MEXICO CITY (REUTERS) – Mexico has become the fourth country to approve emergency use of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine, following authorisation from health regulator Cofepris, a health official said on Friday (Dec 11). “Cofepris has granted emergency authorisation to the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine,” deputy health minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell told a news conference, referring to Pfizer’s […]Read More

December 12, 2020 9:31 AM CALIFORNIA (NYTIMES) – As the Lopez family of Truckee, California, gathered to prepare dinner on a recent evening, one subject dominated the conversation: the coronavirus vaccine that will soon be shipped out across the country, giving Americans the first concrete hope that the pandemic will eventually end.Read More

{{featured_button_text}} Milwaukee County election hearing.  Riley Vetterkind Riley Vetterkind | Wisconsin State Journal The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday swiftly rejected a lawsuit brought by the state of Texas and backed by President Donald Trump to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in Wisconsin and three other states, while the Wisconsin Supreme Court is set to […]Read More

With vaccine distribution imminent, public health officials said Friday they can’t make any predictions about when the first wave of Oregonians — roughly 360,000 healthcare workers and residents of long-term care facilities — will all be immunized for COVID-19. They also can’t say when the vaccines might ultimately reach the general population because the federal […]Read More

The hearing, which has prompted sharp criticism from senators in both parties over concerns that Johnson is peddling in debunked conspiracy theories, is moving ahead despite calls from Democrats that he scrap it. But Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican who has not yet said if he’ll run for reelection in 2022, says his hearing is geared […]Read More

Los Angeles County broke the record for COVID-19 cases reported in a single day once again on Friday with 13,815 new infections, the latest sign that the current surge of cases is not slowing down any time soon. The total number of cases reported in the county has now surpassed the 500,000-mark, hitting 501,635 infections […]Read More

Biden stressed that the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which could soon receive emergency authorization use after it got the recommendation of a panel of vaccine advisers to the FDA on Thursday, was being evaluated “free from political influence.” “I want to make it clear to the public: You should have confidence in this. There is no political […]Read More

December 11, 20205:11PM EST Just 48 hours before MLS Cup, Columbus Crew SC were rocked by the news that starters Darlington Nagbe and Pedro Santos have been ruled out of Saturday’s final vs. the Seattle Sounders (8:30 pm ET | TV & streaming) via their listing as not medically cleared to play, with Nagbe and Santos subsequently confirming that they […]Read More

December 12, 2020 5:37 AM The border was initially closed in March to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.Read More

“Warner Bros. might have just killed the Dune franchise.” Denis Villeneuve, the filmmaker behind the mega-budgeted movie adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction novel, does not mince words in a new editorial published by Variety. After being blindsided by the news that Warner Bros. is releasing its entire 2021 slate of films (including Dune) […]Read More