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We’ve got to move away from the complacent self-satisfaction that hides the reality and fuels the division that threatens all of us, not Minnesotans only, not Midwesterners only, but all Americans together.

Afghanistan’s war ending on 9/11 We must laud Biden’s urge to end this war because he sees its continuation as a drag on real issues The writer is a political analyst. Email: [email protected] Twitter @Imran_Jan President Joe Biden has announced that America’s longest war would be brought to an end on September 11, 2021 — the 20th anniversary of what started the war. But what caused 9/11 has been open for debate. Steve Coll argues that the events of 1979 led up to 9/11. Lawrence Wrig...

After a year of hiding away, a return to normalcy feels ... abnormal By Mark Shanahan Globe Staff,Updated April 11, 2021, 7:02 p.m. Email to a Friend Adobe StockJorm S/Jorm S - stock.adobe.com The good news is my 84-year-old father has been vaccinated, so he can go to the public library again without worrying if it’ll kill him. The bad news is I’m next. I’m not an anti-vaxxer. I believe in science and look forward to getting the jab. The pandemic has caused so much misery, itâ€...

But wait: I thought I got the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine? Aren’t they pharmaceutical companies? Yes, and you probably did, but the National Institutes of Health and other federally funded research made it possible. Kaiser Health News reported last year, the two vaccines rely on the viral protein designed by Graham and his colleagues, while the concept of RNA modification was first developed by Drew Weissman and Katalin Karikó at the University of Pennsylvania. Given Americans’ collective de...

ABC Columbia Apr 7, 2021 1:41 PM EDT COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– On June 13, Synovus Bank is presenting the fifth annual  Chefs’ Feast to benefit Transitions Homeless Center. The event, chaired by TakoSushi restaurant group owner Kevin Goldsmith, will feature a multi-course meal along with wine pairings explained by sommelier Cary Goldsmith. The is scheduled to take place at the Palmetto Club, from 6-9 p.m. This year marks Transitions Homeless Center’s 10th anniversary. Winners of Volunteer Lea...

But wait: I thought I got the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine? Aren’t they pharmaceutical companies? Yes, and you probably did, but the National Institutes of Health and other federally funded research made it possible. Kaiser Health News reported last year, the two vaccines rely on the viral protein designed by Graham and his colleagues, while the concept of RNA modification was first developed by Drew Weissman and Katalin Karikó at the University of Pennsylvania. Given Americans’ collective de...

Angelique Bacon-Woodard LOCK HAVEN — Lock Haven University welcomed seven African-American alumni for its virtual Black History Month Alumni Panel. Six alumni panelists shared career advice and highlights from their time at The Haven, also while discussing how their LHU experiences helped propel their professional successes. Ed Wright is a 1971 graduate of Lock Haven State College and a former president of the Lock Haven University Alumni Association. Wright helped organize the event alo...

Becoming a Parent During the Pandemic Was the Hardest Thing I’ve Ever Done Sophie Gilbert Image above: The photographer Rose Marie Cromwell documented her experience giving birth and her growing child during the pandemic, in a series called Eclipse. In early March last year, I was heading home from a work happy hour on the subway when I realized that a woman was staring at my belly. She looked at my waist, where my coat was belted, and then at the floor, and then at my waist ...

Jamal Khashoggi hated America and Jews. That’s why Biden loves him. Thu Mar 4, 2021 Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Secretary of State Antony Blinken began his confirmation hearing by reciting a family history of antisemitism. A month later he unveiled a ban named in the memory of an antisemite. “Jamal Khashoggi paid with his life to express hi...

Jason McLellan in his lab on January 18, 2021. Credit: Matt Wright-Steel On January 6, 2020, Jason McLellan and his wife, Jinelle, were in Park City, Utah, for their family’s first-ever snowboarding vacation. It was a chance for the couple and their two young kids to relax after the holidays and before the spring semester kicked off at UT, when McLellan would begin his second year as an associate professor in molecular biosciences.    McLellan’s new snowboarding boots were pinching him...