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“All the doctors” working on US coronavirus response received death threats, Birx says

Dr. Deborah Birx, who served as the White House coronavirus response coordinator under former President Trump, reveals in a CNN special report that “all the doctors” on the White House coronavirus task force have received death threats. Reports emerged early in the pandemic that Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and […]

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March 29, 2021

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“Black fungus” cases rise to 10,000 in India, minister says

When Uddhab Gautam got his first vaccine dose back in February, Covid-19 cases in Nepal were low. Now, three months later, coronavirus infections in the Himalayan nation have spiraled out of control, leading to a shortage of hospital beds and oxygen, and sending most of the country into lockdown. But despite needing it more than […]

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May 26, 2021

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“I just couldn’t stay quiet anymore”

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Gladys Sicknick, the mother of fallen US Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, said that she is hopeful her meetings with GOP senators today will change their minds on whether to vote for a Jan. 6 commission. “I hope so. I hope so. Brian had a work ethic second to none. He was just […]

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May 28, 2021

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“Rust” assistant director acknowledges failure to fully check Baldwin’s gun

David Halls (IMDB) The assistant director on “Rust” who handed Alec Baldwin the gun that fired the fatal shot acknowledged to investigators that he did not check all the rounds loaded in the weapon prior to the lethal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, a detective wrote in a search warrant affidavit made public Wednesday. Detective […]

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October 28, 2021

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“Rust” assistant director was fired from previous movie after gun incident injured crew member

Dave Halls, the assistant director on the film set of “Rust,” was the subject of complaints over safety and his behavior on set during two productions in 2019, two people who worked closely with Halls tell CNN. The complaints include a disregard for safety protocols for weapons and pyrotechnics use, fire lanes and exits were […]

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October 26, 2021

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“The sheer number of patients is just too much,” a doctor from Delhi says

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that fully vaccinated Americans would be able to travel to the European Union this summer in a Sunday interview with the New York Times. However, the final decision on whether to allow travel to an EU member state will come from each country individually, as decisions about […]

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April 26, 2021

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“Touchdown confirmed!”: the two words at mission control as Perseverance lands on Mars

NASA said Thursday that the Perseverance rover has touched down on the surface of Mars after successfully overcoming a risky landing phase known as the “seven minutes of terror.” “Touchdown confirmed,” said operations lead Swati Mohan as mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory headquarters erupted in cheers. Source link

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February 19, 2021

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“We’re not in a good place”

Do you have a sore throat, a runny nose and muscle aches? It could be a common cold, a case of the flu – or Covid-19. The illnesses all share similar symptoms, sometimes making it hard to distinguish which is putting you under the weather. Case rates of Covid-19 have been on the rise as the […]

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January 4, 2022

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“What the Taliban really wants to see here is for all Americans to leave as soon as humanly possible”

Smoke rises after fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security personnel, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Thursday, August 12, 2021. Sidiqullah Khan/AP People in Afghanistan know they now “live in a different country,” Afghan journalist Ali Latifi said after Herat and Kandahar, two prominent Afghan cities, fell to the Taliban. They were “cities that people never would […]

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August 13, 2021

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“What we see today is that Russia maintains a massive invasion force ready to attack”

A high-volume cyberattack that temporarily blocked access to the websites of Ukrainian defense agencies and banks on Tuesday was “the largest [such attack] in the history of Ukraine,” but it’s too early to tell who was responsible, Ukrainian Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov said at a news conference Wednesday. The so-called distributed denial of service (DDoS) […]

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February 17, 2022

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“You can’t start it and claim self-defense”

Linda Dunikoski, the lead prosecutor in the trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s killing, argued that the defendants cannot use the claim of self-defense. “One can use lethal force and self-defense, but only under certain circumstances. You can’t claim self-defense if you are the unjustified initial aggressor — meaning if you started it. Who started this? Wasn’t Ahmaud Arbery,” Dunikoski said during the prosecution’s final rebuttal […]

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November 23, 2021

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#MeToo hits Serbia as teacher at acting school is arrested over student rape allegations

The news of the arrest of the famous director, screenwriter and acting teacher Miroslav “Mika” Aleksic has hit Serbia like a bombshell. Three young women who attended his prestigious acting school in Belgrade have alleged that he raped or sexually harassed them. The 68-year-old denied the accusations. Aleksic is accused of having committed eight felonies […]

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January 22, 2021

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