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Israel says an assault on Gaza’s southernmost city is vital to dismantling Hamas and has proposed evacuating ... Spectacle Having a team in the world’s richest sports competition might alter ... Read More

Loss Of Smell Might Persist Even One Year After A Covid-19 Infection

A study of 340 people with a prior Covid-19 infection reported that some loss of smell persisted in close to one third of the participants with long Covid one year later. Read More

As bird flu spreads in cows, fractured U.S. response has echoes of early covid

Federal agencies with competing interests are slowing the country’s ability to track and control an outbreak of highly virulent bird flu that for the first time is infecting cows in the United States, ... Read More

Covid Vaccines Linked To Small Increase In Heart And Brain Disorders, Study Finds—But Risk From Infection Is Far Higher

Around 71% of the world’s population has received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine. “The odds of all of these adverse events is still much, much higher when infected with SARS-CoV-2 (COVID ... Read More

White House

White House spokesman Ian Sams mocked Comer’s announcement ... The Supreme Court should review the Antiquities Act, well-intentioned legislation that has now morphed into a unilateral executive ... Read More

Bivalent COVID-19 vaccine boosts immunity but needs to be updated

A major bivalent COVID-19 vaccine induces production of neutralizing antibodies against the coronavirus that circulated at the start of the pandemic as well as subvariants of omicron, albeit less ... Read More

Biden mocked for shuffling around White House lawn with dazed look during Japanese PM ceremony

President Biden raised eyebrows Wednesday morning, when he appeared disoriented while welcoming Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to the White House for ... as part of World War II. Read More

Fox News rejects White House demands to retract Easter egg stories

The White House has throughout the week forcefully ... Administration officials have complained to Fox News leadership over stories published on the outlet’s website regarding the eggs, the ... Read More

‘A Different World’ Cast Gets The White House Singing Its Tune

The cast of A Different World has reunited for a national ... Captured On CNN In Real Time - Update News Paul Simon Sings 'Graceland' At White House State Dinner - Update ... Read More

Fox News rejects White House demands to retract Easter egg stories

Fox News is rejecting ... on eggs — a ban has been in place for decades. The administration offered rare praise earlier this week for the conservative website The Daily Caller, which retracted a story ... Read More