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Month: September 2023

Gov. DeSantis and Florida surgeon general warn against new COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is criticizing efforts across the U.S. to tamp down a recent jump in COVID-19 cases through temporary restrictions or masking. DeSantis and Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo spoke Thursday at a news conference in Jacksonville against COVID-19 restrictions that have been implemented recently to combat a new

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The first experiment to produce oxygen on another planet has come to an end

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The first experiment to produce oxygen on another planet has come to an end on Mars after exceeding NASA’s initial goals and demonstrating capabilities that could help future astronauts explore the red planet. The microwave-size device called MOXIE, or Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, is on the Perseverance

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Limited action in Canada as U.S. fights company to recall 52 million airbag inflators

By Daniel Otis, CTVNews.ca Writer Click here for updates on this story     Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — As U.S. officials take further steps to recall at least 25 million vehicles over airbag inflators that can explode and shoot shrapnel into drivers, their Canadian counterparts lack the authority to demand a similarly sweeping recall and expect

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Wildfires, droughts and heat waves: A look at the hottest summer on record

By Hayatullah Amanat, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story     Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — As Canadians grapple with the most severe wildfire season in the country ever, exacerbated by unprecedented heat waves worldwide, recent findings from the European Union-funded Copernicus Climate Change Service reveal that June, July and August were the warmest

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Danny Masterson, estrella de “That ’70s Show”, recibe una condena de 30 años de prisión a cadena perpetua por violación

Sofía Benavides (CNN) — El actor Danny Masterson recibió este jueves a una condena de 30 años de prisión a cadena perpetua, luego de que un jurado lo declara culpable de dos cargos de violación en una corte de Los Ángeles en junio, según informó el fiscal adjunto Reinhold Mueller de la Fiscalía del Distrito

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Legal sports betting opens to fanfare in Kentucky; governor makes the first wager at Churchill Downs

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear plunked down a $20 bet Thursday on two home-state college football teams — and against an arch-nemesis school — in a quick transaction signaling that legal sports wagering is off and running in the Bluegrass State. The Democratic governor placed the first

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‘I went into a rage’: Complaint details moments before, after attack on UW-Madison student

By Kyle Jones Click here for updates on this story     MADISON, Wis. (WISC) — MADISON, Wis. — A criminal complaint filed Thursday in Dane County provides a clearer timeline in what prosecutors called “one of the most horrific sexual assaults in recent memory.” Brandon Thompson, 26, of Brooklyn is charged with first-degree sexual assault causing

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