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A 14-year-old girl has been charged with killing her grandmother in suburban Detroit, authorities said Saturday. The girl, who was not named because she is a juvenile, faces allegations of first-degree and second-degree murder, the office of the Wayne County Prosecutor said in a statement. Prosecutors allege she fatally stabbed …

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Saturday called for an independent review of allegations by a former aide that he sexually harassed her on the job. He denied the accusations, and said all of his staff would cooperate with the review, to be conducted by a retired federal judge that …

Two teenage girls were injured, one fatally, in separate sledding accidents on the same Ohio hill, both families said Saturday. Natalie Wilson, 17, has been hospitalized since Sunday night after she crashed at Hinckley Reservation in Medina County, her father, Jim Wilson, said. She was left partially paralyzed after suffering …

Three officers in Wichita, Kansas, were injured in a possible explosion Saturday at a vacant house they were dispatched to check out, authorities said. One officer suffered serious injuries and was stable at a hospital, the Wichita Police Department tweeted. The other two sustained minor injuries and were also hospitalized, …

The Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization to Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine on Saturday, adding a third vaccine to the U.S. arsenal to fight the pandemic. “The authorization of this vaccine expands the availability of vaccines, the best medical prevention method for COVID-19, to help us in …

Retired firefighter Dennis A. Farrell died Tuesday after battling a 9/11-related illness, the New York City Fire Department announced on Friday. “We lost another FDNY brother to 9/11 illness,” the Ray Pfeifer Foundation, a nonprofit helping firefighters and police officers who responded to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the …

Media personality Rachel Lindsay, who was “The Bachelor” franchise’s first-ever Black lead in 2017, has deleted her Instagram account due to harassment and hate she has received from fans of the show. The online harassment follows Lindsay’s “Extra” interview with “The Bachelor” host Chris Harrison, during which he defended current …

The NBA’s G League is investigating after Jeremy Lin, one of the best known Asian American basketball players, said that he had been called “coronavirus” on the court. Lin opened up about the racist act in a social media post Thursday, a few days after doing a candid interview with …

A Sacramento plastic surgeon showed up to his Zoom traffic court trial while in the middle of operating on a patient. The incident is the latest mundane court proceeding to take an interesting turn in the age coronavirus, videoconferencing and remote work. Just weeks after a viral video of a …