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Cuba’s Innovative Cancer Vaccine Is Finally Coming to America
The collaboration between Roswell and Cuba’s Center for Molecular Immunology, which developed the vaccine, actually began in 2011, years before the Obama administration started easing restrictions on Cuba. Gisela Gonzalez, one of the Cuban researchers w ...[Read more]
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These Trump supporters received $227,000 in PPP funds then vandalized the Capitol
A mob of angry Trump supporters stormed the U.S Capitol on January 6 with a litany of grievances against the U.S. government. But those grievances didn't stop many from benefiting from government-run loan programs designed to help businesses during the CO ...[Read more]
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Hospitals Hide Pricing Data From Search Results
Hospitals that have published their previously confidential prices to comply with a new federal rule have also blocked that information from web searches, according to a Wall Street Journal examination. ...[Read more]
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Some right-wing pundits and politicians who cry censorship are actually ‘thriving’: conservative
During the Biden era, pundits at Fox News and other right-wing media outlets have had a lot to say about "cancel culture" — claiming that conservatives who speak their minds are facing censorship from the left. Never Trump conservative Tim Miller tac ...[Read more]
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Prison Laborers Are Paid Pennies to Maintain the Prisons They are Incarcerated In
More than 4,000 private corporations in the U.S. have a financial stake in the expansion of the public prison system. ...[Read more]
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This is What Being Asian in America is Really Like
As I grew up, my parents — proud South Asians — took me for an “IQ” test. They hoped I could join the “gifted program” at school. This was after I’d rebelled at several private schools. Lucky them — unlucky me. I scored well enough to get ...[Read more]
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Villagers & Pillagers: Who Will Survive the Collapse?
Unless you live in a state of denial you’re probably like me, troubled about the future. There’s not much left of mine, but my daughter’s generation and their children will have to survive the aftermath of fossil-fueled civilization on the ravaged, ...[Read more]
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Ive Spent $60,000 to Pay Back Student Loans and Owe More Than Before I Began
When I finished school in 2007 — with an undergraduate degree in biology and a master’s in science journalism — I owed $78,060 in federal loans. I was actually relieved: my loans were below $100,000, a number that seemed like the line between manage ...[Read more]
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‘A toxic cycle of blame, sycophancy and political pressure’: New book to detail Trump’s ‘nightmare’ handling of COVID crisis
Washington Post journalists Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta are preparing for the release of their forthcoming book, "Nightmare Scenario," which aims to highlight former President Donald Trump's disastrous COVID-19 response since the onset of the pand ...[Read more]
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With First Native Interior Secretary, Deb Haaland, Hope Grows U.S. Will Confront Toxic Uranium Legacy
Deb Haaland, a tribal citizen of the Laguna Pueblo, is being sworn in as secretary of the interior and will be the first Native American ever to serve in a U.S. presidential cabinet. Just four Republicans joined Democrats in voting to confirm Haaland, who ...[Read more]
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Georgia GOP Jams 91 New Pages Into Voter Suppression Bill an Hour Before Meeting
The additions also included some new proposals, aimed mostly at making it harder to vote — notably, one proposal would make it so that Georgians can file an unlimited number of challenges to “the qualifications of any person applying to register to vo ...[Read more]
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