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Jan 02 2022
News
Small Plane Crashes Attempting to Smuggle Migrants Across El Paso Border
Authorities reported a small airplane carrying undocumented migrants crashed near Presidio, Texas, on Thursday.
El Paso station KFOX-TV reported that several passengers on board the aircraft were injured and taken to hospitals in El Paso for treatment while the U.S. Border Patrol arrested others.
Deputies from the Presidio County Sheriff's Office said the crash occurred north of
NewsweekJan 28 2022
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Eric Adams’ war against crime sparks Democratic unrest
Retired NYPD captain-turned-mayor Eric Adams handed in his gun and badge 15 years ago. But he never fully left the job.
During his first month as mayor of the nation’s largest city, Adams — often clad in an NYPD jacket — has routinely rushed to crime scenes like the beat cop he once was.
Adams began his first day in office on Jan. 1 with a 911 call to report a street fight he
PoliticoFeb 19 2022
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Advocate for illegal-immigrant crime victims: DHS secretary ‘psychopath’
Until Nov. 16, 2010, Los Angeles entertainment executive Don Rosenberg considered himself a lifelong liberal and supporter of the Democratic Party.
But the minute he picked up the ringing phone, his life changed forever. The caller was from San Francisco General Hospital. She told him that his 25-year-old son, Drew, a second-year student at Golden Gate School of Law, had been mowed down
New York Post (News)Aug 11 2021
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Federal government sends ventilators to Florida as DeSantis says he's unaware of shipment
The Biden administration sent hundreds of ventilators to Florida in recent days as the state responds to a dramatic new increase in Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations, an official from the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed to CNN. But Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis claims he's unaware of the shipment.
A health administration official confirms the Strategic National
CNN DigitalDec 01 2021
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Student shoots, kills 3, wounds 8 at Michigan high school
A 15-year-old sophomore opened fire at his Michigan high school, killing three students, including a 16-year-old boy who died in a deputy’s patrol car on the way to a hospital, authorities said.
Eight other people were wounded, some critically, including a 14-year-old girl who was placed on a ventilator after surgery. Investigators were still trying to determine a motive for the
Associated PressJul 27 2021
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With All Eyes On Tokyo, The City Has Just Hit A New High In COVID-19 Cases
The timing couldn't be worse: with Tokyo the focus of world attention after the start of the long-delayed Olympic Games, health officials in the Japanese capital report a never-before-seen daily count in coronavirus infections.
On Tuesday, Tokyo's metropolitan government confirmed 2,848 cases, a number that surpasses the previous high of 2,520 cases on Jan. 7. Since even before the
NPR (Online News)Jan 14 2022
Analysis
The most consistently botched part of the US pandemic response
The fierce backlash to the CDC’s recent decision to shorten the recommended isolation period for people who test positive for Covid-19 was the latest in a series of communications blunders so severe that they have now become a meme.
Communication is an essential part of any public health response. But US health agencies have struggled with it since the very beginning of the pandemic,
VoxJul 13 2022
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How worried should I be about BA.5, on a scale of 1 to 10? We asked 4 leading COVID experts for their rating
There's a new coronavirus variant traveling around this summer at a record clip.
It's a variant of Omicron called BA.5, and it's causing a stir largely because it has evolved even further away than other Omicron variants did from the coronavirus we already knew.
Previously, getting infected with Omicron meant you probably had some protection against reinfection for a few months
Business InsiderDec 30 2021
Analysis
Trump fires up vaccine tensions
Former President Trump is touting his administration's work in developing life-saving COVID-19 vaccines, putting him at odds with a portion of his base that is skeptical or opposed to the vaccines.
Trump in a speech and in a recent interview with conservative pundit Candice Owens defended his administration's work in developing the vaccines, suggesting it is a landmark achievement from
The HillApr 07 2021
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Brazil COVID-19 deaths on track to pass worst of US wave
Brazil’s brutal surge in COVID-19 deaths will soon surpass the worst of a record January wave in the United States, scientists forecast, with fatalities climbing for the first time above 4,000 in a day on Tuesday as the outbreak overwhelms hospitals.
Brazil’s overall death toll trails only the U.S. outbreak, with nearly 337,000 killed, according to Health Ministry data, compared with
New York Post (News)