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Israel recorded zero COVID-19 deaths in a day for the first time in 10 months Israel continues to provide what appears to be a real-time look at the success of COVID-19 vaccinations. For the first time in 10 months, Israel did not record a single COVID-19 death in a 24-hour period on Friday. The last time this happened, the country had enacted strict lockdown measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus, but thats not the case now. Cases are plummeting even as Israel has gradually been liftin...

Marjorie Taylor Greene mockingly impersonates Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez while recounting her debate challenge Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) remains very determined to debate Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). On Saturday, while speaking at the America First Rally at the Indian River County Fairgrounds in Florida, Greene recounted an apparent conversation the congresswomen had when Greene approached Ocasio-Cortez in the House chamber about going head-to-head on national television over...

Biden breaks with predecessors, calls 1915 mass killings of Armenians a genocide 1:22 p.m. While addressing Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day on Saturday, Biden said "the American people honor all those Armenians who perished in the genocide that began 106 years ago today." The statement fulfills a campaign promise Biden made to Armenian-Americans, and makes him the first president in 40 years to call the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 a genocide. Bidens gesture is sig...

Seqster Raises $12M Series A to Accelerate the Adoption of its Healthcare Data Interoperability Technology OmniHealth Holdings LLC, Takeda Digital Ventures, 23andMes Anne Wojcicki join the growth funding round News provided by Share this article Share this article SAN DIEGO, April 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Seqster PDM Inc. ("Seqster"), the leader in patient-centric healthcare data technology, announced today it has raised $12M in a Series A round of venture capital financing. The funding round w...

More than half of Republican voters back Bidens Afghanistan withdrawal plan, poll finds 11:11 a.m. President Bidens plan to withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan by or before Sept. 11, 2021, has its critics among Republicans in the halls of Congress, but Republican voters are mostly on board. A Morning Consultpoll released Wednesday found that the strategy is widely popular in the United States (overwhelmingly so among Democrats), and that 52 percent of Republican voters are in favor o...

Protests continue in Minnesota following fatal police shooting For the second night in a row, hundreds of people are protesting the officer-involved shooting of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man who was shot and killed Sunday afternoon during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. Brooklyn Center is a suburb of Minneapolis, and about 10 miles away from the courthouse where the Derek Chauvin trial is being conducted. On Monday morning, Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon said it ...

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Shooting at Knoxville high school leaves at least 1 person dead A police officer was also wounded, and is now undergoing surgery after being shot in the hip, a person with knowledge of the matter told Knox News. That source also said one person has been detained in connection with the shooting. Officials have not publicly announced how many people were shot or their conditions. Austin-East Magnet High School is now secure, Knox County Schools Superintendent Bob Thomas tweeted, and classes have...

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