Ingested Articles

The Seattle Sounders say their entire first team roster and team support staff have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Also, the team will begin offering vaccinations to eligible fans at home games beginning this Sunday against the LA Galaxy. The Sounders say all eligible players and staff for the Tacoma Defiance, the club’s USL franchise, are also fully vaccinated. The team said it will partner with Virginia Mason Franciscan Health and the city of Seattle to offer either the one-shot Johnson & Johnson or two-shot Moderna vaccines to fans starting with this Sunday’s game.

BANGKOK (AP) — Rockets were fired at two Myanmar government air bases on Thursday, causing minor damage and no injuries, the military junta said. The attacks are the latest sign that as the junta attempts to control widespread protests in…

NEW YORK (AP) — An estimated 26.9 million people watched President Joe Biden's first address to Congress across 16 television networks, the smallest audience for the yearly presidential speech since at least 1993. The previous low was the 31.3 million…

Officials say an underground nuclear waste storage tank in Washington state that dates to World War II appears to be leaking contaminated liquid into the ground. The U.S. Department of Energy said Thursday that Tank B-109 holds 123,000 gallons of radioactive waste left from the production of plutonium for nuclear weapons on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The giant tank was constructed during the Manhattan Project and received waste from Hanford operations from 1946 to 1976. The Washington state Department of Ecology and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency were notified. The Energy Department says the small leak produces no increased health or safety risk to the Hanford workforce or the public.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says the main factions have agreed to delay the first elections planned in 15 years, citing a dispute with Israel over voting in east Jerusalem. The decision adopted early Friday likely spares Abbas’ fractured Fatah party from suffering another embarrassing defeat to the Islamic militant group Hamas. It will also be quietly welcomed by Israel and Western countries, which view Hamas as a terrorist group and are concerned about its growing strength. But it leaves a political leadership in place that has failed to advance Palestinian hopes for statehood and is seen as increasingly corrupt and authoritarian.

Los Angeles police say the woman who returned Lady Gaga’s stolen French bulldogs was among five people arrested in connection with the theft and shooting of the music superstar’s dog walker. Detectives do not believe that the thieves knew the dogs belonged to the pop star. Investigators believe the motive for the Feb. 24 robbery was the value of the French bulldogs. Los Angeles police announced the arrests on Thursday. The dog walker, Ryan Fischer, is recovering from a gunshot wound he sustained during the attack. Lady Gaga did not immediately address the arrests on her social media accounts and her representatives did not respond to a request for comment.

Chicago's scramble to create a police foot pursuit policy following the recent fatal shootings of two people by officers has raised questions about why one wasn't already in place. Mayor Lori Lightfoot expressed the need for such a policy before she was elected, yet critics say the police department hasn't enacted one because it is dragging its feet. A former Justice Department attorney who has worked with the city on police policies says law enforcement agencies often don't make changes until tragic events happen like the recent fatal shootings. But the department says that even before those shootings, it was on pace to create a policy this year. 

Like its bigger tech peers, Twitter posted stronger-than-expected results for the first quarter on Thursday. But its lukewarm outlook sent shares tumbling after hours. The San Francisco-based company earned $68 million, or 8 cents per share, in the January-March period.…

NASA's Mars helicopter fizzled on its fourth flight attempt after three successes. The 4-pound helicopter named Ingenuity was supposed to lift off Thursday on its longest, fastest flight yet. But the chopper remained on the ground. Flight controllers in California will attempt a redo on Friday. Ingenuity's took flight for the first time at Mars on April 19, after controllers fixed a software error. Managers said the solution would work 85% of the time. After three successful flights, Thursday's attempt was not one of them. NASA is hoping for better luck Friday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other top Biden administration national security aides met Thursday with the chief of Israel’s Mossad spy agency for talks that focused primarily on Iran, according to officials familiar with the meeting.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden laid out a long list of policy priorities in his speech to Congress — and some are more politically plausible than others. The two parties are working together in some areas, including on changes…

Seven college students in Ohio and another man were indicted in the alcohol-related death of a 20-year-old found unconscious after a fraternity party. Six of those indicted Thursday are charged with involuntary manslaughter. They range in age from 19 to 23. Twenty-year-old Bowling Green State University sophomore Stone Foltz was found by roommates and taken to a hospital in early March. He died three days later. An investigation found that fraternity members had forced pledges to each drink an entire bottle of alcohol during an off-campus event. The other charges against some of the eight include reckless homicide, felonious assault, hazing and violating underage alcohol laws.

U.S. prosecutors say that German software giant SAP will have to pay more than $8 million in penalties in acknowledging allegations that it illegally exported its products to Iran. The U.S. said the company would have faced stiffer penalties had it not voluntarily disclosed the activities that violated American sanctions against Iran. The company agreed to the penalties as part of an agreement with the U.S. departments of Justice, Commerce and Treasury. SAP said it welcomed the resolution in a statement. It has also made changes to its export control practices.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has voted to temporarily extend a sweeping tool that has helped federal agents crack down on drugs chemically similar to fentanyl. The Senate on Thursday approved legislation extending until October an order that allows the federal…