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Sept 28, 2021 511 PG&E Charged With Manslaughter In California Wildfire

REDDING, Calif. (AP) — Pacific Gas and Electric was charged Friday with manslaughter and other crimes after its equipment sparked a Northern California wildfire last year that killed four people and destroyed hundreds of homes, prosecutors …
Sept 28, 2021 512 U.S. expels nearly 4,000 Haitians in 9 days as part of deportation blitz

In just nine days, the U.S. has expelled nearly 4,000 Haitian migrants, including hundreds of families with children, without allowing them to seek asylum as part of an ongoing deportation blitz to a country ravaged by natural and man-made …
Sept 28, 2021 513 Law Expert Wonders Why A Grand Jury Isn’t Mulling Sedition Charges Against Steve Bannon

Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe is wondering why the Department of Justice isn’t convening a grand jury to consider sedition charges against Donald Trump ally and former White House strategist Steve Bannon.
Sept 26, 2021 514 Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou leaves Canada after agreement with US over fraud charges

OTTAWA - Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou flew home to China on Friday (Sept 24) after reaching an agreement with U.S. prosecutors to end the bank fraud case against her, relieving a point of tension between China and the United …
Sept 26, 2021 515 'The writing is on the wall. Why can't they read it?': Teens aren't getting the Covid-19 vaccine even at clinics meant for them

Their rural town about 170 miles south of Atlanta has not fully embraced Covid-19 vaccines, but the group's clinics earlier in the year were popular. After the county schools temporarily closed due to Covid-19, they knew this one was needed…
Sept 24, 2021 516 1977 Double Homicide Solved

LANE COUNTY, Oregon - On Monday, June 9, 1977, sixteen year old Lliana Gay Adank and seventeen year old Eric Shawn Goldstrand, both North Eugene High School students, went to the Broken Bowl picnic grounds at Fall Creek, for an afternoon pi…
Sept 24, 2021 517 Mars Rover Grabs First Rock Sample, a ‘Truly Historic Moment’ and Major Step in Hunt for Alien Life

After a brief confusion, scientists and space enthusiasts finally saw the photo that conclusively showed a Mars rock captured in the sample tube, and were able to celebrate a truly historic moment. Two days later it drilled a few inches to …
Sept 24, 2021 518 US-China policy: Biden is bringing together Japan, Australia and India to stare down China

Forget France, AUKUS and nuclear-powered submarines -- one of the most important moments for the future of US influence in Asia is due to take place on Friday in Washington.
Sept 24, 2021 519 ‘Mama, I Don’t Want to Die’: 20-Year-Old Girl Dies From COVID-19

Such tragically young deaths continue to be reported across the country. A Kansas middle schooler was also among the latest virus-related fatalities.
Sept 24, 2021 520 Meet the defiant Afghan athletes vowing to fight the Taliban's ban on women's sports

The US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 enabled women athletes to represent the country at the Olympic Games for the first time. Even so, the progress was only gradual; Afghanistan has sent 23 athletes to the Games since then, yet only four …
Sept 23, 2021 521 A former female California Sheriff's sergeant found dead in freezer

Police searched the home and found a stand-up freezer in the garage. Inside, authorities found Travis' body. Cabrera said it's unclear how long her body was in the freezer or how she died. An autopsy, which could offer her cause and manner …
Sept 23, 2021 522 Donald Trump sues niece Mary Trump, New York Times for $100 million over disclosing tax documents

The lawsuit accuses Times journalists of inducing Mary Trump to breach that settlement agreement to help produce what it describes as a “scathing report.”
Sept 23, 2021 523 Winning $432M Mega Millions ticket sold at N.Y.C. pizzeria

NEW YORK – A Mega Millions ticket that sold in a Manhattan pizzeria struck the $432 million jackpot. 1111L The winning ticket was bought at Pronto Pizza on 48th Street and 6th Avenue, steps from Rockefeller Center in Manhattan.
Sept 23, 2021 524 England's top medic says Covid-19 transmission highest in children

LONDON - England's Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty said on Wednesday that Covid-19 transmission was currently highest in 12- to 15-year-olds, and that almost all unvaccinated children would get infected at some point.
Sept 23, 2021 525 Who should get COVID-19 boosters first? CDC committee set to vote Thursday – but only on Pfizer vaccine

A committee of experts spent more than five hours Wednesday reviewing data on the safety and effectiveness of a third shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
Sept 23, 2021 526 New bombshells show Trump's coup threat was real and hasn't passed

(CNN)- A rush of new and shocking behind-the-scenes disclosures about how then-President Donald Trump sought to thwart the Constitution and the will of voters makes a clear case that America came closer to a coup earlier this year than prev…
Sept 23, 2021 527 Brian Laundrie and Gabby Petito were involved in an incident in Wyoming restaurant in late August, witnesses say

Police in Florida said in a recent search warrant affidavit that Petito's mother received an odd text on August 27 and that it was the last communication from her. Petito, who was chronicling the couple's trip through national parks, also s…
Sept 23, 2021 528 Brazil's health minister tests positive for Covid-19 in NYC

BRASILIA - Brazil's Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga tested positive for Covid-19 hours after accompanying President Jair Bolsonaro to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday (Sept 21), the government said.
Sept 23, 2021 529 Teen pleads guilty in 2019 fatal stabbing of Barnard College student Tessa Majors

One of the three teenagers charged in the attempted robbery and fatal stabbing of a Barnard College student at a New York City park in 2019 pleaded guilty Tuesday to second-degree murder, authorities said.
Sept 22, 2021 530 Facebook Oversight Board seeks clarity on review system for high-profile users

The Oversight Board said Tuesday it antecedently asked Facebook to explicate however the cross-check strategy works and stock its criteria for adding pages and accounts to the programme. The committee said Facebook did not supply its criter…
Sept 22, 2021 531 20-year-old gas station clerk fatally shot after asking customer to wear a face mask

BERLIN — Senior politicians in Germany expressed shock over the weekend killing of a young gas station clerk who asked a customer to wear a face mask, and they warned Tuesday against the radicalization of people who oppose the country's pan…
Sept 22, 2021 532 Willie Garson, 'Sex and the City' actor, dead at 57

Garson, who was born in New Jersey, started training as an actor at age 13 and went on to study at Wesleyan University, according to a bio posted on the university's website.
Sept 22, 2021 533 Don't buy Chinese phones, throw them away if you have, Lithuania says

The National Cyber Centre’s report also said the Xiaomi phone was sending encrypted phone usage data to a server in Singapore
Sept 22, 2021 534 Magnitude 6 earthquake strikes near Melbourne, tremors rattle southeast Australia

TAIPEI, Taiwan (Associated Press) — In Beijing, a human rights lawyer who has been disbarred in China has been subjected to a pattern of harassment that has resulted in him and three other renowned rights activists being forced to relocate …
Sept 22, 2021 535 Three Little sisters killed in rear-end crash in Blaine County, Idaho

BOISE, Idaho — An entire family is in mourning Monday night after a car crash left three young girls dead last month. The car they were riding in was struck from behind on Highway 20 by a driver who was allegedly speeding and drunk.
Sept 21, 2021 536 Prince Harry & Meghan Markle Prince Harry & Meghan Markle

Prince Harry Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, KCVO, ADC, is a member of the British royal family. As the younger son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, he is sixth in the line of succession to the British throne. Born i…
Sept 21, 2021 537 Moderna says Covid-19 vaccine protection wanes, makes case for booster

Moderna said there was a trend toward a lower rate of severe cases among the more recently vaccinated, although the finding was not statistically significant.
Sept 21, 2021 538 US extends travel restrictions at Mexican and Canadian land borders as it makes plans to allow fully vaccinated foreign visitors to fly to America

The US has been limiting non-essential travel on the ground along both borders since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and extending those restrictions on a monthly basis
Sept 21, 2021 539 600 more Homeland Security agents sent to Del Rio, Texas, amid Haitian migrant crisis: What we know

The move signals a shift to using a pandemic-related law to immediately expel migrants without allowing them to claim asylum, a U.S. official who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly told The Associated Press.
Sept 21, 2021 540 US to lift restrictions on fully vaccinated international travellers in November

The unprecedented US restrictions have barred non-US citizens who were in those countries within the past 14 days.