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Exclusive: US intel shows Saudi Arabia escalated its missile program with help from China
The US government has obtained intelligence that Saudi Arabia has significantly escalated its ballistic missile program with the help of China, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter said, a development that threatens decades of US efforts to limit missile proliferation in the Middle East.
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Female Code Breakers: The Hidden Figures of the Greatest Generation
Do you like crossword puzzles and are you engaged to be married? Those were the questions asked of many college-age American women by their professors, college presidents, or military officers to assess their suitability to do secret work breaking German and Japanese codes during the Second World War.
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Here's why 8 Democratic presidential hopefuls think women of color should vote for them
Democratic presidential hopefuls flocked to Houston on Wednesday to speak at She the People, a presidential forum for women of color "about us, for us and by us."
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The BBVA Foundation Award Goes to James Allison, Creator of the First Immunotherapy to Prove Highly Effective Against Cancer
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Biomedicine category goes, in this tenth edition, to American immunologist James P. Allison, whose research, says the jury, "had led to harnessing the immune system to combat cancer in patients and the development of new therapies." Allison was the first to demonstrate that immunotherapy can treat cancer effectively, initiating an approach that "has provided clinical benefit to many cancer patients" and "stimulated the development of a new class of drugs employing the immune system to fight cancer."
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After nearly a month of testimony, prosecutors rest their case against R. Kelly
After testimony from 45 witnesses over 20 days, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn are resting their case against R. Kelly. Jurors have heard from witnesses ranging from former live-in girlfriends of the singer to his former employees, many of whom were subpoenaed to testify against the singer. Kelly faces racketeering and sex trafficking charges, which he has pleaded not guilty to.
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The coronavirus vaccine rollout will be messy. People will have to deal with that.
A vaccine kit sent to the wrong state. A hospital system in California expecting to get powdered vaccines instead of frozen vials. And tens of thousands of people expect to get vaccinated in the coming weeks, when in reality they are going to have to wait for months.
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Houston Strong: Our Stories
Houston Style Magazine's Staff tell how they survive the Texas winter freeze
In our lifetime we continue to see the unexpected. We have seen the first Black President of the United States – Barack Obama, the first Black Vice President of the United States – Kamala Harris, a global pandemic – COVID-19, and now the worst winter storm in Texas’ history – Uri.
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Lovell's Food For Thought - Again I Ask The Question, Isn't It Time We Really Do Something To Do Something
Passed Time To Really Do Something
In the 60 plus years I have been involved with equity issues, I have come to see very little true progress in significantly reducing health inequities. I have seen a significant increase in the number of seminars, workshops, programs, centers and/or institutes. Even with number of persons of color in leadership positions has increased. But the reductions in with the number of deaths the answer remains NO. The COVID-19 Pandemic has made this apparently clear, that what we are doing is not working. The question is what are we going to do about it other than hold more meetings and give speeches on how we increase our efforts to address this as a national priority?
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Pence details fracture with Trump over his refusal to overturn 2020 election in new book
Former Vice President Mike Pence wrote in his new memoir that former President Donald Trump warned him days before the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol that he would inspire the hatred of hundreds of thousands of people because he was "too honest" to attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
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15 of America’s best small towns and cities
The vast majority of Americans may live in big cities (more than 70%, according to the 2020 census), but there’s an enduring affection for small towns and cities.
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Award in Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s name given to Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch is a ‘desecration’ of her memory, son says
The son of the late liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Sunday that giving an award bearing his mother’s name to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch is a “desecration of my mother’s memory.”
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New Jersey first lady Tammy Murphy suspending Senate campaign
New Jersey first lady Tammy Murphy is suspending her campaign for Bob Menendez’s Senate seat, she announced Sunday.
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NFL owners vote to ban ‘hip-drop tackle’ - everyone not happy about decision
NFL owners officially voted to ban the ‘hip-drop tackle’ from the sport on Monday, after an annual league meeting in Florida.
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NFL owners vote to ban ‘hip-drop tackle.’ Not everyone is happy about the decision
NFL owners officially voted to ban the ‘hip-drop tackle’ from the sport on Monday, after an annual league meeting in Florida.
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EPA invites applications to serve on advisory council for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Serving Institutions
Today, March 25, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it will be seeking applications to serve on the newly established Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Serving Institutions Advisory Council (HBCU-MSI AC).
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First-degree relatives 9 times more likely to develop serious form of depression, study says
Close relatives of people with treatment-resistant depression are nine times more likely to develop depression that also does not respond to traditional treatment, a new study found.
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New EPA rules for about 200 US chemical manufacturers take aim at ‘cancer alleys’
The US Environmental Protection Agency issued new rules on Tuesday to protect neighborhoods near more than 200 manufacturing facilities that release airborne toxins such as ethylene oxide, chloroprene, benzene, vinyl chloride, 1,3 butadiene and ethylene dichloride.
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Michael Buble Leans in with Love and Laughter
Michael Buble’s first order of business when we began our conversation was to immediately put me at ease around his enormous celebrity. The multi-Grammy and multi-Juno Award (Canada’s answer to the Grammy awards) winning singer who sells out the world’s largest stadiums, has sold more than 60 million albums worldwide, and singlehandedly made us re-visit our love affair with the great American songbook, set out to calm my excitable sensibilities with his seamless charm and wit.
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Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun to step down in wake of ongoing safety problems
Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun said Monday he intends to leave the beleaguered company by the end of the year in a major shakeup of the company’s leadership. Boeing’s chairman and the head of the commercial airplane unit are also leaving.
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‘Rust’ movie armorer sentenced to 18 months in prison for involuntary manslaughter
Hannah Gutierrez Reed, the armorer of the film “Rust” who was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter last month for the 2021 on-set fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, was sentenced by a New Mexico judge to 18 months in prison Monday, the maximum possible punishment.
