Category Archives: (1470 & 100.3 WMBD) Breaking News
Fully vaccinated people can unmask outdoors in some cases: U.S. CDC
(Reuters) – Fully vaccinated people can safely engage in outdoor activities like walking and hiking without wearing masks but should continue to use face-coverings in public spaces where they ar...
Apr 27, 2021
U.S. to resume use of J&J COVID-19 vaccine immediately
***UPDATE*** 4/23/21 7 P.M. (Reuters) -The United States can resume use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine immediately, top health regulators said on Friday, ending a 10-day pause to in...
Apr 23, 2021
U.S. House passes bill to make Washington, D.C., the 51st state
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday narrowly voted, for the second time in less than a year, to make the District of Columbia the 51st state, sending it to the S...
Apr 22, 2021
U.S. launches probe of Minneapolis police after George Floyd murder-reports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday launched a sweeping investigation into policing practices in Minneapolis following a jury’s verdict that former ci...
Apr 21, 2021
Minneapolis ex-policeman Chauvin convicted of murder in Floyd case
***UPDATED*** 4/20/21 3:30 P.M. MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) -Former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin was convicted on Tuesday of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter in the deadly a...
Apr 20, 2021
Former U.S. vice president Walter Mondale dies at 93: media
Walter Mondale, a leading liberal Democratic voice of the late 20th century who was U.S. vice president under Jimmy Carter and lost in a historic landslide to Ronald Reagan in the 1984 presidential el...
Apr 19, 2021
Former Texas detective suspected in shooting apprehended, police say
(Reuters) – Texas authorities on Monday apprehended a former sheriff’s detective suspected of fatally shooting three people at an apartment complex in Austin a day earlier, police said. St...
Apr 19, 2021
Derek Chauvin waives right to testify at murder trial for George Floyd arrest
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) -Former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin on Thursday waived his right to testify to the jury at his murder trial for the deadly arrest last May of George Floyd. “I will ...
Apr 15, 2021
U.S. imposes wide array of sanctions on Russia for ‘malign’ actions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday imposed a broad array of sanctions on Russia to punish it for election interference, cyber-hacking, bullying Ukraine and other “malign&...
Apr 15, 2021
Biden announces end of U.S. troop deployment to Afghanistan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden declared on Wednesday he plans to end the longest U.S. war and that it is “time for American troops to come home” from Afghanistan, as he looks to...
Apr 14, 2021
