Chauvin was charged with second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter after Floyd died on May 25, during an attempt by six officers to arrest him for allegedly passing a counterfeit bill at a Minneapolis grocery store. The jury found him guilty on all three counts on Tuesday afternoon. …
Read More »Archeologists discover 3,000-yr-old ‘golden city of Luxor’ in Egypt in one of the biggest finds since King Tut’s tomb (PHOTOS)
The city, which dates back to King Amenhotep III, who ruled Egypt between 1391 BC and 1353 BC, was once the largest administrative and industrial settlement in the ancient empire, lead archaeologist Zahi Hawass said in a statement. The site was dubbed the “Lost Golden City of Luxor” and is …
Read More »Men make more Covid-19 antibodies and keep them for longer, study on asymptomatic carriers finds
Researchers tested 739 asymptomatic staff at Cardiff Metropolitan University in July 2020 during the first wave of the pandemic and again three months later. Antibody production forms the foundation of immunity, and yet it remains unclear what quantity of coronavirus antibodies are produced across the population, how long they last …
Read More »Hubble Telescope finds 2 ‘needles’ in separate galactic haystacks with double-quasar discovery
By leveraging the wealth of information collected by the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite and the ground-based Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the researchers narrowed down their hunt for these rare, though extremely bright dual quasars, hiding in plain sight among the stars across the universe. A quasar is the extremely …
Read More »The ‘Rules-based international order’ is dead & unless West finds new way to accommodate Russia & China, it will reap a whirlwind
Both disastrous encounters have demonstrated that after years of animosity it is not possible to return to the previous format for cooperation. Rudyard Kipling famously once wrote “east is east, and west is west, and never the twain shall meet.” That doesn’t have to be true, but it’s a fair …
Read More »EU countries lose almost 6 MILLION jobs due to Covid-19 pandemic, study finds
According to the agency, “There were 5.7 million fewer people in employment in the EU by spring 2020 than at the end of 2019,” with the jobless rate across the 27-nation bloc increasing from 6.6 percent to 6.7 percent over the same period. In the 12 months leading up to …
Read More »New study finds coronavirus variants will likely evolve, escape current generation of vaccines
The study, published in Nature on March 8, warns that the current generation of vaccines and monoclonal antibody treatments may lose the arms race against the coronavirus, raising the daunting, open-ended possibility of reinfection unless vaccine rollout is greatly expedited worldwide to prevent further mutations. The study’s findings are currently …
Read More »Americans more upbeat about end of Covid-19 than ever, poll finds…but others not so sure
More Americans feel optimistic about the Covid-19 epidemic than at any point since the beginning of the pandemic, a Gallup poll published on Friday has revealed. With 60 percent of Americans confident the epidemic was on the mend, the March poll was the first time since the pollster began checking …
Read More »Academic intolerance on the rise, study finds, highlighting growth of wokeness in younger scholars
Purporting to be the first paper of its kind to “investigate authoritarianism and political discrimination in academia,” the study, conducted by the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology’s Eric Kaufmann, seemed to support conservatives’ longstanding complaints that they and their political viewpoints face disproportionate levels of ideologically-motivated censorship. …
Read More »How to hold Big Tech accountable for violating facial recognition privacy law? Boom Bust finds out
Mollye Barrows of America’s Lawyer joins RT’s Boom Bust to talk about growing concerns over AI technology. “It’s the first law that actually regulates biometric data and it’s the only law that allows individuals to bring a case to the court that says, ‘Hey, my privacy was violated even though …
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