Former NYT contributor killed, other journalists wounded by Russian fire, Kyiv police say

If you have COVID-19 symptoms but have been testing negative on a rapid antigen test, you may not be alone. Caryn Lieberman explains.

PHILADELPHIA - Authorities say a man was injured in a broad daylight shooting Friday afternoon outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Officer were called to the area of 12th and Vine streets around 5 p.m for reports of a shooting. Philadelphia Police Captain John Walker told reporters that officers found a blood trail for several blocks that lead them to a man suffering from a gunshot wound to the arm. The victim was taken to Jefferson University Hospital in stable condition, according to police. Walker said investigators believe the shooting happened during an argument between two men. The shooter, a Black man wearing all black clothes and a white "item" on his head, then walked to 13th Street where investigators lost sight of him.Walker told reporters that there were people around during the shooting happened.

Aerial view of Las Vegas, Nevada (Credit: Ethan Miller/Getty Images) LAS VEGAS - The death penalty will be considered in the case of a Las Vegas man accused of kidnapping and killing a 4-year-old boy and hiding the body in a freezer while keeping the boy’s mother captive, a prosecutor told a judge during a brief schedule-setting hearing on Friday.Clark County District Court Judge Tierra Jones postponed Brandon Lee Toseland’s arraignment until at least April 15 on 10 charges including murder, kidnapping and child abuse in the death of the boy and felony domestic battery alleging that he choked the child’s mother.Toseland appeared by video hookup from the Clark County Detention Center, where he has been held without bail since his arrest Feb. 22.

BALA CYNWYD, Pa. - The events in Ukraine are an all too-familiar sight for Holocaust survivors."I’ve been through it all, with the Germans," Holocaust survivor Bella Tugenvreich stated.The 90-year-old Poland native, who has lived in the United States since the 1950’s, was a child, living in Poland, when German soldiers invaded. She and her family escaped, walking for three months to safety."SS came in, motorcycles. They start doing things that nobody wants to know.

Will Smith from attending the award show for 10 years, following his slap of presenter Chris Rock.In a statement signed by Academy president David Rubin and CEO Dawn Hudson, and reported by Variety magazine, the Academy said:“The 94th Oscars were meant to be a celebration of the many individuals in our community who did incredible work this past year; however, those moments were overshadowed by the unacceptable and harmful behavior we saw Mr. Smith exhibit on stage.During our telecast, we did not adequately address the situation in the room.

The recent Omicron variant surge in Hong Kong came with a mortality rate among the world's highest yet in the pandemic, a troubling development in a region known for its strong pandemic measures, and today researchers from the United States, Hong Kong, and China who dug into the data suggest that vaccination lapses in older people played a major role.

Still of dad with carriage full of quintuplets. (Credit: CORRIGAN SPORTS ENTERPRISES/FOX News) OAKLAND, Ca. - A father of seven recently ran a record-breaking half marathon — all while pushing his quintuplets in a stroller.Last month, Chad Kempel crossed the finish line at the Oakland Running Festivals’ half marathon in California in two hours and 19 minutes. And now, it’s official: the father has won a Guinness World Record for his achievement.The 40-year-old father was among the thousands of runners who took part in the event, which returned to in-person races for the first time since 2019.But what is more impressive is that Kempel broke the record while pushing his five 4-year-olds during the race — or an additional 240 pounds. According to FOX News, the runner said he carried a sign reading "Anything is Possible" to remind himself he could achieve his goal and make it past the finish line. RELATED: Record-breaking dad runs Oakland's half-marathon pushing quintuplets in stroller"While I'm out there, I'm thinking about what the kids went through when Amy was pregnant with them, and then and what Amy went through.

Skyfox over the scene of a flooded roadway at Venango near B Street, in Kensington. KENSINGTON - Vehicles are forced to turn around or lose control of their cars as they faced a flooded roadway at in Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood.Skyfox flew over the scene at Whitaker Avenue, between Venango and Erie Avenue, near St.

FILE - Medical supplies to be shipped to Ukraine (Photo: FOX 26 Houston) HOUSTON - With the Russian invasion continuing on in Ukraine, residents across the U.S. are stepping up efforts to spread awareness and ship donations overseas to the military and refugees. However, a lot goes into play when it comes to international shipping that some might be unaware of. MORE RUSSIA-UKRAINE COVERAGEAccording to Charita Shteynberg, founder of World of Connections, an organization that donates supplies from across the U.S.

CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk speaks at the Tesla Giga Texas manufacturing "Cyber Rodeo" grand opening party on April 7, 2022 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty Images) AUSTIN, Texas - Tesla will build a vehicle dedicated for use as a robotaxi, and it will start making three new vehicles next year, CEO Elon Musk told fans at a party celebrating the opening of a Texas factory.Musk didn't give details of the robotaxi other than to say it will "look quite futuristic." He also said Tesla will start building the Cybertruck pickup at its new factory near Austin, Texas, next year.

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced Friday that it has proposed the largest-ever fines against two passengers for alleged unruly behavior.In a release, the agency said those fines were $81,950 and $77,272, respectively.They are part of the approximately $2 million in fines it has proposed since Jan. 1, 2022.The $81,950 fine involves a passenger on a July 7, 2021, American Airlines flight from Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, to Charlotte, North Carolina.The FAA alleges that the passenger threatened to hurt the flight attendant that offered help to the passenger after she fell into the aisle.The passenger is said to have then pushed the flight attendant aside and made an attempt to open the cabin door.Two flight attendants tried to restrain the passenger, as she repeatedly hit one of them on the head. After the passenger was restrained in flex cuffs, she continued to spit at, headbutt, bite and kick the crew and other passengers. Law enforcement apprehended her upon landing in Charlotte.

body image, but she won’t let it get her down.The 61-year-old got candid about her mental health in a new essay she penned for New Beauty, published earlier this week.The “Hot in Cleveland” actress explained how her “mental and emotional health” greatly improved after she stopped weighing herself every day.She noted that she used to believe that “the number on the scale is never low enough — it’s always too high — so I’m going to just crawl under the covers and not have anyone see me until it is. I’ll be happy once all the weight is gone.”It was only after she finished scribing her memoir “Enough Already,” which hit bookshelves in January, that she decided to cease getting on the scale.“[It] was a big thing for me, and I haven’t gotten on a scale since,” she wrote in her essay.

COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina has scheduled its first execution after corrections officials finished updating the death chamber to prepare for executions by firing squad.The clerk of the State Supreme Court has set a April 29 execution date for Richard Bernard Moore, a 57-year-old man who has spent more than two decades on death row after he was convicted of killing convenience store clerk James Mahoney in Spartanburg.Moore could face a choice between the electric chair and the firing squad, two options available to death row prisoners after legislators altered the state’s capital punishment law last year in an effort to work around a decade-long pause in executions, attributed to the corrections agency’s inability to procure lethal injection drugs.The new law made the electric chair the state’s primary means of execution while giving prisoners the option of choosing death by firing squad or lethal injection, if those methods are available.The Lee Correctional Institution, in Bishopville, South Carolina, remains on lockdown on April 16, 2018, after an overnight riot killed seven while also injuring seventeen other inmates. / AFP PHOTO / Logan Cyrus (Photo credit should read LOGAN CYRUS The state corrections agency said last month it had finished developing protocols for firing squad executions and completed $53,600 in renovations on the death chamber in Columbia, installing a metal chair with restraints that faces a wall with a rectangular opening 15 feet (4.6 meters) away.In the case of a firing squad execution, three volunteer shooters — all Corrections Department employees — will have rifles loaded with live ammunition, with their weapons trained on the inmate’s heart.

Zachary Paulison (Booking photo from Sarpy County Jail) OMAHA, Neb. - Police arrested an Omaha man Wednesday on suspicion of being drunk and causing a fiery crash last week that killed two women, including a corrections officer who was eight months pregnant.Zachary Paulison, who turned 22 Wednesday, was booked on suspicion of two counts of vehicular homicide while intoxicated and one count of vehicular homicide of an unborn child, Omaha police said in a news release Wednesday.Investigators believe Paulison was drunk the night of March 31 when his pickup truck collided with the sport utility vehicle driven by 37-year-old Sara Zimmerman, who was an officer with the Douglas County Department of Corrections. According to WOWT, Paulison was driving more than 100 mph and had a blood alcohol level of 1.61 - more than twice the legal limit. Investigators said there's no evidence that he hit the brakes before slamming his F-250 pickup truck into a Nissan Altima. RELATED: Woman accused of driving drunk, wrong way with 2-year-old in carPolice said both vehicles went into a ditch and the SUV erupted in flames.

PHILADELPHIA - Authorities have identified a gunman involved in Wednesday night's shootout in Frankford that injured four people, including a SEPTA Transit Officer. Police say 18-year-old Zyhiem Hartman exchanged gunfire with seven police officers from inside an apartment on the 4700 block of Leiper Street. Police initially reported that Hartman died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, but an autopsy confirmed that he was fatally shot by police. Investigators on Friday shared preliminary information on the chaotic scene that started near the Arrott Transportation Center around 7 p.m. Wednesday.According to authorities, officers from the Philadelphia Police Department responded to the 4700 block of Penn Street after hearing 8-9 gunshots.Ervis Onuzi, 28, has been identified as the SEPTA Transit Police officer who was wounded during a gun battle with a suspect on Wednesday.  (SEPTA)The gunshots stemmed from a physical altercation between the suspect and another man, police said.

An inquest has opened into the death of a 26-year-old mental health patient who died at Wythenshawe Hospita l after blogging online extensively about her illness.

Today, an observational study of 125,717 full-time US healthcare workers in JAMA Health Forum spotlights high turnover rates amid the COVID-19 pandemic among physicians, long-term care workers, and health aides and assistants, especially members of historically marginalized racial groups and women with young children.

A study today in Pediatrics suggests a test-to-stay (TTS) strategy, as opposed to quarantine, was a safe and effective tool for Massachusetts public schools for the 2021-22 school year, as it was associated with both limited COVID-19 transmission and increased in-person learning days for students.The TTS program required all students exposed to a COVID-1

4 Day Week Global, began on April 1 and will last six months. In total, 38 companies across North America are taking part and nearly 2,000 employees will be getting a paid day off weekly through the course of the trial. A majority of the companies began the trial this month, with some starting as early as February and others in May or June.

Ferrero U.S.A. Inc. is voluntarily recalling its Kinder Happy Moments Chocolate Assortment, left, and Kinder Mix Chocolate Treats basket due to the risk of salmonella contamination.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (FOX 2) - A federal jury in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has found two suspects in the plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer not guilty and a mistrial has been declared for the other two suspects after the jury could not reach a verdict.The jury reached the verdict around 2 p.m. on Friday for Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta of not guilty on all charges.

Nancy Crampton-Brophy appears in an Oregon courtroom for her murder trial. (KPTV/ pool camera) Romance novelist Nancy Crampton-Brophy, author of the online essay, "How to Murder Your Husband," appeared in an Oregon courtroom Monday for her murder trial.Multnomah County District Attorney Rod Underhill charged Brophy, 71, with one count of murder with a firearm in September 2018, but her trial has been delayed due to COVID-19, court documents show.An indictment alleges that in June 2018, Brophy "did unlawfully and intentionally cause the death of" her now-deceased husband, Daniel Brophy, using a 9 mm pistol.

BETHESDA, Maryland - White House medical adviser and infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said he expects another increase in COVID-19 cases in the coming weeks in the United States, with a more serious surge that could arrive in the fall."I would not be surprised if we see an uptick in cases," Fauci said during an exclusive interview with Bloomberg Television on Wednesday.Fauci noted that the increase could come "over the next couple of weeks," potentially fueled by the high transmissibility of BA.2 — a subvariant of the omicron variant.Fauci, who is also the director of the U.S.

WASHINGTON - Tearfully embracing a history-making moment for the nation, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Friday her confirmation as the first Black woman to the Supreme Court showed the progress of America, declaring, ″We’ve made it — all of us."Jackson delivered emotional remarks on the sunny White House South Lawn a day after the Senate approved her nomination, saying it was a moment in which the entire country could be proud."We have come a long way toward perfecting our union," she said. "In my family, it took just one generation to go from segregation to the Supreme Court of the United States."RELATED: Ketanji Brown Jackson: Supreme Court pick defends record during senators' questioningShe added: "It has taken 232 years and 115 prior appointments for a Black woman to be selected to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States.

Artists across Perth and Kinross are being urged to apply for the unique opportunity to create a memorial to those who lost their lives to coronavirus.

COVID-19, the Waterloo Region District School Board says it will soon be providing parents with more information about the situation.The board says caregivers of children will begin receiving daily reports from their school’s principals which will show the number of COVID-19 cases reported as well as the classes which have been affected.It says that if a COVID-19 case is reported in a child’s class, that kid can still attend school. Testing positive weeks after a COVID-19 diagnosis: What it means for travel The reports will not identify any staff or students.If a caregiver does not receive a report on a particular day, that means there were no new cases reported at their child’s school.A spokesperson for the board told Global News that this is a local initiative that is not being implemented at the behest of the province.The board is also warning parents that there is the possibility that classrooms or entire schools may be forced to close going forward.“We are facing increased staffing challenges due to the rising number of COVID-19 cases, and continue to implement a number of strategies to ensure schools stay open for learning,” the letter from the board read.“We have been very fortunate that to date, no WRDSB schools have been closed due to staff shortages.”The board says parents will receive 24-hours notice through School-Day if there is a closure.

Recalled Bestar bed (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission) More than 180,000 wall beds are being recalled after 60-plus complaints of beds detaching and falling on people, including an incident in 2018 that killed a 79-year-old woman.The beds were sold online at Wayfair, Costco, Cymax and Amazon from June 2014 through March 2022, according to the U.S.

COVID-19 pandemic even as normal life gradually resumes, the province’s interim public health director said Friday.“We can’t forget the virus is present and the pandemic isn’t over,” Dr. Luc Boileau said during a news conference Friday.“We’re seeing it.

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Lada Gaga and James Jackson (Credit: ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images) LOS ANGELES - One of the five people arrested in connection to the violent dognapping of Lady Gaga's French bulldogs and the shooting of the pop superstar's dog walker is back on the streets.According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, 19-year-old James Jackson was released from the county's custody on Wednesday, April 6, due to a clerical error. LASD called Jackson's sudden release "inadvertent."Back on February 24, 2021, Lady Gaga's dog walker, later identified as Ryan Fischer, was shot while walking Lady Gaga's three dogs in the Hollywood area.

ALABAMA (AP) - Alabama lawmakers approved sweeping legislation Thursday to outlaw gender-affirming medications for transgender youths, as well as a separate measure setting rules about school bathrooms and prohibiting early classroom instruction on sexual and gender identity — a bill critics have dubbed "Don’t Say Gay."Download the FOX 5 DC News App for Local Breaking News and WeatherThe legislation now goes to Republican Gov. Kay Ivey for her consideration as Alabama becomes the latest red state to seek legislation and policies aimed at trans young people. Ivey, who is running for reelection, has not indicated whether she will sign the measures.The House of Representatives voted 66-28, largely along party lines, to grant final approval to legislation that would make it a felony for a doctor to prescribe puberty blockers or hormones to aid in the gender transition of anyone under age 19.

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More people are going into hospital with Covid, and more people are contracting Covid in hospital, according to a Salford health boss. The Government’s decision to scrap free lateral flow tests has been slammed by councillors as they received concerning statistics showing Covid hospital numbers rising.

Two suspects are wanted in connection with the murder of Sean Toomey. The 15-year-old was shot and killed outside of his home last month.  PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia police have released new images of multiple suspects who are wanted in connection with the death of a teenage boy who was shot and killed while walking to his family’s car outside of his home last month. Sean Toomey, 15, was shot in the head outside his family’s home in Wissinoming back on March 24.

Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime minister, left, and Chrystia Freeland, Canada's deputy prime minister and finance minister, hold copies of the federal budget in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on Thursday, April 7, 2022. Freeland is imposing a one-time windf Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government announced Thursday it will ban foreign investors from buying homes in Canada for two years in a bid to cool off a hot housing market.Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland took a number of measures to tamp down speculation and demand amid record home prices in announcing the federal budget for the year.The government announced a two-year ban on foreign home buying as well as higher taxes for people who sell their home within a year, though both measures include multiple exceptions including for permanent residents and foreign students.RELATED: California home prices have more than tripled in these citiesThe budget also includes billions for new housing and measures to help Canadians trying to get into the market, including a new savings account and changes to the first-time home buyers tax credit.The government is under pressure to cool an overheated market after prices climbed by more than 20% last year, while rental rates have also been rising.The federal Liberal government is also promising $500 million Canadian (US$397 million) in additional military aid to Ukraine as well as more humanitarian and financial support to Kyiv in response to Russia’s invasion.RELATED: First-time homebuyer? Real estate experts offer advice in crazy marketCanada responded to months of pressure from the NATO military alliance and others by promising more than $8 billion Canadian (US7.2 billion) in new military spending over the next five years.

NEW JERSEY - A New Jersey man who authorities say killed his toddler son's mother and then drove the boy and her body to Tennessee last summer has pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter.  The child was the subject of an Amber Alert when they went missing.Tyler Rios, 27, of East Orange, also pleaded guilty Monday to desecrating human remains in the death of 24-year-old Yasemin Uyar, of Rahway, He now faces up to 30 years in prison when he's sentenced June 10, according to the Union County Prosecutor's Office.Rios had been charged with numerous counts, including murder and kidnapping his 2-year-old son, who wasn't injured when his mother was killed last July.Get breaking news alerts in the free FOX5NY News app!  |  Sign up for FOX 5 email newslettersAuthorities started the search after the boy wasn’t dropped off at day care and Uyar didn’t arrive for her scheduled work shifts.

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NEW YORK - Ace broadcaster Joe Davis, who was tapped in 2017 to succeed Vin Scully as a Los Angeles Dodgers announcer, is set to become the lead voice of Major League Baseball on FOX. Davis will call the MLB’s crown jewel events, including coverage of FOX Sports’ 2022 MLB All-Star Game, MLB at Field of Dreams Game, and the MLB postseason — including the World Series. His first appearance in his new role is set for Saturday, May 28 on FOX."If you had asked me when I was 10 what I wanted to do when I grew up, I would’ve told you ‘Call the World Series.’ So when I say this is a dream-come-true, I really mean it," Davis said in a statement. The sportscaster joined FOX Sports in 2014 as a play-by-play announcer for the network’s MLB, college football and college basketball coverage.

PTI and raised caution that people must continue wearing masks, follow social distancing. He further added that techniques like contact tracing and testing should not be done away with as yet.

NHS Lanarkshire has administered more than 1.5 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Cash App could have been impacted by a data breach, according to a filing this week through the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by parent company Block Inc.On Monday, Block announced it had learned a former employee downloaded "certain reports of its subsidiary Cash App Investing LLC" in December without permission.TIKTOK SHARES MORE OF YOUR DATA THAN ANY OTHER APP, AND A STUDY SAYS IT'S NOT CLEAR WHERE IT GOESThat data, according to the filing, did not include usernames, passwords, Social Security numbers, birthdays, addresses, or bank account information.

FILE IMAGE - Visitors wait in line to take a tour bus in midtown New York on Dec. 5, 2021. (Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images) WASHINGTON - Life expectancy in the United States continued to decline in 2021 despite the availability of life-saving COVID-19 vaccines, according to a new analysis.The findings, published this week on the preprint server medRxiv — meaning it has not yet been peer-reviewed — analyzed provisional government statistics.

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precaution dose. This facility would be available in all private vaccination centres," said the ministry," the statement said. 

COLOMBO (News 1st); JVP Member of Parliament Vijitha Herath announced that his faction will support the Motion of No-Confidence against the government, and would also move for the Impeachment of the President if he continues to refuse to resign.“Flaws in political leadership have to this crisis,” he told the Parliament, adding that seeking a bailout from the IMF, rather than looking at a debt restructuring process, would further put Sri Lanka in turmoil.‘The people want a leadership change. If the government continues to act in an arbitrary manner, we will stand with the motion of no-confidence, and take necessary measures as per the provisions of the constitution,” he said while noting that the JVP led-NPP will also move for an Impeachment Motion against the President.

From left to right: Fox News' Pierre Zakrzewski, Steve Harrigan and Senior Field Producers Yonat Frilling and Ibrahim Hazboun. (Fox News) Pierre Zakrzewski, described as a veteran Fox News cameraman, has passed away after being injured alongside Fox News journalist Benjamin Hall in Ukraine on Monday."It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that we share the news this morning regarding our beloved cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski.

An American journalist has been killed and another was injured while reporting on Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Tatiana Perebeinis and her two children were killed in Irpin, Ukraine during shelling by Russian forces on March 6, 2022. Perebeinis was the chief accountant for Silicon Valley startup SE Ranking.