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Wendy Williams is back in rehab. The 58-year-old TV presenter has entered a treatment facility to “take some time to focus on her health and wellness” her publicist confirmed on Wednesday. (14.

intensive care doctor on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic says from his perspective, Manitobans may not be hit quite as hard by a fall wave of the virus as they have by other waves.Dr. Anand Kumar told 680 CJOB’s The News that he’s seen things generally improving on the COVID front.“I think we’re definitely getting there,” he said.“We’re still going to see significant surprises now and then — it’s probably not going to be everything rosy down the road, but on the overall angle, things are getting better.” Latest Manitoba numbers reveal COVID-19 severe outcomes up Kumar, who is also an infectious disease specialist, said one of the main problems he foresees with a fall wave will be hospital staff contracting the virus and missing work, thereby adding to the already serious staffing issues facing local hospitals.“Although we may not see the kind of numbers we’ve had in the past with ICU admissions and hospital admissions, we’re still going to see a significant bump,” he said.“Where we’re going to get hit is — given that there are no restrictions in the community — we’ll probably see a lot of health-care workers go down with COVID in terms of having to take time off work, and that will redouble the difficulty in terms of staffing.”According to last week’s provincial data, COVID-related hospitalizations had seen a slight increase, with 70 people taken to hospital, up from 67 the previous week.Of those Manitobans, 16 people were admitted to ICU, up from nine.As far as COVID prevention is concerned, booking appointments became available Monday for those who are eligible for the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine.

GREENWOOD, S.C. - Teachers have to juggle a lot in their jobs, and one South Carolina professor took on an extra duty while teaching his class.Dr. Samuel Reed was in the middle of teaching his math class at Lander University on Sept. 6 when he stepped in to hold a student’s crying baby.Peterra Richburg, a senior at the university and a student in Reed’s class, had to bring her baby to class after she couldn’t find child care, according to a Lander University release."I didn’t have time to let Dr.

Jayana Tanae Webb, 21, appeared to have posted that she was the ‘best drunk driver ever’ weeks before she allegedly struck and killed two Pennsylvania state troopers and a third man while driving under the influence.  PHILADELPHIA - A woman accused of fatally striking two Pennsylvania State Troopers and a pedestrian on I-95 in March posted bail on Wednesday, according to court records. Jayana Webb, 21, was charged with third-degree murder and other offenses following the deadly crash. A Philadelphia judge previously dismissed the third-degree murder charges in June, but they were later reinstated with bail set at 10% of $600,000.Officials say she was under the influence of alcohol and behind the wheel of an SUV when it plowed into Trooper Branden Sisca, 29, Trooper Martin F.

President Joe Biden speaks at the North American International Auto Show on September 14, 2022 in Detroit, Michigan. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images) WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden’s popularity improved substantially from his lowest point this summer, but concerns about his handling of the economy persist, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.Support for Biden recovered from a low of 36% in July to 45%, driven in large part by a rebound in support from Democrats just two months before the November midterm elections.

ST. GEORGE, Maine - Video captured the shocking moment when a 7-foot mako shark jumped into the air and landed on a fishing boat off the coast of Maine. Crew and guests were on a shark fishing expedition with Sea Ventures Charters watching the shark do acrobatics in the air.

FILE - Roger Federer of Switzerland greets the audience during the Centre Court Centenary Celebration during day seven of The Championships Wimbledon 2022 at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 3, 2022, in London, England. (Photo by Shi Roger Federer announced Thursday that he is retiring from professional tennis at age 41 after winning 20 Grand Slam titles.This decision comes just days after the end of the U.S.

Russian energy executive Ivan Pechorin became the country’s latest elite businessman to die under mysterious circumstances after he reportedly fell from a speeding boat on Saturday night.

WASHINGTON - FOX News reports two buses of migrants arrived Thursday morning outside Vice President Kamala Harris’s residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C.Approximately 100 migrants, mainly from Venezuela, arrived just before 7 a.m. from the Del Rio, Texas area and off-loaded near the Naval Observatory’s main guard gate.

LONDON - As thousands of mourners wait for their chance to view the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II at Parliament’s Westminster Hall, the U.K. government has launched a live "queue tracker" to show people just how long the line stretches. The live tracker, which is being livestreamed on YouTube by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, said the queue was approximately 4.2 miles long, as of Thursday afternoon local time.

A car slammed into a West Philadelphia daycare. No injuries were reported.

Three teenagers are being sought in connection to the armed carjacking of an 80-year-old man. PHILADELPHIA - Authorities are searching for three teenagers accused of a broad daylight armed carjacking of an elderly man in West Philadelphia.Investigators say the gunpoint carjacking happened Sept.

PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is planning a gathering Wednesday with supporters by his side to push back against a State House vote holding him in contempt.The two-term Democrat stood with members of Philadelphia City Council Wednesday as they detailed plans to protect abortion rights.  Krasner said he was "thrilled" to be the only man standing with the council members but was far less enthusiastic to talk about the contempt vote.In a lopsided vote, in the Republican controlled State House, the two-term Democratic D.A. was held in contempt for failing to respond to subpoenas from a special committee investigating whether to impeach him. According to the committee, Krasner declined to accept hand-delivered subpoenas and his office is not complying with an electronic copy accepted by his attorneys.When pressured for an answer on the contempt vote by FOX 29's Jeff Cole.

Queen Elizabeth.The four Atlantic provinces, British Columbia and Yukon all declared Monday a holiday for provincial and territorial public-sector employees, including teachers and school staff. Canada announces a holiday to mark Queen Elizabeth’s death.

Walmart’s "Be Your Own Model" feature allows customers to upload their own photos to better see how the clothing will look on them using algorithms and "intricate machine learning models," the company said. (Credit: Provided / Walmart) BENTONVILLE, Ark. - With rising prices on food and gas, customers have been cutting back on discretionary items like clothing.

PHILADELPHIA - Just as fall beer season is beginning, a local brewery says a weed whacking error made by the city will cost them thousands in revenue. Philadelphia Brewing Company, based in Kensington, posted photos on their Instagram page showing their damaged crop of hops in their city garden. The owner says the city erroneously took down over 60 pounds of hops used to make seasonal beers every Fall. "Despite our clear signage and fenced off area, the city of Philadelphia took it upon themselves to completely destroy our hop garden yesterday morning," the brewery wrote.They claim it will cost them tens of thousands in lost revenue.In a statement, a spokesperson for the city blamed "miscommunication and staff error" for the hops being cut down. "The hops were removed as they were initially marked as a violation as it appeared the lot was overgrown," a statement read in part. The city says they have reached out to the brewery to try to rectify the situation.

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. - A Florida Chick-fil-A employee is being hailed a hero after tackling a carjacker outside the restaurant and rescuing a woman and her baby.Deputies say this happened at a location in Fort Walton Beach, Florida on Wednesday.In video by Molly Kelner, the worker can be seen jumping on the suspect and wrestling the man as the woman stands by holding the child. A bystander then shouts: "She had a baby in her hands, how dare you! How dare you scare her like that!"Kelner told Storyful that the suspect was escorted out of the Chick-fil-A "by a manager".

Among the three less talked about symptoms, 2 include skin rashes and the third is loss of appetite. Over the last two years, the coronavirus has rapidly evolved in both its ability to spread and infect people, as well as the symptoms it causes. So much so that anosmia (loss of smell), shortness of breath and fever that were once considered to be ‘classic’ symptoms for COVID are no longer the primary marker for the disease.

FILE - A woman sits at a dining table at home working on a laptop. (Photo by Finn Winkler/picture alliance via Getty Images) WASHINGTON - During the first two years of the pandemic, the number of people working from home in the United States tripled, home values grew and the percentage of people who spent more than a third of their income on rent went up, according to survey results released Thursday by the U.S.

COVID-19 jab, known as the Spikevax bivalent Original/Omicron vaccine, to be given as a booster. Half of the Moderna-made vaccine (25 micrograms) targets the original virus strain from 2020 and the other half (25 micrograms) targets the Omicron variant. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said it was found to "meet the UK regulator's standards of safety, quality and effectiveness".

PHILADELPHIA - When Stephen Nixon recently noticed a "beautiful" spotted lanternfly by his bag as he skateboarded in Brooklyn, he heeded the request of city officials.He stomped on it."I don’t like killing things. Not many people do.

Boxing legend Mike Tyson is said to be spending £34,000 a month on smoking weed, as health concerns surrounding ‘The Baddest Man on The Planet’ continue to grow. Tyson has been no stranger to enjoying marijuana, even opening a cannabis ranch in Southern California. When discussing his love for the drug back in 2019 on his ‘Hotboxin Podcast’ alongside former NFL star Eben Britton, he revealed his exponential weed spending whilst on his ranch.

RELATED: Invasive spotted lanternfly found in Michigan for first timeAn invasive spotted lanternfly sits crushed on a sidewalk on August 6, 2022, in Jersey City, New Jersey. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images) A native of Asia, the spotted lanternfly was first identified in the United States in 2014, northwest of Philadelphia. It's likely that insect eggs came over with a load of landscaping stones.

This photomicrograph of a brain tissue specimen depicts the cytoarchitectural changes associated with a free-living amebic infection, which may have been caused by a Naegleria fowleri (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images). A Nebraska child died this week from an infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba typically found in warm freshwater rivers and lakes.According to the Douglas County Health Department, the child was infected with primary amebic meningoencephalitis, a disease caused by the brain-eating ameba Naegleria Fowleri, after swimming in the Elkhorn River Sunday.The organism is typically found in warmer freshwater sources, though officials warn it’s being identified farther north "as previously cooler regions become warmer and drier."RELATED: Deadly brain-eating amoeba found in Iowa beach as temperatures riseNaegleria Fowleri enters the body through the nose, usually while swimming or diving.

COVID-19 vaccination campaign ahead of a potential new fall wave, it’s unclear whether it will be enough to prompt a pandemic-weary public to roll up their sleeves for another booster.As of Wednesday, only 56 per cent of Quebecers aged five and older had received a third vaccine dose — a number that has hardly budged in months. Government officials have said that the low booster uptake is due to the fact that millions of Quebecers have caught the novel coronavirus and consider themselves adequately protected.Health experts, meanwhile, say pandemic fatigue and government communication have also played a role.Dr.

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden arrived at the White House promising to "build back" America, and legislation he signed Tuesday delivers a slimmer, though not insignificant, version of that once sweeping idea.Approved by the divided Congress, the bill brings the biggest investment ever in the U.S. to fight climate change.

PHILADELPHIA - They look mean, they sound mean, they even have an alarming name, but experts say Cicada Killers aren't as aggressive as they might seem. The massive wasp-like insects are commonly seen buzzing around rural areas during the summer months, causing one man to describe them "like a wasp on steroids." The females look the most daunting with large wings and a thick black body. They're busy this time of year hunting cicadas used to nourish their offspring. John Cambridge from the Philadelphia Insectarium and Butterfly Pavilion explained that the female will stun a cicada with its large stinger and drag the bug underground. MORE LOCAL HEADLINES"The paralyzed cicada will be sitting next to the egg she lays, that wasp will hatch out and the grub will munch on the cicada," Cambridge explained. For some New Jersey residents, the intimidating bag equipped with a serious stinger, has been a common yard partner this summer. "I've seen them four, five times in the past two weeks all over the place," Vincent Amico said.

FURTHER APPROVALS European Medicines Agency (EMA) officials expect COVID variant-adapted vaccines to be approved in the European Union by September, and have signalled the regulator is open to using shots targeting the older BA.1 variant this autumn, given those specifically targeting newer subvariants are further behind in clinical development. In contrast, the U.S.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seal outside the headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020.

FILE - Customers purchase clothes at a supermarket on April 12, 2022 . (Liu Guanguan/China News Service via Getty Images)Relationships are built on trust — and it turns out minor spending secrets, too. Although close relationships require openness, many partners at times choose not to tell the other about their consumer behaviors. Yet this guilt leads to a greater investment in the relationship, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Consumer Psychology.The study noted that "experiencing guilt from keeping a consumer behavior a secret — even one as mundane as secretly eating pizza — will lead individuals to want to do something positive for the relationship."7 SECRETS TO IMPROVE YOUR RELATIONSHIPS IN THE NEW YEARBut not all secrets are created equal, of course.Previous research noted that more serious acts of secrecy — such as having an extramarital affair — can be counterproductive for a relationship. The study was inspired by one of the lead author’s former students, professor Danielle Brick of the University of Connecticut, who’s also a co-author on the study.FILE - U.S.

UK Medicine Regulator, MHRA, approved the Moderna's bivalent vaccine that triggered a strong immune response against both Omicron and the original virus that was detected in 2020 Britain has achieved another milestone in the global battle against Covid-19 as it became the first nation to approve a bivalent vaccine that targets both the original and Omicron variant of the virus. The bivalent vaccine, made by Moderna, has gained approval from the UK medicine regulator- Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency(MHRA) as a booster dose for adults.

LOWER MERION TWP., Pa. - Police in Radnor Township are helping Lower Merion Township Police with a wanted person stuck in a storm drain.Officials say there is no threat to the community. The incident was at Locust Grove Terrace, beneath Conestoga Road in Bryn Mawr late Sunday afternoon, about 5 p.m.The wanted person reportedly became stuck inside a storm drain.

LOS ANGELES - Anne Heche, 53, was among the most prominent film stars in Hollywood in the late 1990s, playing opposite actors including Johnny Depp ("Donnie Brasco") and Harrison Ford ("Six Days, Seven Nights").She recently had recurring roles on the network TV series "Chicago P.D." and "All Rise," and in 2020 was a contestant on "Dancing With the Stars" before she was in a car crash earlier this month and declared brain dead. Her representatives told FOX 11 Los Angeles that she is being kept on life support for organ donation purposes. A native of Ohio, Heche first became prominent on the NBC soap opera "Another World" from 1987 to 1991.

SUN VALLEY, CA - FEBRUARY 17: A man boards a bus on a flooded street as a powerful storm moves across Southern California on February 17, 2017 near Sun Valley, California. After years of severe drought, heavy winter rains have come to the state, and LOS ANGELES - Climate change has doubled the potential for a "catastrophic" flooding event in California, and further warming could increase that chance even more, according to a new study from researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles.

MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) - Salman Rushdie remained hospitalized Saturday after suffering serious injuries in a stabbing attack, which was met with shock and outrage from much of the world, along with tributes and praise for the award-winning author who for more than 30 years has faced death threats for his novel "The Satanic Verses."Rushdie, 75, suffered a damaged liver, severed nerves in an arm and an eye, and was on a ventilator and unable to speak, his agent Andrew Wylie said Friday evening.

U.S. Department of Justice in the wake of its multiple problems related to clergy sex abuse.The SBC's Executive Committee has received a subpoena, but no individuals have been subpoenaed at this point, according to the committee's lawyers."This is an ongoing investigation and we are not commenting on our discussions with DOJ," they said.The statement from SBC leaders — including Executive Committee members, seminary presidents and heads of mission organizations — gave few details about the investigation, but indicated it dealt with widespread sexual abuse problems that have rocked the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S."Individually and collectively each SBC entity is resolved to fully and completely cooperate with the investigation," the statement said.

Lee Ryan has apologised to fans and his bandmates after being ‘arrested for disruptive behaviour’ while on a recent flight. The Blue singer, 39, had been photographed being arrested at London City Airport at the end of July after becoming disruptive on a flight from Glasgow when he wasn’t served alcohol. He took to Twitter on Friday to apologise for the incident, writing: ‘A note from Lee. Over the last few days, I have had a lot of time to think about my behaviour and how it affects people around me.‘As it has been well documented, I have always had my struggles with alcohol and often say or do silly things as a result of that, which in turn has caused problems for myself and those around me.

CAMDEN - Officials say a powerful odor that wafted over parts of southern New Jersey from a tractor-trailer gas leak has "significantly dissipated" and the dayslong event is contained. Authorities, including hazmat teams, responded to a truck stop on Route 295 in Gloucester County Wednesday afternoon for reports of a suspicious odor emanating from a tractor-trailer.Officials said a TransChem USA trailer was hauling 7,000 gallons of Lubrizol, a chemical additive to natural gas that contains Mercaptain. Mercaptain, officials said, caused the "nuisance odor."The foul smell traveled into surrounding counties and prompted officials to advise residents to stay inside while air quality tests were conducted. RELATED COVERAGE: Gas odor in Gloucester County identified as Lubrizol leak from tanker truckCamden County said it fielded over 4,000 calls over the last 72 hours. Air quality tests conducted by local Haz-Mat teams and the Department of Environmental Protection and U.S.

A pair of studies published today detail long COVID, with US researchers finding that more than one in four pediatric patients hospitalized for COVID-19 or multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) had persistent symptoms or impaired activity 2 to 4 months later, and a Norwegian study revealing that nearly half of patients with mild COVID-19 still had symptoms after 1 year.