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Infants and children 6 months through age 4 who received the three-dose primary series of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are now eligible for a fourth dose — Pfizer’s bivalent booster shot. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday amended the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of Pfizer bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccine for the younger age group, but only for those children who received the three-dose series before the FDA authorized Pfizer’s bivalent Omicron booster as the third shot in the primary series. Under the amended authorization, children can receive their fourth shot two months after completing the three-dose primary...

March for Our Lives, Vote for Our Lives Good news! According to a Denver Post article by Danika Worthington, “Young people across the nation have amplified calls to end gun violence ...” Of course this exalted movement has sprouted since the rotten kid in Florida took 17 lives in the gun-powered tantrum he threw at Broward County’s Parkland High School. She goes on to say that “Teens and twenty-somethings” have created yet another anti-gun group. This one is called, “Vote for Our Lives”. It’s a Colorado-based ‘sister organization’ to the “March for Our Lives” that has purportedly staged more than...

Falling televisions sent nearly 200,000 U.S. children to the emergency room over 20 years and the injury rate has climbed substantially for these sometimes deadly accidents, a study found. Doctors and safety experts say better awareness is needed about the dangers—especially the risks of putting heavier, older model TV sets on top of dressers and other furniture young children may try to climb on. Most injuries are in kids under 5; head and neck injuries including concussions are the most common. “This is a problem that is increasing at an alarming rate,” said lead author Dr. Gary Smith, a pediatric...

A recent flap in a Berkeley high school reveals what a farce “fairness” can be. Because this is ultra-liberal Berkeley, perhaps we should not be surprised that a proposal has been made to eliminate four jobs as science teachers and use the money saved for programs to help low achievers. In Berkeley, as in many other communities across the country, black and Latino students are not performing as well as Asian and white students. In fact, the racial gap in academic achievement at Berkeley High School is the highest in California — no doubt a special source of embarrassment in...

CHICAGO -- Young Americans showed their collective power when they helped vote President Obama into office. Inspired by his message of "change," they knocked on doors, spread flyers, voted for him by a 2-1 margin, and partied like rock-the-vote stars when he won. Since the election, though, that fervor has died down _ noticeably. And while young people remain the president's most loyal supporters in opinion polls, a lot of people are wondering why that age group isn't doing more to build upon their newfound reputation as political influencers. "It's one thing to get excited about a presidential candidate. It's...

Three small-town eighth-graders were suspended for not standing at the start of the school day Thursday for the Pledge of Allegiance. "My son wasn't being defiant against America," said Kim Dahl, mother of one of the students, Brandt, who attends Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Junior High School in western Minnesota. Brandt told the Fargo Forum that Thursday's one-day in-school suspension, "was kind of dumb because I didn't do anything wrong. It should be the people's choice." Kim Dahl said the "punishment didn't fit the crime. If they wanted to know why he didn't stand, they should've made him write a paper." She said...

A new state law now requires teens to have a provisional license for a year before anyone under 20-years old can hop in their car. Teenagers have found their way around this rule, like they have other laws. Hiding in the trunk of cars, or what some teens have called 'trunking'. So now firefighters are being trained to look out for this any accident from a fender bender, to a mulit-car pile up. Firefighters are checking the trunk. Not all teens are taking the backseat, but for those who do, whether it's a weekend party or just out of a...

<p>One in three U.S. high school students say the press ought to be more restricted, and even more say the government should approve newspaper stories before readers see them, according to a survey being released today.</p> <p>The survey of 112,003 students finds that 36% believe newspapers should get "government approval" of stories before publishing; 51% say they should be able to publish freely; 13% have no opinion.</p>

Boy recovering after bizarre stunt12:51 PM CDT on Friday, April 16, 2004By BRIAN ANDERSON / DallasNews.com A 12-year-old Granbury boy who was struck by a car while two friends watched through the lens of a video camera was continuing to recuperate in a Fort Worth hospital. Police said they are still unsure as to why the boy was reclined with a pillow in the middle of a dark street about 10:25 p.m. Saturday. “We have no idea what gave them the idea to do it,” Mitch Galvan, a detective with the Granbury Police Department, said Friday. Galvan said no evidence...

SALT LAKE CITY -- A Wyoming federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a Utah teenager who was severely burned when he and two others jumped into a thermal pool in Yellowstone National Park. Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Roberts had asked the U.S. District Court in Cheyenne to reject Lance Buchi's (pictured, above) complaint, which alleges that the federal government failed to adequately warn of dangers posed by thermal pools in the park. Roberts had argued that the decision to provide no warning signs in the area of Cavern Springs -- where water temperatures can reach 170...