Kampala, 4 September 2020:- When the World Health Organization (WHO), declared the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic, on 11th March 2020, many Ugandans didn’t take it seriously with many saying it was a disease for the affluent, the very high class or for developed countries. As the disease ravaged the entire world, Ugandans…
Following a bench trial this week a federal court in Michigan is set to rule in the case of a farm that was banned from a city-run market in East Lansing over its owners' refusal to allow same-sex couples to hold weddings on their property. The years-long legal battle that started in 2016 is yet another…
Team USA has topped the leaderboards in swimming events at Tokyo this year after Americans Caeleb Dressel and Katie Ledecky took home two more gold medals on Day 8 of the Olympics. Ledecky, 24, lit up the Tokyo Aquatics Centre on Saturday morning after capturing her second gold medal of the Games in the women’s 800-meter…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! As China steadily raises the pressure on Taiwan, curiosity intensifies throughout the world about the likely U.S. reaction in the event of an outright military invasion of Taiwan by the People's Republic. Successive American administrations have been noncommittal about whether such an event would trigger an American military…
Republicans have long faced uphill battles against mainstream media pundits, especially since many are so sympathetic to Democrats."The media are enforcers for the Democrats. If Democrats step out of line, they immediately attack them," Dan Gainor told Fox News.However, every so often there are a few Republicans who appear to actually receive admiration from mainstream…
A collision between two Boston passenger trains Friday evening left at least 25 people with non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said. The Green Line trains crashed near Babcock Street around 6 p.m. ET, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) said in a statement. Miltch Pierre, who works at a nearby Blaze Pizza, told FOX 25 he felt the ground…
Accra - Fast-spreading misinformation online is hard to measure, but the 10 organizations and 10 African fact-checking groups that make up the Africa Infodemic Response Alliance are working to track and debunk dangerous myths on the pandemic and COVID-19 vaccines. Data collected regularly since March 2021 in 20 African countries show that false claims around…
Brazzaville, 29 July 2021 – COVID-19 vaccine shipments to Africa are rapidly ramping up from multiple sources after a near-halt to deliveries in recent months. Nearly 4 million doses from COVAX arrived in Africa last week, compared with around 2.3 million doses from the facility throughout the month of June. COVAX aims to ship 520 million doses to Africa…
Monrovia, 27 July 2021: Liberia on 25th July 2021 received a donation of 302,400 doses of the Johnson and Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine from the United States Government through the COVAX facility; a partnership of CEPI, GAVI, UNICEF and WHO to expand the COVID-19 vaccination coverage in the country. In March of this year, the…
Abuja, 29 July, 2021 - Philemon Lar, a 39-year-old farmer living in Bokkos local government area (LGA) in Plateau State, Nigeria, got to know about his Hepatitis status in 2015 when he went to the hospital to donate blood for his cousin who was to undergo surgery. “It was after the donation process that the…
Abuja, 29 July, 2021 - To build an effective food safety system for Nigerians, the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) launched a Unified Food Safety Training Manuals for capacity building of food vendors, food handlers, food manufacturers and plethora of personnel in the entire food supply chain in the country. The manual is in line…
ScienceNewsThe magnitude 8.2 earthquake did little damage, and it provides an opportunity for scientists to peer deep into the planet's innards.ByMaya Wei-HaasPublished July 29, 2021• 8 min readA slowly oscillating wail cut through the sunlit summer night outside Kasey Aderhold's house in Homer, Alaska. The same siren had sounded just hours before as a test…
ScienceNewsThe mesh-like fossil would push back the oldest known animal on Earth by more than 300 million years. But like many claims of very old life, the study is kicking up lively debate.ByMaya Wei-HaasPublished July 28, 2021• 9 min readRelatives of the humble sea sponge have filtered Earth's waters for hundreds of millions of years…
ScienceLooking inside the red planet will help scientists better understand how Mars formed and became the hostile, rusty desert we see today.ByMichael GreshkoPublished July 22, 2021• 11 min readThe solar system’s god of war has a bigger heart than expected: Using humankind’s first seismometer on another planet, researchers have analyzed the interior structure of Mars for…
Photographs byAnand A. VarmaByBrendan BorrellThis story appears in the July 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.In pursuit of the world’s smallest bird, we’ve come to the backyard of a flamingo pink house in Palpite, Cuba. Ornithologist Christopher Clark has a car full of gear to unload: cameras, sound equipment, a sheer cube-shaped cage. Within minutes…
ScienceThe results from the 1962 Starfish Prime test serve as a warning of what might happen if Earth’s magnetic field gets blasted again with high doses of radiation.ByBrian GutierrezPublished July 15, 2021• 9 min readIt was pitch black when Greg Spriggs’ father brought his family to the highest point on Midway Atoll on July 8,…
Home News Mobile Phones (Image credit: Samsung) With the next Samsung Unpacked event of 2021 scheduled for August 11, we're just around the corner from learning all about the new tech Samsung is hiding up its sleeves.We're expecting loads of new devices, with four gadgets likely according to leaks, rumors and also teases from Samsung…
Home News Computing (Image credit: TheDigitalArtist / Pixabay) Most decision makers in IT management are having to spin so many plates, all at the same time, that there’s always a danger one of them will eventually fall to the floor and smash.About the authorPeter Mackenzie, incident response manager, Sophos.The problem is, just because you’ve attended…
Home News Computing (Image credit: Samsung) The deadline for many Samsung customers to migrate their files away from the company's own-brand cloud storage service is fast approaching.Previously, Samsung Cloud allowed users to store a range of data off-device, freeing up local storage for apps. But the company is now cutting back the service, withdrawing the…
Home News Mobile Phones (Image credit: Future) The long-rumored Motorola Edge 20 and its siblings are Motorola’s newest flagships, with improved specs and cameras over their predecessors. Most surprising of all, they're already available to buy in some parts of the world after Motorola quietly launched them with little fanfare.The standard Motorola Edge 20 launches…
Home News Gaming (Image credit: Future) Trust and credibility(Image credit: Matt Swider / Instagram)PS5 restock tracker Matt Swider has helped 61,100 people in the US buy a next-gen console in 2021 with his tireless 24/7 tracking, in-stock Twitter alerts and exclusive restock reporting.PS5 restock update: The Best Buy PS5 restock date is coming, and our…
Israel took home victory and a bronze medal on Saturday morning, after a tense final competition against the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) in the mixed-team judo tournament.Although Israel took a blow in the first round of the match, as Gili Sharir lost to Madina Taimazova, giving the ROC a 1:0 lead, they made up lost…
The attack on the tanker Mercer Street off the coast of Oman is a major escalation in an ongoing series of attacks on shipping that have increased this year. The ship is reportedly operated by Zodiac Maritime and reports say a UK and Romanian crew member were killed. The attack may have been carried out by…
A ship attacked off the coast of Oman is raising tensions between Israel and Iran as Israel’s foreign minister slammed Iran on Friday as an exporter of terrorism, destruction, instability and a threat to the freedom of navigation. Pro-Iran social media accounts and a report at Al-Alam TV has said Iran carried out the attack on the…
Israel will launch its administering of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine on Sunday and begin “widely using” it among the Israeli population, the Health Ministry said on Friday.The ministry had announced plans to begin allowing health funds to order and distribute the Moderna vaccine earlier in the month. On Friday, it elaborated on the protocol for…
The US State Department has approved the sale of 18 Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift helicopters to Israel to replace its aging CH-53 Yasurs.The deal will also include up to 60 T408-GE-400 Engines, and up to 36 embedded GPS/Inertial Navigation Systems (EGI) with Selective Availability/Anti-Spoofing Module (SAASM) as well as an unspecified number of GAU-21…
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Following a bench trial this week a federal court in Michigan is set to rule in the case of a farm that was banned from a city-run market in East Lansing over its owners' refusal to allow same-sex couples to hold weddings on their property. The years-long legal battle that started in 2016 is yet another…
Team USA has topped the leaderboards in swimming events at Tokyo this year after Americans Caeleb Dressel and Katie Ledecky took home two more gold medals on Day 8 of the Olympics. Ledecky, 24, lit up the Tokyo Aquatics Centre on Saturday morning after capturing her second gold medal of the Games in the women’s 800-meter…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! As China steadily raises the pressure on Taiwan, curiosity intensifies throughout the world about the likely U.S. reaction in the event of an outright military invasion of Taiwan by the People's Republic. Successive American administrations have been noncommittal about whether such an event would trigger an American military…
Republicans have long faced uphill battles against mainstream media pundits, especially since many are so sympathetic to Democrats."The media are enforcers for the Democrats. If Democrats step out of line, they immediately attack them," Dan Gainor told Fox News.However, every so often there are a few Republicans who appear to actually receive admiration from mainstream…
A collision between two Boston passenger trains Friday evening left at least 25 people with non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said. The Green Line trains crashed near Babcock Street around 6 p.m. ET, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) said in a statement. Miltch Pierre, who works at a nearby Blaze Pizza, told FOX 25 he felt the ground…
Following a bench trial this week a federal court in Michigan is set to rule in the case of a farm that was banned from a city-run market in East Lansing over its owners' refusal to allow same-sex couples to hold weddings on their property. The years-long legal battle that started in 2016 is yet another…
Team USA has topped the leaderboards in swimming events at Tokyo this year after Americans Caeleb Dressel and Katie Ledecky took home two more gold medals on Day 8 of the Olympics. Ledecky, 24, lit up the Tokyo Aquatics Centre on Saturday morning after capturing her second gold medal of the Games in the women’s 800-meter…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! As China steadily raises the pressure on Taiwan, curiosity intensifies throughout the world about the likely U.S. reaction in the event of an outright military invasion of Taiwan by the People's Republic. Successive American administrations have been noncommittal about whether such an event would trigger an American military…
Republicans have long faced uphill battles against mainstream media pundits, especially since many are so sympathetic to Democrats."The media are enforcers for the Democrats. If Democrats step out of line, they immediately attack them," Dan Gainor told Fox News.However, every so often there are a few Republicans who appear to actually receive admiration from mainstream…
A collision between two Boston passenger trains Friday evening left at least 25 people with non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said. The Green Line trains crashed near Babcock Street around 6 p.m. ET, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) said in a statement. Miltch Pierre, who works at a nearby Blaze Pizza, told FOX 25 he felt the ground…
Accra - Fast-spreading misinformation online is hard to measure, but the 10 organizations and 10 African fact-checking groups that make up the Africa Infodemic Response Alliance are working to track and debunk dangerous myths on the pandemic and COVID-19 vaccines. Data collected regularly since March 2021 in 20 African countries show that false claims around…
Brazzaville, 29 July 2021 – COVID-19 vaccine shipments to Africa are rapidly ramping up from multiple sources after a near-halt to deliveries in recent months. Nearly 4 million doses from COVAX arrived in Africa last week, compared with around 2.3 million doses from the facility throughout the month of June. COVAX aims to ship 520 million doses to Africa…
Monrovia, 27 July 2021: Liberia on 25th July 2021 received a donation of 302,400 doses of the Johnson and Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine from the United States Government through the COVAX facility; a partnership of CEPI, GAVI, UNICEF and WHO to expand the COVID-19 vaccination coverage in the country. In March of this year, the…
Abuja, 29 July, 2021 - Philemon Lar, a 39-year-old farmer living in Bokkos local government area (LGA) in Plateau State, Nigeria, got to know about his Hepatitis status in 2015 when he went to the hospital to donate blood for his cousin who was to undergo surgery. “It was after the donation process that the…
Abuja, 29 July, 2021 - To build an effective food safety system for Nigerians, the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) launched a Unified Food Safety Training Manuals for capacity building of food vendors, food handlers, food manufacturers and plethora of personnel in the entire food supply chain in the country. The manual is in line…
ScienceNewsThe magnitude 8.2 earthquake did little damage, and it provides an opportunity for scientists to peer deep into the planet's innards.ByMaya Wei-HaasPublished July 29, 2021• 8 min readA slowly oscillating wail cut through the sunlit summer night outside Kasey Aderhold's house in Homer, Alaska. The same siren had sounded just hours before as a test…
ScienceNewsThe mesh-like fossil would push back the oldest known animal on Earth by more than 300 million years. But like many claims of very old life, the study is kicking up lively debate.ByMaya Wei-HaasPublished July 28, 2021• 9 min readRelatives of the humble sea sponge have filtered Earth's waters for hundreds of millions of years…
ScienceLooking inside the red planet will help scientists better understand how Mars formed and became the hostile, rusty desert we see today.ByMichael GreshkoPublished July 22, 2021• 11 min readThe solar system’s god of war has a bigger heart than expected: Using humankind’s first seismometer on another planet, researchers have analyzed the interior structure of Mars for…
Photographs byAnand A. VarmaByBrendan BorrellThis story appears in the July 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.In pursuit of the world’s smallest bird, we’ve come to the backyard of a flamingo pink house in Palpite, Cuba. Ornithologist Christopher Clark has a car full of gear to unload: cameras, sound equipment, a sheer cube-shaped cage. Within minutes…
ScienceThe results from the 1962 Starfish Prime test serve as a warning of what might happen if Earth’s magnetic field gets blasted again with high doses of radiation.ByBrian GutierrezPublished July 15, 2021• 9 min readIt was pitch black when Greg Spriggs’ father brought his family to the highest point on Midway Atoll on July 8,…
Home News Mobile Phones (Image credit: Samsung) With the next Samsung Unpacked event of 2021 scheduled for August 11, we're just around the corner from learning all about the new tech Samsung is hiding up its sleeves.We're expecting loads of new devices, with four gadgets likely according to leaks, rumors and also teases from Samsung…
Home News Computing (Image credit: TheDigitalArtist / Pixabay) Most decision makers in IT management are having to spin so many plates, all at the same time, that there’s always a danger one of them will eventually fall to the floor and smash.About the authorPeter Mackenzie, incident response manager, Sophos.The problem is, just because you’ve attended…
Home News Computing (Image credit: Samsung) The deadline for many Samsung customers to migrate their files away from the company's own-brand cloud storage service is fast approaching.Previously, Samsung Cloud allowed users to store a range of data off-device, freeing up local storage for apps. But the company is now cutting back the service, withdrawing the…
Home News Mobile Phones (Image credit: Future) The long-rumored Motorola Edge 20 and its siblings are Motorola’s newest flagships, with improved specs and cameras over their predecessors. Most surprising of all, they're already available to buy in some parts of the world after Motorola quietly launched them with little fanfare.The standard Motorola Edge 20 launches…
Home News Gaming (Image credit: Future) Trust and credibility(Image credit: Matt Swider / Instagram)PS5 restock tracker Matt Swider has helped 61,100 people in the US buy a next-gen console in 2021 with his tireless 24/7 tracking, in-stock Twitter alerts and exclusive restock reporting.PS5 restock update: The Best Buy PS5 restock date is coming, and our…
Israel took home victory and a bronze medal on Saturday morning, after a tense final competition against the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) in the mixed-team judo tournament.Although Israel took a blow in the first round of the match, as Gili Sharir lost to Madina Taimazova, giving the ROC a 1:0 lead, they made up lost…
The attack on the tanker Mercer Street off the coast of Oman is a major escalation in an ongoing series of attacks on shipping that have increased this year. The ship is reportedly operated by Zodiac Maritime and reports say a UK and Romanian crew member were killed. The attack may have been carried out by…
A ship attacked off the coast of Oman is raising tensions between Israel and Iran as Israel’s foreign minister slammed Iran on Friday as an exporter of terrorism, destruction, instability and a threat to the freedom of navigation. Pro-Iran social media accounts and a report at Al-Alam TV has said Iran carried out the attack on the…
Israel will launch its administering of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine on Sunday and begin “widely using” it among the Israeli population, the Health Ministry said on Friday.The ministry had announced plans to begin allowing health funds to order and distribute the Moderna vaccine earlier in the month. On Friday, it elaborated on the protocol for…
The US State Department has approved the sale of 18 Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift helicopters to Israel to replace its aging CH-53 Yasurs.The deal will also include up to 60 T408-GE-400 Engines, and up to 36 embedded GPS/Inertial Navigation Systems (EGI) with Selective Availability/Anti-Spoofing Module (SAASM) as well as an unspecified number of GAU-21…
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https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/23/5-more-ways-joe-biden-magically-outperformed-election-norms/
5 More Ways Joe Biden Magically Outperformed Election Norms
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ScienceNewsThe magnitude 8.2 earthquake did little damage, and it provides an opportunity for scientists to peer deep into the planet's innards.ByMaya Wei-HaasPublished July 29, 2021• 8 min readA slowly oscillating wail cut through the sunlit summer night outside Kasey Aderhold's house in Homer, Alaska. The same siren had sounded just hours before as a test…
ScienceNewsThe mesh-like fossil would push back the oldest known animal on Earth by more than 300 million years. But like many claims of very old life, the study is kicking up lively debate.ByMaya Wei-HaasPublished July 28, 2021• 9 min readRelatives of the humble sea sponge have filtered Earth's waters for hundreds of millions of years…
ScienceLooking inside the red planet will help scientists better understand how Mars formed and became the hostile, rusty desert we see today.ByMichael GreshkoPublished July 22, 2021• 11 min readThe solar system’s god of war has a bigger heart than expected: Using humankind’s first seismometer on another planet, researchers have analyzed the interior structure of Mars for…
Photographs byAnand A. VarmaByBrendan BorrellThis story appears in the July 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.In pursuit of the world’s smallest bird, we’ve come to the backyard of a flamingo pink house in Palpite, Cuba. Ornithologist Christopher Clark has a car full of gear to unload: cameras, sound equipment, a sheer cube-shaped cage. Within minutes…
ScienceThe results from the 1962 Starfish Prime test serve as a warning of what might happen if Earth’s magnetic field gets blasted again with high doses of radiation.ByBrian GutierrezPublished July 15, 2021• 9 min readIt was pitch black when Greg Spriggs’ father brought his family to the highest point on Midway Atoll on July 8,…
ByAndrew CurryPhotographs ByRobbie ShonePublished July 5, 2021• 15 min readFor centuries, Germany’s Unicorn Cave has been a lure for people seeking secrets from the past. In the Middle Ages, people literally mined the site for mammoth tusks, cave bear teeth, and the remains of other extinct animals. The unfamiliar skeletons were thought to belong to…
Innovators ProjectThe librarian revived interest in Mali's illustrious past ... then had to save it from jihadists.ByJoshua HammerPublished April 21, 2014• 25 min readIt was early in the summer of 2012, and at the Mamma Haidara Library in Timbuktu, a clandestine operation was under way. Night after night, a team under the direction of the…
EnvironmentNewsUsing crowdsourced data from home air quality monitors, scientists found that vulnerable people and communities of color are disproportionately exposed to air pollution from firework celebrations.ByMadeleine StonePublished July 2, 2021• 6 min readIt’s no secret that fireworks can cause some serious air pollution, in the United States as well as in other countries where holiday…
AnimalsNewsThe parasite that causes toxoplasmosis could play a bigger role in animal behavior than we thought, according to a first-of-its-kind study in Kenya.ByCarrie ArnoldPublished July 1, 2021• 6 min readAs adults, they’re Africa’s most successful predators. But as cubs, spotted hyenas are a favorite snack for lions. For that reason, hyena cubs usually steer clear…
Li Yueru hit two free throws with 0.6 seconds left, and China advanced to the Olympic quarterfinals by holding off a furious rally by Australia 76-74 on Friday night.China led 61-50 with 7:09 left on a layup by Wang Siyu. Then the Opals stormed back, and Jenna O’Hea knocked down back-to-back 3s tying it at…
A Georgia mother is fighting back against the mask mandate in her children’s school and argued she is not willing to compromise anymore. Holly Terei, from Gwinnett County, the largest school district in Georgia, decided to pull her kids out of the school system after district officials on Tuesday reinstated mask mandates regardless of vaccination status.Meanwhile,…
The United States started a pitcher who was Tampa Bay’s No. 12 prospect before he was dealt to Minnesota last week in the Nelson Cruz trade.Israel went with a 30-year-old who has never pitched above Double-A and brought in the director of music programming at New York’s City Winery to relieve.Such is Olympic baseball.Joe Ryan…
