Opening statements made in bribery trial of Philadelphia City Councilman Kenyatta Johnson, wife

NORTH PHILADELPHIA - Temple University police are investigating a shooting near Temple University's campus.Officials notified the public through Twitter to use caution near the intersection of North 11th Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue as they investigate the reports of a shooting in that area.

CENTER CITY - The debate about the seriousness of COVID-19 still exists. But, a Philadelphia woman wants the public to know COVID-19 and the complications she suffered cost her her arms and a leg.Candice is overjoyed to be released from Good Shepherd Hospital in Philadelphia, after spending nine months fighting for her life in a battle with COVID-19 and the havoc it caused her body.On August 14, Davis says she tested positive for COVID and three days later, she was rushed to the hospital because, she says, her heart was pounding out of her chest.MORE HEADLINES:"I thought, ‘Okay, I’m 30. I’m going to get through this.

Metropolitan Police provide cover for residents as they are evacuated away from a shooting scene on Van Ness Street Northwest on April 22, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) WASHINGTON - Police are swarming the scene after three people were shot near a school in Northwest DC, according to officials.DC police said they received a call about a shooting at about 3:30 p.m.

The number of new Covid infections across Greater Manchester is continuing to fall at a rapid rate. All 10 boroughs have seen a fall in infection rates with fewer people requiring hospital treatment as well.

Photo showing the aftermath of a crash on Interstate 70 in Callaway County, Missouri on April 20. (Missouri State Highway Patrol Troop F Twitter)Troopers responding to a crash on Interstate 70 in Callaway County, Missouri, on April 20, were initially met with the typical car accident scene: Debris and — to their surprise — dozens of packages of marijuana scattered across several lanes of highway. "You don’t see this everyday, but it is 4/20…," the Missouri State Highway Patrol tweeted. April 20, also known as 420, is the unofficial holiday dedicated to celebrating and smoking marijuana. According to the accident report, a semitrailer was attempting to avoid another accident on the same highway when a pickup truck rear-ended the semi.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks to supporters of former U.S. President Donald Trump at the Banks County Dragway on March 26, 2022 in Commerce, Georgia.

COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in the United States last year, and deaths from COVID-19 increased by 1% in 2021 over 2020, according to new data from the National Vital Statistics System released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Ontario hospitals are about to enter a “difficult” week according to the province’s Chief Medical Officer of Health with the sixth wave of COVID-19 projected to send more people to hospital and intensive care.In an interview with Global News, Dr. Kieran Moore said the B.A.2 variant of the virus “continues to circulate at a high level” and could take several weeks to subside.“We drew the epidemic curve, the complete wave and anticipate June 11th to be the very end of the tail of that wave,”  Moore told Global News on Friday.

The World Health Organization (WHO) today strongly recommended Pfizer's Paxlovid drug for mild to moderately sick COVID-19 patients who are part of high-risk groups, but also called for efforts to boost access to the treatment for low- to middle-income countries.

Two studies published yesterday in The Lancet Public Health detail how COVID-19 restrictions moderately affected adults' mental health in 15 nations, with one finding that the type of lockdowns were linked to the level of distress and opinion of the government, and the other suggesting that mental health declined slightly but significantly under lockdown—especially among women.

EX-EastEnders loudmouth Patsy Palmer is charging fans for tips on how to live their best lives. They will have to stump up £17 a month to follow the soap star’s wellness journey.

WASHINGTON - Metropolitan Police officers are on the scene after shots were fired near a school in Northwest D.C., according to police.Download the FOX 5 DC News App for Local Breaking News and WeatherMPD officials say they got a call about the shooting around 3:28 p.m. Friday.

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Old Navy is committing to pausing price hikes on select kids' clothing through the end of September to help families with their back-to-school shopping amid record-high inflation. The retailer announced a new "Price ON-Lock" initiative, which will lock prices on all boys' and girls' apparel items labeled "Everyday Magic" in its stores and on OldNavy.com.  An Old Navy clothing store is seen at Monroe Marketplace in Pennsylvania.

SEATTLE - President Joe Biden on Friday signed an executive order intended to help restore national forests devastated by wildfires, drought and blight, using an Earth Day visit to Seattle to press for more action on the environment.Although Biden has struggled to make progress on his most ambitious climate goals, he drew a sharp contrast with his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, who unraveled the country’s fight against global warming."We’ve reached the point where the crisis on the environment has become so obvious, with the notable exception of the former president, that we really have an opportunity to do things we couldn’t have done two, five, ten years ago," Biden said.US President Joe Biden signs an Executive Order Strengthening the Nations Forests, Communities, and Local Economies, during an Earth Day event at Seward Park in Seattle, Washington, on April 22, 2022. - Biden was marking Earth Day on Friday by ordering protections for the United States' ancient forests, seen as a crucial weapon in the fight against climate change, during a trip to Seattle.

Despite being developed to fight the original COVID-19 strain, a third dose of mRNA vaccine boosts the immune system substantially to better fight infections caused by the Omicron variant relative to the standard 2-dose primary series, according to two new studies in Nature and JAMA Network Open.

Adults hospitalized early in the pandemic with COVID-19 were at more than triple the risk of death than those with influenza, despite the flu patients being older and having more chronic illnesses, according to new data from Spain to be presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), which starts tomorrow.The researchers also found that COVID-19 is associated with longer h

Booking images for Roxanne Record and Kadjah Record (Courtesy: Baton Rouge Police Department via WAFB) BATON ROUGE, La. - A 4-year-old girl is dead after her grandmother allegedly forced her to drink a bottle of whiskey while her mother watched, Baton Rouge Police said.Sgt. L’Jean McKneely, a police spokesperson, told news outlets the little girl’s grandmother, Roxanne Record, 53, and mother, Kadjah Record, 29, were arrested Friday, each on a charge of first-degree murder.

Razor wire lines the area near the Rio Grande river on November 19, 2021 in Eagle Pass, Texas. (Photo by Sergio FLORES / AFP) (Photo by SERGIO FLORES/AFP via Getty Images) EAGLE PASS, Texas - A Texas National Guard soldier has gone missing while trying to rescue migrants in a river at the state’s border with Mexico, Texas officials said Thursday.The incident occurred in Eagle Pass during an attempt to rescue migrants.

Razor wire lines the area near the Rio Grande river on November 19, 2021 in Eagle Pass, Texas.

FILE - Voters cast ballots at the Fairfax County Government Center on Nov.2, 2021, in Fairfax, Virginia. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) WASHINGTON - A bill introduced this week in the House of Representatives would require eligible U.S.

An interval of over 10 weeks between COVID-19 vaccine doses was associated with SARS-CoV-2 antibody levels up to 11 times higher than with an interval of 2 to 4 weeks in never-infected participants, according to a preprint paper to be presented at the upcoming annual congress of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ESCMID).

the Los Angeles Times in an interview on Friday. The panicked cook tried a “wild list of things” in order to regain his sense of taste before filming the series.

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Hyram Hill PHILADELPHIA - One of two suspects who was wanted in connection with the murder of a Philadelphia officer’s adult son has turned himself in to police. Police say Levar Turner, 23, turned himself in at the Philadelphia Public Services Building in on Friday morning, days after authorities released new surveillance video from the deadly incident. Authorities say turner will face murder, robbery, and criminal conspiracy charges and that a second suspect remains at large. Turner's arrest comes almost three months after Hyram Hill Jr., 24, was shot and killed following what investigators believe was an attempted robbery near Broad Street and Allegheny Avenue. Around 4:30 a.m.

Richard Lawrence  MONTGOMERY COUNTY - A Philadelphia man has been charged in a string of robberies over the past two months, authorities announced Friday. On April 22, police say a man demanded a teller give him "all the 50s and 100s" at TD Bank on the 2900 block of Moreland Road in Montgomery County. The license plate of the suspected getaway car, which was recovered in Philadelphia, was registered to Richard Lawrence, according to investigators.

surfaced online Thursday, former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson is seen repeatedly punching a fellow passenger on an airplane.Tyson’s representative Joann Mignano confirmed the altercation, which took place Wednesday aboard a JetBlue flight that was on the tarmac in San Francisco before heading to Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Donald Trump denies storming out of Piers Morgan interview, leaks audio to prove it “Unfortunately, Mr.

COVID-19 test to enter Canada.The federal government said on Friday that beginning on April 25 at 1 a.m. ET, children in that age group who are accompanied by a fully vaccinated parent, step parent, guardian or tutor will no longer be required to complete a pre-entry COVID-19 test.However, pre-entry tests will still be required for partially vaccinated or unvaccinated travellers ages 12 and older who are currently eligible to travel to Canada.Children under five years of age are not required to provide a COVID-19 test result, the government added.

Ontario’s health minister says an announcement will be made Friday regarding masking in settings deemed high-risk.Christine Elliott was asked by a reporter at an unrelated press conference whether the province would be extending the mandate for high-risk settings beyond April 27 and announcing the decision ahead of time to avoid confusion.“Yes. Dr.

Hyram Hill PHILADELPHIA - A person of interest who was sought by police in connection with the murder of a Philadelphia officer’s adult son has turned himself in to police. Police say the person of interest, an unidentiied male, turned himself in at the Philadelphia Public Services Building in on Friday morning, days after authorities released new surveillance video from the incident. The arrest comes almost three months after Hyram Hill Jr., 24, was shot and killed following what investigators believe was an attempted robbery near Broad Street and Allegheny Avenue. Police say they are awaiting approval of formal charges. Around 4:30 a.m.

Christian Brueckner (Getty Images); Madeleine McCann (Handout) via FOX News Portuguese prosecutors said Thursday a man had been formally identified as a suspect in the disappearance of 3-year-old Madeleine McCann, who vanished from her bed during a family vacation to the country nearly 15 years ago. MADELEINE MCCANN SUSPECT BREAKS SILENCE TO SLAM INVESTIGATIONProsecutors in Faro, Algarve's main city, did not publicly name the man but said they were acting on a request by German authorities and in coordination with British investigators. It was the first time prosecutors had identified a suspect in the case since initially accusing Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, who were later cleared.The British family was on vacation in the Algarve region of southern Portugal when Madeleine was stolen from her bed in a ground-floor apartment on May 3, 2007, just feet from her sleeping twin siblings, Sean and Amelie.JOSH DUGGAR'S PARENTS, JIM BOB AND MICHELLE DUGGAR, SPEAK OUT AFTER SON'S ARREST FOR CHILD PORNOGRAPHYHer parents had been dining with friends about 200 feet away in a seaside resort in Praia da Luz but had checked on the children periodically.FILE: Kate and Gerry McCann hold an age-progressed police image of their daughter during a news conference to mark the 5th anniversary of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, on May 2, 2012 in London, England. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) The major development in the case came after German police said in June 2020 that convicted child abuser and drug dealer Christian Brueckner had likely killed Madeleine.

coronavirus Friday and a five-patient increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations.Health officials say 2,410 people are hospitalized with the disease after 265 patients were admitted to hospital in the past 24 hours and 260 were discharged.The number of people in intensive care is stable at 88.

Satellite imagery released by Maxar Technologies shows an area in a Ukrainian town located just over 12 miles west of Mariupol on March 19, 2022. Credit: Maxar Technologies via Storyful KYIV, Ukraine - Satellite photos of what appeared to be rows upon rows of freshly dug mass graves on the outskirts of Mariupol brought the horrors of the war increasingly into focus, as Russia pounded away Friday at Ukrainian holdouts in the city’s steel mill and other targets in a drive to seize the country’s industrial east."Every day they drop several bombs on Azovstal," Petro Andryushchenko, an adviser to Mariupol's mayor, said of the besieged steelworks.

Guy Lafleur looks on as he stands with the Stanley Cup during the 2017 Scotiabank NHL 100 Classic announcement at the Chateau Laurier on March 17, 2017 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. (Andre Ringuette/NHLI via Getty Images) WASHINGTON - Montreal Canadiens legend Guy Lafleur has died at the age 70.  The hockey Hall of Famer helped the Montreal Canadiens win five Stanley Cup titles in the 1970s.

Colorized electron micrograph image if a cell (blue) infected with a variant strain of Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 isolated from a patient sample. (NIH/NAID/IMAGE.FR/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) A U.K. patient with a severely weakened immune system had COVID-19 for almost a year and a half, scientists reported, underscoring the importance of protecting vulnerable people from the coronavirus.There’s no way to know for sure whether it was the longest-lasting COVID-19 infection because not everyone gets tested, especially on a regular basis like this case.But at 505 days, "it certainly seems to be the longest reported infection," said Dr.

Delhi also logged 2 deaths and 757 recoveries in the past one day.

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COLOMBO (News 1st); The Reserve Bank of India has extended the duration of the US$ 400 million currency swap for the Central Bank in Sri Lanka which was concluded in January this year.The Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka tweeted to state that this is a continuation of India’s unstinted and multi-faceted support to Sri Lanka

WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday planned to vote on whether to advance Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate.Jackson would be the first Black woman on the high court in its more than 200-year history, and the sixth woman. After clearing the Senate panel, Democrats will then wind the nomination through the 50-50 Senate — with a final vote in sight for President Joe Biden's pick to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.Jackson previously faced more than 30 hours of hearings and interrogation over her record last month.

The USFL is a new, independent American football league controlled by FOX Sports through NSFL HoldCo, LLC, a new business entity. (Source: USFL) The USFL, NFL Films and FOX Sports are teaming up to produce "United By Football: A Season in the USFL," a 13-episode series that will capture the fascinating athlete personalities and the unique circumstances they find themselves in as they pursue their dreams in a new professional spring football league. The one-hour series premiere airs Saturday, April 16 at 6:30 p.m.

An electrical contractor repairs a sign with gasoline fuel prices above six and seven dollars a gallon at the Shell gas station at Fairfax and Olympic Blvd in Los Angeles, California, on March 8, 2022. (Photo by Patrick T.

WASHINGTON - Historic confirmation hearings begin on Monday for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who would be the first Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court. Jackson, a 51-year-old who has served as a federal judge for the past nine years, will go before the Senate Judiciary Committee, beginning at 11 a.m.

Americans tend to view St. Patrick’s Day as one of the biggest drinking days of the year, and residents in some states are bigger spenders than others once the Irish spirit rolls into their local pub.A new survey revealed which U.S.

St. Patrick's Day — as a holy day of obligation, a celebration of Irish culture, or an excuse to imbibe a green pint of beer — millions across the globe will observe the holiday on March 17th. But other than "drowning the shamrock" and getting pinched for not wearing green, what do we really know about the holiday?For the answers, Fox News consulted Monsignor Robert T.