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“No work was ever conducted in Laos as a part of this collaborative research project,” EcoHealth Alliance – a group that conducted experiments on coronaviruses while receiving funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) – said in a series of tweets on Sunday, responding to media reports alleging that …

Chicago schools will be closed on November 12 to recognize what the city administration is referring to as ‘Vaccine Awareness Day’ – a day off to give children the “opportunity to receive the vaccine” as quickly as possible. The day off will follow Veterans Day, allowing the more than 300,000 …

Zachary Willmore of Rock Bridge High School in Columbia, Missouri hit the headlines last week by becoming the first male student to be crowed homecoming queen during a homecoming game. In a video shared widely on Twitter, the crowd appears to cheer wildly as the young gentleman receives his tiara …

Speaking to the press at the start of a working visit to Bocharov Ruchey, the Russian presidential residence in Sochi, Bennett suggested that the two countries can work to build up their economic and political relationship. “For the last 20 years, and even more, you have led the process of …

The New York Times has run a front page story highlighting the dismal state of human intelligence collection on the part of America’s premier intelligence service, the CIA. It points out that the agency has, in the past few years, lost “dozens” of agents – captured, killed, or turned – …

Rep. Christopher Rabb (D) released a memo on Saturday calling for “all inseminators to undergo vasectomies within six weeks from having their third child or 40th birthday, whichever comes first,” and added a “$10,000 reward for reporting to the proper authorities those scofflaws who have not complied with this statute …

The BepiColombo spacecraft, a joint project of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), flew by Mercury overnight, its closest approach being just 199km (123 miles) above the surface of the hard-to-reach planet. It snapped a handful of photos showing the densely cratered surface of …

The last polling stations closed at 20:00 local time (6pm GMT) in the Kaliningrad Region, Russia’s westernmost enclave territory on the Baltic Sea. A total of 14 parties contested the parliamentary race, including the four political powerhouses that made up the previous convocation of the State Duma – United Russia, …

Speaking during a meeting with government members and the ruling United Russia party leadership ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections, Putin explained that he worked “very closely” with someone who had Covid-19 for an entire day. In August 2020, Sputnik V became the world’s first registered Covid-19 vaccine. Since then, …

While Trump himself has given no indication one way or another whether he will be gunning for the White House once again in 2024, those close to him have had plenty to say. Conversation around Trump’s political future was renewed this week, thanks in part to Miller and Jordan, who …