Uncounted: Inaccurate death certificates across the country hide the true
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data for causes of death in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, 2020In late January, the official death toll from COVID-19 in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, stood at 210. At a makeshift memorial at a local Episcopal church, friends and relatives planted small, white flags representing how many people had died. Some inscribed…
Iowa fines dental hygienist $100 for coming into work after
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Malala: I Survived the Taliban
In the past two decades, millions of Afghan women and girls received an education. Now the future they were promised is dangerously close to slipping away. The Taliban — who until losing power 20 years ago barred nearly all girls and women from attending school and doled out harsh punishment to those who defied them…
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Mayor says “city and police are responsible” after teen biker
Police said the boy was driving the dirt bike recklessly when he "went down" on Sunday. Source
N. Korea’s Kim visits chicken farm, calls for improvements
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected a new chicken farm being built in a county south of capital Pyongyang and called for improvements to what he described as an outdated poultry industry, state media said Thursday.The North's official Korean Central News Agency didn’t say exactly when Kim made…
CTA supervisor says she was arrested by Chicago police after
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A CTA supervisor claims she was arrested after she said she was going to file a complaint against an officer.The incident in February ended with CTA supervisor Martesa Lee in tears - and in handcuffs. Lee said police detained her for several minutes to prevent her from lodging a complaint against an…
Would Mac Jones go number one? Chris Long Re-drafts the
ReutersU.S. Omicron plan: boosters, free at-home tests, tighter travel rulesWASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration on Thursday sought to ramp up its pandemic response following U.S. detection of the Omicron coronavirus variant this week, making at-home COVID-19 tests available free of charge, accelerating its push for booster shots and tightening rules for travelers. Private health insurance…
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‘He’s looking for love,u00a0but he’s the only one’: Giant exotic
MITCHELL, Ga — There is something big in the forests of east central Georgia, an antlered anomaly that ranges in the dead of night across miles of swamp, pine thicket and pasture. It may creep within sight of the glittering lights of human habitation but then melts again into brambled darkness. In game camera footage it rises like a primeval ghost, a beast of shadow wearing an enormous crown of branching spines. The pupils of its eyes glow white in the images collected across…