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Monthly Archives: September 2020

Hurricane Sally strengthens to Category 2 as it nears landfall, bringing life-threatening flooding

[CNN] (CNN) Hurricane Sally restrengthened to a Category 2 Hurricane early Wednesday morning as it churns slowly along the Gulf Coast. The slow-moving storm is expected to make landfall between Gulfport, Mississippi, and Pensacola, Florida, late Wednesday morning if it maintains its current 2 mph crawl north. Winds of 100 mph have been […]

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Kim Kardashian West joins Facebook and Instagram boycott

[BBC NEWS, REUTERS] Kim Kardashian West and dozens of other celebrities have announced they will freeze their social media accounts to protest against the spread of “hate, propaganda and misinformation”. “Misinformation shared on social media has a serious impact,” Kardashian West wrote in a statement on Tuesday. The move is […]

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NBA players show no mercy on Twitter in Clippers-Nuggets Game 7 shocker

[ESPN] Stephen A. stunned by Nuggets’ Game 7 winStephen A. cannot believe what he’s watching as the Nuggets upset the Clippers in Game 7 of their NBA Western Conference semifinals series. The LA Clippers and the Denver Nuggets faced off in a deciding Game 7 to determine who would face the Los Angeles Lakers in the […]

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Billionaire investor Ray Dalio warns the US is in a period of ‘great risk’ – and says the most important thing investors can do is diversify

[Business Insider, Getty Images] Billionaire investor Ray Dalio told Bloomberg that the US is in a period of “great risk” because of rising deficits and the uncertainty around the upcoming US election.  The most important thing investors can do to manage this risk is to diversify their portfolios by asset […]

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Roy Jones Jr. on Mike Tyson exhibition match: ‘I made a mistake going in with him’

[Fox News] Tyson is ‘still one of the strongest, most explosive people who ever touched a boxing ring,’ Jones said Mike Tyson’s return to boxing in November is supposed to be an exhibition match but opponent Roy Jones Jr. is worried he’s made a mistake. CSAC executive director Andy Foster first said when the […]

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City of Louisville reaches settlement with Breonna Taylor’s family

[NBC NEWS] None of the officers involved in the case have been charged. Detective Brett Hankison, who shot 10 rounds blindly into the apartment, was fired in June. The city of Louisville, Kentucky, has reached a settlement with Breonna Taylor’s family six months after she was killed in her home during a […]

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NIH ‘very concerned’ about serious side effect in AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine trial

[CNN] (Kaiser Health News) The Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether to follow British regulators in resuming a coronavirus vaccine trial that was halted when a participant suffered spinal cord damage, even as the National Institutes of Health has launched an investigation of the case. “The highest levels of […]

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If You’ve Just Had Covid, Exercise Might Not Be Good for You

[Wired, Getty Images] A growing number of studies are raising concerns about the coronavirus’ long-term effects on the heart. Athletes especially need to heed the warnings. From the images of cloudy chest scans and gasping patients hooked up to ventilators, we’ve been conditioned to think of Covid-19 as a respiratory disease. But it’s […]

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