2020

Chicago woman becomes 2nd US case of new virus from China

A Chicago woman has become the second U.S. patient diagnosed with the new pneumonia-like virus from China By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer January 24, 2020, 3:45 PM 1 min read WASHINGTON — A Chicago woman has become the second U.S. patient diagnosed with the new pneumonia-like virus from China, health officials announced Friday. The […]

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A Major Fear for Democrats: Will the Party Come Together by November?

The lack of consensus among Democratic voters, 10 days before the presidential nominating primary begins with Iowa caucuses, has led some party leaders to make unusually fervent and early pleas for unity. On Monday alone, a pair of influential Democratic congressmen issued strikingly similar warnings to very different audiences in very different states. “We get

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Baby Harry Richford’s Margate hospital death ‘wholly avoidable’

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionHarry, seen with his parents Sarah and Tom Richford, died aged just seven days The death of a baby seven days after his emergency delivery was “wholly avoidable”, a coroner has ruled. Harry Richford died a week after he was born at Margate’s Queen Elizabeth the Queen

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Stephen Colbert Spits Water On Jon Stewart And That’s Not Even The Weird Part

Colbert, in a fit of faux shock that Steve Carell was cast in Stewart’s new political comedy “Irresistible” and not him, spit water in Stewart’s face. Undaunted, Stewart introduced a trailer for the upcoming film, which he wrote and directed, in a bit with old pal Colbert that might have even been better than the

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London Police Will Begin Using Real-Time Facial Recognition

London’s police department said on Friday that it would begin using facial recognition technology in the city to identify people in real time, becoming one of the largest Western police forces to deploy software that has been criticized for its questionable effectiveness and violation of privacy. The Metropolitan Police provided few details about when and

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