The White House said in a statement last week that “Morocco’s autonomy plan is the only real option to achieve a just, permanent and mutually acceptable settlement of the Western Sahara dispute.” But the move sparked criticism of the decades-long conflict. Much of Western Sahara – the former Spanish territory …
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U.S. Tests for the virus on a prisoner execution basis are positive
WASHINGTON (AP) – Just days before President-elect Joe Biden took office, a federal prisoner was determined to have tested positive for coronavirus, his lawyer said Thursday. Dustin John Higgs’s attorney at the Bureau Pr Prison was informed Thursday that his client had tested positive for the virus, his attorney, Devon …
Read More »Study: Blood oxygen oxygen detection device gives black people more often inaccurate readings
According to research published on Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine Medicine, a medical device that measures oxygen blood levels is more likely to give misleading or inaccurate results to black patients. Researchers analyzed data from thousands of adult patients receiving supplemental oxygen at the University of Michigan …
Read More »Multi-messenger astronomy provides new estimates of neutron star size and the expansion of the universe
The connection of two neutron stars showing electromagnetic and gravitational-wave emissions during the merger process. The combined interpretation of multiple messengers allows astrophysicists to understand the internal structure of neutron stars and to reveal the properties of matter in the most extreme conditions of the universe. Credit: Tim Dietrich The …
Read More »Henrik Lundquist’s heart condition could end up in an incomplete NHL
For most of the past decade, at the end of the annual Deep Danda Rangers playoffs, when the game’s stars and marquee athletes were talking to the media from a dais in front of their respective locals. So after a match or practice it will take 10 minutes to hear …
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