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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Jan 12, 2024 at 08:59 PM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Oct 27, 2023 at 09:55 PM PDT
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So, somebody else wrote a diary to share the news reports that cholera was being reported in the flood-ravaged area of Kherson Oblast. It was affecting the Russian troops in the area. The diary was a recap of snippets of information. The comments...
by guavaboy
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on Tue Jun 20, 2023 at 03:23 AM PDT
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Looking back over the year, obviously the big news was the Supreme Court’s destruction of Roe v. Wade in June, and the subsequent laws restricting women’s reproductive choices in red states (and ...
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
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on Sat Dec 31, 2022 at 05:00 PM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, annetteboardman, jck, Rise above the swamp, and Besame. Alumni editors include (but are not limited to) Man Oh...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Oct 14, 2022 at 09:22 PM PDT
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An April 22, 2020 report in Vox by Zack Beauchamp looks at a study which compared Sean Hannity’s shows with those of Tucker Carlson and the effect on their audiences during February and early March. Misinformation During a Pandemic A study by Leonardo...
by xaxnar
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on Mon Apr 27, 2020 at 08:54 AM PDT
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UPDATE June 4, 2019: The Yemenite Organization for Humanitarian Relief and Development/MONA website shows 9 or 10 reports since 2016 of the dozen or so families in Sana’a receiving aid, most recently Feb 25, 2019: “monthly...
by mettle fatigue
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on Thu Jan 03, 2019 at 10:30 PM PST
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For some holiday homework, I am trying to put together a simple fact sheet for understanding the Yemen war. I have a feeling we are going to be hearing a lot more about it in the months ahead, and it seems that few people even in my own...
by wvmcl
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on Fri Nov 23, 2018 at 07:23 AM PST
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History section updated Nov 8, 2018. Looking back over just the most recent months: Articles from Reuters & Thomson Reuters Foundation, via Medscape, a mostly-plain- English news/research-reportage/reference service geared at healthcare...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sun Jan 07, 2018 at 07:00 AM PST
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It’s not your fault if you weren’t aware of this, but Yemen currently is in crisis. A civil war, with lots of foreign actors (Saudi Arabia, for example), have been pummeling the nation. It’s completely fallen apart.
And now, cholera is ravaging the...
by terrypinder
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on Tue Aug 15, 2017 at 08:37 AM PDT
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Today, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved two amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act [NDAA] that would prohibit U.S. participation in the catastrophic Saudi-UAE war against the Houthi-Saleh alliance in Yemen.
The...
by Robert Naiman
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on Fri Jul 14, 2017 at 09:45 AM PDT
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Cholera is a disgusting disease. It’s hard to find one more disgusting than it. A cholera victim, untreated, literally shits their intestines out. That’s blunt, gross, but there’s not any other way to put it. When it arrived in Europe for the first...
by terrypinder
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on Fri Aug 19, 2016 at 04:11 PM PDT
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Norimitsu Onishiaug of the New York Times writes an article entitled, Clashes Erupt as Liberia ...
by HoundDog
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on Wed Aug 20, 2014 at 08:06 PM PDT
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An unidentified fatal disease broke out last week in West Nile subregion, Obongi County, Uganda. According to local press , as of April 28, 2014, the disease already claimed 4 lives and sent at ...
by Pakalolo
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on Thu May 01, 2014 at 03:45 AM PDT
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Commentary: African American Scientists and Inventors by Black Kos Editor, Sephius1
William Cordozo born in Washington, D.C. on April 6, 1905, came from a prominent family of educators and ...
by Black Kos
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on Fri Mar 15, 2013 at 01:05 PM PDT
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March 5, 2013
Three years after the deadly earthquake in Haiti, what has become of the commitments made on Red Cross billboards, the promises from telethon hosts, the moving declarations of ...
by Bev Bell
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on Tue Mar 05, 2013 at 07:27 AM PST
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If more Americans could get unplugged from the myths which have been used historically to engineer public acquiescence in U.S. foreign policy, how much could that help us reform U.S. foreign policy ...
by Robert Naiman
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on Mon Dec 10, 2012 at 02:40 PM PST
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By Deepa Panchang
May 31, 2012
“Cholera is something they sent,” says graffiti on Port-au-Prince walls, “to finish killing off the rest of us.”
Scientists have shown that the cholera ...
by Bev Bell
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on Thu May 31, 2012 at 07:39 AM PDT
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We should not forget Smith v. Allwright
Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver Velez
As we stand and observe what can happen to our rights when the Supreme Court becomes a tool for right ...
by Black Kos
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on Tue Apr 03, 2012 at 02:00 PM PDT
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I could rehash the obvious; cholera being introduced to Haiti via negligent and entirely ...
by parryander
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on Thu Mar 22, 2012 at 10:12 AM PDT
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