Commissioner Robert Califf laid out a series of setbacks in congressional testimony that slowed his agency’s response.
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An alleged Islamic State operative was plotting to assassinate former President George W. Bush and traveled to Dallas to survey his home, according to an exclusive Forbes report.
An 18-year-old gunman opened fire Tuesday at a Texas elementary school, killing at least 19 children as he went from classroom to classroom, officials said.
A leading adviser to the WHO described the unprecedented outbreak of monkeypox in the U.S. and other countries as “a random event” that appears to have been caused by sexual activity at two recent raves in Europe.
Four people fell off a Southern California ocean cliff before dawn Monday and a man was killed and two women were critically injured, authorities said.
“Unfortunately, in Europe there have also been disturbing voices in recent times demanding that Ukraine yield to Putin’s demands,” he said. “I want to say clearly: Only Ukraine has the right to decide about its future.”
Denis Pushilin, the pro-Kremlin head of an area of eastern Ukraine controlled by Moscow-backed separatists, claimed that 2,439 people were in custody.
France, Germany, Belgium and Australia confirmed their first cases of monkeypox on Friday.
NATO envoys failed to reach a consensus on Wednesday about whether to start membership talks with Finland and Sweden, diplomats said.
A 13-year-old Utah boy has died a day after a sand dune he was digging in collapsed and buried him at a state park.
Officials described this case as the first lawsuit of its kind in more than three decades.
U.S. regulators on Tuesday authorized a COVID-19 booster shot for healthy 5- to 11-year-olds, hoping an extra vaccine dose will enhance their protection as infections once again creep upward.
The announcement comes as coronavirus cases are rising again in some areas of the country.
The Food and Drug Administration, which has been investigating safety concerns at its Sturgis, Michigan, plant since early this year.
Payton Gendron, 18, was arrested in connection with the shooting at a Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo that left 10 dead and three wounded. Eleven of the victims were Black.
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