The founder and namesake for one of the top medical schools in the nation owned enslaved people in the mid-1800s, Johns Hopkins University leadership…
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WASHINGTON, DC — Still spinning their wheels on Covid-19 relief, lawmakers grabbed a one-week government funding extension on Wednesday that buys…
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WILMINGTON, Delaware — President-elect Joe Biden’s son Hunter said he has learned from federal prosecutors that his “tax affairs” are under…
Continue Reading The first 18 astronauts of the Artemis program, NASA’s effort to land the first woman and the next man on the moon by 2024, have been selected.…
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From roads and buildings to cars and plastic, human civilization is built on lots of stuff. But roughly how much stuff have we actually created? And…
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WASHINGTON, DC — Federal regulators on Wednesday sued to force a breakup of Facebook as 48 states also accused the company in a separate lawsuit of…
Continue Reading A mother of four went missing on Mother’s Day and her family has increased the reward to $7,000 for any information that can lead to her…
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Scientists working off the western coast of Mexico say they have found a previously unknown species of whale. Three beaked whales were spotted last…
Continue Reading After spending 31 years in prison for a nonviolent marijuana crime, the man thought to be the longest-serving inmate convicted on cannabis charges in…
Continue Reading An oncology nurse in Oregon who bragged about flouting Covid-19 restrictions in a TikTok video “is no longer employed with Salem Health,”…
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal regulators asked Wednesday for Facebook to be ordered to divest its Instagram and WhatsApp messaging services as the…
Continue Reading While the economic crisis brought on by the pandemic has ravaged communities around the world, the concept of a guaranteed basic income has become…
Continue Reading There was no way Rachel Hodge could do it all. The single mother of two daughters is very driven: She works full time at a hospital and is studying…
Continue Reading Darnella Frazier’s impulse to pull out her cell phone and hit record on May 25 had a profound impact. The 17-year-old had ventured out to the…
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TORONTO, Canada — Canada’s health regulator has approved Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine. Health Canada posted on it is website Wednesday that the…
Continue Reading One of the planets that orbits around Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our sun, had been thought to exist within what astronomers call the…
Continue Reading A military plane assigned to the Wisconsin Air National Guard crashed in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and officials are searching for the lone…
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Days after vowing to target coronavirus super spreader events, the Los Angeles County sheriff announced 158 arrests tied to an underground party in…
Continue Reading Days after vowing to target coronavirus super spreader events, the Los Angeles County sheriff announced 158 arrests tied to an underground party in…
Continue Reading After a record number of new coronavirus cases in one week, more than two-thirds of California residents received a text asking them to stay home.…
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People with a “significant history of allergic reactions” should not be given the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, UK health…
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People with a “significant history of allergic reactions” should not be given the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, UK health…
Continue Reading Dr. Venkat Chandra has spent the past nine months on the front lines of the pandemic, and his parents have missed him. The crisis has made it…
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Dr. Venkat Chandra has spent the past nine months on the front lines of the pandemic, and his parents have missed him. The crisis has made it…
Continue Reading “Animal Crossing.” “Sourdough bread.” “Why is toilet paper sold out?” Google released its list of the…
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Rich countries have bought enough Covid-19 vaccine doses to immunize their populations three times over, an international vaccine watchdog has said,…
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Casey Goodson was coming home from a dental appointment when he was fatally shot by a police officer, and in that moment, his family lost a young man…
Continue Reading The weekly board meeting for the Central District Health, one of seven district health agencies in Idaho, was halted abruptly due to protests outside…
Continue Reading A sheriff’s deputy working for a fugitive task force shot and killed a Black man trying to enter his own home in Columbus, Ohio, last week in a…
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A sheriff’s deputy working for a fugitive task force shot and killed a Black man trying to enter his own home in Columbus, Ohio, last week in a…
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