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British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason has received the long-term loan of a 1700 Matteo Gofriller cello. The loan was facilitated by the Florian Leonhard Fellowship, and secured in late May. The cello has been purchased for the 22-year-old’s use by an anonymous syndicate of private investors for a seven-figure sum. Kanneh-Mason, who received an MBE in the 2020 New Year’s Honours List, performed Dvořák’s Cello Concerto on the Gofriller cello on 28 May at London’s Royal Festival Hall, in a concert with the Chineke! orchestra (pictured). He said that the cello ’presents a kaleidoscope of tonal qualities which simply fills the...

Wall Street stocks ended lower on Wednesday, reversing earlier gains as institutional investors awaited inflation data for clues as to when the U.S. Federal Reserve might tighten its dovish monetary policy.

Burger King has introduced a new chicken sandwich to compete with Chick-Fil-A. To make their sandwich more friendly to the LGBTQ community, they announced they are offering it on Sundays, and donating to LGBTQ causes with each sale. Sources say the community is "extremely bummed" that they have to eat at Burger King now. "Why? WHY did Burger King do this to us?" said Xander Brenner, local gay man. "Chick-Fil-A is delicious. Eating their food is like touching heaven. Now I'm supposed to go to Burger King and eat this chewy crap alternative made by someone who didn't wash their...

An “influencer” surgeon with millions of followers on social media is calling out the medical community over what he views as painful myths about breast implants. For some, having their chest augmented is a dream come true. For others, that dream slowly becomes a nightmare — in the form of a mysterious sickness dubbed “breast implant illness” (BII). Now, Dr. Anthony Youn, a Detroit-based plastic surgeon with a following of 4.6 million on TikTok, is making his stance known in the contentious debate over an illness that some doctors say doesn’t exist.

An avid surfer on Cape Cod, Jim Papadonis has seen a great white shark, and all of the surfers he goes out with have also. Read More There was the time he saw one fully breach the water about 150 yards from where he was surfing. There was also the time a friend and fellow surfer had a shark chomp into his board just after he had rode a wave in. Papadonis, along with the rest of his surfing group, all use shark repellents from Ocean Guardian, particularly one that attaches to their surfboards, he said. Ocean Guardian devices, according...

During a Wednesday appearance on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) stressed the importance of helping the countries that people are flocking from to the United States. According to Carper, the “issue” at the border is not a result of the conditions at the border, but rather the countries that are full of “crime” and “corruption.”

Researchers studying records of 1.7 million adults who received the AstraZeneca AZN 2.29% PLC Covid-19 vaccine in Scotland found a small increased risk of bleeding conditions also sometimes associated with several vaccines routinely given to children, and usually treatable.The blood disorders are different from a very rare but sometimes deadly blood-clotting condition that—coupled with low platelet levels—researchers in Europe have already linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine. That possible side effect has been the focus of regulatory and government scrutiny in recent months.In the new paper, published Wednesday in the journal Nature Medicine, researchers from the U.K. and New Zealand said...

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One of the downsides of wearing camouflage is how much you stand out in the crowd while running errands after a hunting trip. Ironically, camouflage — the pattern designed to blend in — has the opposite effect once the wearer leaves the woods and rejoins society. Instead of concealing, it becomes conspicuous. What if there was a way to quickly don and shed camouflage layers, seamlessly blending in between natural and civilized environments? Nomad has the perfect solution with the Leafy Zip Pullover and Pants that quickly and efficiently chameleon-ifies you into a hunter. One moment, you might look like...

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Dozens of Fells Point businesses say they are prepared to hold their city taxes, minor privilege fees and permit fees hostage until Baltimore increases police enforcement and municipal service in the area, according to a letter signed by 37 neighborhood restaurants and storefronts. The announcement comes after three men were shot Saturday night on Thames Street and Aliceanna Street. “What is happening in our front yard — the chaos and lawlessness that escalated this weekend into another night of tragic, unspeakable gun violence — has been going on for far too long,” said the letter addressed to...

While the Democrats were juggling many priorities over the past several months — including impeaching former President Donald Trump and passing a massive pandemic relief package — the inaction on many of the last-minute Trump rules disappointed some progressive advocates, who had urged the party to strike the rules as quickly as possible. “It’s disappointing because it’s so important,” said Sasha Buchert, a senior attorney for Lambda Legal, a civil rights advocacy organization focused on LGBTQ issues. The group had pushed Congress to undo a Trump-era rule allowing social services providers receiving federal funds to discriminate based on sexual orientation...

Do any of you racist mongers ever wonder why God did not make the moon more diverse?

"If you look at our numbers year over year, month over month, we're actually trending in the right direction," Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Tuesday. Mayor Lightfoot made a startling claim after the Sun-Times reported a huge increase in the number of Chicago children wounded or killed by guns. The mayor said she was on the South and West sides last weekend when an astounding 63 people of all ages were shot. "Many of the people that are being shot are being shot by people who look just like them, similar age. And so this whole of government approach that...

A Serbian volleyball player has been banned for two matches after making a racist gesture during a game against Thailand last week. Sanja Djurdjevic was pictured on camera narrowing her eyes with her fingers, causing outrage from fans online. The player has since apologised along with the Volleyball Federation of Serbia, who described the incident as a "simple misunderstanding". The federation has also been fined 20,000 Swiss francs (£15,832; $22,392). The money will be donated to "a cause tackling discriminatory behaviour and/or to fund educational programmes on cultural sensitivity for the global Volleyball Family," the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) announced...

It’s Cribs: the 2021 New York City mayoral race edition. City Hall candidate and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams invited the press over to his home in Bedford-Stuyvesant for breakfast and a tour after a Politico report suggested he actually lives in New Jersey. “Welcome to my humble home. I moved here to Bedford-Stuyvesant over almost 20 years ago,” Adams said Wednesday in front of the four-story brick home on Lafayette Avenue. He also joked that other campaigns would have easily found out if he wasn’t a city resident and that he should have offered any spies from his rivals...

SAN JOSE, CA—Local half-white, half-black man Michael Preston has been ordered to pay himself reparations since half his ancestors were oppressed and half were oppressors. "Wait -- what?" he said after he received a letter from Governor Gavin Newsom's office informing him he owed himself over $25,000. "Uh... OK? I guess?" He then went down to the bank and ordered a transfer to himself. He was a little short of the total amount so made it in installments, sending himself several payments totaling the $25,000 amount he owes himself for his ancestors oppressing his other ancestors. "We'd like to thank...

Communist candidate Pedro Castillo appears to have won the Peruvian presidential election as of Wednesday afternoon in a tight race separating him from rival conservative Keiko Fujimori by less than 0.5 percent of the vote. Peru’s National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE), which verifies and counts every vote, had completed 99.795 percent of the tally as of Wednesday morning local time. With over 18.5 million votes counted, including 100 percent of ballots from abroad, Castillo was holding firm with 50.206 percent of the vote to Fujimori’s 49.794 percent.

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U.S. Park Police did not clear Lafayette Park and the nearby area of protesters on June 1, 2020, so President Donald Trump could walk from the White House over to St. John’s Church, but learned of his interest in surveying the site hours after they already had begun planning to clear the area to put up new fencing, according to a new watchdog report. The Interior Department’s inspector general did not determine whether law enforcement acted inappropriately against demonstrators last year, but found that poor communication between agencies and ineffective dispersal warnings "may have contributed to confusion during the operation...

The data showed a 40% decrease in lung inflammation from treatment – from 55% to 15%, as seen in chest X-rays * Rambam Health Care Campus doctor: ‘Results extremely impressive’An Israeli biotechnology company has claimed a 100% success rate in the first 10 patients treated with its drug as part of an early-stage clinical trial at Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa. The company, Bonus BioGroup, presented the preliminary findings of its Phase I/II trial to peers at the International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy conference in New Orleans last week and shared the results in a statement released...