Source: NBC News A Florida teenager has been charged with carrying out the hacking attack...
Month: July 2020
Source: Reuters The World Health Organization reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases on...
Source: The Hill The House on Friday approved a $1.3 trillion package of spending bills...
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Source: NBC News Herman Cain, a 74-year-old businessman who ran unsuccessfully for president in the...
Source: The Hill On Thursday President Trump suggested delaying the 2020 elections, something he does...
Source: Politico The U.S. economy shrank at a 32.9% annualized pace between April and June...
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Source: CBS News President Trump revealed that during a recent phone call with Russian President...
Source: Associated Press Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, tested positive Wednesday for the coronavirus, forcing him...
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Source: Associated Press Russian intelligence services are using a trio of English-language websites to spread...
Source: Associated Press Twitter has temporarily halted President Donald Trump’s son from tweeting on its...
On 7/27/2020, America’s Frontline Doctors released a video claiming that Hydroxychloroquine cures Covid-19 and...
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Source: UPI The defense team for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange alleged Monday during a court...
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Source: Associated Press Democratic challenger Joe Biden has spent thousands of dollars advertising on Facebook...
Source: Business Insider Sinclair Broadcast Group is to delay screening an interview with a conspiracy...
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Source: The Hill Tropical Storm Hanna was upgraded to a hurricane on Saturday morning, becoming...
Source: USA Today A persistent crowd of protesters remained outside the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, into the early hours of Saturday as fireworks were shot at the building and plumes of tear gas, dispensed by U.S. agents, lingered above. Thousands of people gathered in Portland streets hours after a U.S. judge denied Oregon’s request to restrict federal agents’ actions when they arrest people during protests that have roiled the city and pitted local officials against the Trump administration. Many times these actions were met by federal agents using tear gas and flash bangs. As the clouds of gas floated down the street, protesters would swiftly regroup and return to chant and shake the fence that separates the people on the street from federal agents and the courthouse. The clashes in Portland have further inflamed the nation’s political tensions and triggered a crisis over the limits of federal power as Trump moves to send U.S. officers to other Democratic-led cities to combat crime. Protesters in Portland have been targeting the federal courthouse, setting fires outside and vandalizing the building that U.S. authorities say they have a duty to protect. Federal agents have used tear gas, less-lethal ammunition that left one person critically injured and other force to scatter protesters. Homeland Security acting Secretary Chad Wolf denied that federal agents were inflaming the situation in Portland and said Wheeler legitimized criminality by joining demonstrators, whom Trump has called “Anarchists and agitators.” Full...
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Source: Wall Street Journal A comparison of 26 studies that estimate the disease’s infection fatality rate* found varying results but pinpointed an overall rate of around 6.8 deaths per 1,000 infections. The infection fatality rate measures deaths out of total estimated infections as opposed to confirmed cases. “It’s not just what the infection-fatality rate is. It’s also how contagious the disease is, and Covid is very contagious,” said Eric Toner, an emergency medicine physician and senior scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, who studies health-care preparedness for epidemics and infectious diseases. Health authorities and researchers have been working to gauge the death rate from the coronavirus to better understand the risk of the disease, estimate how many people might die and respond with the necessary public-health measures. “The hard bit really is to work out how many people have been infected,” said Lucy Okell, who alongside colleagues at Imperial College London estimated the infection-fatality rate in China at 0.66% in a paper published in March. To come up with an estimate for the fatality rate, some researchers take the known cases and numbers of deaths, then estimate the proportion missed or asymptomatic cases. An analysis of 26 different studies estimating the infection-fatality rate in different parts of the globe found an aggregate estimate of about 0.68%, with a range of 0.53% to 0.82%, according to a report posted in July on the preprint server medRxiv, which hasn’t yet been reviewed by other researchers. Researchers in the U.S. and Switzerland examined data from the Swiss city of Geneva to calculate fatality rates for different age groups. Better treatment in the future could push the rate down, but a situation in which a hospital system is overwhelmed can drive the rate up, said Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, an epidemiologist at the University of Wollongong who co-wrote the July medRxiv paper. Full Story...
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution Saturday marks 100 days until the historic Nov. 3 election, when...
Source: UPI According to the poll, three-quarters of teachers from kindergarten through high school said they’re either “Very” or “Moderately” concerned about COVID-19 exposure in the classroom. The study found that teachers are far more concerned about coronavirus exposure than workers in other fields. Teachers have been working remotely since schools were closed in the spring. Gallup surveyed nearly 500 teachers and 2,600 non-education workers for the poll, which has a margin of error of between 4 and 9 points. Full Story @ UPI
Source: Reuters The United States on Thursday recorded more than 1,100 deaths from COVID-19, marking...
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Source: NBC News With some school districts just weeks away from the start of the...
Source: Wall Street Journal President Trump said he is canceling the Jacksonville, Fla., portion of...
Source: The Hill The Senate on Thursday passed a mammoth defense policy bill that sparked...
Source: The Hill A federal judge on Thursday said he intended to order that Michael...
Source: Politico Unemployment claims rose to 1.4 million last week, the Labor Department reported, ending...
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Source: Politico The House voted overwhelmingly to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol, the latest...
Source: Los Angeles Times Roy Den Hollander, a self-described anti-feminist attorney, is suspected in the...
Source: UPI The top U.S. and Chinese envoys to South Korea held a rare meeting...
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Source: Cleveland.com John Kasich, the Republican ex-governor of Ohio turned critic of President Donald...
Source: NBC News A coronavirus vaccine being developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca...
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Source: Politico President Donald Trump’s bad poll numbers are getting worse. The latest data point:...
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Source: CBS News Coronavirus hospitalizations in New York – once the U.S. epicenter of the...
Source: BBC Twitter has confirmed hackers made use of tools that were supposed to have...
Source: Business Insider President Donald Trump falsely claimed that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe...
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Source: The Hill Senate Republicans are preparing to offer a five-year shield from coronavirus lawsuits...
Source: Politico The Pentagon on Friday unveiled a new policy that effectively bans the display...