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A coroner has ruled that the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine should be added to the death certificate of a 'fit and healthy' NHS doctor who died ten days after receiving the jab. Dr Stephen Wright, 32, who worked as a clinical psychologist in south-east London, suffered a blood clot to the brain after having his first dose of the jab in January 2021. Senior coroner Andrew Harris today described the case as 'very unusual and deeply tragic'. The frontline health worker was among the earliest groups of people to be given the vaccine during the pandemic. A small group of people,...

Cheyenne police entered a man’s home unlawfully to arrest him, the Wyoming Supreme Court has ruled in overturning his conviction. The high court in its Monday order reversed Myron Martize Woods’ 2021 Cheyenne Circuit Court conviction of interference with a peace officer for fighting officers who entered his home unlawfully to arrest him. The conviction stemmed from Feb. 13, 2020, when police investigated a dispute between Woods and his ex-girlfriend over the care of their son. Woods’ ex-girlfriend said he had grabbed her neck, but a jury later acquitted Woods on that domestic battery charge. Cheyenne Police Department officers went...

We would like to think that many of the better trends and changes that have taken place in how we live have been determined by logic and governed by choice. The sad reality is that many of our preferences as a society are not organic or even the best choice when put under a microscope. Our choices or how we handle a problem often fall short. Outside influences such as politics and money often override what is best for us overall. If this were not the case the world might be a much better place to live. It is not...

Anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made his White House bid official Wednesday with a campaign kick-off event in Boston, standing alongside his actress wife, Cheryl Hines. Kennedy gave a rambling speech, remarking how the U.S. would have a 'really funny first lady' if he's elected, while admitting that most of the Kennedy clan wasn't backing his run for the Democratic nomination against President Joe Biden. 'There are other members of my family who are not here today,' the 69-year-old Kennedy scion said to laughs after giving shout-outs to the handful who were in the crowd. 'I know most...

Seattle firefighters responded to the report of an explosion in the basement of an apartment building Wednesday morning. At about 9:37 a.m., firefighters and police responded a report of the sound of an explosion in the 100 block of 1st Avenue North. As a precaution, the building was evacuated. HazMat crews also responded to the scene.

Fighting between the army and paramilitary forces continued in Sudan Wednesday with air strikes and explosions heard throughout the capital, despite a US-brokered ceasefire that was due to come into effect on Tuesday evening.

As we have been discussing for months, the United States ended its “job recovery” from the COVID-19 recession in December of 2022, when it finally surpassed the December 2019 level (158.8 million Americans employed) reaching 159.24 million Americans employed. Job creation above the U.S. pre-pandemic high is now at 160.9 million Americans employed or roughly 2.1 million jobs “created” above the pre-pandemic high as of March 2023. We are also concerned about the world economy as it seems to be returning to trading blocs and other forms of fragmentation while simultaneously looking to replace globalization and free trade. Brazil, Russia,...

The Walt Disney Company is going to cut thousands of staff next week - including 15 percent of its entertainment division. Disney has around 220,000 employees globally, around 170,000 of which are in the US. The layoffs will affect all major divisions of the roughly $185 billion company, which was recently split into: entertainment, ESPN and parks and resorts. Disney parks employs the majority of workers in the US - around 100,000 people in 2020, according to the latest publicly available figures - but it's unclear exactly how many staffers are being cut from each division. These plans were first...

Four Americans affiliated with a Black empowerment and political organization have been charged along with three Russians with conspiring to covertly sow discord in U.S. society, spread Russian propaganda and interfere illegally in U.S. elections, according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday.

Ready for another pandemic? New York City's health commissioner announced last week that the influx of migrants from the southern border -- more than 50,000 to New York City alone in the past year -- is delivering contagious diseases, including tuberculosis and polio, to our neighborhoods. The same disease threats are also endangering other migrant destinations, including California, Texas and Florida. In a letter to physicians and health care administrators citywide, Commissioner Ashwan Vasan explained that "many people who recently arrived in NYC have lived in or traveled through countries with high rates of TB." TB, short for tuberculosis, is...

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It was another weekend of violence and disorder in Chicago. "At least 32 shot, 8 fatally, in weekend violence across city," read one headline on the WLS-TV news website. Another headline said, "15 arrested in connection with Loop chaos after 2 teens shot." That story went on to report that a "large disturbance" -- more accurately, a small riot -- took place in the city's downtown area. Videos of the incident showed crowds of young people jumping on cars and buses. Later, at least one person pulled out a gun. It was, in other words, just another weekend in Chicago....

Due to heavy losses of military equipment since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia starts to deploy WWII-era equipment; in addition, the occupiers also have a shortage of manpower.Source: Western officials reported this on a briefing on Tuesday, 18 April, on the condition of anonymity, reports European Pravda, with a reference to CNNAccording to Western officials, there was no "large uptick in increasing equipment" on the battlefield from the Russian side. "If anything, the equipment they (the Russians – ed.) are using is the older generation.""They started with the T-80 and T-90 [tanks], went down to T-72,...

After months of speculation, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Friday that he will not seek the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.During a recent interview on “Special Report with Bret Baier,” Pompeo revealed he and his wife had “come to the conclusion that we’re not going to join the race in 2024.”“[W]hile we care deeply about America and the issues that I have been talking about this last year-and-a-half and, frankly, for decades, matter an awful lot, this isn’t our moment,” Pompeo said. The former secretary of state also released a pre-recorded video announcing the decision, adding that “the...

Earth Day is Saturday! Hooray?“Saving humanity from the climate crisis,” says EarthDay.org, requires us to “push away from the dirty fossil fuel economy.”Sounds logical.But my latest video explains why doing that is cruel to poor people. “Three billion people in the world still use less electricity than a typical refrigerator,” explains Alex Epstein, author of “The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels.” If they’re going to have “their first well-paying jobs … their first consistent supply of clean water … a modern life … that’s going to depend on fossil fuels.”But the greens say we have a better replacement: wind and...

A vapor trail forms as SpaceX launches 53 Starlink Satellites from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 24. SpaceX plans to put 21 more satellites into space on Wednesday. File Photo by Joe Marino/UPI | License Photo April 19 (UPI) -- SpaceX successfully launched 21 second-generation Starlink satellites into orbit on a blue sky day in Florida that went off with few problems Wednesday. The flight took off at around 10:31 a.m. after a handful of delays but once it left the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station everything appeared to go routinely well. That included the return of...

As the Democrats push more spending in their new budget, Republicans in the House are having yet another debate about raising the debt ceiling. The topic of the national debt tends to elicit shrugs and yawns from most Americans, but maintaining current spending levels carries enormous consequences for everyone. If anyone doubts this, they need only to look at France to see what awaits them in the near future.Although most of the news on France has centered around President Emmanuel Macron’s recent visit to China, there is something much more consequential happening back in his home country. For weeks now,...

A parking garage that collapsed Tuesday in lower Manhattan, killing one person and injuring five others, had six open building violations, three of which were classified as “hazardous,” New York City Department of Buildings records show. The garage, on Ann Street in the Financial District, was a four-story building that “pancaked … all the way to the cellar floor,” Department of Buildings acting Commissioner Kazimir Vilenchik said.

It’s tempting to shrug off the annoying pronoun questions from your doctor because they’re not hurting you. That’s where you’d be wrong.Last summer, I went to establish care at a new doctor’s office. My beloved pediatrician, one of the few true family doctors left in the industry, had once kindly offered to keep seeing me until I have my own children, but I was in the midst of a post-college move, and that was no longer feasible. So I found myself in a waiting room wading through the moat of new-patient forms that stand between patients and doctors all across...

ISS Expedition 69 cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, seen to the right, work outside the International Space Station Tuesday night during their six-hour-and-40-minute spacewalk. Screenshot courtesy of NASA April 18 (UPI) -- Two Russian cosmonauts are conducting a more than six-hour spacewalk Tuesday night outside the International Space Station in their third attempt to move a radiator and an experiment module. The six-hour-and-40-minute excursion by ISS Expedition 69 cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, who are equipped with helmet cameras, got underway at 9:40 p.m. EDT. "Spacewalkers Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin are currently outside the space station working...