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A priest “kicked out” a 7-year-old boy who has autism for being a “distraction”, according to the child’s mother and a video recording the incident, which she posted on her Facebook page posted. “It was shocking to say the least,” Julia Vicidomini, the boy’s mother, told NBC News. “We are …

ALBANY – Visitors from Hawaii, South Dakota and the US Virgin Islands who come to New York will have to be quarantined for two weeks, because Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday announced the additions to his travel advice. Alaska, New Mexico, Ohio and Rhode Island were removed from the growing …

Tarantulas, like all things hairy, sometimes become bald. And for the Brazilian whiteknee tarantula (Acanthoscurria geniculata), baldness begins with the butt. On Thursday (August 6) entomologist Gwen Pearson tweeted a photo of what that looks like. Pearson and her colleagues at the Purdue Insect Zoo at Purdue University in Indiana …

SAN FRANCISCO – The Pac-12 CEO Group unanimously voted to suspend all sports competitions by the end of the 2020 calendar year. The decision was made after consultation with athletics directors and with the Pac-12 COVID-19 Medical Advisory Committee, which expressed its concern about continuing with contact practice. The committee’s …

Young people who smoke or use electronic cigarettes are more than five times more likely to contract coronavirus, according to a study published Tuesday by the Stanford University School of Medicine. The study found that of young adults who were tested for coronavirus, those who reported smoking or using e-cigarettes …