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Month: November 2023

CDC advisers support masks in update to hospital infection guidelines, but critics say draft doesn’t go far enough

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Experts who advise the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on its hospital infection control guidelines have voted to recommend that health care providers wear masks during routine care for patients who are thought to be contagious, including for patients with endemic, or regularly occurring, respiratory infections. This

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Police: Sunny Isles Beach mother arrested for child abuse; video shows her throwing and kicking 3-year-old son

By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story     SUNNY ISLES BEACH, Florida (WSVN) — Sunny Isles Beach Police have arrested a 29-year-old woman, who they describe as a monster, accused of pushing, kicking and throwing her 3-year-old son down a hallway because, she claims, he wasn’t listening. 7News cameras captured Yulia Storozhuk as

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Nigeria’s government budgets for SUVs and president’s wife while millions struggle to make ends meet

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s lawmakers have approved the new government’s first supplemental budget, which includes huge allocations for SUVs and houses for the president, his wife and other public officials, sparking anger and criticism from citizens in one of the world’s poorest countries. Already, the country’s National Assembly recently

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Yellen says the US economic relationship with China must consider human rights and national security

By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says Washington wants to build an economic relationship with Beijing that takes into account national security and human rights and is fair to both sides. In laying out the Biden administration’s economic approach toward the Indo-Pacific region, Yellen says Washington does not seek

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Amazon used an algorithm to essentially raise prices on other sites, the FTC says

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer A newly unredacted portion of the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against Amazon says the company used a secret algorithm that essentially helped the company raise prices on other online sites. It also alleges Amazon executives intentionally deleted internal communication during the agency’s investigation into the company by using

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‘All the Light We Cannot See’ earnestly turns the prize-winning book into a dim miniseries

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Everything about “All the Light We Cannot See” – from the World War II backdrop to the starry supporting players to having a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel as source material – screams prestige, which makes the lifelessness of this four-part Netflix limited series more pronounced. Handsomely done and strangely

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Cornell University cancels classes Friday amid ‘extraordinary stress’ on campus after violent antisemitic threats led to the arrest of a student

CNN By Elizabeth Wolfe and Zenebou Sylla, CNN (CNN) — Cornell University has canceled classes Friday to acknowledge the “extraordinary stress” its campus has been under as one of its students is accused of making violent antisemitic threats against Jewish people at the college, where unease over the Israel-Hamas war has been escalating for weeks.

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Fact check: Donalds makes inaccurate claim about Biden’s income to argue he couldn’t legitimately afford loan to his brother

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. James Comer, raised questions in October about a $200,000 check that one of Joe Biden’s siblings wrote to Biden in March 2018 with the words “loan repayment” written on the front. Though the available evidence suggests that James Biden was

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