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New York state declares monkeypox an ‘imminent threat to public health’
Joseph Sohm/Getty Images, FILE (ALABANY, N.Y.) — New York state’s health commissioner declared monkeypox an “imminent threat to public health” on Thursday amid a rapid increase in cases. The declaration means that “local health departments [Read More…]
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Biden administration still weighing whether to declare monkeypox a public health emergency
ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — With new cases of monkeypox emerging rapidly across the country, the Biden administration is weighing whether to declare the growing outbreak a public health emergency, federal health [Read More…]
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Man cured of HIV, cancer following breakthrough stem cell transplant: Doctors
Westend61/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A 66-year-old man who was diagnosed with HIV in 1988 is said to be free of both the HIV virus and cancer, following a stem cell transplant from an unrelated [Read More…]
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Minorities are bearing the brunt of monkeypox cases in the US: CDC
Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images, FILE (ATLANTA) — Minorities are bearing the brunt of monkeypox cases in the United States, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. During a telemedia briefing Thursday, [Read More…]
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After 1st case of pregnant woman with monkeypox in US, what pregnant women should know
Mike Harrington/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the number of cases of monkeypox continue to rise in the United States, pregnant women are now among those affected. The first case of monkeypox in a pregnant [Read More…]
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Ex-NFL player Kevin Ware indicted in girlfriend’s murder
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (HOUSTON) — Former NFL player Kevin Ware was indicted Thursday for murder in the death of his missing girlfriend, Taylor Pomaski. “We appreciate everyone who has come forward to provide evidence and [Read More…]
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Secret Service director briefly postpones his retirement as successor search continues
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Secret Service Director Jim Murray is extending his time with the agency until a new director is selected, briefly extending his tenure as his agents finds themselves in the [Read More…]
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24 Republicans break with leadership, vote with Democrats to pass computer chip bill
Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Another major legislative win for Democrats came Thursday, when — over Republican objections of “corporate welfare” — a bipartisan group in the House passed a bill [Read More…]
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New ATF director speaks on his plans for the agency
Oliver Contreras – Pool/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — The Senate confirmed Steven Dettelbach as director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives earlier this month, making him only the second ATF director to [Read More…]
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As US economy slows, Biden resists recession label and touts ‘historically strong’ job market
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Thursday pointed to robust job growth and low unemployment that should, he argued, quell growing concerns of a financial downturn after it was announced that the [Read More…]
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Trump PAC made large donations to Michigan group and others pushing voting restrictions or false election claims
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As former President Donald Trump continues to push false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election, his political action committee has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars [Read More…]
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7-year-old credited with saving toddler from bottom of swimming pool
Tiara Delvalle (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — A 7-year-old California boy is being heralded as a hero for his quick-thinking actions that helped save a toddler at the bottom of a pool. Massiah Browne, of Sacramento, was [Read More…]
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13-year-old girl going to medical school shares advice for other kids
D. Lacy Photography (NEW YORK) — Alena Analeigh Wicker, a 13-year-old from Texas, is not preparing for back to school like most kids her age. Alena has already been accepted to medical school, with plans [Read More…]
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New York Police Department officer adopts dog she rescued from hot car
@NYPD19Pct/Twitter (NEW YORK) — A New York City police officer has adopted the same dog that she helped save from a hot car last month. Aruna Maharaj, an officer with the NYPD’s 19th Precinct, adopted [Read More…]
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3 children, mother found dead in apparent murder suicide: Police
kali9/Getty Images (DANBURY, Conn.) — A Connecticut mother allegedly killed her three children before taking her own life, the Danbury Police Department said Thursday. Police identified the mother as 36-year-old Sonia Loja and her three [Read More…]
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Highland Park mom forges new mission to combat gun violence
ABC News (CHICAGO) — Ashbey Beasley said the horrors of the July Fourth mass shooting are still fresh in her mind. The Highland Park, Illinois, native was at the Independence Day parade with her 6-year-old [Read More…]
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Trevor Reed ‘cautiously optimistic’ about proposal to free Griner and Whelan from Russia
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Trevor Reed, a former Marine from Texas who served nearly three years in a Russian prison before he was freed in a prison swap this spring, said he is “cautiously [Read More…]
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Niece of slain Palestinian journalist speaks out on aunt’s killing
OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — The family of veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed in May while on assignment covering an Israeli military raid in the occupied West [Read More…]
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Universal reveals explosive teaser to Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’
Universal Pictures In an ongoing live loop of the teaser, Universal Pictures revealed on Thursday the first footage of Christopher Nolan‘s star-studded historical drama Oppenheimer. Frequent Nolan player Cillian Murphy plays J. Robert Oppenheimer, the [Read More…]
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“Marilyn doesn’t exist”: Ana de Armas’ Marilyn Monroe grapples with fame in new trailer to Netflix’s ‘Blonde’
Cannavale and de Armas — Netflix In the new full trailer to Blonde, the Marilyn Monroe biopic starring Ana de Armas, we see the screen legend grappling with her onscreen persona and how it conflicts [Read More…]