As a fourth-year medical student at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Amanda Walker knows that vaccinations are both safe and essential. Getting one, however, is still an ordeal for Walker, who has needle phobia. “I’ll start to get really clammy, and then get cold sweats,” she said, describing her reaction to routine injections. “Then I
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Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is about to be indicted on criminal charges by a special counsel for his role in the Flint water crisis, news outlets including CNN affiliate WXYZ report. Snyder and several other officials will face state criminal charges in connection with the crisis, the outlets report. Snyder’s attorney calls the reports
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Police are looking for two or more possible shooters after they found evidence of gunfire in south Columbia on Wednesday.
Continue Reading Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny has announced that he plans to return to Russia on Sunday from Germany, where he has been recovering after being poisoned. On Instagram, Navalny said that he purchased a plane ticket to Russia on Wednesday morning after realizing that “he is almost healthy and can finally come back home.” “There
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An Australian food company has officially renamed a famous snack brand after years of complaints that it shared its name with a racial slur. “Coon Cheese,” which has been sold in Australia for more than 80 years, will now be known as “Cheer Cheese,” its manufacturer said Wednesday. The new brand will roll out to
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Soccer star Megan Rapinoe has denounced last week’s riots in the US Capitol as “a huge stain on the country.” Rapinoe, who has returned to US Women’s National Team (USWNT) duty for the first time in nearly a year, spoke to reporters at length about the insurrection on January 6 that saw a pro-Trump mob
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Congress has made the Paycheck Protection Program more flexible and given priority to the smallest, hardest-hit businesses, but the long-awaited second round of loans will still serve as little more than a stopgap as the pandemic rages on. Retail businesses like Georgie Lou’s Retro Candy store in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, will likely receive the same amount
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TVs seem to get bigger, slimmer and more connected each year. But now, in 2021, you can also see right through them. In a video shown during the all-digital CES 2021 consumer tech conference on Monday, LG unveiled a transparent TV with a screen you can see through when on or off. The clip shows
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Users have flocked to encrypted messaging app Signal by the millions in recent days — bringing it to the No. 1 spot on both Google Play Store and Apple App Store’s top free apps lists this week. Signal had about 7.5 million installations globally from the App Store and Google Play between Thursday and Sunday,
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Amazon Web Services filed its response to Parler’s lawsuit on Tuesday, blaming the social media platform favored by the far-right for filing a “meritless claim” against the cloud computing giant and citing a liability shield often maligned by President Donald Trump: Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934. AWS’s legal brief argues that it
Continue Reading Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny has announced that he plans to return to Russia on Sunday from Germany, where he has been recovering after being poisoned. On Instagram, Navalny said that he purchased a plane ticket to Russia on Wednesday morning after realizing that “he is almost healthy and can finally come back home.” “There
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MU students living on campus required to test will have the opportunity with early testing available through Friday.
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They’re watching you, wherever you walk. They know exactly where you pause, when you slow down and speed up, and they count you in and out of the city. What’s more, they’re tracking your phone, so they can tell exactly how many people from your country or region are in which area, at which time.
Continue Reading The world’s largest carmakers are facing a critical shortage of semiconductors that threatens to hamstring production just as the industry tries to stage a comeback from a sales slump caused by the pandemic. Volkswagen, Ford, Fiat Chrysler and Nissan are among major automakers suffering from the global shortage of chips, which are used in a
Continue Reading During a live virtual press conference on Thursday, a stunned global audience watched as singer-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi, known as Bobi Wine, was forcibly removed from his vehicle by Ugandan police as gunshots were fired. “I have regularly been beaten and pepper-sprayed on the campaign trail,” Wine, who escaped unhurt from the incident, told CNN in
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When Ireland came out of a strict six-week lockdown in December it had one of the lowest levels of Covid-19 cases in Europe. Since then, the situation has dramatically unraveled. The country recorded the highest infection rate in the world last week, according to Our World in Data, an online scientific publication based at the
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Nearly a year of ever-changing public safety guidelines with long days cooped up at home are wearing on many people. People have been social distancing, wearing masks and skipping gatherings with friends and family in order to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The pandemic, however, didn’t stop many from traveling for the holidays despite
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The House is poised to make Donald Trump the first President in United States history to be impeached for a second time on Wednesday with a swift and bipartisan vote to condemn Trump’s role inciting the riots at the US Capitol.
Continue Reading A reward is being offered for information that helps authorities find and prosecute whomever wrote “Trump” on a manatee’s back. The manatee was discovered Sunday in Florida’s Homosassa River with the President’s name in capital letters on its back, according to a news release from the Center for Biological Diversity. It’s not clear what was
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The House of Representatives voted Tuesday night to approve a resolution calling for President Donald Trump to be removed from office through the 25th Amendment in the wake of the violent siege of the US Capitol last week. The vote amounts to a symbolic rebuke after Vice President Mike Pence made clear earlier in the
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