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A San Diego family is mourning the death of Blanca Estela and Juan Manuel Rodriguez, high school sweethearts who died of COVID-19 just hours apart. According to CNN, the 67-year-olds tested positive for the virus on Jan. 18, along with other members of their household. Their children told the outlet they’re unsure how the family contracted disease, as […]
Jeff Bezos is once again the richest man on Earth. The Amazon head regained his title after being surpassed by Elon Musk in January. The back-and-forth for the title continued, after Musk’s Tesla stock slid by more than 2.4% to $796 per share on Tuesday. That allowed Bezos to regain his familiar perch on the list of the […]
Scientists who accidentally came across bizarre life forms on a boulder way beneath Antarctica’s ice shelves are surprised (and puzzled) by their incidental discovery. The find, which was published in Frontiers in Marine Science on Monday, came about as researchers drilled through nearly 3,000 feet of ice in the southeastern Weddell Sea (the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf) when they saw […]
Dominion Voting Systems is planning to file a lawsuit against Mike Lindell, the MyPillow CEO whose MAGA-supporting behavior includes the spreading of baseless election fraud claims. Speaking with the Daily Beast on Tuesday, Tom Clare—an attorney repping Dominion—said the company expects to file the suit in question “imminently” and noted Lindell’s repeated instances of false […]
A federal lawsuit accusing Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Proud Boys, and Oath Keepers of conspiring to incite a violent riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6 has been filed by the NAACP and the civil rights law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll. The suit, backed by Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson and other members of […]
Jamaican authorities have requested that the public stop sharing social media posts about a JetBlue flight attendant who allegedly was kidnapped in Jamaica. The Jamaica Constabulary Force issued a statement that said the woman, Kalina Collier “is not, nor was she at any time, in any danger.” When Collier arrived on the island from the U.S., […]
Florida mom Amanda Paige Davis and her live-in boyfriend Charner Leon Williams IV have been arrested after her toddler drowned in a pool as they slept. As revealed in a police statement, preliminary investigations show that Davis’ 23-months-old daughter was discovered unresponsive in the pool at their residence on Saturday. CPR was performed by the […]
On Monday, Parler, the social media site preferred by conservatives, came back online. The site, which is now redesigned, had effectively been taken off the internet a month ago when Amazon Web Services suspended it. It was also suspended from the app stores of Apple and Google. “Speak freely and express yourself openly, without fear of […]
Thanks to his habit of actively defending science amid the pandemic era, Dr. Anthony Fauci—the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases—has been awarded the $1 million Dan David Prize. The Dan David Foundation, based in Israel, announced Dr. Fauci as the winner of one of three prizes due to the recognition he’s earned […]
Health maintenance organization (HMO) Clalit, the largest healthcare provider in Israel, has reported a drop of 94 percent of symptomatic COVID-19 infections from a group of 600,000 people who have gotten both of the necessary doses of the Pfizer vaccine, according to Reuters. HMO Clalit covers more than half of Israel’s population, and also reported that […]
