One woman was killed and a man was wounded Thursday in an accidental shooting on the set of “Rust,” a film starring Alec Baldwin. According to authorities, Baldwin, 63, discharged the gun on the movie set in New Mexico.
The advisory committee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday voted unanimously to recommend booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines made by Moderna, Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer, and also gave the green light to mixing and matching booster doses of the three authorized vaccines.
Tropical Storm Mindy formed in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday and quickly made landfall on the Florida Panhandle, the National Hurricane Center said. It was downgraded to a tropical depression early Thursday.
No ticket matched all six numbers to win an estimated $475 million jackpot in Tuesday’s Mega Millions drawing, according to the lottery’s website. The next drawing is at 11 p.m. EDT Friday for an estimated $515 million jackpot.
In one of his final acts as president, Donald Trump issued pardons Tuesday night that included Stephen Bannon, his former campaign adviser.
Lisa Montgomery became the first woman executed by the federal government since 1953 on Wednesday when she was put to death by lethal injection.