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As San Francisco's current reparations push has garnered the spotlight, a nationwide coalition of Democratic mayors has been working on pushing reparations for its Black residents as a template for the federal government. AdChoices FOX News FOX News Mayors’ coalition has big plans to take reparations movement national: ‘Moving that needle’ Story by Joe Schoffstall • Yesterday 6:00 AM As San Francisco's current reparations push has garnered the spotlight, a nationwide coalition of Democratic mayors has been working on pushing reparations for its Black residents as a template for the federal government. All right, so the reparations movement is a...

Across France, more than 300 people have reported being pricked out of the blue with needles at nightclubs or concerts in recent months. Doctors and multiple prosecutors are on the case, but no one knows who’s doing it or why, and whether the victims have been injected with drugs — or indeed any substance at all. Club owners and police are trying to raise awareness, and a rapper even interrupted his recent show to warn concert-goers about the risk of surprise needle attacks. It’s not just France: Britain’s government is studying a spate of “needle spiking” there, and police in...

(TrialSiteNews) — Imagine parents finding their teenage sons dead in their beds in the morning with no prior indications that they were seriously ill. Imagine the heartache of parents who bought into the coercion and propaganda to get their kids vaccinated despite all the CDC data showing little risk of serious health impacts from COVID for children. Now their kids have died in their sleep shortly after getting the shots.Note that an excellent article in June 2021 was titled: “If Covid-19 vaccines can cause heart inflammation, caution should be warranted in those at risk.” It said this: “Although most cases...

At least eight people are dead after a crowd surge during the sold-out Astroworld music festival in Houston on Friday, the city's fire chief said. Seventeen people were transported to the hospital after the crush, and 11 who were taken by ambulance were in cardiac arrest, Houston officials said. In all, more than 300 people were treated throughout the event Friday at an on-site field hospital. Around 9:15 p.m. local time (10:15 p.m. ET) "the crowd began to compress toward the front of the stage," Fire Chief Samuel Peña said at a news conference early Saturday. "That caused some panic,...

The Houston PD's Chief, Troy Finner, just confirmed what we'd been told ... namely, that at least one person had been injected with something via needle -- and there well may have been more. Chief Finner said a security guard working the event felt a prick in his neck by an unknown assailant while he was trying to restrain a citizen -- and he quickly fell unconscious. Finner says the guard was revived by use of NARCAN ... and that medical personnel did, indeed, see something on his neck that indicated he'd been stabbed with a syringe.

Trump, speaking during the final hour of trading at the Bioprocess Innovation Center at Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies, noted the swift progress being made in the race for a coronavirus vaccine. Earlier in the session, Moderna announced the beginning of a Phase 3 trial for its experimental COVID-19 vaccine. Novavax also rose in tandem...Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is set to unveil his $1 trillion coronavirus relief proposal, which reduces the recently expired unemployment benefits, sends a $1,200 check to Americans making less than $75,000 a year and provides billions of dollars of aid to schools and universities.

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ELEANOR, WV (WOWK) - One woman found something she didn't expect during her trip to a local store — a syringe. Carrie Lambert says she stopped by Family Dollar in Eleanor this morning to pick up a blanket. She says when she unfolded the blanket, she saw a syringe in the folds. Lambert says that, in shock, she quickly returned the blanket to the store.

Terri Been’s voice shook as she read a long text message from her niece. “I had a nightmare about my dad last night,” Paige Rowan told her aunt in the text. Rowan described a dream in which she watched helplessly as the execution needle pierced her father’s skin. She woke up screaming, panicking and feeling hopeless, she told Been.

(CNN) -- Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has been found dead of an apparent drug overdose in his Manhattan apartment, law enforcement sources said Sunday. Hoffman, 46, was found in the bathroom of the fourth-floor apartment, the sources told CNN.

DETROIT (WWJ) - A 23-year-old man has been arraigned on torture and attempted rape charges following an attack on a Detroit woman who he allegedly burned with a blow torch. Roderick Neely was arraigned Saturday and ordered held without bond pending his next court date. Neely also is charged with unlawful imprisonment, assault with intent to maim, assault with intent to do great bodily harm, felon in possession and felony firearm. The charges stem from a incident that happened around 2 a.m. Wednesday in a blighted neighborhood near Plymouth and Meyers on the city’s west side. The 43-year-old victim told...

<p>ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO (USA) - Children at a city-run preschool program in Albuquerque, N.M., are being examined by doctors after teachers learned they had pricked themselves with hypodermic needles that were mistakenly donated to their classroom.</p> <p>Officials say two syringes were in a box containing a stethoscope, medical gloves and other medical supplies intended to be used by the kids to play doctor. At least four children were pricked by the needles Tuesday.</p>

A man robbed a Minneapolis bank by threatening tellers with a hypodermic needle, saying he had AIDS and nothing to live for, according to Minneapolis FBI. At 3 p.m. on Friday, the FBI said a man walked into a TCF Bank located at 1444 W. Lake St., holding the needle that appeared to contain blood. He demanded cash from all three duty tellers. After tellers complied with his demand, he placed the cash into a red plastic bag and was last seen entering an ABC taxi, FBI said. The man is being decribed as a white male, 6-foot-1-inches to 6-foot-2-inches...

A WOMAN has called on police to investigate after a needle was found in her 11-year-old daughter's brain and she believes it may have been inserted by someone 10 years ago. The girl had the needle successfully removed in an operation at Chengdu Military General Hospital in Sichuan Province, Chengdu Evening News reported yesterday. The needle had impaired the girl's physical and mental development. She has the intelligence of a child of three years old, according to doctors cited in the report. The mother Yang Xiaohui told the newspaper her daughter often cried and ran a fever, which she had...

MARATHON, Fla. -- An 11-year-old boy has been turned over to the Department of Juvenile Justice after authorities charged him with stabbing two 9-year-olds with a hypodermic needle and threatening a third one. The suspect, who was not named by Monroe County Sheriff's officials because he is a minor, was standing in a cafeteria line in school last Thursday. Monroe County Sheriff's deputies said the suspect stabbed two kids in the buttocks with a hypodermic needle. He then chased a third boy, who ran away and hid. The two victims told a teacher, who found the needle hidden in the...

Needle exchanges prevented 32,000 HIV cases: reportBy Brendan Trembath for AM Updated 6 hours 30 minutes ago A new report has found needle and syringe exchange programs have directly prevented tens of thousands of cases of HIV and hepatitis C. There are nearly 1,000 sites around the country where clean needles and syringes are handed out to drug users. Researchers from the University of New South Wales, who authored the report, say it is also saving on health costs. For every $1 spent on needle and syringe exchange programs, state and federal governments save $4. In the heart of Sydney's...

Researchers creating the tiny engines that could drive mini-starshipsMassive particle accelerators are exploring the world of the very small, but similar technology may someday propel needle-sized spacecraft to distances on a scale so large as to be almost unimaginable — between star systems. Thanks to research on nano-sized thrusters that act like portable particle accelerators, tiny spacecraft might be accelerated to near-lightspeed and sent to explore nearby stars — perhaps within our lifetimes.

fter nearly 20 years of quietly handing out free, clean needles to drug users on Berkeley's streets, the city's needle exchange is coming out of the shadows. In April, a year ahead of its 20th birthday, the Needle Exchange Emergency Distribution became a registered charity, a certified nonprofit group and last year was able to get a state grant that increased its yearly budget to more than $100,000. "We've really grown a lot in the last year," said NEED's 22-year-old director Christina Muller-Shinn. "When we got the money from the state, we were able to hire staff and before we...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A first-grader was suspended from school after bringing a package of medical needles to class and several other students and a teacher ended up being pricked. Watch The Story It's not known where the 6-year-old student got the needles. It's all a part of the investigation. But for now, the school is working with the health department, making sure every student and staff member is safe and aware, and getting the word out to parents. "My No. 1 job is to make sure that everyone is safe," said Wheatley Principal Robert Wagner, who has trained to keep...

A dentist has admitted she was "off target" when she punctured a patient's nose with a needle. Polish woman Joanna Chyzy, 34, who now lives in Collin, near Dumfries, was giving evidence to a misconduct hearing relating to her work in Somerset. She admitted perforating the woman's nose but denied failure to obtain consent and failing to stop when the patient showed signs of distress. The hearing before the General Dental Council continues. Ms Chyzy told the hearing about treating the patient in April 2005. "I pulled up her lip, I accept I was off target with the tip of...