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The Oregon Health Authority announced 264 new cases of the new coronavirus and two new deaths Wednesday. That is well below the record of 437 new cases announced last Thursday, or the record of seven deaths reported on Tuesday. Perhaps the most disturbing news on Wednesday was that the number …

Star Wars It is now a massive franchise that spans more than four decades. Characters have been introduced and lost, and others have stood the test of time to become fan favorites. And with Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm, the franchise has continued to grow in recent years, especially with the …

Opening day, finally. A baseball season that was on the brink before it started due to the virus outbreak will begin Thursday night when Max Scherzer and World Series champion Washington Nationals welcome prized ace Gerrit Cole and the New York Yankees. York. When it starts, the DC forecast calls …

Twitter announced Tuesday that the QAnon conspiracy theory has stopped working on its site, setting the stage to ban 7,000 QAnon accounts and limit the voice of approximately 150,000 more. But the Twitter crackdown comes too late to stop QAnon’s growth. While QAnon’s presence on Twitter will almost certainly decrease …

FILE PHOTO: Mike Ryan, Executive Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) attends a press conference on the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, May 3, 2019 REUTERS / Denis Balibouse GENEVA / ZURICH (Reuters) – Researchers are making “good …