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Month: March 2021

Coronavirus strains first detected in California are officially ‘variants of concern,’ CDC says

Two coronavirus strains first detected in California are now officially “variants of concern,” according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The variants may be about 20% more transmissible, the CDC said, citing early research. Some Covid-19 treatments may also be less effective against the strains. Still, the CDC didn’t say that vaccines

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13 of India’s best islands

India is gigantic — there are 28 states, with cultural and linguistic divergences between them. You can easily spend a few weeks (or months) exploring the popular Golden Triangle circuit that covers Delhi, the Taj Mahal in Agra, and Jaipur in the Rajasthan desert; visiting the sacred cities of Varanasi and Haridwar in North India;

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Family of teen internet personality Bianca Devins confront her murderer during emotional sentencing hearing

The family of Bianca Devins, the 17-year-old internet personality whose July 2019 murder was broadcast online by her killer, confronted him in court at his sentencing hearing Tuesday. Before the sentence came down against Brandon Clark — who pleaded guilty to Devins’ murder — her younger sister Olivia, her mother Kim and grandfather, Frank Williams,

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