A Northern California health clinic gave 14 children the wrong dose when administering pediatric COVID-19 vaccines over the weekend. Sutter Health said in a statement that 14 of the vaccinations given at its pediatric clinic in Antioch had “an incorrect amount” of diluent, which is used to dilute the concentrated...
Casualties Reported in Clashes on Armenia-Azerbaijan Border
Armenia and Azerbaijan reported military clashes on their shared border Tuesday and blamed each other for starting the conflict amid tensions between the two ex-Soviet nations that have simmered since a six-week war last year over Nagorno-Karabakh. The Armenian Defense Ministry accused Azerbaijan's military of opening fire on Armenian positions,...
San Diego’s ‘Smiling Hippo’ Dies at Age 45
A 45-year-old male river hippopotamus named Otis and nicknamed the “smiling hippo” has died at the San Diego Zoo. Otis had been under care for degenerative joint and spinal disease and a decision to euthanize him was made last weekend when his condition declined dramatically, the San Diego Zoo Wildlife...
Trump Ally Bannon Appears in Court for Defying Jan. 6 Panel
Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon appeared before a judge on Monday to face criminal contempt charges for defying a subpoena from Congress' Jan. 6 committee, then declared combatively outside court that he was “taking on the Biden regime” in fighting the charges. Bannon did not enter a plea and is due back...
Britney Spears Got All to Agree She Needed to Be Freed
There were no more of the heated arguments or dueling court filings of the past few months, no more tearful testimony or angry accusations. For one day at least, everyone surrounding Britney Spears agreed. She needed to be freed. Most important among them was Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda...
Austria Locks Down the Unvaccinated Amid a Surge of COVID-19
BERLIN — Austria took what its leader called the “dramatic" step Monday of implementing a nationwide lockdown for unvaccinated people who haven't recently had COVID-19, perhaps the most drastic of a string of measures being taken by European governments to get a massive regional resurgence of the virus under control....
Man Who Went to Space With Shatner Dies in Plane Crash
HAMPTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A man who traveled to space with William Shatner last month was killed along with another person when the small plane they were in crashed in a wooded area of northern New Jersey, according to state police. Glen M. de Vries, 49, of New York City,...
Draft California Political Maps Would Reshape Key Districts
SACRAMENTO — Newly released political maps from California's redistricting commission would leave some members of Congress without a political home and others to face off against colleagues in their own party in the 2022 midterm elections, when the state will play a key role in determining which party controls Congress....
Court Temporarily Delays Release of Trump’s Jan. 6 Records
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked the release of records sought by a U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection as the court considers an emergency request by former President Donald Trump. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Thursday granted...
Feds Block Billions of Public Transit Money for California
SACRAMENTO — The federal government says California is ineligible for about $12 billion in public transit funding because of a long-running dispute over changes to the state's public pension law that the Biden administration recently determined are improper. Federal law says state and local agencies must protect the interests of...