Texas women who were standing on the sidewalk and smoking cigarettes narrowly missed being hit by a Tesla. A video shows a Tesla speeding down the sidewalk a few seconds after the women head inside.The moment was captured on CCTV footage. According to the Hamlin Police Department, the near-miss happened on Wednesday, April 6.

AUGUSTA, GEORGIA - APRIL 08: Scottie Scheffler looks on from the 14th green during the second round of The Masters at Augusta National Golf Club on April 08, 2022 in Augusta, Georgia. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images) AUGUSTA, Ga. - The world’s No. 1-ranked golfer, Scottie Scheffler, built off his comfortable five-shot lead at The Masters on Saturday at Augusta National.The 25-year-old Texan yanked his tree shot at the final hole into the towering pines left of the fairway.

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tax revenues in the financial year that ended on 31 March touched an estimated ₹27.17 trillion, surpassing the revised estimates for that year presented in the 1 February budget by ₹3.1 trillion. The overall collections are about 17% higher than in 2020-2021, driven by a 22% growth in direct taxes comprising corporate and income tax.  What has driven direct tax collections, and is the pace of growth durable or a flash in the pan?