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The soft, sandy beaches that receive star billing in Baywatch, the songs of the Beach Boys and Harry Styless incandescently smug Watermelon Sugar video are as misleading as they are idyllic. Since Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr had their iconic beach-side bunk-up in 1953s From Here to Eternity, one of…
I jokingly refer to Senator Graham as Senator Graham 1.0 and the Senator Graham 2.0 who came along during the Trump years, the 2.0 being the preferred upgrade, said Nate Leupp, chairman of the Greenville County Republicans and one of several party leaders in South Carolina who said they had…
As the delta variant contributes to a surge of Covid-19 cases around the United States, different voices have emerged blaming people entering the country in particular, migrants crossing the U.S. border for the spread. Among the most vocal are Republican Govs. Greg Abbott in Texas and Ron DeSantis in Florida.…
CAIRO, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Egypt received a new batch of about 1.7 million AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses through the global COVAX initiative, the health ministry said late on Friday. The new shipment, the third of its kind, brings the total number of AstraZeneca shots received by Egypt via COVAX…
This is an excerpt from Second Opinion, a weekly roundup of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers every Saturday morning. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here. Like it or not, COVID-19 vaccine mandates are coming to Canada. Whether they’re government-ordered for certain jobs and…
After another year darkened by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Montréal Pride Festival has brought some vibrancy back into the city’s streets. Overtaking the Village since Monday, this year’s edition of festival programming has offered guests a mixed bag of in-person and online events celebrating 2SLGBTQI+ communities under the theme Together…
In November 2020, Barack Obama released his newest memoir, A Promised Land. Now, hot on his heels, comes Jack Cashill’s Barack Obama’s Promised Land: Deplorables Need Not Apply, a savvy and ever-diligent effort to prevent fake news from becoming fake history. Unsurprisingly, many of Obama’s newly offered truths are woefully inconsistent…
A healthcare worker collects a swab sample from a court employee during a rapid antigen testing campaign for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a court in Mumbai, India, March 25, 2021. REUTERS/Niharika Kulkarni MUMBAI, Aug 14 (Reuters) – India reported 38,667 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, a…
Nanci Griffith, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter who fused folk and country, died in Nashville today (August 13). She was 68. The cause of death is unknown. Griffiths recording career spanned five decades and nearly 20 albums, including 1994s Other Voices, Other Rooms, a collection of classic folk songs featuring collaborations with…
By Reuters Staff Aug 13 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden plans to name Rostin Behnam to lead the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which oversees the swaps and futures markets, Bloomberg News reported on Friday.read more…
