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Everything You Need to Know About Creating a Coronavirus Vaccine Fast

March 28, 2020

The coronavirus has ground social, economic and educational exchanges to a halt around the world. For now, public health officials are relying on tools like social distancing to minimize the harm of the virus, ...

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Could Chloroquine Treat Coronavirus? 5 Questions Answered About a Promising, Problematic and Unproven Use for an Antimalarial Drug

The Conversation

March 25, 2020

An Arizona man died, and his wife was hospitalized, after taking a form of chloroquine, which President Trump has touted as an effective treatment for COVID-19. The couple decided to self-medicate with chloroqu...

Coronavirus: Ten Reasons Why You Ought Not to Panic

The Conversation

March 15, 2020

Regardless of whether we classify the new coronavirus as a pandemic, it is a serious issue. In less than two months, it has spread over several continents. Pandemic means sustained and continuous transmission o...

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Video of 6-Year-Old Girl’s Arrest Shows the Perils of Putting Police in Primary Schools

The Conversation

March 1, 2020

When states like Florida pass laws to put more police officers in schools, the idea is to keep kids safe. The recent release of body camera footage from the arrest of a 6-year-old in a Florida school, howeve...

100 Years Ago, Congress Threw out Results of the Census

The Conversation

February 16, 2020

The 2020 Census hasn’t even started – but it has already kicked off spirited fights. A Supreme Court case, decided last year, blocked a Trump administration proposal to ask every respondent if they were a ci...

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Is Trump Our Emperor? Events Mirror Fall of Roman Republic.

The Conversation

February 15, 2020

The U.S. Senate has made its judgment in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, acquitting the president. Fifty two of 53 senators in the Republican majority voted to acquit the president on the abuse...

Black Americans Mostly Left Behind by Progress Since Dr. King’s Death

The Conversation

January 20, 2020

On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while assisting striking sanitation workers. Opinion Sharon Austin Back then, a half century ago, the who...

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3 Big Ways That the US Will Change Over the Next Decade

The Conversation

January 6, 2020

The U.S. has just entered the new decade of the 2020s. What does our country look like today, and what will it look like 10 years from now, on Jan. 1, 2030? Which demographic groups in the U.S. will grow the...

Lessons for Teachers and Students From Coach Vince Lombardi

The Conversation

December 21, 2019

This Dec. 21 marks the 50th anniversary of the last football game Vince Lombardi ever coached. Remembered primarily as the helmsman of the Green Bay Packers during the 1960s and namesake of the Super Bowl troph...

Jimmy Hoffa Disappeared – and Then His Legacy Took on a Life of Its Own

The Conversation

December 9, 2019

On July 30, 1975, Jimmy Hoffa, the former president of the Teamsters Union, disappeared. He’d gone to a restaurant in suburban Detroit apparently expecting to meet a couple of mafia figures whom he had known...

Democrats Unload on Bernie Sanders in Likely Debate Preview

First N95 Medical Mask Imports Finally Reaching US

Trump Rollback of Mileage Standards Guts Climate Change Push

Fresno Closes Playgrounds Because of COVID-19

State Law Could Push Middle Class Out of Housing

Coronavirus Shows State Push for Public Transit is Hazardous to our Health

Valley Stores Add ‘Sneeze Guards’ to Combat COVID-19 at Checkout

Fighting COVID-19: UC Medical Centers Launch Clinical Trial to Assess Antiviral Drug

Optimistic Bulldogs Draw Air Force in MW Men's Tournament Opener

Some Instacart, Amazon Workers Strike as Jobs Get Riskier

Florida Sheriff Seeking Tips in ‘Tiger King’ Mystery

Dutch Museum Says Van Gogh Painting Stolen in Overnight Raid

Walters: Virus Crisis Changes How We Work

Stay Home, Light A Candle, Show Your Support Wednesday

Coronavirus Shows State Push for Public Transit is Hazardous to our Health

How to Get Past the Coronavirus Crisis Without Losing Your Mental Health

ICYMI: ‘How Not to Die’ by Dr. Michael Greger

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'No Way Out': Demographics Drive GOP Nosedive on West Coast

Coronavirus Suddenly Upends Campaign Themes for Both Parties

2020 Campaigns Go Digital Amid Fears of Coronavirus Spread

Sanders’ Campaign Says He’s Reassessing, Not Dropping out