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FILE - A student's mask sits next to him in class.  (Marijan Murat/picture alliance via Getty Images)PHILADELPHIA - Schools in Philadelphia will now return to a mask optional status after the city's Department of Health dropped the newly reinstated indoor mask mandate days after it took effect. Students and staff can now choose whether or not to wear a mask, except for those in Pre-K and head start programs where masks are federally required. The masking requirement was reinstated by Philadelphia health officials on April 18 and dropped on April 22. ___RELATED HEADLINESA statement from Mayor Jim Kenney's office that was issued Thursday night revealed the city dropped the mandate due to decreasing hospitalizations and leveling case counts. Despite the dropped mandate, health officials are "strongly recommending" individuals wear masks in indoor settings. AdvertisementPhiladelphia took plenty of backlash for reinstating the mask mandate as it was the only large city in the United States to re-implement a mask requirement after it was initially dropped in March. 

FILE IMAGE - A 3-year-old male Sumatran tiger is seen at Attica Zoological Park in Athens, Greece, on Jan. 29, 2022.

Shane Brolly, 24, is facing charges in connection to a head-on crash he is accused of causing while driving under the influence in March 2021.  DOYLESTOWN, Pa. - A man accused of being drunk when he crashed head-on into a car full of teenage girls in Bucks County in March 2021 is set to be sentenced on May 19. Shane Brolly, who was 24 at the time, is accused of crossing into opposing traffic to pass a vehicle in front of him when he crashed into a car full of Neshaminy High School students while going 70 mph, according to the Bucks County District Attorney's Office. Their car rolled several times and ended up 50-feet off the road, causing serious injuries. FOX 29's Alex George has more on a Neshaminy teen who returned home on Sunday for the first time in three weeks following a devastating car crash.Investigators later found opened and unopened alcoholic beverages in Brolly's truck and they smelled alcohol on him, authorities say. ___MORE LOCAL HEADLINESOfficials also say after being tested, results revealed his blood-alcohol content was more than twice the legal limit to drive. After the results were released, he was charged with additional offenses including, aggravated assault and aggravated assault by vehicle while DUI, DUI-general impairment and related charges. AdvertisementAuthorities also say Brolly is not a US citizen and that he has a UK driver's license. 

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the city had 447 home isolation patients on 11 April, the number increased to 504 on 13 April and saw a significant increase to 574 the next day.

review meeting chaired by Chief Minister Basvaraj Bommai.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (R) and Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) speak with reporters after returning from their trip to Kyiv, Ukraine, and meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on April 25, 2022, in Poland near the Ukr American Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Monday after a secrecy-shrouded visit to Kyiv that Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy is committed to winning his country's fight against Russia and that the United States will help him achieve that goal."He has the mindset that they want to win, and we have the mindset that we want to help them win," Austin told reporters in Poland, the day after the three-hour face-to-face meeting with Zelenskyy in Ukraine.Austin said that the nature of the fight in Ukraine had changed now that Russia has pulled away from the wooded northern regions to focus on the eastern industrial heartland of the Donbas. Because the nature of the fight has evolved, so have Ukraine's military needs, and Zelenskyy is now focused on more tanks, artillery and other munitions."The first step in winning is believing that you can win," Austin said.

Two men injured in shooting on Rosalie Street in Crescentville. PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia police say more than 30 shots were fired in a shooting that left two men injured early Monday morning in Crescentville.The first victim, a 27-year-old man, was shot in the stomach and both legs and is currently in critical condition.

Man in critical condition after shooting in Kensington. PHILADELPHIA - A man is in critical condition after being shot multiple times early Monday morning in Kensington.Police say the 25-year-old man was shot in the chest, torso, back and leg on the 3200 block of G Street and Allegheny Avenue. Shooting happened on 3200 block of G Street, according to police.

attempted Red Bull Plane Swap" in Arizona that ended in a crash when one of the two planes involved spun out of control on April 24."One of the two single-engine Cessna 182 aircraft used in the stunt crashed after it spun out of control. The pilot landed safely by parachute.

PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia is starting off the week with some sun, before rain makes its way into the forecast later this week.No rain Monday as highs hit 66 as Phillies begin their 4-day series.Today will be the best day to sit outside and catch the game, with a cold front forecasted for Tuesday.Tuesday has a chance of rain with temperatures expected to rise to the 70s. Download the FOX 29 Weather Authority app for the latest forecast.Temperatures are forecasted to drop the rest of the week with lows in the 30s for Thursday and Friday.However, the last weekend of April is set to be a sunny one, with highs back in the 60s.___MONDAY: Cloudy skies. High: 66TUESDAY: Morning fog with showers.

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covid cases in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said today. With the new infections, the total cases in the country have gone up to 4,30,60,086 including 16,522 active cases. Of the fresh cases recorded, Delhi accounts for 1,083 cases which is 57.37 per cent of the cases recorded in the country.

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Millions of locked-down Shanghai residents entered their fourth week of a nerve-wracking Covid-19 lockdown, while authorities said on this morning that they were looking to shift to a targeted enforcement of rules in smaller zones around confirmed cases.

Twitter Inc TWTR.N kicked off deal negotiations with Elon Musk on Sunday after he wooed many of the social media company’s shareholders with financing details on his $43 billion acquisition offer, people familiar with the matter said.

When three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared from her bed while on holiday with her parents in Praia da Luz, Portugal on May 3, 2007, the world went into a frenzy.

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Covid-19 cases in the country over the last two weeks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be chairing a meeting to assess the situation with Chief Ministers on April 27 via video conferencing.

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Mike Tyson (left, getty images), Melvin Townsend III (right, Florida Dept. of Corrections) CHICAGO - The man Mike Tyson was filmed striking on an airplane has criminal convictions going back to 2008, according to Florida state records.Melvin Townsend III has been convicted of fraud, grand theft, burglary, possession of controlled substances and trafficking in stolen property.The 36-year-old was also incarcerated for 20 months in 2009 and again in 2019 for 15 months.Tyson was filmed striking Townsend on a JetBlue flight from San Francisco to Miami last Thursday.

New York City firefighter and a civilian died Sunday in a Brooklyn house fire where a ceiling partially collapsed, injuring several other firefighters, authorities said.Firefighter Timothy Klein, 31, had been on the job six years and his father and other relatives were also members of the Fire Department of New York, Acting Commissioner Laura Kavanagh said.“I cannot describe the heartbreak of the FDNY today to have lost a member doing what our members do best: putting their lives on the line to save others,” Kavanagh said.A person’s body was recovered from the scene, an FDNY spokesperson said late Sunday. Earlier, the department said a person was unaccounted for after the fire, however a medical examiner will need to confirm the identity of the person found in the building.Eight firefighters were injured in the blaze and another resident sustained minor injuries, the spokesperson said.

COVID-19 virus, suggests a new study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.“We’ve really tended to forget that we’re in a pandemic of a communicable disease, which means that our actions affect those around us,” Dr. David Fisman, the study’s coauthor and professor of epidemiology at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, told Global News.

FALLS TOWNSHIP, Pa. - A fatal accident in Bucks County shuts a road down.Tyburn Road is closed in both directions at Bristol Pike, in Falls Township.At least two cars were involved in the crash in the eastbound lanes, around 8 Sunday night.There were no other details regarding the victims involved in the accident or how many people were in the vehicles.AdvertisementFalls Township police did not specify when the road might open.

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HOUSTON - Authorities are piecing together a deadly shooting in west Houston, where a man was found dead in his car with a 3-year-old boy in the backseat. MORE CRIME AND PUBLIC SAFETY COVERAGEHouston police say they were called to a shooting in the 14300 block of Fern Dr. in Memorial near Energy Corridor, around 8:15 p.m.

CENTER CITY - Caught on camera, a man police say was punched outside a club by the bouncer has died at the hospital and the Philadelphia Homicide Unit is now investigating.The six-minute surveillance video was given to FOX 29. The incident happened outside Tabu Lounge and Sports Bar just before 1 a.m.

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UNIVERSITY CITY - Philadelphia police are investigating a sexual assault and a stabbing just hours apart on two different SEPTA trains.Sunday, about 4:30 in the afternoon, SEPTA confirms a passenger was stabbed at the 34th Street subway station, in University City, prompting the Market-Frankford line to bypass the stop on Drexel University’s campus, alarming students.Police raced the victim to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. Officials say the victim did not suffer life-threatening injuries.MORE HEADLINES:The 34th Street Station was shutdown as police investigated the incident.

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HOUSTON - Jackson White is a standout high school football player and honor roll student while studying Japanese and teaching himself to play six instruments.  "Piano, guitar, ukulele, electric guitar, the bass, and kalimba," he says.Jackson is also autistic."I was a lot slower on my work, so maybe other kids would get to go to recess, and I’d just stay inside and still do my work," he recalls of his early years in elementary school.RELATED: Houston professor helps families with autistic children all over the worldHis challenges started before he was born.

HOUSTON - Loved ones are mourning the loss of a former international rugby player killed in a crash in west Harris County. Pedrie Wannenberg, 41, was most recently a coach at Rice University and so many people were shocked to hear what happened. DETAILS: Pursuit in Harris County ends with 1 dead, 6 injuredThe sports community worldwide honored the rugby legend with his former South African team the Vodacom Bulls holding a moment of silence Saturday after he was killed Friday evening in a car crash just west of Houston. Eugene Eloff, Wannenberg's close friend and coach, spoke to FOX 26 from South Africa, telling us the rugby player and father touched many lives on and off the field. "He would go out of his way, to help other people," he said. "On the field, he would put his body on the line for his team.

SOUTH PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Eagles and a local bank hosted a Business Pitch competition at Lincoln Financial Field Thursday.Five high school teams from the region pitched their business ideas to a panel of judges, including the Birds Avonte Maddox.The pitch competition is a part of what’s called the Entrepreneur’s Game Plan program, that helps students gain skills to develop small businesses.The first place winners developed a paddle ball game."We had a great time with the kids," said Peggy Leimkuhler, Firstrust Bank C.O.O.

NEW YORK - One FDNY firefighter has died and several others were injured battling a three-alarm fire at a home in Canarsie, Brooklyn.At a press conference on Sunday, Mayor Eric Adams and FDNY officials identified Timothy Klein, 31, of Ladder Company 170 as the firefighter who had died in the line of duty."It gives us great pain and sorrow to announce that New York City has lost one of its bravest," Adams said. "Timothy lost his life doing the job that we ask of him every day."Klein was a six-year veteran of the FDNY.A photo of Timothy Klein, the 31-year-old FDNY firefighter killed in a building collapse in Canarsie on April 24.

Canada changes COVID-19 border rules for unvaccinated, partially vaccinated kids  “Every easing of restrictions makes it easier for people to travel, especially for families,” Travel Best Bets President Claire Newell told Global News.“With this round of restrictions…that’s where I really noticed a lot more families excited to start travelling.”Newell says the testing requirements were a hindrance for many families with younger children.“That pre-flight test has been expensive and it’s also been a hassle,” she said. “It (was) an added step and an added cost.”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.That’s something Winnipeg parent Erica Suderman is familiar with.

UNIVERSITY CITY - Philadelphia police are investigating a stabbing of an older man while riding on the Market-Frankford Line, sources tell FOX 29’s Steve Keeley.Police were called to 34th and Market Streets, in Philadelphia’s University City neighborhood, Sunday, just before 5 p.m., on the report of a stabbing on a SEPTA train, according to the sources.Police raced the man to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. There were no details regarding his condition.MORE HEADLINES:The 34th Street Station was shutdown as police investigated the incident.

Britain's Got Talent has produced some of the UK's most iconic acts over the years. From Susan Boyle and Diversity to Ashleigh and Pudsey, there have been some truly memorable contestants. As judges Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon and David Walliams continue their search for the next BGT winner, we thought it would be a good time to check in with another infamous act.

15 April 2020, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart: A mouthguard hangs over a doctor's coat in a family doctor's surgery in a treatment room. (to dpa "How telemedicine proves itself in the Corona crisis") Photo: Marijan Murat/dpa (Photo by Marijan Murat/pi HOUSTON - The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked several conversations on health care, and while the threat seems to be dwindling in parts of the United States, there are some conversations that still need to be had. Back in May 2021, Dr.

Naga Munchetty, 47, has excited her fans as she took to running again after previously injuring herself exercising last year.The BBC Breakfast star shared her accomplishment on Instagram, warning her followers that "injuries do take time to recover from".Naga took to Instagram to share a sweaty selfie earlier today as she returned from her 5km run.She captioned the post in view of her 52,600 followers: "It's been a while since I've been able to run 5k non-stop. Injuries take time to recover from."Patience isn't a virtue of mine.