By Matt Egan, The Omicron coronavirus variant will cause a “winter wave” that will complicate the return of workers to offices in the United States, according to Andy Slavitt, a former senior pandemic adviser to President Joe Biden. “The beginning of 2022 will be rough,” Slavitt told CNN in a phone interview. Scientists are still
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By Rob Frehse New York City will get its first female police commissioner to lead the nation’s largest police department, after Mayor-elect Eric Adams picked Nassau County Chief of Detectives Keechant Sewell. “Keechant Sewell is a proven crime fighter with the experience and emotional intelligence to deliver both the safety New Yorkers need and the justice they
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By Judson Jones, As people continue picking up the pieces from this weekend’s deadly tornado outbreak, a new storm system is intensifying. This one is out West. An atmospheric river — a plume of moisture, similar to a river, that streams in off the Pacific Ocean and brings extreme rains — is unleashing flooding rainfall of
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By Faith Karimi and Deidre McPhillips, On December 14, 2020, nurse Sandra Lindsay rolled up her left sleeve at a New York City hospital and became one of the first people in the US to get vaccinated against Covid-19. The vaccine was from Pfizer/BioNTech, and it had been authorized for emergency use only three days earlier by the FDA
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By Fredreka Schouten, President Joe Biden kicked off the inaugural White House “Summit for Democracy” on Thursday by sounding alarms about challenges to democracy around the globe as authoritarian governments gain ground. But advocates say much more work is needed at home to shore up America’s democracy, nearly a year after a violent attack on the US
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by Andrew Skerritt A Florida A&M University (FAMU) professor has received an Air Force Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) Award. The award to Jamel Ali, Ph.D., marks the first YIP award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) to a Historically Black College and University (HBCU), the agency announced. An assistant professor of
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By Steve Almasy, With winter almost upon us and people spending more time indoors, Covid-19 cases have been rising. Sports groups and their players have not been spared — and Monday saw several announcements connected to the protocols each league has set up for competitors and staff members. Here’s a look at the Covid news from the
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By the Howard University Newsroom 96.3 WHUR is marking 50 years of excellence in broadcasting and community service Friday, December 10th at 10:30 a.m. with a special mural unveiling outside Ben’s Chili Bowl at 1213 U Street, NW. The radio station first hit the airwaves December 10, 1971 at 6pm. Five decades later, WHUR is highlighting its
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Analysis by Brian Lowry, If an awards show happened and nobody could watch it, would it make a sound? The Golden Globes appear determined to find out. After a scandal-plagued year that forced the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to announce an overhaul of its membership ranks and prompted NBC to drop the annual telecast, the
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By Jackson State University, Elayne H. Anthony, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Jackson State University (JSU), is the newly appointed incoming president of the Mississippi Association of Broadcasters. Anthony, the first journalism educator in the state to hold the position, will begin her term in 2023. “I am so proud to represent
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