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[ad_1] Spring’s budding trees, blooming flowers and warmer temperatures beckon the winter weary back outdoors. But a tiny danger lurks in the season’s celebratory greenery: ticks. These eight-legged, bacteria-carrying parasites are the No. 1 Lyme disease-spreader for humans. Scientists are working on a vaccine series to guard against the disease. Until then, people are vulnerable to this potentially serious tick-borne illness — and the risk of exposure is growing. Some antivaccine sentiment is propelling an online conspiracy theory linking the tick population with the vaccine.  So before you set out on that hike, picnic or beach day, know the facts about ticks,…

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[ad_1] Republicans Are Sinking, But Democrats Aren't Rising [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] In the wake of Hamas’s October 2023 terrorist attack on Israel, the University of Pennsylvania’s then-President Elizabeth Magill and others affiliated with the school stated publicly numerous times that Jewish faculty, employees and others at Penn had been subject to vile acts of antisemitism and harassment on campus…. Prompted by these statements, … [t]he EEOC … issued an administrative subpoena, with which Penn refused to comply, seeking contact information for Penn employees who may have been victims of, or witnesses to, such harassment…. The Court granted the EEOC’s application [for] {judicial enforcement of the subpoena}, requiring Penn to comply…

[ad_1] A ceasefire to the Iran War entered its 20th day on Monday as AP, citing two regional officials, reported that Iran has offered to open the Strait of Hormuz if the U.S. lifts its blockade, postponing questions of nuclear enrichment for later discussions. AP and Axios reported that Iran would be willing to end the war in exchange for blockade relief.  Iran has said that it considers a ceasefire in Lebanon part of a broader deal for ending the war, and will not give up what it says is its nonnegotiable right to enrich uranium. Iran has said it…

[ad_1] Yet another assassination attempt is not proof that Secret Service worked; it’s evidence that the Secret Service has failed Trump yet again. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Secret Service agents reportedly subdued a gunman Saturday at the Washington Hilton hotel, during the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. “A man charged a security checkpoint armed with multiple weapons, and he was taken down by some very brave members of Secret Service,” President Donald Trump said while posting security camera footage to social media. Officials later identified the assailant as Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old California man, and said he was armed with a shotgun, handgun, and knives. Allen reportedly exchanged gunfire with Secret Service, and one agent was hit, though further details are still unknown. Allen…

[ad_1] In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. By Shahad Ali This article was originally published by Truthout The majority of farmland is unusable due to Israeli bombing, bulldozing, or seizure within the so-called “Yellow Line.” Before the Israeli war began, Gaza’s agricultural sector was known for its abundant production of fruits and vegetables and was often called the “food basket” of the Strip. Despite extensive…

[ad_1] From 1933 to 2015, the Rockefeller family developed, owned, and occupied 19 buildings across 22 acres in midtown Manhattan known as Rockefeller Center. The many tentacles of the Rockefeller Standard Oil octopus were housed in the General Electric building inside the family office known as Room 5600. The United Nations was conceptualized inside Room 5600, alongside the IMF, World Bank, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and even the Trilateral Commission. David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger formulated their scheme for the depopulation of the Third World from this office, and the plan to open China was concocted inside the vast 56th-floor office…

[ad_1] Sometimes if you keep searching, digging, and sifting, you’ll find a nugget that is bigger than anything you expected. That happened to us when we looked for additional evidence to refute a questionable claim of Francine Shapiro, founder of a treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder. In the September/October 2024 issue of Skeptical Inquirer, we had considered several controversies surrounding eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), a strategy developed by Shapiro that induces eye movements to process traumatic memories (Rosen and Pankratz 2024). In addition to concerns that eye movements were an unnecessary and implausible part of the treatment, we…