The number of new COVID-19 cases per week has nearly doubled globally over the past two months, approaching the highest rate seen so far during the pandemic, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday.
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One of Sweden's most populous regions has asked residents to enter a "personal lockdown" in order to curb soaring COVID-19 cases, Euronews reported Wednesday.Why it matters: Sweden's more relaxed approach to the pandemic prompted libertarians and conservatives, including Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), to argue the U.S. should've adopted a similar strategy. But the country this week reported the highest infection rate in the European Union.Get market news worthy of your time with Axios Markets. Subscribe for free.By the numbers: Sweden reported a seven-day average of 625 new infections per million people, statistics published Tuesday by the scientific online publication OurWorldInData show.What's happening: Mikael Köhler, health chief of the Swedish region of Uppsala, told Euronews regional health officials were asking each resident "to act like they are in a personal lockdown.""If they have to meet other people ... everyone has to suspect that everyone they are meeting could be infected," he added.The big picture: Patient numbers in Sweden's intensive care units have surged "past the peak of the second wave around the turn of the year," Reuters reports.Sweden's chief epidemiologist Anders Tegnell said Tuesday there were "no signs of a decrease" in the spread officials were seeing, per Reuters.While the country has never imposed a strict lockdown like other nations, it has introduced measures including international travel restrictions and limits on public gatherings to eight and restaurant tables to four.For the record: Uppsala is one of 13 of the 21 regions in Sweden to have implemented stricter pandemic measures this spring, according to The Local."While this is a noticeably sharper tone, the actual recommendations in place in Uppsala remain the same, The Local notes. This guidance includes staying 2 meters (6.5 feet) from others, wearing a face mask if you need to use public transport, don't meet up with people you don't live with and work from home "if you can," per The Local.Flashback: Coronavirus helps drive Sweden death tally to highest in 151 yearsMore from Axios: Sign up to get the latest market trends with Axios Markets. Subscribe for free
Iris Rogers was trying to find the original deed to the family farm which her great-grandfather had stored in a milk jug
The family of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was shot and killed by Cleveland police in 2014, asked the Justice Department on Friday to reopen the case into his death after it was closed in the waning weeks of the Trump administration.
The Coast Guard continues to search for survivors after a boat with 19 people aboard capsized off the Louisiana coast on Tuesday afternoon. 6 have been rescued.
With the arrival of 2021 have come the premieres of many new and returning broadcast TV shows that normally would have been part of networks’ fall slates if it weren’t for the pandemic. And the fact that we’re now a few months into the new year means we’re seeing more and more announcements about which series will be renewed, canceled and ordered for the 2021-2022 broadcast season. But with production delays due to the coronavirus pandemic, broadcasters are faced with some unprecedented problems while making these annual decisions over the coming months. Below is every scripted show that ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox and The CW have renewed or canceled so far for the 2021-2022 broadcast TV season, along with those still awaiting their fates. Also Read: Spring TV 2021: All the Premiere Dates for New and Returning Shows - So Far (Photos) Check back with TheWrap regularly for updates. NBCRenewed Series: “The Blacklist,” “Chicago Fire,” “Chicago Med,” “Chicago P.D.” (entire “Chicago” franchise renewed for two more seasons each), “Law & Order: SVU” (renewed through Season 24), “Mr. Mayor,” “New Amsterdam” (renewed through Season 5), “This Is Us,” “Transplant” Canceled/Ending Series: “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “Connecting,” “Superstore” Series Awaiting Decisions: “Debris,” “Good Girls,” “Kenan,” “Law & Order: Organized Crime,” “Manifest,” “Young Rock,” “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” Series That Haven’t Premiered Yet: N/A Newly Ordered Series: “American Auto,” “Grand Crew,” “La Brea,” “Ordinary Joe” Also Read: Fox Sets Summer Premiere Dates for Animated Comedy 'Housebroken,' 'Lego Masters' and More ABCRenewed Series: N/A Canceled/Ending Series: “Stumptown,” “United We Fall” Series Awaiting Decisions: “A Million Little Things,” “American Housewife,” “Big Sky,” “black-ish,” “Call Your Mother,” “The Conners,” “For Life,” “The Goldbergs,” “The Good Doctor,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Home Economics,” “mixed-ish,” “Rebel” “The Rookie,” “Station 19” Series That Haven’t Premiered Yet: N/A Newly Ordered Series: “Women of the Movement,” Untitled Alec Baldwin-Kelsey Grammer Comedy Also Read: Here Are the Premiere Dates for Broadcast TV's New and Returning Spring Shows (Updating) FoxRenewed Series: “Bob’s Burgers,” “Duncanville,” “Family Guy,” “The Great North,” “The Simpsons” (for Seasons 33 and 34) Canceled/Ending Series: “Bless the Harts,” “Filthy Rich,” “Last Man Standing,” “Next” Series Awaiting Decisions: “9-1-1,” “9-1-1: Lone Star,” “Call Me Kat,” “The Moodys,” “Prodigal Son,” “The Resident” Series That Haven’t Premiered Yet: “Housebroken” Newly Ordered Series: “Fantasy Island,” “Our Kind of People,” “This Country” CBSRenewed Series: “Blue Bloods,” “Bob Hearts Abishola,” “Bull,” “The Equalizer,” “FBI,” “FBI: Most Wanted,” “Magnum P.I.,” “NCIS,” “The Neighborhood,” “S.W.A.T.,” “Young Sheldon” (renewed for Seasons 5, 6 and 7) Canceled/Ending Series: “MacGyver,” “Mom,” “NCIS: New Orleans” Series Awaiting Decisions: “All Rise,” “B Positive,” “Blood & Treasure,” “Clarice,” “Evil,” “NCIS: Los Angeles,” “SEAL Team,” “The Unicorn,” “United States of Al” Series That Haven’t Premiered Yet: N/A Newly Ordered Series: “CSI: Vegas,” “FBI International,” “Ghosts” The CWRenewed Series: “All American,” “Batwoman,” “Charmed,” “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow,” “Dynasty,” “The Flash,” “In the Dark,” “Legacies,” “Nancy Drew,” “Riverdale,” “Roswell, New Mexico,” “Superman & Lois,” “Walker” Canceled/Ending Series: “Black Lightning,” “Burden of Truth,” “Supergirl” Series Awaiting Decisions: “Bulletproof,” “Coroner,” “DC’s Stargirl,” “Dead Pixels,” “Devils,” “Kung Fu,” “The Outpost,” “Pandora,” “Trickster,” “Two Sentence Horror Stories” Series That Haven’t Premiered Yet: “Republic of Sarah” Newly Ordered Series: N/A Read original story 2021-22 TV Season: Every Broadcast Show Canceled, Renewed and Ordered – So Far (Updating) At TheWrap
New ‘approach’ comes as intensive care at fullest since pandemic began
A series of blinking, pyramid-shaped "unidentified aerial phenomena" were filmed by a Navy pilot over a U.S. destroyer off the coast of San Diego.
Helen McCrory, a British actress known for her work in “Peaky Blinders” and in the “Harry Potter” films, has died. She was 52. McCrory’s husband, “Billions” actor Damian Lewis, announced the news in a tweet Friday, saying she died peacefully after a “heroic battle” with cancer. “She died as she lived. Fearlessly. God we love her and know how lucky we are to have had her in our lives,” Lewis wrote. “She blazed so brightly. Go now, Little One, into the air, and thank you.” Also Read: Robert Fletcher, 'Star Trek' Film Costume Designer, Dies at 98 McCrory played Aunt Polly Gray in “Peaky Blinders” between 2013-2019, and she also starred as Narcissa Malfoy, Draco Malfoy’s mother, in the “Harry Potter” franchise, appearing in three films in the series. Some of her other credits include “The Queen,” “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” “Hugo,” “Skyfall” and on TV the series “Fearless,” “Quiz,” “Roadkill” and most recently “His Dark Materials.” Helen McCrory got her start in theater, winning a prize for playing the lead in the 1993 production “Trelawny of the ‘Wells'” at the Royal National Theatre in London. Some of her other theatrical roles included a part as Rosalind in a production of “As You Like It,” “Medea” and Isben’s “Rosmersholm.” Around the time she started her acting career, she also landed a bit part in “Interview With a Vampire” and would appear in films such as “The Count of Monte Cristo,” “Casanova” and “The Queen.” In “The Queen” she portrayed Cherie Blair, and she would later reprise that part for Peter Morgan’s follow-up “The Special Relationship.” Also Read: Adam Perkins, 'Welcome to Chili's' Vine Creator, Dies at 24 Though she would eventually play Narcissa Malfoy, McCrory was originally cast as Bellatrix Lestrange in “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” a part that eventually went to Helena Bonham Carter, but she was forced to drop out of the film due to her pregnancy and would eventually join the franchise for the sixth film “The Half-Blood Prince.” McCrory won a Wales BAFTA Award for her work in the 1995 film “Streetlife,” and she’s been nominated for a Critics Choice TV Award for “Penny Dreadful,” a London Critics Circle Award for “The Queen” and the National Film Awards, UK for “Peaky Blinders.” McCrory married Lewis in 2007 and had two children, a daughter and a son. pic.twitter.com/gSx8ib9PY9 — Damian Lewis (@lewis_damian) April 16, 2021 Read original story Helen McCrory, ‘Peaky Blinders’ and ‘Harry Potter’ Actress, Dies at 52 At TheWrap
Just 47 percent of Americans say they are members of a church, synagogue, mosque or other house of worship — the lowest rate in more than 80 years.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Beating the earth with his fists, a young man wails as the body of his father, who died after contracting COVID-19, is taken from an ambulance and lowered into a hastily-dug grave in India's capital New Delhi. The city's main Muslim graveyard for victims of COVID-19 is running out of space, according to authorities, as cases in Delhi and across the country run out of control following the relaxation of almost all curbs on movement last year. India, a country of almost 1.4 billion people, has reported more than 200,000 new daily cases for the last two days, the highest in the world, with Delhi overtaking Mumbai as the country's worst-hit city.
Iran, Russia, China, France, Germany and Britain. A delegation from the United States, which pulled out of the accord under President Donald Trump, is based in a nearby hotel as Iran has refused to hold direct talks. Talks will continue "for a few days and then I think the two most relevant delegations will go back home to receive more precise instructions and then, I don't know when, we will resume," the EU official told reporters in a phone briefing.
Facebook's self-styled and handpicked 'Oversight Board' will make a decision on whether or not to overturn an indefinite suspension of the account of former president Donald Trump within "weeks", it said in a brief update statement on the matter today. The high profile case appears to have attracted major public interest, with the FOB tweeting that it's received more than 9,000 responses so far to its earlier request for public feedback. It added that its commitment to "carefully reviewing all comments" after an earlier extension of the deadline for feedback is responsible for the extension of the case timeline.
Legal and hospitality jobs saw some of the biggest increases, ONS data said.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT CONTAINS PROFANITYThe queen, her eldest son and heir Prince Charles and other senior royals will pay their last respects to Philip on Saturday (April 17) at a ceremonial funeral at Windsor Castle.Millions are expected to watch the funeral on television.In the East End, though, there was a clear generational divide: elderly residents expressed adoration for the royals, while younger residents said they felt little connection to most of the family.Elderly residents were clear about their respect for the monarchy.Philip's dedication to his duty earned him widespread popularity in Britain, but he was also criticized by some, especially the younger generation, for a number of off-the-cuff racist or abrupt comments which shocked princes, priests, and presidents.
Afrobeats is sweeping the U.S., but so far the wave has been dominated by men. Yet one woman stands out in the genre: Tiwa Savage. She blends a mix of English and Yoruba, her native tongue, to stick up a major middle finger to the patriarchy. And she does it all without a trace of foundation on her face.
LONDON (Reuters) -English diners rushed back to restaurants this week and online job adverts have returned to pre-pandemic levels as Britain's economy starts to reopen following the coronavirus pandemic, according to new figures on Thursday. The slew of economic indicators published by the Office for National Statistics and the Bank of England also showed that British banks are preparing to increase mortgage lending to households by the most since before the 2008 financial crisis. Non-essential shops reopened in England for the first time since January on Monday, and restaurants and pubs were allowed to serve customers outside.
The White House says President Joe Biden has been briefed on the deadly overnight shooting at a Fedex facility in Indianapolis. (April 16)
Leonard Parker, a father of six and Army veteran, was shot and killed by Gulfport police in February 2020.
DOJ/Criminal ComplaintA heavy metal guitarist and self-described “lifetime member” of the Oath Keepers has become the first Jan. 6 insurrectionist to plead guilty and cooperate with the feds, prosecutors revealed Friday.Jon Ryan Schaffer, a 53-year-old from Indiana, pleaded guilty to obstruction of an official proceeding and entering a restricted building with a deadly or dangerous weapon during a Friday hearing. During the hearing, Judge Amit Mehta also revealed that Schaffer will be sponsored for witness protection. The plea, which requires his full cooperation with federal prosecutors in their ongoing investigation, marks the first time a rioter has copped to his crimes on Jan. 6. It’s been exactly 100 days since thousands of MAGA rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol to prevent Joe Biden's electoral certification. So far, 400 individuals have been charged in connection to the riots. Schaffer was released after the Friday hearing until his sentencing, though he must now submit to court supervision in the Northern District of Indiana, surrender his passport, and stay away from Washington, D.C. His release came after his attorney argued for no travel restrictions, claiming Schaffer is an “internationally known musician and recording artist.”Plea negotiations between Schaffer’s lawyers and federal prosecutors were unintentionally disclosed earlier this month after sealed Department of Justice documents were accidentally filed on the public docket. “The government’s ongoing plea negotiations with this defendant are the first and most advanced plea negotiations involving any of the over 300 Capitol Riot defendants,” federal prosecutors wrote in the April 5 filing. By pleading guilty on Friday, Schaffer will likely face a four-year prison sentence. The guitarist and lead singer for the heavy metal band Iced Earth was initially charged in January with six crimes for participating in the Jan. 6 siege while wearing a hat that proclaimed him to be an “Oath Keepers Lifetime Member.” Anti-Vaxxer Hubby and Wife Charged After Boasting Online About Capitol RiotDuring the siege, Schaffer allegedly sprayed multiple U.S. Capitol police officers with bear spray as they breached the government building. A criminal complaint also states Schaffer verbally assaulted officers inside the building. Long before his decision to storm the Capitol alongside his paramilitary members, prosecutors state Schaffer held far-right extremist views. “During an interview in 2017, Schaffer identified himself as an ‘anarchist’ and referred to the federal government as a ‘criminal enterprise.’ During that same interview, Schaffer stated that the 2016 Presidential election was ‘rigged,’” the complaint states. After the election, Schaffer attended several Trump rallies protesting the election results, including one March event where he told reports, “If somebody wants to bring violence, I think there’s a lot of us here that are ready for it. We don’t want that, but if they bring it we’re going to respond to that, trust me.”So far, prosecutors have charged over a dozen Oath Keepers with conspiracy, including Jessica Watkins, a 38-year-old former Army vet accused of recruiting members to “fight hand to hand” to take over the Capitol. Prosecutors describe the Oath Keepers as “an organization that characterizes itself as a militia of former law enforcement and military personnel and has often, as a group, urged President Trump to declare Martial Law in order to prevent Congress from certifying the Electoral College Results.” Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
Britain's Helen McCrory, known for her roles in Harry Potter movies, the James Bond film "Skyfall" and the "Peaky Blinders" television series, has died at the age of 52 after a "heroic battle" with cancer, her husband Damian Lewis said on Friday. McCrory, who also played the former wife of Tony Blair, Cherie, in the film "The Queen" and won a string of acting awards for her work on the stage and on television, had two children with the "Homeland" actor whom she married in 2007. "I'm heartbroken to announce that after an heroic battle with cancer, the beautiful and mighty woman that is Helen McCrory has died peacefully at home, surrounded by a wave of love from friends and family," he said.
