The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is one of the fastest-growing federal agencies of recent decades. In 1987, their budget was $590 million but by 2020 it had ballooned to over $8 billion, leading journalist Eric Boehm to observe, “If the agency had grown with inflation since …
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Speaking via video-link on Thursday morning, Putin told fellow world leaders why he was unable to join a meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in the Tajik capital Dushanbe in person. “This is because of the fact that in my immediate circle, as you know, cases of coronavirus …
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The hospital will stop delivering babies starting September 25, two days before the deadline for all New York state healthcare workers to get a first vaccine dose, Lewis County Health System CEO Gerald Cayer told a press conference last week. “We are unable to safely staff the service after September …
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When I read this week that accountancy giant KPMG plans to become one of the first major UK firms to set a target for the number of senior staff from working-class backgrounds, I almost fell off my chair. Not because I think this is a revolutionary act, or that KPMG …
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Working with a team known as ‘Hotty Toddy’, Katie Rietkovich Browder is a coach at the Ole Miss set-up who started a romance with a senior student-athlete behind the back of another senior teammate the player was dating, according to a report. After discovering text messages that alerted them to the tryst, …
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“It would be better to die under the Taliban’s bullet” than face the crowds again, NBC News quoted an embassy employee as saying, citing a US State Department cable that the media outlet obtained. Another local staffer allegedly said, “Happy to die here, but with dignity and pride.” Afghan embassy …
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“In view of the prevailing circumstances, it has been decided that our Ambassador in Kabul and his Indian staff will move to India immediately,” Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi announced in a tweet on Tuesday morning. Thousands of Afghans and foreign nationals seeking to flee the country flooded …
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Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino announced the move on Friday, telling reporters that Ottawa would do its best to bring thousands of vulnerable Afghans to safety in Canada, though gave no timetable for how long that could take. “As the Taliban continues to take over more of Afghanistan, many more Afghans’ …
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The order was contained in a memo on emergency preparations for the departure of most embassy workers, according to a report on Friday by NPR, which obtained a copy of the message. It comes as the Pentagon rushes 3,000 troops to Kabul to ensure safe evacuations and follows an embassy …
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A damning report by the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has revealed that a US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agent used photographs of female support staff employees to pose as underage females in a sex trafficking investigation, enticing would-be predators via social media. Shockingly, …
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