White House officials push boosters as BA.5 surge intensifies

LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. - A defense attorney who used to work as a county prosecutor targeted vulnerable clients for sex, exploiting four women in exchange for legal work he did for them or their family members, the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office said Monday.Corey J. Kolcharno, 47, is charged with four counts of promoting prostitution after an investigation found he took advantage of his clients' legal and financial troubles, tethering "his performance as their counsel to a demand for sexual services from them or in exchange for payment," police wrote in an affidavit.Kolcharno — a former Lackawanna County prosecutor — was arraigned Monday and released on $20,000 unsecured bail.

FILE - In the backlight, the shadow of a tick can be seen on a leaf. (Photo by Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images) DUNCANSVILLE, Pa. - Researchers are seeking thousands of volunteers in the U.S.

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YREKA, Calif. - A U.S. Forest Service fire lookout of 50 years died when she didn't heed advice to leave her home, which was overtaken by the McKinney Fire in Siskiyou County, officials said. Kathy Shoopman, 74, died July 29 at her Klamath River home.

PHILADELPHIA - One woman's family is suddenly mourning the loss of a daughter, cousin and friend after she was killed in a brutal stabbing in Philadelphia last weekend.Ashley Lockhart, a 34-year-old mother, was reportedly found stabbed to death inside a Honda Odyssey on the 5300 block of Chestnut Street.Lockhart's first cousin, Senior Pastor William Brownlee, says he got the devastating call as he got offstage at an anti-violence event in Germantown."Told my cousin was murder," Brownlee said during Tuesday an interview on Good Day. "She was found murdered in a van, which was very tragic to me.

MANASSAS, Va. - This man didn’t win the top Mega Millions prize, but he still won big. Malcolm Meredith, of Manassas, Virginia, bought a lottery ticket for the May 20 Mega Millions drawing, according to the Virginia Lottery.Soon after the drawing, he showed his ticket to a person who told him it wasn’t a winner, according to an Aug. 4 press release.Mega Millions winners in Virginia can claim $10K prizes; Friday's jackpot grows to $1.02 billionFOX Business reached out to the Virginia Lottery for comment.The agency revealed on its website that Meredith’s ticket had matched the first five numbers of the Mega Millions drawing, just not the Mega Ball number. Meredith held onto the ticket and weeks later, he got a second opinion and found out he won.Meredith took the ticket to the state lottery’s Northern Virginia Customer Service Center in Woodbridge, Virginia, where he learned he won $1 million, the release said."I was hoping and praying," Meredith told the Virginia Lottery.Meredith used the Easy Pick option, which meant the computer randomly selected his numbers, the Virginia Lottery reported.RELATED: Mega Millions winning numbers: $1.28B Friday drawingThe winning numbers – for the $131 million jackpot at the time – were 33-40-59-60-69, with 22 as the Mega Ball number.The odds of matching the first five numbers of the Mega Millions are one in 12,607,306, according to the Virginia Lottery.Meredith was the only person in the U.S.

FILE - President Joe Biden delivers remarks on June 24, 2022, in the Grand Foyer of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Cameron Smith) WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden is preparing to sign a $280 billion bipartisan bill to boost domestic high-tech manufacturing, part of his administration's push to boost U.S. competitiveness over China.The Rose Garden ceremony on Tuesday will include lawmakers, union officials, local politicians and business leaders, the White House said, as the president looks to highlight a new law that will incentivize investments in the American semiconductor industry in an effort to ease U.S.

Scientists and economists look at what learning loss and disruption could bring for a generation of students—and what can be done about it Now that Covid 19 is steaming into its third year, brain scientists, psychiatrists, educators and economists are starting to ask how the generation of children coming of age will be affected as adults.

Ashton Kutcher is offering some insight on his health three years after suffering from a rare form of vasculitis. The 44-year-old actor took to Twitter on Monday night hours after his discussion with Bear Grylls about his struggle with the disease made headlines — and he is hoping people can move on.«Before there are a bunch of rumors/ chatter/ whatever out there. Yes, I had a rare vasculitis episode 3yrs ago,» Kutcher wrote, noting that it was an autoimmune flair up.

Black Sabbath rocker Ozzy Osbourne has been praised for battling through his health issues to give a surprise performance at the Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham on Monday. The 73 year old husband of former X Factor judge Sharon Osbourne was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease in 2019, and in June of this year, he underwent "life altering surgery".

FILE - Singer-songwriter Dolly Parton performs onstage at "Dollyverse Powered By Blockchain Creative Labs on Eluv.io" during the 2022 SXSW Conference And Festival at ACL Live at The Moody Theater on March 18, 2022, in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Rick Ke COLUMBUS, Ohio - If you live in Ohio, Tuesday is officially "Dolly Parton Day," in honor of the country music icon and lifelong philanthropist — who is working to improve child literacy in the Buckeye State and around the world. Ohio Gov.

Assistant Head coach Cale Gundy of the Oklahoma Sooners watches the team before their spring game at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on April 23, 2022 in Norman, Oklahoma. (Brian Bahr/Getty Images) NORMAN, Okla. - Oklahoma assistant head football coach Cale Gundy announced his resignation Sunday after using offensive language during a film session last week.Gundy, who had been with the program as an assistant since 1999, made the announcement in a social media post on Sunday, and the school confirmed it with a statement shortly thereafter.Gundy apologized in his post and explained why he resigned.

Covid-19-appropriate behaviour, noting that it is something which the elders and the younger cohort are not adhering to. Due to this, school managements are bringing measures such as sending recorded lectures to students who are ill, allowing online classes for those in isolation and putting study tours on hold, news agency PTI report said. Health experts on Covid-appropriate behaviour: Anil Sachdev, director of the Paediatrics Intensive Care at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi said children are at an increased risk due to the coronavirus and seasonal illnesses.

₹5 lakh cashless hospitalisation insurance cover for a monthly subscription fee of ₹500. The insurance cover has been curated specially for Clinikk members by an insurance partner. Clinikk, a Bengaluru-based health-tech start-up, launches its all-inclusive health subscriptions that aims to bring down the medical cost to zero by integrating health insurance with its comprehensive outpatient care delivery model.

I want to include my wife in my health insurance policy. Are maternity/pregnancy-related expenses covered under health insurance plans? -Name withheld on request Yes, you can include your spouse and children in your existing health insurance policy and you would also have the option of having individual sum insured for each member of the family or a floating sum insured for the whole family. Maternity expenses are generally not part of the built-in cover and would be optional.

PHILADELPHIA - Three teenagers were shot outside of a Popeyes in the Fairhill section of North Philadelphia, authorities say. According to police, the shooting happened Monday night at 4th Street and Lehigh Avenue, after a Popeyes store closed. The three teenagers were all employees of the Popeyes location, authorities told FOX 29's Steve Keeley. Police say the employees were sitting in a car when they were shot. One of the teens died from his injuries and the other two employees are in the hospital, authorities say.   The car the employees were in could be seen riddled with bullet holes and evidence markers were placed in the street as police analyzed the crime scene. Authorities have not released any other information about the shooting or a possible motive in the case. A late night shooting in North Philadelphia left 1 dead and two others injured, police say. FOX 29's Steve Keeley has the details.This is a developing story.

positivity rate of 14.97 per cent and two deaths. On Saturday, the capital city had seen 2,311 Covid-19 cases with a positivity rate of 13.84 per cent and one fatality. The number of active Covid-19 cases in Delhi stands at 7,484, down from 8,048 the previous day.

vaccine have been administered in the country so far under the nationwide vaccination drive. India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5, and 50 lakh on September 16.

Parts of Tibet are running mass Covid-19 testing, including the Chinese autonomous region's two largest cities, to fight a rare flare-up, while clusters were growing in tropical Hainan and in Xinjiang in China's west.

NEW DELHI: India has reported more than 12,751 Covid cases and 42 deaths in the last 24 hours, the health ministry said on Tuesday. India’s active caseload currently stands at 131,807 with total cases exceeding over 4.41 crore so far. So far, more than 5,26,772 deaths have been reported in the country.

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón on Monday announced charges against Nicole Lorraine Linton, the 37-year-old nurse from Houston who police say ran a red light and plowed her speeding Mercedes through a busy intersection in Windsor Hills causing a deadly crash.Six people were killed in the violent wreck at the intersection of S. La Brea Avenue and Slauson Avenue.

More than a third of Canadian households have been impacted by COVID-19 since public health measures were lifted where they live, a new survey has found.

heatwave is set to rock the nation with highs of 36C expected.The level three alert triggered by the Met Office was done to warn the likes of social and healthcare services of actions needed for specific high risk groups, as the alert is one step below the level four that was reached last month.The alert is in place from today (August 9) to Saturday (August 13) when the temperature is set to peak between the mid to late 30s.READ MORE: Cliff dramatically collapses onto UK beach that's now no-go zone during heatwaveThe Met Office alert states: "High pressure dominating this week, with fine and dry conditions across most of the country, prolonged sunny spells and light to moderate breezes."Temperatures rising from warm or very warm to locally hot in most regions, with a focus of the warmest weather in central-southern England."With the UK going through an extremely dry period, with last month being the driest month since 1935, serious precautions have been taken to guide the nation through this troubling times with the hosepipe ban being placed on four regions.Met Office deputy chief meteorologist Tony Wardle said the dryness in the UK will continue with the southeast to be hit the hardest.He said: “With high pressure dominant this week, the influence of any showers will be contained to the far northwest, and even here will be short-lived in nature.To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.“Further south, which has seen little rain for some time now, dryness will continue through the week and provide no relief for parched land, especially in the southeast.“Some change to more unsettled conditions is then signalled but, as is often the case during the summer, details a

Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and home in Palm Beach, Florida, according to a statement from the former U.S. president.Trump said in a statement released to reporters and posted on his Truth Social social media platform that his “beautiful home” was “under siege, raided and occupied by a large group of FBI agents.”“They even broke into my safe!” the statement read.Trump did not say what the agents were looking for or if they removed any materials from Mar-a-Lago, the resort he has called his home and political headquarters since leaving the White House in 2021.

WASHINGTON - The Biden administration is calling on people to exercise renewed caution about COVID-19, emphasizing the importance of getting booster shots for those who are eligible and wearing masks indoors as two new highly transmissible variants are spreading rapidly across the country.The new variants, labeled BA.4 and BA.5, are offshoots of the omicron strain that has been responsible for nearly all of the virus spread in the U.S. and are even more contagious than their predecessors.