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Florida high school raffles off rifles, handguns. "It's all about the kids."
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"We're playing with fire": US Covid cases may be 30 times higher than reported. About one in five - 22% - of adult New Yorkers likely had Covid between 23 April and 8 May, according to the preprint study, which has not been peer-reviewed or published. That would mean 1.5 million adults in the city had Covid in a single two-week period - far higher than official counts during that time.
Also, Vaccines reduce risk of long Covid by just 15 percent, study finds. While existing vaccines are great for preventing serious cases, they aren't as good at preventing long Covid.
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It's so hard to find workers that employers have essentially stopped firing people.
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About 200 years ago, the world started getting rich. Why?
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US Senator Margaret Chase Smith's "Declaration of Conscience" was delivered on this date in 1950. Senator Smith stood up against Republican Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin and his supporters, who were running roughshod over American democracy. Too bad there are no Republicans like her today.
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To argue against gun control, Lauren Boebert Notes that "We didn't ban planes" after 9/11.
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Could quantum mechanics be responsible for the Mandela effect? While the conventional explanation is that humans are simply bad at (mis)remembering events, some argue that parallel universes could be at play.
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Scientists have established a key biological difference between psychopaths and normal people. A new study has shown that psychopathic people have a bigger striatum area in their brain.
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America's last Howard Johnson's restaurant has closed Open for most of the past 70 years, the restaurant was located in Lake George, New York, a popular summer vacation spot near the Adirondack Mountains.
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'Nose-bleed virus' spread by ticks kills 18 in Iraq and is spreading Formally known as Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, it causes rapid and severe internal and external bleeding, including through the nose. It has been detected in 120 people in Iraq since January and at least 18 people have died so far.
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Miscellany:
Birthdays:
- 1941 - Stacy Keach, American acto
- 1948 - Jerry Mathers, American actor ("Leave it to Beaver")
- 1953 - Cornel West, American philosopher, author, and academic
- 1955 - Dana Carvey, American comedian and actor
- 1972 - Wayne Brady, American actor, comedian, game show host, and singer
- 1977 - Zachary Quinto, American actor and producer
- 1978 - Justin Long, American actor
- 1979 - Morena Baccarin, Brazilian-American actress
- 1982 - Jewel Staite, Canadian actress
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On this date in:
- 1953 - The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey became the first British coronation and one of the first major international events to be televised. (video)
- 1962 - Ray Charles' cover of Don Gibson's "I Can't Stop Loving You", from his influential crossover album "Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music" hit #1 on Billboard
- 1990 - The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawned 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12
Today is:
- American Indian Citizenship Day
- I Love My Dentist Day
- National Bubba Day
- National Leave the Office Early Day
- National Moonshine Day
- National Rocky Road Day
- National Rotisserie Chicken Day
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Researchers accidentally discover why male mice are scared of the smell of bananas
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Comments and observations:
The top 396 stupidest quotes from NRA convention-goers after America's latest child massacre
Republicans think it's a good idea to give teachers less money, more
students, fewer books, fewer resources, more parents in the classroom,
more standardized tests, more scrutiny, more pressure, and a gun.
-Middle
Age Riot
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A very powerful video:
Friends and patients of the late Lawrence J. Nelson, MD... A memorial will be held Sunday, June 12 at noon at the George Irvin Green Funeral Home, 3511 Main Street, Munhall.
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