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November 25, 2024
HONOLULU (AP) — Navy officials “lacked sufficient understanding” of the risks of maintaining massive fuel storage tanks on top of a drinking water well at Pearl Harbor where spilled jet fuel poisoned more than 6,000 people in 2021, a U.S. military watchdog said Thursday. That lack of awareness came even though officials had engineering drawings
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NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump says he will nominate anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, putting a man whose views public health officials have decried as dangerous in charge of a massive agency that oversees everything from drug, vaccine and food safety to medical
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President-elect Donald Trump ‘s plan to appoint Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to lead the Health and Human Services Department will put a prominent vaccine skeptic at the helm of the nation’s sprawling public health apparatus. A scion of a famous Democratic dynasty, Kennedy made a name in his own right as an environmental attorney who
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Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was building up a following with his anti-vaccine nonprofit group, Children’s Health Defense, and becoming one of the world’s most influential spreaders of fear and distrust around vaccines. Now, President-elect Donald Trump says he will nominate Kennedy to lead the Department of Health and Human Services,
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A computer expert who stole bitcoin worth billions of dollars at current prices — and then spent years laundering some of the hacked cryptocurrency with help from his wife — was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison. Ilya Lichtenstein masterminded one of the largest-ever thefts from a virtual currency exchange
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon’s latest report on UFOs has revealed hundreds of new reports of unidentified and unexplained aerial phenomena but no indications suggesting an extraterrestrial origin. The review includes hundreds of cases of misidentified balloons, birds and satellites as well as some that defy easy explanation, such as a near-miss between a commercial
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Those ever-present TV drug ads showing patients hiking, biking or enjoying a day at the beach could soon have a different look: New rules require drugmakers to be clearer and more direct when explaining their medications’ risks and side effects. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration spent more than 15 years crafting
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By Associated Press Wake Forest Demon Deacons North Carolina Tar Heels ACC Network | Saturday, November 16th 8:00 PM EST Chapel Hill, N.C. — Game preview: Wake Forest (4-5, 2-3 Atlantic Coast Conference) at North Carolina (5-4, 2-3) When: Saturday, 8 p.m. EST (ACC Network) Series record: UNC leads 72-36-2. What’s at stake? North Carolina
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For the first time, Providence is the No. 1 team in the final HighSchoolOT statewide top 25 girls tennis rankings, taking the top spot in the final rankings after winning the N.C. High School Athletic Association 4A championship and ending the year with a 20-1 record. The Panthers are just in front of state runner-up
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The N.C. High School Athletic Association has its first look at the Average Daily Membership numbers for the 2024-2025 school year, the enrollment figures it will use to determine the upcoming realignment. In 2025-29, the top 32 schools will be in 8A, while 1A through 7A will receive an even split of the rest. The
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