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SONGPHOL THESAKIT/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is tracking a new lineage of the virus that causes COVID-19 after it was detected in the United States. Named BA.2.86, the strain was first detected in Denmark on July 24 of this year, then Israel, followed by Michigan in August for a total of four cases, according to the open global genome sequencing database GISAID. "Today we are more prepared than ever to detect and respond to changes in th...

Netflix/Guy ArochShawn Levy, the Canadian-born director and executive producer of Stranger Things and the Ryan Reynolds hit Free Guy, will be honored at this years Toronto International Film Festival. Levy is known for his work behind the camera, including Reynolds time-traveling family drama The Adam Project and 2016s The Arrival, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award as a producer. Levy will debut All the Light We Cannot See, a miniseries based on Anthony Doerrs Pulitzer Prize-winnin...

**We've been installing a new computer, so this is late. Roof fire at Grape Co-Op in Westfield blamed on boiler problem... Firefighters from six departments made quick work of a roof fire tha...

Luke Nozicka/The Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(MARION, Kan.) -- Marion County, Kansas, has said it will return evidence seized in a controversial police raid of a local newspaper after an attorney review. A search warrant for the newspapers offices had been acquired based on a probable cause affidavit alleging that computer crimes had been committed at the location. However, Marion County Attorney Joel Ensey wrote in a statement Wednesday that he had come to the conclus...

Joe Carrotta/NYU Langone Health(NEW YORK) -- Doctors at NYU Langone in New York City announced Wednesday that they have successfully transplanted a genetically engineered pig kidney into a human who was declared brain dead, in what they called "a landmark step forward." A surgical team removed the kidneys of the human recipient in July 2023 and transplanted the pig kidney, as well as the thymus. Before the transplant, the pig kidney was modified to remove alpha-gal, a sugar molecule o...

Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty ImagesA new species of snake discovered in 2022 at Otishi National Park in Peru has been coyly named in honor of Harrison Ford, who played perhaps the most famous ophidiophobic character in movie history, Indiana Jones. It was Indys lament in 1981s Raiders of the Lost Ark that demonstrates the herpetologists sense of humor: "Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?" Introducing Tachymenoides harrisonfordi: a copper and brown snake, measuring around 16 inc...

Daniel Zuchnik/Getty Images(ATLANTA) -- A publicist who previously represented controversial musicians R. Kelly and Ye has been indicted alongside former President Donald Trump and several of his allies for their alleged actions following the 2020 election. Trevian Kutti, who has been a supporter of the former president, is accused of helping to conspire "to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump" alongside 18 others, according to the indictment against the de...

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Chris Rogers/Getty Images(SALT LAKE CITY) -- After a three-year manhunt, a Utah man has been arrested on charges of allegedly selling a fake COVID-19 cure, the U.S. Attorneys Office for the District of Utah announced Monday. Gordon Hunter Pedersen, 63, of Cedar Hills -- 30 miles south of Salt Lake City -- allegedly appeared in multiple YouTube videos before COVID-19 vaccines were approved, selling "structural alkaline silver." He allegedly claimed the product was a cure for the virus ...

Thanit Weerawan/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Children and teenagers who previously had multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, known as MIS-C, may be more likely to have neurological and mental health issues than those who did not, a recent study suggests. Researchers from Boston Childrens Hospital looked at 64 children, teens and young adults between ages 5 and 20 who were hospitalized at the hospital between November 2020 and November 2021. The children underwent neurological examinations ...