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Owner of shuttered dairy sentenced to 10 years in $60M fraud
The owner of an award-winning organic dairy who pleaded guilty to defrauding investors of nearly $60 million was sentenced Monday to 10 years in federal prison.
Renaming Alabama bridge for John Lewis opposed in Selma
Growing calls nationally to honor the late Rep. John Lewis by putting his name on the Alabama bridge where he and other voting rights demonstrators were beaten 55 years ago are being met with resistance in Selma, the majority Black city where Bloody Sunda...
First lady delivers lunch to firefighters and families in DC
Lunch was on the first lady during the coronavirus pandemic.
Pfizer-BioNTech Potential Covid-19 Vaccine Shows Promise in Additional Data
The companies said the data also demonstrated an induction of high level of T-cell responses against the novel coronavirus.
'Tomorrow. Vaccines': Lancet Editor’s Tweet on Covid-19 Shot Stirs Announcement Hope
A tweet by the editor of medical journal The Lancet on Sunday renewed hopes of an announcement on the Covid-19 vaccine front.
North Korean Leader Berates Officials Over Hospital Project, Says Construction Was Carried Out in 'Careless Manner'
During a visit to the construction site in Pyongyang, Kim lamented that his ambitious project of building a new general hospital was being carried out in a "careless manner" and without a proper budget.
'Brutal, Sustained Battle': As Covid-19 Surges in Some US States, Emergency Rooms Swamped
In Arizona, one of the few states that reports data on visits to the emergency room by people with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 symptoms, numbers started to spike in early June and peaked earlier this month.
Indigenous Chief & One of Brazil's Greatest Amazon Rainforest-Defenders Raoni Metuktire Gets Hospitalised
Raoni, a chief of the Kayapo people in northern Brazil, was likely suffering from a digestive hemorrhage, said Santa Ines Hospital, in the small town of Colider in Mato Grosso state, where he was admitted Thursday.
John Lewis, US Congressman and Sharecropper's Son, was Civil Rights Movement Hero
Lewis, an Alabama sharecropper's son elected in 1986 as a Democrat to the US House of Representatives from Georgia, died after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
U.S. state, local leaders should be as forceful as possible on masks - Fauci
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Woman who killed her 5-year-old son gets 35-year prison term
A northern Illinois woman who subjected her young son to years of physical and emotional abuse culminating in his beating death last year was on Friday sentenced to 35 years in prison.
Military medics deploy in California, Texas as virus surges
Teams of military medics were deployed in Texas and California to help hospitals deluged by coronavirus patients, as Miami area authorities began stepping up enforcement Friday of a mask requirement echoing efforts in many parts of the world to contain s...
US Supreme Court's Ruth Bader Ginsburg Undergoing Treatment for Cancer Recurrence
In a statement released by the court, Ginsburg said that a periodic scan in February, followed by a biopsy, revealed lesions on her liver. She said she is tolerating the chemotherapy treatment well and that it is yielding positive results.
Russia, Despite Theft Allegations, Says Deal to Make UK-developed Covid-19 Vaccine is On
Britain, Canada and the United States said on Thursday that hackers backed by the Russian state were trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine and treatment research from academic and pharmaceutical institutions around the world, allegations the Kremlin denied.
Climate Change Induced by Man-made Global Warming Makes Freak Siberian Heat 600 Times Likelier
International scientists released a study Wednesday that found the greenhouse effect multiplied the chance of the region's prolonged heat by at least 600 times, and maybe tens of thousands of times.
