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Apr 14 2022
News
Pfizer says booster in children 5-11 raises antibodies against omicron
A booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine raised antibody levels in children ages 5 to 11, the company said Thursday.
The additional shot, given six months after the two-dose primary series, led to a sixfold increase in antibodies against the original strain of the coronavirus.
The clinical trial of the booster shot included 140 children ages 5 through 11. In a
NBC News (Online)Jun 09 2022
News
Hunter Biden paid full-time salary to stripper who fathered his child
Hunter Biden paid a full-time salary to the exotic dancer with whom he fathered a child in 2018, according to deleted payroll files recovered from a copy of his abandoned laptop.
Lunden Roberts earned $1,500 for 40 hours of work from Biden's company, Owasco PC, on Nov. 16, 2018, according to a recovered payroll file obtained exclusively by Washington Examiner. Two other recovered files
Washington ExaminerSep 01 2021
Opinion
The Party of Violence
Adam Smith said, “There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.” It was meant as comfort. A lot can be wrong and still not signal the apocalypse. So let’s hope that the increasing fascination with political violence we are hearing from Republicans is a passing thing, and not a sign of unravelling.
A Republican running for Northampton County executive in Pennsylvania gave a heated address
The BulwarkJun 08 2022
News
‘Only God can help’: Hundreds die as Somalia faces famine
No mother should have to lose her child. Owliyo Hassan Salaad has watched four die this year. A drought in the Horn of Africa has taken them, one by one.
Now she cradles her frail and squalling 3-year-old, Ali Osman, whom she carried on a 90-kilometer (55-mile) walk from her village to Somalia’s capital, desperate not to lose him too. Sitting on the floor of a malnutrition treatment
Associated PressMar 11 2022
Data
Axios-Ipsos poll: Media habits defined the COVID culture war
The key factor determining how Americans have handled COVID-19 — more than race, education or even political affiliation — is where they get their news, according to an analysis of two years of data from our Axios/Ipsos Coronavirus Index.
Why it matters: Partisan divisions weaken U.S. leaders' ability to deal with such existential crises — and the modern media landscape feeds that cycle
AxiosAug 01 2022
News
Loss of smell is a warning sign of Alzheimer’s. What if you lose your sense of smell from Covid?
One of the stranger symptoms of Covid — the loss of the sense of smell — is a symptom that, well before the pandemic, was considered to be a warning sign for dementia.
The big question for researchers now is whether Covid-related loss of smell might also be associated with cognitive decline. Around 5 percent of Covid patients worldwide — some 27 million people — have reported loss of
NBC News (Online)Dec 12 2021
News
Deportations Drop to New Lows Under Biden
Deportations of illegal immigrants have dropped to new lows under President Joe Biden, newly released data show.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), tasked with removing illegal aliens, removed over 20,000 each month in 2019 except for January.
Deportations in the first five months of 2019 totaled 186,089. Deportations in the first five months of 2020 were down to 93,247,
The Epoch TimesMar 10 2022
News
Inflation rises 7.9% in February, a new 40-year high
Inflation hit a fresh 40-year high in February, largely driven by higher gas prices.
The consumer price index climbed 7.9% on an annual basis, according to data released on Thursday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Month-over-month, inflation rose 0.8%.
The year-over-year reading is in-line with estimates and compares with an annual 7.5% jump in January, marking the fastest
Fox BusinessJul 22 2021
News
The world's top ransomware gangs have created a cybercrime "cartel"
Several of the largest Russian ransomware cybercriminal gangs have partnered up and are sharing hacking techniques, purloined data-breach information, malware code and technology infrastructure.
The most active collaborators are four groups known as Wizard Spider, Twisted Spider, Viking Spider and LockBit. The gangs in this cluster jointly control access to illicit data leak sites and
CBS News (Online)Feb 09 2020
Interactive Debate
Is Crowd Sourced Information Reliable?
In a world of easy-access data, it is often important to rely on crowd-sourced information. Multiple participants can check the data and combat individual bias by group consensus.
However; this comes with a collection of possible problems, mostly to do with verifying the information. Crowd-sourced data means relying on reputation, which means people are able to corrupt, lie and
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