On January 8 I asked The edgeThe scientific team must monitor the first reports of a new virus that had recently emerged in China. When I launched an article about that new virus The Washington Post On Slack, someone joked that 2020 got off to a good start, which clearly …
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Republican Rep. Ted Yoho resigned on Saturday from the board of Christian anti-poverty organization Bread for the World days after he verbally attacked Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The non-profit organization announced that it “sought [Yoho’s] He resigns “after determining that his attack on Ocasio-Cortez did not reflect” the values of …
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After a seven-month contract dispute, the New York Jets agreed to trade safety safety Jamal Adams for the Seattle Seahawks for a package that includes first-round picks in each of the next two years. The Seahawks will send safety Bradley McDougald first-round picks in 2021 and 2022 and a third-round …
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Although its existence was announced just 15 hours before its release, Taylor Swift’s “Folklore” sold over 1.3 million copies worldwide in just 24 hours, according to Republic Records, which released the album. According to the announcement, the album also broke the world record for first-day broadcasts on Spotify by a …
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(Newser) – Those Vikings keep making history. Not only did they settle in North America and have warriors, but they apparently suffered from an early type of smallpox: the disease that killed hundreds of millions of people in the 20th century, the New York Times reports. The now extinct strain …
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