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ABC legal analyst Sunny Hostin said Monday on ABC’s “The View” that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s incorrect number on pediatric COVID cases in hospitals was “not accurate.” However, Hostin said she was “correct” that there are more children in hospitals with COVID. Co-host Whoopi Goldberg said, “Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor got a couple of her statistics wrong.”

A statement from the governor's office said the blast happened when a cart selling food items struck an old, unexploded mortar shell in the district of Lalopar, in eastern Nangarhar province. The province has been a stronghold for the offshoot of ISIS known as ISIS-K, the terrorist group that claimed responsibility for last year's attack in Kabul that killed 13 U.S. service members and at least 170 Afghans.

908 Devices, manufacturer of purpose-built handheld and desktop devices for chemical and biomolecular analysis, and the United States Forest Service (USFS) are collaborating on a research effort to extend the capabilities of the MX908 handheld device for rapid detection of toxic pesticides used in illegal marijuana grows on federal lands. Drug traffickers plant marijuana in remote areas on U.S. federal lands, mainly in the Pacific Southwest, and use toxic and illegal pesticides to accelerate crop growth. USFS personnel currently have no safe and reliable method to conduct pesticide testing at the site of these illegal marijuana grows. They often must...

A Maryland man is doing well after surgeons and clinicians from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the University of Maryland Medical Center performed the first successful transplant of a genetically modified pig’s heart Friday to save his life, officials from the health system said Monday. After being diagnosed with terminal heart disease, the patient, 57-year-old David Bennett, had been deemed ineligible for a conventional heart transplant at the University of Maryland Medical Center and other transplant centers around the country. Doctors will monitor him in the hospital over the next several weeks or months to ensure that...

Explanation: Why does Comet Leonard's tail wag? The featured time-lapse video shows the ion tail of Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) as it changed over ten days early last month. The video was taken by NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory-Ahead (STEREO-A) spacecraft that co-orbits the Sun at roughly the same distance as the Earth. Each image in this 29-degree field was subtracted from following image to create frames that highlight differences. The video clearly shows Comet Leonard's long ion tail extending, wagging, and otherwise being blown around by the solar wind -- a stream of fast-moving ions that stream out from...

The CEO of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer said Monday that he hopes the coronavirus will be “controlled” by a combination of annual vaccinations and pills to treat illness, underscoring that the world has new tools to prevent serious sickness even as it faces a case surge. Albert Bourla, whose company manufactures a widely used coronavirus vaccine, said on CNBC that a “perfectly normal life” could be achieved with annual re-vaccination similar to annual flu shots and with pills for those who contract the virus.

Chicago Cardinal Heckled and Booed During Pro-Life RallyChicago Cardinal Blase Cupich was booed by a number of pro-life demonstrators at a Chicago rally Saturday for his alleged failure to oppose abortion more vigorously.Some of the protesters at Chicago’s March for Life carried green signs with white lettering that read “Cupich is the culture of death” and one video reproduced a tweet by the cardinal in which he insisted on the sanctity of life “from birth until natural death,” instead of “from conception.”According to a report by Carlos Esteban for infovaticana.com, Cardinal Cupich has tended to shy away from the pro-life...

COVID is causing a great fright but it's not the one you think. I am beginning to think that the media does not, under any circumstances, want the pandemic to end and neither does Anthony Fauci. COVID is not something to be trivialized but news outlets are competing with one another to see who can gin COVID up the most and create the biggest panic. To wit: Covid-19 surge is 'unprecedented' (msn.com)The new year is starting with a massive influx of Covid-19 that's different from any other during this pandemic, doctors say. "We're seeing a surge in patients again, unprecedented...

After receiving his first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in early December, Dr. Dimitri Ndina, described as a ‘very healthy’, loving father, husband, grandfather and pharmaceutical doctor at Tennessee Oncology, was soon admitted to St. Thomas Midtown Hospital in Nashville, according to his daughter Alexis, where after a 12 day hospital stay, he developed blood clots in his lower region and passed away on December 2022. NASHVILLE, TX – It has been revealed that a beloved and longtime Nashville doctor tragically passed away last month just days after receiving his first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, with the official...

Extreme meditation retreat, where participants practice for 10 hours daily, leads to significant changes to 220 genes linked to immune system.Meditating for a few minutes each day may be the first step in helping the body fight off cancer and viruses like COVID-19, a new study reveals. A team from the University of Florida found that meditation and yoga programs, or Inner Engineering practices, dramatically boost the body’s immune system. Their worked focused on patients practicing these techniques intensely — meditating for over 10 hours a day — for over a week. Meditation retreats have become increasingly popular over the...

Police received a call from the clerk around 3:40 a.m. reporting that a someone was trying to set the gas pumps on fire at the station located in the 2500 block of East La Palma Avenue. While waiting for officers to arrive, the clerk ended up in a confrontation with the suspect, a spokesperson for the Anaheim Police Department said. “He was chasing me around with his shirt on fire,” the clerk, Tuan Nguyen, said after the incident. The suspect eventually entered the store and started to smoke cigarettes behind the counter using his burning shirt to light them, Nguyen...

The title of this essay takes the form of a question that many people are sometimes forced to ask themselves, "Should I Evacuate?". I'll go on here but let me get right to the point and say that if you're in a situation where you're wondering if you need to evacuate then GO. It is time to get out. What if you're wrong? Well, then you can go back to wherever you were after you feel safe to do so. But don't be worried that you might be wrong when you're in the moment, just act appropriately for your safety...

Nearly 80 percent of deaths from type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are associated with thrombosis, a condition that occurs when blood clots block a vein or artery. Traditionally, it's been thought that proteins released by damaged blood vessels may lead to inappropriate blood clotting, but a new study points to another trigger and a new mechanism that may underlie thrombosis. Beginning with samples from patients, investigators identified the new mechanism that activated PIEZO1, a major mechanosensory ion channel. In the lab, the team examined its effects and its potential as a therapeutic target for preventing thrombosis or identifying people at...

President Biden plans to journey to Georgia on Tuesday to drum up support for a Democratic rewriting of the nation’s election laws and accuse Republicans of curtailing voting rights. A partisan showdown over election laws has become the Democrats’ top priority after the demise last month of Mr. Biden’s $1.75 trillion social justice and climate bill, which was the centerpiece of his domestic agenda. In Atlanta, Mr. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will lay a wreath at the crypt of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. before delivering a speech on voting rights, cementing the issue at the forefront of...

The Agriculture Ministry has located outbreaks of the Avian Flu in poultry farms in Binyamina. In one farm, 18,700 birds were found to be infected with the disease. The Agriculture Ministry's veterinary services isolated the farm to prevent the further spread of the virus. Last week, a bird flu outbreak was discovered in Moshav Ariel. The Agriculture Ministry is treating the situation as an emergency and is actively monitoring poultry farms in the area. To date, over a million birds have been found infected with bird flu across the country including about 8,000 cranes. Thousands of wild and domestic birds...

<p>Alabama football, ninjas, and karate have one thing in common, balance.</p><p>Balance is vital in everything. People who have a balanced life are those with more joy.</p><p>Football teams that balance on offense and defense win championships.</p><p>The Crimson Tide suffered a loss to Texas A&M in the 2021 regular season, but it is now in a place it knows well. Alabama is trying to repeat as champions tonight versus Georgia in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game at Lucas Oil Stadium. The Tide has found different ways to win all year, and it stems from the “Crimson Crane” celebration with Jameson Williams and John Metchie. After each touchdown, the two celebrated together. Williams is happy to achieve balance in his new home, while Metchie was excited to share responsibilities with his teammate.</p>

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla on Monday said a vaccine that targets the omicron variant of Covid will be ready in March, and the company’s already begun manufacturing the doses. “This vaccine will be ready in March,” Bourla told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “We [are] already starting manufacturing some of these quantities at risk.” Bourla said the vaccine will also target the other variants that are circulating. He said it is still not clear whether or not an omicron vaccine is needed or how it would be used

President Joe Biden’s net approval rating has fallen to its lowest level ever, following a modest rise in the president’s polling numbers last month. Ten days shy of a full year in office, Biden now averages a net negative approval rating of 12.5 points according to the RealClearPolitics rolling average of polls, with 42.1% of Americans approving of his performance as president, compared to 54.6% who disapprove of his job performance. The previous low point in Biden’s approval rating came on November 18th, when he averaged a net approval rating of negative 12.2 points. Biden’s approval rating ticked up in...

Among all the ways that COVID-19 affects our lives, the pandemic confronts us with a profound moral dilemma: How should we react to the deaths of the unvaccinated? On the one hand, a hallmark of civilized thought is the sense that every life is precious. On the other, those who have deliberately flouted sober medical advice by refusing a vaccine known to reduce the risk of serious disease from the virus, including the risk to others, and end up in the hospital or the grave can be viewed as receiving their just deserts. That’s even more true of those who...

If at first you don’t succeed, try again eight years later. Singer-songwriter Clay Aiken, best known for finishing second on “American Idol” nearly two decades ago, ​announced Monday that he would run for Congress as a Democrat for a second time after being soundly beaten in a 2014 House race. In a video announcing his candidacy that was posted on his Twitter account, Aiken told potential voters that “these days, my life looks a lot like yours than Justin Bieber’s, that I can promise you.” “But one thing that’s never changed for me is how much I love my home...