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From Scholz to Biden, a G-7 scorecard of how each leader got on
A three-day Group of Seven summit hosted by Germany ended on Tuesday, with leaders backing a plan to discuss how to cap energy prices and pledging to support Ukraine indefinitely.
Leaders will have the opportunity to resume talks on defense and Russia’s invasion at a NATO summit in Madrid. As they make their way there from the Bavarian Alps, ...Read more

US health officials announce new monkeypox vaccination plan
The Biden administration unveiled a new plan to vaccinate eligible Americans against monkeypox, prioritizing those who have been exposed to the virus in states with the highest infection rates.
Hundreds of thousands of doses of the Jynneos vaccine from Bavarian Nordic A/S will be made available under the administration’s new plan through a ...Read more

Pa. House puts Pitt's funding on the line unless it stops its fetal tissue research
HARRISBURG, Pa. — If the University of Pittsburgh wants its annual $151 million appropriation from the state, it will have to stop its fetal tissue research.
Pennsylvania House Republicans amended this requirement into the state's appropriation bill for its four state-related universities by a 108-92 vote. Three GOP members, including Rep. ...Read more

Elmo Gets COVID-19 shot in CDC's vaccine push for kids
Elmo got his Covid-19 vaccine.
Sesame Street’s iconic, perpetually 3-year-old Muppet got his COVID-19 shot in a public service announcement released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday. The video comes just days after the vaccinations became available for children five years and younger. The U.S. Food and Drug ...Read more
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COVID-sniffing dogs can also smell long-term virus symptoms in patients, study says
While researchers already discovered a trained dog’s nose can identify COVID-19 with its scent-detecting capabilities, dogs have now demonstrated they can also sniff out long-term virus symptoms — often called “long COVID” — in patients, researchers in...Read more

Trump flew into rage on Jan. 6 and lunged at Secret Service agent, White House aide testifies
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump and his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, were aware the Capitol was a target of violence and that Trump supporters were armed with weapons when the president urged them to march to the building on Jan. 6, 2021, a former aide testified in a bombshell hearing Tuesday that also revealed Trump repeatedly ...Read more

Biden has few options to enact abortion moves Democrats demand
President Joe Biden is under pressure from progressive Democrats to safeguard access to abortion in states where it’s at risk of being outlawed — including by allowing clinics on federal land and offering travel vouchers to people who want the procedure.
Yet Biden faces steep legal and political hurdles in meeting those demands as his ...Read more

50 migrants die after tractor-trailer abandoned in Texas
SAN ANTONIO — The number of migrants who died after apparently being abandoned in a sweltering tractor-trailer in Texas rose to 50 on Tuesday in a suspected human-trafficking attempt now under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security.
Federal officials said agents had detained three people believed to be a part of the “smuggling...Read more

8 bombshells from Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony at Tuesday's Jan. 6 hearing
WASHINGTON — In testimony before a House panel Tuesday, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson outlined a stunning series of events surrounding the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, including an account that then-President Trump lunged at a Secret Service agent in a desperate bid to travel to the Capitol after his speech that day.
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When will Kristin Smart murder trial begin? Court announces new start date
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — There’s a new start date for the Kristin Smart murder trial, a Monterey County Superior Court spokeswoman announced Tuesday.
Opening statements will begin July 18, rescheduled from July 6.
The beginning of the trial against Paul and Ruben Flores was pushed back because of “a health concern among one of the trial ...Read more

Arguments in Scott Peterson hearing postponed after lawyer gets COVID
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Final arguments in Scott Peterson’s attempt to overturn his murder conviction were postponed Tuesday after one of his lawyers contracted COVID-19 and Peterson was put on “loose quarantine” at San Quentin State prison after his pod was exposed.
The hearing in the notorious case that dates back two decades had been ...Read more

Brazil's Amazon hosts a third of country's most violent cities
The Brazilian Amazon is home to 13 of the country’s 30 most violent cities as drug trafficking is adding to environmental crimes that have traditionally plagued the region.
The number of intentional violent deaths in those cities topped 100 per 100,000 inhabitants between 2019 and 2021, compared with the national average of 22.3, according a...Read more

COVID shots should get omicron-targeted update, FDA advisers say
COVID-19 shots from Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc. should be updated to include components that target the highly transmissible omicron variant, the version of the virus that causes most of the world’s cases, U.S. regulatory advisers said.
Members of the panel that advises the Food and Drug Administration voted 19-2 Tuesday in favor of ...Read more

Trump's wrath at Jan. 6 committee has McCarthy in an awkward spot
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump complained Tuesday that a surprise Jan. 6 committee hearing lacked “cross-examination,” again putting a spotlight on the top House Republican who left him largely defenseless.
The select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol abruptly announced Tuesday’s hearing with ...Read more

Cuba says it was in shootouts with boats heading to pick up migrants
The Cuban Coast Guard was recently involved in two shootouts at sea with speedboats coming from the United States to pick up Cuban migrants, resulting in the death of one of the smugglers, according to the island’s ministry of the interior.
The Cuban authorities said they have intercepted 13 speedboats and 23 people from the United States ...Read more

'They do not want us,' Ukraine says of NATO as leaders meet
With one foot in the door on European Union membership, Ukraine’s leadership is feeling if anything even more bitter about NATO as the military alliance gathers in Spain for its annual summit.
Ukraine is told “you are not a member because we do not want you,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Deputy Chief of Staff Ihor Zhovkva, who is ...Read more

Florida's preventable deaths rose during the pandemic. It wasn't just COVID
TAMPA, Fla. — Florida has recorded 17,000 unexpected or excess deaths from preventable health issues other than COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.
Some were likely because the pandemic led people to put off checkups, surgeries and other preventative health measures, according to a new study. Excess deaths are defined as those that ...Read more

Antisemitic flyers attacking Disney execs, lawmakers left at homes in Miami
Dozens of homeowners in Coral Gables and Miami awoke Tuesday to plastic bags filled with candy corn and pictures of Disney characters on their front lawns.
But the package wasn’t meant as a gift. It was a blatant antisemitic affront, with the candy serving as weights to hold down paper pictures of the characters — six Disney World ...Read more
Finland, Sweden closer to joining NATO with Turkey deal
Finland and Sweden took a major step on their way to NATO membership after Turkey dropped its opposition to their bids, all but ensuring the military alliance’s expansion on Russia’s doorstep.
The move “sends a very clear message to President Putin that NATO’s door is open,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters at ...Read more

Maryland to restrict crabbing in response to 'worrisome' population decline
BALTIMORE — This summer Maryland will impose new restrictions on crabbing in the Chesapeake Bay — including the first-ever limits on how many bushels of male blue crabs watermen can haul each day — in response to a troubling decline in the population of the beloved crustaceans.
Regulations issued this week, to be in effect starting in ...Read more
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- COVID-sniffing dogs can also smell long-term virus symptoms in patients, study says
- 'They're not here to hurt me': Trump knew supporters were armed on Jan. 6, aide says
- Death toll of migrants found in abandoned tractor-trailer in Texas rises to 50
- Cassidy Hutchinson, former aide to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, testifies before Jan. 6 panel
- 46 people believed to be migrants found dead in Texas tractor-trailer