Media playback is not supported on your device Media captionBeirut blast: The families whose lives changed forever Lebanon will launch a two-week strike to contain a rise in coronavirus infections following the devastating explosion in Beirut two weeks ago. Markets, shopping malls, gyms and swimming pools will have to close …
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Colbert mocked Bill Clinton for criticizing Trump behavior in the White House
The Late Show host Stephen Colbert mocked Bill Clinton on Tuesday night after the former commander-in-chief criticized the behavior of President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. In a nod to the scandal over Clinton’s affair with then-White House Monica Lewinsky, Colbert said he did not think the former president …
Read More »FDA stops emergency approval of COVID blood plasma treatment
The Food and Drug Administration’s emergency authorization for blood plasma as a treatment for the coronavirus has been put on hold to obtain more data, according to a report. An emergency service approval could still be issued by the FDA in the very near future, H. Clifford Lane, clinical director …
Read More »Supernovae may have caused massive extinction 359m years ago
Exploding stars – or ‘supernovae’ – at least 65 light-years from Earth, could have unleashed devastating mass extinction events about 359 million years ago. The extinction of the Late Devonian saw 50 percent of all genera – groups of species – and 19 percent of all families disappear, the next …
Read More »Video shows officer ousting Raptors exec Masai Ujiri first in altercation at 2019 NBA Finals
It’s been more than a year since Toronto Raptors president of basketball concerts Masai Ujiri’s NBA Finals celebration was stopped by an exchange with a police officer at Oracle Arena. Officer Alan Strickland filed a lawsuit in February, claiming that Ujiri attacked him in the moments following the victory of …
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