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Person in a hospital.Photo: Getty Unvaccinated adolescents were ten times more likely to be hospitalized for COVID-19 than fully vaccinated ones asthe delta variant surged in the U.S., according to anew report from the Centers for Disease Control. During that time, the number of unvaccinated kids aged 12 to 17 who were hospitalized with COVID-19 was 10.1 times higher than those who were fully vaccinated. The researchers said that the data shows “that vaccines were highly effective at preventing serious COVID-19 illness....

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Photo:Scott Gardiner/Getty; Shaun Botterill/Getty Scott Gardiner/Getty; Shaun Botterill/Getty Usain Boltis sending love to the Reggae Girlz! “You made us all proud#ReggaeGirlz,” the retired Jamaican sprinterwrote on X(formerly Twitter). The Jamaican women’s soccer team, who lost to Colombia 0-1 in the quarterfinals, pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the 2023 Women’s World Cup last week, drawing a 0-0 tie with Brazil, the No. 8 ranked team in the world....

Photo:Catherine Ivill - FIFA/FIFA via Getty, ETIENNE LAURENT/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Catherine Ivill - FIFA/FIFA via Getty, ETIENNE LAURENT/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock USWNT coachVlatko Andonovskisaid it was “insane” to question the team’s commitment to the tournament, after former soccer starCarli Lloydcalled their play “disappointing.” Lloyd, 41, said her former team was “uninspiring” and “disappointing” aftertheir 0-0 draw against Portugal. Ulrik Pedersen/DeFodi Images via Getty Images Speaking to reporters after the game, Andonovski, 46, fought for his team,CNNreported....

Utahna Halona Erickson and her children.Photo:GiveLively.org GiveLively.org A Utah man who admitted he “snapped” when he fatally attacked his wife with a knife in 2020 has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison, authorities said. On Tuesday, John Weston Erickson, Jr., 44, appeared in court in Salt Lake City where Judge Richard McKelvie handed down the sentence for the first-degree felony murder of Erickson’s wife, Utahna Halona, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill said in a statement....

Photo: Murray City Police Department A 27-year-old Utah woman and her dog were found dead in a storage unit Saturday after the woman’s boyfriend allegedly locked her inside and left, leaving her no way to escape when a subsequent fire broke out. Employees at a neighboring car wash noticed the fire breaking out, according to the outlet, and called for help. When the responders arrived, they found six storage units on fire, including the one the woman was locked in....

Photo: MARK FELIX/AFP /AFP via Getty Survivors of theUvalde school shootinghave filed a $27-billion class-action lawsuit against the school district, law enforcement agencies and individual first responders, according to multiple reports. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Austin on Thursday, and lists the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District’s police department, the Uvalde Police Department and the Texas Department of Public Safety among the defendants, according toCNNandNPR. The plaintiffs — parents, teachers, staff members and students — are seeking damages for “the indelible and forever-lasting trauma” they endured during the shooting at Robb Elementary School on May 24 that killed 19 students and two teachers....

Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage; Kevin Mazur/Getty ImagesThe college acceptance letters won’t stop coming in forNatalia Bryant!On Friday evening,Vanessa Bryantrevealed that her eldest daughter has now been accepted into theUniversity of California, Irvine.Sharing a copy of her daughter’s acceptance letter on her Instagram Story, Vanessa, 38, included an array of celebratory stickers with the post, as she tagged Natalia’s Instagram handle.“Yay! Closer to home,” the proud mom wrote alongside the screenshot.Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories....

Vanessa Bryantwas more than a wife inKobe Bryant‘s eyes. On Wednesday, Vanessa, 37, shared an old interview her late husband gave toExtra, in which the basketball star named her as his best friend without hesitation, and that his daughters simply referred to him as “daddy.” Earlier in the day, Vanessa also shared asmiling portraitof Kobe on her Instagram page, reiterating that he was her best friend,writing, “#mybestfriend #theBestdaddy Miss you so much....

Photo: vanessa lachey/ instagramVanessa Lachey"will never forget" the day she landed her next big role.The actress, 40, took to her Instagram account on Monday with avery emotional selfie video, presumably taken moments after she found out she had landed the lead role of Jane Tennant in the upcoming CBS procedural seriesNCIS: Hawai’i, premiering next week.Vanessa was in her car in the snippet, completely overcome with tears of joy as she arrived at her best friend’s house....

Pete Williams.Photo: William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC Newswire/NBCUniversal via Getty Longtime NBC News correspondent Pete Williams — who has spent nearly three decades covering the Supreme Court and the US Justice Department — says he will retire from the network in July. According to theTodayshow, NBC News president Noah Oppenheim announced the news via anemail to employees, calling Williams “quite simply one of the most respected, trusted, and steadfast names in news....

Photo: YouTube Leonard Miller was in the right place at the right time when his 13-year-old neighbor came running to his door on Sunday afternoon, desperately asking him to help rescue her younger sister from a dog that lived in the siblings’ house, IndeOnlinereports. “I run to the door, and she says, ‘The dog has got ahold of my sister and he won’t let go,'” Miller, 88,recalled to the outlet, noting that he was in the kitchen when he heard the girl frantically knocking and screaming for help....

“These milestones are a reminder of a fundamental truth,” Harris, 58, who has already become the first womancommencement speakerat the U.S. Naval Academy and U.S. Coast Guard Academy, said. “Our military is strongest when it reflects people of America.” Kamala Harris waves to graduates at West Point.Spencer Platt/Getty Images Spencer Platt/Getty Images During her speech, Harris told graduates that they’re entering “an increasingly unsettled world where long-standing principles are at risk," perCNN....