close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for April 22 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. A new report on air quality found that more than 4 in 10 people are breathing in unhealthy air , with the American Lung Association pointing to climate change as a driving factor. The report , which analyzes data collected by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 2017, 2018 and 2019, also found people of color were 61% more likely to live in a county with unhealthy air than white people. "This report shines a spotlight on the urgent need to curb climate change, clean up air pollution and advance environmental justice," Harold Wimmer, the association president and CEO, said in a news release accompanying the 22nd annual "State of the Air" report. "The nation has a real opportunity to address all three at once – and to do that, we must center on healthy and health equity as we move away from combustion and fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy." The report analyzed and ranked regions most polluted by particle pollution, which is comprised of unhealthy particles in the air that "come from wildfires, wood-burning stoves, coal-fired power plants, diesel engines and other sources." The association noted that the particles can trigger asthma attacks, heart attacks, stroke and can cause lung cancer. It’s also recently been linked to serious diseases and worsened outcomes for COVID-19. AOC, PROGRESSIVES KICK OFF FRESH GREEN NEW DEAL PUSH WITH MULTIPLE PIECES OF LEGISLATION The report listed the top 10 cities most polluted by short-term particle pollution, which is mostly attributed to wildfire smoke and residential wood burning. Fairbanks, Alaska, ranked worst followed by Fresno-Madera-Hanford, Calif., Bakersfield, Calif., San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, Calif., Yakima, Wash., Los Angeles-Long Beach, Calif., Logan, Utah-Idaho, Redding-Red Bluff, Calif., Missoula, Mont. and ...
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Trenton Trevon Lovell Pleads Guilty To 2016 Murder Of LASD Sgt. Steven Owen In Lancaster
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — A 31-year-old man Thursday pleaded guilty to the 2016 murder of Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Steven Owen in Lancaster, L.A. District Attorney George Gascón said. FILE 2016: Trenton Trevon Lovell, 31, plead guilty Thursday to murdering Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Steven Owen in 2016. (LASD) Trenton Trevon Lovell, of Lancaster, plead guilty to one count each of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, first-degree burglary with a person present and possession of a firearm by a felon. He also plead guilty to two counts each of first-degree residential robbery and false imprisonment by violence, the D.A.’s office said. READ MORE: Possible Human Remains Found In Hills Above Burbank Lovell also admitted to the special circumstance allegation of murder of a peace officer and special allegations of using a firearm to murder Owen, using a patrol car as a deadly and dangerous weapon during the attempted murder of a second peace officer on scene, using a knife in a robbery and false imprisonment after he fled from the scene of the murder, according to the D.A.’s office. “Sgt. Owen sacrificed his life to protect the community he served,” Gascón said in a release. “This plea will not bring Sgt. Owen back but will hopefully provide some small measure of peace to his family.” READ MORE: Westminster Officer On Paid Leave After Punching Handcuffed Woman Sgt. Steve Owen was shot execution-style in October 2016 while conducting a traffic stop in Lancaster. (LASD) According to prosecutors, Lovell ambushed and shot Owen, 53, multiple times Oct. 5, 2016 while Owen was responding to a burglary Lovell had committed in the 3200 block of West Avenue J-7. Following the murder, Lovell jumped into Owen’s patrol vehicle. When a second deputy arrived at the scene, Lovell rammed into that patrol vehicle with Owen’s patrol vehicle, prosecutors said. Lovell then fled and ran into a nearby ...
French Foreign Minister Backs Chad’s Transitional Military Council
France’s foreign minister is defending the takeover of Chad’s government by a transitional military council. Jean-Yves Le Drian said during a television interview Thursday that “exceptional circumstances” made it necessary for Chad’s military to dissolve the National Assembly and form an 18-month transitional council, following the death of President Idriss Deby this week. The speaker of the National Assembly should have become president under Chad’s constitution, but speaker Haroun Kabadi issued a statement that he agreed with the council’s takeover “given the military, security and political context.” Le Drian said Kabadi’s position justified the military taking control. The council named Deby’s son, 37-year-old General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, as interim president of the central African nation. The army said Tuesday the elder Deby died from injuries sustained while visiting troops on the front line. A rebel force known as the Front for Change and Concord in Chad, known by its French acronym FACT, has advanced from the north in recent days toward the capital, N’Djamena. The group had been based in neighboring Libya. The rebel group released a statement Tuesday vowing to take the capital and depose the younger Deby. “Chad is not a monarchy,” the statement read. “There can be no dynastic devolution of power in our country.” A day before his death, the 68-year-old Deby was declared the winner of Chad's April 11 election with 79 percent of the vote, giving him a sixth term in office. Most opposition groups had boycotted the poll, citing arrests and a government ban on opposition rallies. Deby had ruled Chad since coming to power in a December 1990 coup, making him one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders. Opponents called him an autocrat and criticized his management of Chadian oil revenue. In 2008, a different rebel force reached N’Djamena and came close to toppling Deby before French and Chadian army forces drove them out of the city. In the ...
New York City Mayor De Blasio Says He Won’t Be Rooting For The Yankees
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Yankee fever is spreading across the city, but apparently, Mayor Bill de Blasio is immune. New Yorkers are fired up and feeling optimistic after the Yankees beat the Houston Astros in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series, bringing them one game away from the World Series. READ MORE: COVID Impact: Jersey City Schools In-Person Learning Back On, But Some Parents Have Concerns About Phased-In Approach “I’ve been watching all the games and they’re coming through. So hopefully they bring it to Houston and bring it back home with the championship,” said Yankee fan Charles Morales. But while locals are celebrating the Yankees’ success, de Blasio made it clear he won’t root, root, root for the home team. The mayor, a die-hard Boston Red Sox fan, told the Daily News editorial board , “It is constitutionally impossible to quote unquote root for the New York Yankees.” At a news conference Thursday, the mayor said it would be disingenuous if he rooted for the Yankees. “I’m not going to fake anything. I have my own allegiance. I have my own history. I’m going to be myself,” de Blasio said. “If they win the World Series we’re going to throw them a great parade, we’re gonna roll out the red carpet, we’re going to do everything to celebrate them.” At the news conference, CBS2’s Hazel Sanchez said to the mayor: “”People, whether they’re a Mets fan or a Yankees fan, consider the New York Yankees a representative of the city; ambassadors of the city. Don’t you think you should be there just to show your support for New York City?” “I really don’t think it matters,” de Blasio replied. “I think New Yorkers who love the Yankees really don’t care if elected officials show up.” New Yorkers who talked to CBS2 on Thursday strongly disagreed. “Just like everything else he’s doing with the city, he’s not really for us,” one man said. “He should represent New York. If the Yankees go to the World Series and he’s not at Yankee ...
Number Of Mass. Communities At High Risk For COVID Drops To 48
BOSTON (CBS) – The number of communities in Massachusetts considered high risk for coronavirus infections has decreased for the second week in a row. As of Thursday, the number of cities and towns in the high-risk red category is 48, down from 59 last week. State health officials categorize cities and towns as red, green, yellow or grey based on the daily rate of COVID-19 cases. READ MORE: Mayor Janey Promises Change After Scandal Over Retired Boston Police Officer CHECK: Town By Town Coronavirus Data READ MORE: 'Making Good Progress': Doctors Believe Massachusetts Can Reach Herd Immunity In A Couple Months As of Thursday, the following communities are considered high risk: Adams, Ayer, Bellingham, Berkley, Brewster, Brockton, Carver, Chicopee, Dennis, Dracut, Edgartown, Fall River, Freetown, Hampden, Harwich, Haverhill, Holyoke, Lawrence, Lowell, Ludlow, Lynn, Methuen, Nantucket, New Bedford, Oak Bluffs, Palmer, Peabody, Plainville, Plymouth, Rehoboth, Revere, Seekonk, Southwick, Springfield, Sterling, Sutton, Swansea, Taunton, Templeton, Tisbury, Townsend, Upton, Wareham, West Boylston, West Bridgewater, Westport, Winchendon, Yarmouth. MORE NEWS: 'We Just Need More People': Restaurant Owners Struggling To Find Staff As Former Employees Collect Unemployment The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported 1,431 new confirmed COVID cases and 17 additional deaths in the state on Thursday. ...
