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A group of lawmakers has renewed efforts to make it easier to sue police officers for damages by reintroducing a bill that seeks to eliminate “qualified immunity.” The group led by Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) on Monday reintroduced the Ending Qualified Immunity Act that attempts to abolish the Supreme Court-made legal doctrine. The […]

The airstrikes launched against militants in Syria last week sent a “very strong signal,” the Pentagon said Monday, rebutting claims by militant groups that the strikes had no real effect on them. “I haven’t seen those comments, I would go back to what I said last week: that this was really designed to do two

The director of the nation’s top public health agency said Monday that the drops in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths could be erased in the near future due to new variants of the virus that causes the disease. The number of daily new cases has dropped sharply in recent weeks but there’s evidence the declines

A former New York Times reporter who left the paper under contentious circumstances last month has pushed back on the notion that he’s racist and criticized the paper’s leadership. Donald McNeil Jr. departed the paper after his use of a racial slur while leading an official student trip surfaced in news reports, stoking anger among

VANCOUVER—Essential workers who are more likely to contract and transmit COVID-19 should be prioritized for immunization with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine now that a national panel is not recommending it for seniors, two experts say. Caroline Colijn, a COVID-19 modeller and mathematician at Simon Fraser University, and Horacio Bach, an adjunct professor in the division of

The women accusing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment deserve answers, former Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton says. “These stories are difficult to read, and the allegations brought forth raise serious questions that the women who have come forward and all New Yorkers deserve answers to,” Clinton said in a statement. “I’m glad

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) was treated at a hospital in Boston over the weekend after falling down and losing consciousness. “I took a fall,” Romney told reporters in Washington on Monday. “Let’s see, what can I say? Yeah, I had kind of a tough, tough weekend,” Romney said and added jokingly, “I went to CPAC,

Turkish garbage collectors have decided to salvage what was deemed trash by their clientele as treasure for the public, instead. Repurposing an old brick factory, bookshelves were set up inside and stacked full with discarded books, which had been destined for the incinerator before being collected from the trash. The library operates in the Çankaya

A mother who was told her teenage daughter may not survive a massive, sudden brain aneurysm insisted she be transferred to a different hospital, and never left her side. Miraculously, the teen survived. Now, her family is celebrating her gradual steps toward recovery. Fifteen-year-old Mionna Johnson of Canton Township, Michigan, was a healthy honor roll

A mom has shared a clever hack for encouraging little ones to take their medicine with fewer tears and more giggles, and parents are loving it. Mom of two Nikki Jurcutz, a former paramedic and specialist in birth courses and baby first aid, shared her now-viral genius hack on her Instagram page, TinyHeartsEducation. Holding her 18-month-old