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Florida is now the third state in the U.S. to top one million confirmed cases of COVID-19. Texas and California previously topped a million cases, with both states now reporting more than 1.2 million confirmed cases. Florida, per a CBS News rundown of Johns Hopkins University and Florida Department of Health data, surpassed one million […]
A photo of a Texas doctor cradling a COVID-19 patient in his arms made the rounds on social media this weekend, as the U.S. reels from a surge in cases following Thanksgiving. The doctor in the image, Dr. Joseph Varon, chief of staff at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, has repeatedly spoken about the […]
The 2020s started off on an awful foot, with the seismic losses of Kobe Bryant and Pop Smoke. Many thought that things couldn’t feel more surreal than they did in February. Then COVID-19 happened. The NBA suspended its season on April 11, after Jazz center Rudy Gobert became infected with the novel coronavirus. Within the hour, […]
Four Parisian police officers have been charged in the beating of a Black music producer earlier this month, after video of the cops beating him in the doorway of his recording studio went viral. The inciting incident appeared to be Zecler standing outside the studio without a face covering, which is illegal under France’s coronavirus […]
Moderna is asking regulators in the U.S. and Europe to fast-track emergency approval of its COVID-19 vaccine, after tests showed it to be 94 percent effective in protecting users against the deadly virus. The two-shot vaccine was tested on a massive sample of 30,000 people. Over the course of the the study, 196 people overall […]
Laverne Cox took to IGTV Saturday to detail a transphobic attack involving her and a male friend during a recent walk in Los Angeles’ Griffin Park. Cox said they were “aggressively” approached by a man who was asking them for the time. “The friend that I’m with looks at his watch and tells him the time, and […]
While the mysterious silver monolith found in the desert of southeastern Utah spurred alien theories, it seems that the statue has now suddenly vanished. The state’s Bureau of Land Management said in a Facebook post that an “unknown party” uninstalled the monolith at some point on Friday night. The post continued, “We have received credible reports […]
COVID-19 has been discovered on a mink farm in Oregon, where it has infected both staff and animals. According to the New York Post, the USDA’s National Veterinary Service Laboratory has verified the existence of the coronavirus in 10 samples from the farm. The state’s veterinarian, Dr. Ryan Scholz, has instructed the farm to quarantine […]
Former Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh has died. News 3 confirmed that the 46-year-old died peacefully while surrounded by his family members. The direct cause of his death is currently unclear. Zappos’ Twitter page shared a message sending their condolences after Hsieh’s passing, tweeting that “the world has lost a tremendous visionary and an incredible human being.” Many others […]
As the race to develop the COVID-19 vaccine continues, it appears that suspected North Korean hackers attempted to access AstraZeneca’s systems in the last weeks. Reuters reports that the hackers pretended to be job recruiters and used LinkedIn and WhatsApp to contact AstraZeneca employees with false job offers. Sources told the news outlet that the […]
