>> In the day's other news:
The U.S. "Food and drug
administration" authorized
"Pfizer's" low-dose "Covid"
booster shot for children 5 to
11 years old.
The CDC's recommendation on the
shot could come later this week.
And, overseas, China restricted
more beijing residents to their
homes to help control a small
outbreak. That, in turn,
sparked new frustration from
locals.
>> "Every day there's
uncertainty because you don't
know if you're going to be
quarantined at home or
segregated in an office area.
Every day also requires a
nucleic acid test to be done. In
fact, I still feel that this
policy is indeed a bit too much.
But I also have to respect this
policy."
>> Shanghai has reported three
straight days of no new cases.
The number of U.S. Highway
deaths shot up last year after a
law -- after a lull during the
pandemic.
The "National highway traffic
safety administration' reports
nearly
43-thousand people were killed
on the roads nearly 120 every
day of the year.
That was 10 percent higher than
in 2020 and the most since 2004.
In Ukraine:
The last resistance to Russia's
invading army appeared to
crumble in the southern city of
mariupol.
Ukrainian officials said their
remaining fighters were
abandoning a ruined steel plant
there.
That would give Russia a major
victory, a key port and a land
bridge to crimea which Moscow
seized in 2014.
We'll focus on this in detail,
after the news summary.
Final election results in
Lebanon
show "Hezbollah" shi-ite
militants backed by Iran have
lost their majority in
parliament.
Sunday's vote came amid the
country's economic collapse and
political deadlock.
As results were being tallied,
supporters carried one
opposition candidate through the
streets, in a victory
procession.
>> This is a national
celebration, par excellence.
After two-and-a-half years of
directly facing off in the
streets against a government of
injustice, finally, we've begun
the journey to change in
Lebanon. This is a national
celebration!
>> "Hezbollah's" most vocal
Christian party opponents were
among the biggest winners in the
voting.
Back in this country:
In a first of its kind lawsuit,
two democratic presidential
electors in Wisconsin are suing
the state's Republican electors
over the 2020 vote.
The Republicans tried to cast
electoral ballots for
then-president trump even though
Joe Biden carried the state.
The lawsuit seeks future
restrictions on the Republicans,
and up to
$2-point-4 million dollars in
damages.
For the first time half a
century, the u-s congress has
held a hearing on unidentified
flying objects, or u-f-o's.
A government report last year
cited more than 140 unexplained
incidents since 2004.
At a house hearing today,
Pentagon officials said they
have no evidence of anything
like space aliens. But they
insisted they're open to any
explanation.
>> Our goal is not to
potentially cover up something
if we were to find something,
it's to understand what may be
out there then to work with
organizations as appropriate -
if it's a weather phenomenology
with noaa, if it's potential for
extraterrestrial life or
indication of extraterrestrial
life with someone like nasa.
>> Lawmakers from both parties
said
there's a potential national
security concern if Chinese or
Russian technology is involved.
Billionaire Elon Musk warned
today that his deal to buy
"Twitter" can't happen unless
there's proof that fake and spam
accounts comprise less than 5
percent of users.
Musk said he believes the real
figure is at least 20 percent.
The "Tesla" founder offered $44
billion dollars for "Twitter"
last month, but he put that on
hold, last week.
The head of the federal reserve
Jerome Powell reaffirmed today
that the central bank will keep
raising interest rates until
inflation declines.
He also said that if need be,
policymakers will consider
moving more aggressively.
The fed already raised
short-term rates by
3-quarters of a percentage point
this year.
And, on Wall Street:
Stocks rallied on news of strong
retail sales in April.
The Dow Jones industrial average
gained 431 points
1 percent
to close at
32-thousand-654.
The NASDAQ rose 321 points --
nearly
2-point-8 percent.
The s-and-p 500 also added
2 percent.
Still to come on the "Newshour".
The United States grapples with
the impact of the pandemic as we
pass the grim milestone of one
million deaths
our student reporting labs
reflect on how seeing negative
stereotypes of Asian Americans
in media can affect mental
health.
We remember the victims of the
racially-motivated mass shooting
in Buffalo