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Dr. Anthony Fauci says that the government’s response against monkeypox must include combating anti-gay stigmas that could be associated with the disease. Speaking with NPR’s “All Things Considered” on Tuesday, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), highlighted the importance of treating the virus as one that can affect anybody, and not only a certain part of the population. There are 19,188 confirmed cases of monkeypox in the current outbreak, which the World Health Organization has recently classified as a public health emergency. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 3,591 of them...

Jerusalem Post Breaking News BREAKING NEWS Coronavirus in Israel: 507 new cases, highest since March By JERUSALEM POST STAFF JULY 6, 2021 08:53 Some 507 new cases of the novel coronavirus were reported in Israel on Monday, the highest number of cases in a day in recent months, according to a Tuesday morning update by the Health Ministry. Of those infected, 35 were in serious condition, with 24 new patients in serious condition in the past week, of whom 14 were vaccinated. The death toll stood at 6,429.

NARSARSUAQ, Greenland: A strange thing is happening at the edge of Poul Bjerge's forest, a place so minute and unexpected that it brings to mind the teeny piece of land that Woody Allen's father carries around in the film "Love and Death." Its four oldest trees - in fact, the four oldest pine trees in Greenland, named Rosenvinge's trees after the Dutch botanist who planted them in a mad experiment in 1893 - are waking up. After lapsing into stately, sleepy old age, they are exhibiting new sprinklings of green at their tops, as if someone had glued on fresh...

U.N. Security Council imposes sanctions on Iran 8 minutes ago The U.N. Security Council on Saturday unanimously imposed sanctions on Iran's trade in sensitive nuclear materials and ballistic missiles, in a move aimed at getting Tehran to halt uranium enrichment work.

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A joint UK-US team has put forward an alternative theory of cosmic evolution. It proposes that the Universe undergoes cycles of "Big Bangs" and "Big Crunches", meaning our Universe is merely a "child of the previous one". It challenges the conventional view of the cosmos, which observations show to be 12-14 billion years old. The new ideas, reported in the journal Science, may explain why the expansion of the Universe is accelerating, the researchers say. "At present the conventional view is that all of space, time, matter and energy began at a single point, which then expanded and cooled, leaving...

RALEIGH, N.C. — Army officials are investigating allegations that members of the celebrated 82nd Airborne Division appear on a gay pornography Web site, a spokeswoman said Friday. Authorities at Fort Bragg have begun an inquiry into whether the paratroopers' actions violated the military conduct code. Division spokeswoman Maj. Amy Hannah declined to say how many paratroopers are involved or identify their unit within the division. A defense official speaking on condition of anonymity said up to seven soldiers are involved. Hannah said soldiers questioned will be allowed to seek legal assistance, but she declined to say if any one had...

Abu Masab al-Zarqawi may have already been captured, this according to a source who contacted NewsJerks.com. The source said “Iraqi forces have captured Abu Masab al-Zarqawi and several of his high level associates.” The source contacted NewsJerks.com on January 20th of this year, several days before the announcement of the capture of Zarqawi’s top lieutenants. NewsJerks.com originally sat on the story until the capture of Zarqawi’s top lieutenants. Then realizing the source was accurate to a certain point, decided to research more into the story. The source gave the news satire site three sources, form CNN, NSA, and the CIA,...

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