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SNIP The most characteristic symptom of monkeypox is a rash that can look like pimples or blisters that appear on the face, inside the mouth and one other parts of the body like hands, feet, chest, genitals or anus. The rash typically lasts two-four weeks and will go through different stages before healing. Other symptoms include fever, headache, muscle aches and backaches, swollen lymph nodes, chills and exhaustion. According to the World Health Organization, the incubation period of monkeypox (the interval from infection to onset of symptoms) is usually 6-13 days but can range from 5-21 days. Patients typically report...

A crew member from TV's "Law & Order: Organized Crime" was shot and killed early Tuesday morning in New York City while on the set of the NBC drama series, according to a report from Variety....The slain crew member was sitting in his car at approximately 5:15 a.m. in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, according to police....An unknown suspect approached the victim's car, opened the door, and then allegedly opened fire. After being transported to Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn, the crew member was pronounced dead, according to Variety.

Explanation: Stars come in bunches. The most famous bunch of stars on the sky is the Pleiades, a bright cluster that can be easily seen with the unaided eye. The Pleiades lies only about 450 light years away, formed about 100 million years ago, and will likely last about another 250 million years. Our Sun was likely born in a star cluster, but now, being about 4.5 billion years old, its stellar birth companions have long since dispersed. The Pleiades star cluster is pictured over Half Dome, a famous rock structure in Yosemite National Park in California, USA. The featured...

Where Are the Parents?Politicians and policymakers looking to address the youth-crime crisis cannot afford to ignore the question.A group of seven young Philadelphia teens were caught on surveillance camera beating a 73-year-old man named James Lambert Jr. to death with a traffic cone in June. The footage shows the teens giggling and recording the slow, brutal assault as if it were casual entertainment. “I just don’t know what’s going on in our city,” Lambert’s niece told Fox 29 Philadelphia. “Where were the parents?”Pennsylvania, like many states nationwide, is experiencing a youth-crime crisis. Data from the state’s Juvenile Court Judges’ Commission...

mandates, DeSantis explained, noting how his administration stood up for first responders and healthcare workers, They wanted to take some of these police officers and firefighters who had been working the whole time during COVID and then all of a sudden fire them because they didn’t get a shot,” he said, explaining that so-called experts ignored the reality of natural immunity. “We were right to make sure that we were doing that and you know, with the school children, we saw that very early on, I mean over a year and a half ago and made sure that that parents...

July 19, 2022 at 12:08 pm PDT A Multnomah County circuit judge has dropped charges against Joey Gibson, the founder of Patriot Prayer, and Russell Schultz for their role in a 2019 street brawl outside a cider bar in Northeast Portland. A trial in the case of a third defendant, Mackenzie Lewis, will continue. Judge Benjamin Souede threw out the charges in court this morning, saying that prosecutors had failed to demonstrate that Gibson and Russell Schultz had engaged in “tumultuous and violent conduct,” one of the requirements for conviction on riot charges. “The state is trying to convict Mr....

Graphical abstract. Credit: Cell Reports Medicine (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2022.100679 Although COVID-19 booster vaccinations in adults elicit high levels of neutralizing antibodies against the omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, antibody levels decrease substantially within 3 months, according to new clinical trial data. The findings, published today in Cell Reports Medicine, are from a study sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. The trial was led by NIAID's Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Consortium. As part of a "mix and match" clinical trial, investigators administered COVID-19 booster vaccines to adults in the United...

Americans' confidence in newspapers and television news has fallen to all-time low points, according to the latest Gallup survey of institutions. Americans have the least confidence in Congress of all institutions named in the survey, but the news media institution comes in second from the bottom....Just 16% of U.S. adults now say they have "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in newspapers and 11% in television news. Both are down 5 percentage points since last year, Gallup reports....Gallup has tracked Americans' confidence in newspapers since 1973 and television news since 1993 as part of its annual polling...

Paying near record-high prices for gas may be hitting your wallet hard, but according to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, that will just make an electric vehicle all the more worth it. During a House hearing on Tuesday, Buttigieg said, “The more pain we are all experiencing from the high price of gas, the more benefit there is for those who can access electric vehicles.” Watch the video below: VIDEO AT LINK....................... According to AAA, the national average price for a gallon of gas is $4.49, down from $4.98 a month ago. However, it is up from $3.17 a year ago....

Chipotle is closing a Maine store that had been leading efforts to unionize the chain. Employees at the Augusta, Maine, Chipotle filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board in June asking to hold a union election at the store. It was the first of the Mexican food chain’s stores to file such a petition, according to NLRB filings. The NLRB had scheduled a hearing Tuesday on Chipotle’s objections to the union election. But early Tuesday, Chipotle announced it was permanently closing the store.

(Translation) Law 54 on domestic violence will now protect against pet mistreatment following Governor Pedro Pierluisi’s signing into law House Bill 582 authored by Representative Ángel Matos García, Popular Democratic Party House Leader. The amendment to Law 54, known as “Law for the Prevention [of] and Intervention in Domestic Violence”, includes threat of pet mistreatment or [pet] mistreatment [itself] within the behaviors that are defined as intimidation and psychological violence and categorizes new aggravating circumstances. According to the legislator, studies have shown that these behaviors are part of the tactics the aggressor performs to inflict fear, despair, sadness, or intimidation,...

The 1968-69 “Hong Kong Flu” Pandemic RevisitedIt was a very bad year for the flu. The pathogen came in two large waves. This is only obvious in retrospect. At the time, not so much. Life went on as normal. There were gatherings. There were parties. There was travel. There were no masks. Doctors treated the sick. Traditional public health reigned as it had during the flu pandemic ten years earlier. No one considered lockdowns. It’s a good thing because it was in the thick of this that many “super-spreader” events took place, among which was Woodstock itself. That event influenced...

Conservation and clean-air groups have filed a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s resumption of oil and gas leasing on public lands. Oil and gas industry groups argue opening up more public lands for drilling will increase global supplies. A new lawsuit hopes to reverse the BLM's recent approval of oil and gas lease sales on public lands across eight western states, including nearly 120-thousand acres in Wyoming, in part to protect public health. Melissa Hornbein, with the Western Environmental Law Center, said regions surrounding federal oil and gas production face dangerous air quality issues—due to methane leaks, ground-level ozone, and...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is withholding records related to high-profile investigations, including the probe into President Joe Biden’s son, according to a new lawsuit. Protect the Public’s Trust, a watchdog group, is seeking records seeking ethics waivers and determinations on allowing potentially conflicted employees to work on cases, but has been stymied. The group submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) records request on June 1, 2021, but didn’t receive a response for more than a year, according to the suit. After inquiring about the status of the request on June 10, the watchdog received an acknowledgment that...

President Joe Biden could declare a climate emergency as soon as this week, according to The Washington Post, in a bid to implement elements of his environmental agenda as climate legislation has stalled in Congress. Leading Biden administration officials are debating ways to advance the president’s agenda, and the president is prepared to announce a number of new initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reported the Post, citing three people familiar with the matter. The internal discussions come after Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia told party leaders last week that he opposes the plans to advance this month’s...

Data experts from the Data Integrity Group identified material fraud in the 2020 Election in Georgia that would have given President Trump the lead in the state. However, this was ignored by Secretary of State Raffensperger who certified the state for Biden anyways. Looking back at a presentation to the Georgia Senate on December 30, 2020, a group of Data experts from the Data Integrity Group identified fraud that resulted in President Biden stealing the election in the state. The state ignored this fraud and certified the election anyways.Lynda McLaughlin from the Data Integrity Group, along with data scientists Justin...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a bold move this morning to address the nation's financial woes, President Biden has officially called on the American economy to stop being bad. "Come on, economy!" said an impassioned President Biden. "Make everything cheaper! Give everyone more money! I hereby demand you stop being atrocious! Do it. Do it now!" Pundits immediately lauded President Biden's brilliant plan, with MSNBC heralding it as the most transformative economic initiative since the New Deal. "Biden simply asking the economy to be better is nothing short of genius," said Rachel Maddow. "Economists are out there playing checkers, and Joe...

The number of home sales in California in June dropped a staggering 21% year-over-year, a report from the California Association of Realtors revealed this week. Outside of the early pandemic downturn in 2020, that plunge is the biggest since 2008, during the nadir of the Great Recession. The Bay Area has seen a similar trend to the rest of the state, with home sales down a whopping 29% over past year. The cost of buying a home, however, hasn't yet dropped in San Francisco. Zillow data shows that the average cost of a single family home in the city in...

A Chicago man and three juveniles committed two robberies in about 30 minutes Saturday night near Wrigley Field, authorities said. But the real surprise during Cortez Savage’s bail hearing came from his defense attorney, who claimed that he graduated from Walter Payton College Prep and is studying accounting at Howard University. That didn’t sit well with Judge Barbara Dawkins. “This defendant is a graduate of one of the best high schools in this city and is currently attending one of the most prestigious historically Black colleges in this country,” Dawkins noted. She then ordered Savage to pay an $8,000 bail...

On MSNBC's Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart, Rep. Pramila Jayapal talked about a man yelling outside her home who was arrested for threatening to kill her. So now, as Jason Rantz asserted, "She is now the beneficiary of the very systems she seeks to destroy." Capehart was "chilled," and Jayapal was "not OK" with the fact that the man has been released from jail pending further investigation. Capehart, predictably, never mentioned that Jayapal has been a critic of cash bail, has supported defunding the police, and told her supporters to "take to the streets" and "fight tooth and nail" for...