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 A Kyiv court sentenced a Russian soldier to life in prison Monday following Ukraine's first war crimes trial since the start of Russia's invasion. Sgt. Vadim Shishimarin, 21, was sentenced for killing an unarmed Ukrainian civilian, 62-year-old Oleksandr Shelipov, in Chupakhivka. Shishimarin says he was acting on orders on Feb. 28, just days after the start of the invasion. He pleaded guilty. More: - According to prosecutors, Shishimarin and his unit stole a vehicle and drove to Chupakhivka after they were attacked by Ukrainian forces.
- They say Shishimarin shot and killed Shelipov to prevent him from telling the Ukrainian military about their location.
- Shishimarin apologized to Shelipov's widow, who confronted him during the trial.
- Ukraine says it is investigating 13,000 incidents it believes to be war crimes since the start of the invasion.
- Russia denies any attacks on civilians, though evidence shows that civilians have been targeted and executed regularly since February.
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 Pfizer and BioNTech said their three-dose coronavirus vaccine series is effective in children under 5, and the companies plan to submit data shortly to the FDA for consideration. Preliminary data showed the series was 80% effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19, though the estimate is based on a small sample. Moderna has already submitted data on its children's vaccine, a two-shot course found to be 40%-50% effective during the omicron surge. Children under 5 are the only demographic in the U.S. that does not yet have access to a COVID-19 vaccine. More: - Pfizer gave children a 3-microgram dose with each shot, one-tenth that of each adult shot. Two shots were found to not be effective in children in early trials, so a third shot was added.
- The FDA will convene outside experts on June 15 to discuss both the Moderna and Pfizer shots.
- If the agency approves the vaccines, the CDC will have to determine whether to recommend them to all young children or only those at high risk.
- Though children largely get over cases of COVID-19 quickly, a small number have developed multisystem inflammatory syndrome, and children under 5 were hospitalized at higher rates during the initial omicron surge than during the delta wave.
- Pfizer's data comes from a subset of its trial that included 1,678 children between 6 months and 4 years of age. It did not say how many children were included in the subset.
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The Supreme Court on Monday ruled 6-3 against two Arizona death row inmates who claimed they should be able to argue in their federal habeas appeals that prior counsel was ineffective. Writing for the majority, Justice Clarence Thomas said that the inmates shouldn't have been able to make certain arguments during a federal appeal as they were not brought up in state court. The inmates argue that a better defense would have brought up evidence that could either exonerate them or have their sentences changed. More: - Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in her dissent, called the decision "perverse" and "illogical." She argued that precedent allowed for a "critical exception" to the rule that federal courts can't consider claims on habeas review that went unmentioned during state proceedings.
- She wrote that the inmates' trial attorneys "did not provide even the bare minimum level of representation required by the Constitution" and that they are being prevented from presenting a defense due to "forces outside of their control."
- The decision will make it more difficult for other death row inmates to make post-conviction claims related to ineffective counsel.
- The inmates, David Martinez Ramirez and Barry Lee Jones, were convicted of separate murders dating to 1989 and 1994, respectively.
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 GOOD NEWS: Wain the wombat, 32, who lives at the Satsukiyama Zoo in Japan, is officially the oldest-ever wombat in captivity, according to Guinness World Records. Wain was rescued from his mother's pouch after she was hit by a car in Tasmania in 1989; he was taken to Satsukiyama Zoo with two other wombats in 1990. Wain has remained remarkably healthy, maintaining a diet of grass, sweet potatoes, apples, carrots, and pumpkins. According to the World Wildlife Fund, wombats usually live up to 15 years in the wild and up to 20 in captivity.
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COVID-19 infections in patients who were hospitalized can cause a range of damage to the body's internal organs, including the lungs, kidneys, and heart, according to a new study. Writing in Nature Medicine, researchers from the University of Glasgow found that individuals who had been hospitalized with COVID-19 showed more organ abnormalities when compared with a control group. These ongoing effects are separate from Long COVID, which presents with symptoms including fatigue, headache, and cognitive issues, and frequently affects people who were not hospitalized during their initial infections. More: - The new study showed that about 13% of those who had been hospitalized with COVID-19 had myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart.
- These patients were also more likely than others to experience symptoms consistent with Long COVID.
- Researchers analyzed blood tests from 28 to 60 days post-release, and concluded that these patients had increased likelihood of having ongoing health needs a year later.
- The study looked at 159 people who were hospitalized with a COVID-19 infection between May 2020 and March 2021. It is unclear if those hospitalized with omicron infections fared differently after being released.
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 Conan O'Brien has sold his podcast company Team Coco to SiriusXM in an estimated $150M deal that includes a five-year talent agreement. O'Brien's show "Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend," "Parks and Recollection," and other podcasts on the network will now join SiriusXM's body of programs, and O'Brien will produce a Team Coco comedy channel on the company's subscription satellite radio service. Team Coco's staff will join Sirius, and the company will also acquire some video content from his podcasts, live events, and his TBS late night show, which ended in June 2021. More: - The acquisition gives Sirius a tremendously popular podcast in "Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend" and a significant body of comedy content.
- Audio streamers, which also include Amazon, Apple, and Spotify, have been acquiring exclusive rights to premium podcast content over the last several years.
- Team Coco had previously established a distribution and ad sales partnership with Stitcher, which Sirius acquired in 2020.
- "When I started in television my ultimate goal was to work my way up to radio," O'Brien said in a tongue-in-cheek statement.
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 |  | Jonathan Harris is a writer and editor who lives in Los Angeles. |  | | Editor | Eduardo Garcia is a writer and editor based in New York. He is the author of "Things You Can Do," an illustrated book about climate action. Bylines in The New York Times, The Guardian, Slate, Scientific American, and others. In one of his previous lives, Eduardo worked as a Reuters correspondent in Latin America for nearly a decade. | |
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