💉 US health officials on Saturday recommended COVID-19 vaccines for infants, toddlers and preschoolers — the last group without the shots.
The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the decision hours after an advisory panel voted unanimously that vaccines should be made available to children as young as 6 months. Two brands — Pfizer and Moderna — got the green light Friday from the FDA and Saturday from the CDC. The vaccines use the same technology but are being offered at different dose sizes and number of shots for the youngest kids.
About three-quarters of children of all ages are estimated to have been infected at some point.
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The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the decision hours after an advisory panel voted unanimously that vaccines should be made available to children as young as 6 months. Two brands — Pfizer and Moderna — got the green light Friday from the FDA and Saturday from the CDC. The vaccines use the same technology but are being offered at different dose sizes and number of shots for the youngest kids.
About three-quarters of children of all ages are estimated to have been infected at some point.
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👨🚒 One firefighter has died after becoming trapped in a burning building that collapsed early Saturday in Philadelphia, fire officials said.
The fallen firefighter was not immediately identified, but Deputy Fire Commissioner Craig Murphy said he was a 27-year department veteran. “It’s going to be a rough few weeks coming up,” Murphy said at a media briefing around 8 a.m.
Four other firefighters and an inspector with the city’s Department of Licenses and Inspections were also trapped at the time of the collapse. One firefighter jumped from the second story of the rubble, Murphy said.
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The fallen firefighter was not immediately identified, but Deputy Fire Commissioner Craig Murphy said he was a 27-year department veteran. “It’s going to be a rough few weeks coming up,” Murphy said at a media briefing around 8 a.m.
Four other firefighters and an inspector with the city’s Department of Licenses and Inspections were also trapped at the time of the collapse. One firefighter jumped from the second story of the rubble, Murphy said.
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💰 A former Amazon Web Services (AWS) engineer has been found guilty of hacking into customers’ cloud storage systems and stealing data linked to the massive 2019 Capital One breach. A US District Court in Seattle convicted Paige Thompson of seven counts of computer and wire fraud on Friday, a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
The breach was one of the largest ever recorded, exposing the names, social security numbers, email addresses, and phone numbers of over 100 million people in the US and Canada. Capital One has since been fined $80 million for allegedly failing to secure users’ data and settled with affected customers for $190 million.
Thompson, who also went by the name “Erratic” online, was arrested for carrying out the Capital One hack in July 2019.
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The breach was one of the largest ever recorded, exposing the names, social security numbers, email addresses, and phone numbers of over 100 million people in the US and Canada. Capital One has since been fined $80 million for allegedly failing to secure users’ data and settled with affected customers for $190 million.
Thompson, who also went by the name “Erratic” online, was arrested for carrying out the Capital One hack in July 2019.
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⚖️ A group of US lawmakers has signed off on a letter to Google that urges the company to reevaluate its treatment of search results that direct users to anti-abortion crisis centers rather than legitimate clinics
The letter cites research published by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), which focuses on Google search results in “trigger law states” — or the 13 states where abortion will become illegal if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.
Research indicates that 11 percent of Google searches in trigger law states for “abortion clinic near me” and “abortion pill” bring users to “fake” clinics that try to dissuade women from having an abortion. The problem is even more pronounced on Google Maps, as the CCDH found that 37 percent of abortion-related map searches led to fake clinics.
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The letter cites research published by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), which focuses on Google search results in “trigger law states” — or the 13 states where abortion will become illegal if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.
Research indicates that 11 percent of Google searches in trigger law states for “abortion clinic near me” and “abortion pill” bring users to “fake” clinics that try to dissuade women from having an abortion. The problem is even more pronounced on Google Maps, as the CCDH found that 37 percent of abortion-related map searches led to fake clinics.
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👷♀️ Amazon is likely to run out of prospective workers for its US warehouses by the year 2024, according to an internal memo that was leaked. The memo contained internal research from 2021 that predicted a looming labor crisis for the e-commerce giant that would hit some areas faster than others.
Automation is something that Amazon has invested heavily in already by acquiring Kiva Systems in 2012. But Amazon’s warehouse robots aren’t capable of handling advanced fulfillment tasks that can only be performed by a human worker.
The tech giant is the second-largest private employer in the US, and is the largest private employer in a number of US states and cities. The company announced plans to hire 125,000 workers last fall.
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Automation is something that Amazon has invested heavily in already by acquiring Kiva Systems in 2012. But Amazon’s warehouse robots aren’t capable of handling advanced fulfillment tasks that can only be performed by a human worker.
The tech giant is the second-largest private employer in the US, and is the largest private employer in a number of US states and cities. The company announced plans to hire 125,000 workers last fall.
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📉 Bitcoin tumbled below $20,000 on Saturday to its lowest level since the end of 2020. The price of the largest cryptocurrency has been sliding in recent weeks and fell as low as $18,739, according to CoinDesk.
Bitcoin has now fallen more than 70% since hitting a record high of almost $69,000 in November last year against a backdrop of soaring inflation, rising interest rates and a looming ecession that has prompted some investors sell their crypto holdings.
Crypto exchange platforms Coinbase and BlockFi have laid off about 20% of their workforces amid the collapse of crypto prices.
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Bitcoin has now fallen more than 70% since hitting a record high of almost $69,000 in November last year against a backdrop of soaring inflation, rising interest rates and a looming ecession that has prompted some investors sell their crypto holdings.
Crypto exchange platforms Coinbase and BlockFi have laid off about 20% of their workforces amid the collapse of crypto prices.
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💧 Floodwaters this week wiped out numerous bridges, washed out miles of roads and closed the park as it approached peak tourist season during its 150th anniversary celebration of the Yellowstone national park.
The scope of the damage is still being tallied by Yellowstone officials, but based on other national park disasters, it could take years and cost upwards of $1 billion to rebuild in an environmentally sensitive landscape where construction season only runs from the spring thaw until the first snowfall.
The park was already due for funding from the Great American Outdoors Act, a 2020 law passed by Congress that authorizes nearly $3 billion for maintenance and other projects on public lands.
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The scope of the damage is still being tallied by Yellowstone officials, but based on other national park disasters, it could take years and cost upwards of $1 billion to rebuild in an environmentally sensitive landscape where construction season only runs from the spring thaw until the first snowfall.
The park was already due for funding from the Great American Outdoors Act, a 2020 law passed by Congress that authorizes nearly $3 billion for maintenance and other projects on public lands.
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🍏✊ The Apple store in Towson, Maryland, has become the first unionized Apple store in the US.
The votes (65 in favor and 33 opposed, out of around 110 eligible employees) still need to be certified by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and Apple will then need to bargain with the new union over working conditions.
The votes (65 in favor and 33 opposed, out of around 110 eligible employees) still need to be certified by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and Apple will then need to bargain with the new union over working conditions.
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🇺🇸🦠❗️US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has contracted the coronavirus. He is asymptomatic and has not been in close contact with US President Joe Biden, according to National Security Council (NSC) Spokesperson Adrienne Watson.
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🚲 After falling off his bike in Delaware on Saturday, US President Joe Biden has hopped three times on his way from a church service to show bystanders he is doing just fine.
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“Why are you killing people in Donetsk?”: A Donbass resident sends an emotional plea to the US and Ukraine.
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“This was hell”: German journalist Alina Lipp recalls the experience of coming under shelling in Mariupol during her last visit there during fighting, and describes how the port city has been transformed since Ukrainian troops left.
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❗️EU could fall apart before Ukraine joins, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev says
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Russian sappers clear mines from roads and farmland in the settlements of the Kharkov region (Russian MoD video)
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⚡⚡Russian MoD briefing:
▪The Metiolkino settlement near Severodonetsk in the LPR has been liberated
▪Some units of the Ukrainian military are leaving the combat zone because of low morale, lack of ammunition and support
▪More than 50 generals and officers of the Ukrainian military (several of them were from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine) have been eliminated with sea-based Kalibr rockets, while at a work meeting in a control point in Dnepropetrovsk region
▪More than 400 Ukrainian neo-Nazis have been killed as a result of strikes in the past 24 hours
▪More than 100 Ukrainian servicemen in the Dnepropetrovsk region have been destroyed by a high-precision missile strike
▪Up to 200 Ukrainian militants, including several foreign mercenaries, have been eliminated after a strike at the Selidovo settlement in the DPR
▪Russia's Kalibr missiles have hit 10 155mm M777 howitzers supplied to Ukraine by the West and up to 20 armoured vehicles on the territory of the plant in Nikolaev
▪Two Ukrainian Uragan launchers have been destroyed on the territory of the Kharkov Tank Repair Plant with an Iskander strike
▪A Ukrainian Su-25 has been shot down in the Nikolaev region, as well as eight Ukrainian UAVs
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▪The Metiolkino settlement near Severodonetsk in the LPR has been liberated
▪Some units of the Ukrainian military are leaving the combat zone because of low morale, lack of ammunition and support
▪More than 50 generals and officers of the Ukrainian military (several of them were from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine) have been eliminated with sea-based Kalibr rockets, while at a work meeting in a control point in Dnepropetrovsk region
▪More than 400 Ukrainian neo-Nazis have been killed as a result of strikes in the past 24 hours
▪More than 100 Ukrainian servicemen in the Dnepropetrovsk region have been destroyed by a high-precision missile strike
▪Up to 200 Ukrainian militants, including several foreign mercenaries, have been eliminated after a strike at the Selidovo settlement in the DPR
▪Russia's Kalibr missiles have hit 10 155mm M777 howitzers supplied to Ukraine by the West and up to 20 armoured vehicles on the territory of the plant in Nikolaev
▪Two Ukrainian Uragan launchers have been destroyed on the territory of the Kharkov Tank Repair Plant with an Iskander strike
▪A Ukrainian Su-25 has been shot down in the Nikolaev region, as well as eight Ukrainian UAVs
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⚡⚡Russian MoD briefing: ▪The Metiolkino settlement near Severodonetsk in the LPR has been liberated ▪Some units of the Ukrainian military are leaving the combat zone because of low morale, lack of ammunition and support ▪More than 50 generals and officers…
❗Russian MoD: Because of large losses, the Ukrainian command is having to use unprepared personnel who lack the necessary skills in handling weapons and military equipment. Two Su-25 jets of the Ukrainian Air Force have attacked the positions of their own units in the area of the village of Shirokoye, Dnepropetrovsk region
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