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Skaters from the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) team confirmed their pre-tournament status of favorites by winning the figure skating Team event, earning a second gold medal of the Beijing Games for their country. Leading after the first two days of competition, the ROC team continued to dominate by winning two …

Florida resident Walter Hickox is earning praise on social media over a video of him fighting off a bear trying to enter his home. This marked the second bear attack in one week in the state, officials said.  “Not a lot went through my head at the moment, other than …

Novak Djokovic is facing deportation from Australia after Immigration Minister Alex Hawke personally intervened to cancel the Serbian star’s visa. “Today I exercised my power under section 133C(3) of the Migration Act to cancel the visa held by Mr Novak Djokovic on health and good order grounds, on the basis …

The Minnesota Department of Health made the announcement on Thursday, saying the patient experienced “mild symptoms,” but they have since been “resolved.” The unidentified adult male is fully vaccinated, and the Anime NYC 2021 convention he attended required attendees to be inoculated against coronavirus.  The convention was held at the …

Unlike during her previous pregnancy, Julie Anne Genter had not intended to cycle to hospital herself, but “it did end up happening,” she said on social media. The MP posted a photo of herself doing a 10-minute night ride on a cargo bike while experiencing contractions, as well as images …

“It is obscene that just a few companies are making millions of dollars in profit every single hour, while just two percent of people in low income countries have been fully vaccinated against coronavirus,” the African Alliance and People’s Vaccine Alliance Africa declared on Tuesday. Pfizer, BioNTech, and Moderna are …

This time the talks have been delayed until February 2022, Australia’s Trade Minister Dan Tehan said. The talks that were initially planned for October were already postponed earlier this month and were at that time re-scheduled for November.  “The European Union have advised the Australian government that Round 12 of …

The fiscal year’s $2.77 trillion deficit may be the second largest on record, but the Treasury Department claimed the decline from year to year as a sign of the economy recovering.  “Under President Biden’s leadership, the U.S. economy is getting back on track and Americans are getting back to work,” …

Veteran media fearmongers have spent the last two years predicting the imminent doom of a society deprived of hairspray and baked beans in some sort of great retail apocalypse, the likes of which our materialistic society hasn’t seen since the Great Depression. But according to these chroniclers of collapse, this …

Some 96,779 Americans died of drug overdoses over the last 12-month period counted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a report released by the agency this month has revealed. The record-setting number of deaths surpasses what were already record-setting figures from the year before as the nation’s drug …