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CDC’s new COVID vaccine targets the XBB variant. With safety debates ongoing, uptake is low. Texas bans mandates, while Novavax promises milder side effects and effective protection.
1,400 Hamas Fighters Cross the Border and Terrorize Israel as Rockets Fly In a stunning failure of Israeli intelligence, one thousand Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants stormed into southern Israel on foot, by motorcycle, boats, and even paragliders, killing 1,400 and taking more than 200 hostages. Hamas drones bombed guard towers along the Gaza border … Read more
Robert Card, a certified firearms instructor and a member of the US Army Reserves, committed this year’s worst mass shooting in Lewiston, ME, located 35 miles north of Portland. Armed with a scoped AR-style rifle, he killed 18 people and wounded at least a dozen more at two locations: a bar and grille, and a … Read more
Writers win against ChatGPT, Trump faces 91 criminal charges, government shutdown narrowly avoided, autoworkers strike, earthquake in Morocco, floods in Libya, and the Mississippi river nearly runs dry.
Robotaxis have been approved for use in San Francisco by Alphabet and General Motors, despite some previous issues, and expansion to other cities is planned. In the realm of AI, concerns are rising, with Geoffrey Hinton warning about chatbots surpassing human intelligence, and criminals creating their own malicious versions of ChatGPT. However, there are positive … Read more
Omicron dominates as COVID-19 strain; asthma medication and insulin see drastic shifts. Silicon Valley Bank collapses; Alaskan fisheries at risk. Wild mammal biomass dwindles. Trump indicted over hush money.
A winter storm ravaged the US and a calving glacier in Antarctica could raise the sea level by two feet. In legal news, there were various federal rulings related to gun ownership and a nationwide injunction on the abortion pill. In sports, LeBron James broke the NBA scoring record and the Kansas City Chiefs won … Read more
The US Economy Stock Market Indices The Dow Jones Industrial Average was 33,000, up from 19,000 in April 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic emerged. The NASDAQ Composite index was 11,000, down from the pandemic peak of 16,000 in November 2022, but still twice as high as the Great Recession in 2018. Inflation Continued The US … Read more
Omicron variant spreads rapidly around the world. The Omicron variant of COVID-19 spread rapidly around the world in December 2022, causing a surge in cases and hospitalizations. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared Omicron a “variant of concern” on November 26, 2022, and it quickly became the dominant variant in many countries. New COVID-19 vaccine … Read more
FTX cryptocurrency exchange goes bankrupt, Hurricane Matthew kills 1,000 in Haiti, and North Korea fires more missiles.