August 2019

Deadly Germ Research Is Shut Down at Army Lab Over Safety Concerns

The institute at Fort Detrick was part of the select agent program until its registration was suspended last month, after the C.D.C. ordered it to stop conducting the research. The shutdown was first reported on Friday by the Frederick News-Post. The problems date back to May 2018, when storms flooded and ruined a decades-old steam

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White Terrorism Shows ‘Stunning’ Parallels to Islamic State’s Rise

Many scholars of terrorism see worrying similarities between the rise of the Islamic State and that of white nationalist terrorism, seen most recently in the carnage in El Paso, Tex. “The parallels are stunning,” said Will McCants, a prominent expert in the field. And they are growing more notable with each new attack. Experts say

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Experts: Mental illness not main driver of mass shootings

President Donald Trump’s focus on “mentally ill monsters” oversimplifies the role of mental illness in public mass shootings and downplays the ease with which Americans can get firearms, experts said. “Mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun,” Trump said Monday , addressing weekend shootings in Texas and Ohio that killed 31 people.

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Dame Barbara urges Johnson to ‘sort out’ dementia care

Image caption Dame Barbara Windsor has met Boris Johnson several times, including when he appeared on EastEnders in 2009 Dame Barbara Windsor has called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to “sort out” care for people who have dementia. The former EastEnders star, who has Alzheimer’s, launched an open letter with her husband Scott Mitchell to

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UN report: North Korea cyber experts raised up to $2 billion

A panel monitoring U.N. sanctions says North Korean cyber experts have illegally raised money for the country’s weapons of mass destruction programs “with total proceeds to date estimated at up to $2 billion.” The experts said in a new report to the Security Council that North Korea is using cyberspace “to launch increasingly sophisticated attacks

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One Man Could Decide Washington’s Response to Gun Violence: Mitch McConnell

WASHINGTON — For two decades, through Columbine, Virginia Tech, Newtown, Orlando, Las Vegas and the rest, mass shootings have provoked only scant action in Congress. Now, after horrific back-to-back massacres this weekend, people in both parties agree that one man could change that: Senator Mitch McConnell. As President Trump urged national unity in the face

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