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As researchers scramble to understand the extent of H5N1 bird flu spread, there's one group of animals they say we should pay special attention to: Our pets.

KINGSTON, N.Y. — The city awarded 43 organizations with grants of up to $25,000, out of a pool of $1 million, from COVID relief funding in an effort to reduce the pandemic’s effects on Kingston’s non-profit community. The city said examples of a program’s activity included food distribution to low-income residents, shelter for the homeless, […]

The biggest names in hiphop and pop will be performing at “The Hype Festival” on July 1 at ICCB. The line-up consists of Mila, Hridoy Khan, Jalali Set, Xefer, Imran Mahmudul, Tashfee, Mithun Chakra and Black Zang.

Campaigners have renewed calls for more affordable housing and rent controls after it emerged private flats in a former public building were being let out for “completely unaffordable” prices of up to £2,500 a month. Flats in the former Boroughmuir High School – sold to developers CALA by the City of Edinburgh Council in 2015 for £14.5m – have recently appeared on the rental market. London estate agent OpenRent is advertising a one-bed Boroughmuir apartment for £1,250 a month while ...

Circle Creative Studio/iStock By MATTHEW VANN and DEVIN DWYER, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A new study is underway to see if at-home COVID-19 tests could pave the way to reopening America’s workplaces. Citigroup, a U.S. multinational investment bank and financial services company, is launching a pilot program with Chicago-area bank branch employees and New York Stock Exchange traders aimed at allowing their personnel to utilize a rapid antigen test, provided by Innova Medical Group, before coming...

If youre looking to get tested for COVID-19, the draw of taking an at-home test is obvious. You can save time and avoid coming into contact with someone who might be infected. Pretty ideal. Even better, at-home COVID-19 tests are likely to be highly accurate, says Alexander J. McAdam, M.D., Ph.D., medical director of the Infectious Diseases Diagnostic Division at Boston Childrens Hospital and associate professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School. Most at-home tests that people have been ta...