Latino civil rights organization drops 'Latinx' from official communication

Domingo García, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) instructed staff to stop using "Latinx," adding to a debate over the term. | Continue reading


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Hospitalizations rising among fully vaccinated in U.S., Fauci says

As cases of Covid-19 rise throughout the U.S., health officials warn that an increasing number of fully vaccinated people are being hospitalized going to the ER. | Continue reading


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Kamikaze drones: A new weapon brings power and peril to the U.S. military

Some experts believe the spread of low-cost, light-weight "killer" drones will change ground warfare as profoundly as the machine gun did. | Continue reading


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Bob Dole, WWII hero and former Republican presidential nominee, dies at 98

Dole survived life-threatening wounds in World War II to become a shepherd of the Republican Party. | Continue reading


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Edward Shames, last member of WW2 company that inspired ‘Band of Brothers’ dies

Edward Shames, a World War II veteran who was the last surviving officer of “Easy Company,” which inspired the HBO miniseries and book “Band of Brothers,” has died. | Continue reading


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'Magic dirt': How the internet fueled, and defeated, the pandemic's weirdest MLM

The social media posts started in May: photos and videos of smiling people, mostly women, drinking Mason jars of black liquid, slathering black paste on their | Continue reading


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Biden administration to restart Trump-era 'Remain in Mexico' policy

The program will start again in border towns as soon as next week, a source familiar with the matter told NBC News. | Continue reading


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Apple says it will notify users whose iPhones were hacked by spyware

Apple says it will notify users whose iPhones and devices have been compromised by state-sponsored hacking efforts, according to a support document. | Continue reading


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Omicron variant now in North America, Canadian officials say

Canadian officials announced Sunday that the omicron variant of the coronavirus has reached North America, with two cases appearing in Ontario. | Continue reading


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Overdue book returned anonymously to Idaho library 111 years later

A children's book checked out from the Boise, Idaho, public library in 1910 vanished for 111 years only to be returned anonymously, library officials said. | Continue reading


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A dangerous form of GHB makes a comeback, sold on Amazon and Walmart.com (2020)

Gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, or GHB, is making a comeback as a new generation of recreational users rediscovers it through online marketplaces. | Continue reading


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Millionaire dog selling Miami villa

Gunther VI the German shepherd inherited his vast fortune, including the eight-bedroom waterfront home once owned by the singer, from his grandfather Gunther IV. | Continue reading


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House votes to censure GOP Rep. Paul Gosar over video depicting killing of AOC

The resolution also removes him from his two committees, Oversight and Reform, and Natural Resources. | Continue reading


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'A staggering increase': Yearly drug overdose deaths top 100k for first time

Drug overdose deaths topped 100,000 in a single year for the first time, with opioids responsible for the majority. | Continue reading


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Woman’s own immune system has possibly cured her of HIV

A woman in Argentina has become only the second documented person whose own immune system may have cured her of HIV. | Continue reading


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Hacker sends spam to 100k from FBI email address

An apparently malicious hacker sent spam emails from an FBI email server Friday night to at least 100,000 people, an email spam watchdog group has found. | Continue reading


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Advising Chinese state companies and The Pentagon, McKinsey comes under scrutiny

McKinsey in recent years has faced accusations of alleged conflicts of interest in its bankruptcy work and other fields. | Continue reading


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Fugitive who pulled off Cleveland bank heists identified 52 years later

The man was never caught after he stole $215,000 from the Society National Bank, where he worked as a bank teller in 1969, according to the U.S. Marshals Service. | Continue reading


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Covid is surging in Europe. Experts say it’s a warning for the U.S.

Eastern Europe's deadly Covid-19 surge is a warning of the dangers of low vaccine uptake, experts say. | Continue reading


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Anti-vaccine groups embrace pseudoscience “detox” treatments to undo vaccination

In a TikTok video that has garnered hundreds of thousands of views, Dr. | Continue reading


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‘Dark patterns’: Regulators eye tech tricks that hurt consumers

Tech companies, subscription apps and e-commerce sites have for years used subtle tricks to nudge people toward a decision or purchase they might not otherwise | Continue reading


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Aaron Rodgers says he’s unvaccinated, takes ivermectin and bashes ‘woke mob’

"I believe strongly in bodily autonomy and ability to make choices for your body," the embattled Green Bay Packers quarterback said. | Continue reading


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Pfizer's Covid antiviral pill may cut severe illness by 89 percent

The drugmaker Pfizer said Friday that clinical trials of its experimental Covid-19 pill have been so successful in preventing people from becoming hospitalized | Continue reading


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Republican Youngkin wins Virginia governor's race

The GOP victory came in a state President Joe Biden won by 10 percentage points, sending a warning to Democrats about their midterm election prospects. | Continue reading


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Climate change threatens to spark instability, conflict around the world

Eleven countries in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East are especially at risk from instability driven by climate change, says a U.S. intelligence report. | Continue reading


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Influencers in Shanghai are posing at Costco, pretending they're in L.A

Chinese netizens are cashing in on the nostalgia for international travel in a creative way: posing in front of China’s only Costco as if they’re in Los Angeles. | Continue reading


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Pablo Escobar's 'cocaine hippos' can be legally recognized as people, U.S. court

They are descendants of animals that Escobar illegally imported to his Colombian ranch in the 1980s when he reigned over the country’s drug trade. | Continue reading


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White House press secretary Jen Psaki tests positive for Covid

Psaki said in a statement that the last time she saw President Biden was on Tuesday, when they sat outside more than six feet apart, and wore masks. | Continue reading


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FDA authorizes Pfizer vaccine for kids 5 to 11

The Covid vaccine is now authorized for kids in elementary school, ages 5 to 11. | Continue reading


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Cybercriminals claim to have hacked the NRA

A notorious Russian cybercriminal group has posted what appear to be National Rifle Association files to the dark web. | Continue reading


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Emoji reactions were a cute addition to Facebook. Result: more “toxicity”

Facebook's algorithms gave an "angry" reaction five times the weight of a traditional "like." After years of research, employees realized the result was more "toxicity." | Continue reading


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WikiLeaks' Assange should be extradited, U.S. lawyers tell U.K. court

Lawyers for the United States launched a fresh attempt on Wednesday to have Wikileaks founder Julian Assange extradited from Britain. | Continue reading


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Car accidents cause death, injury and trauma. Why do we shrug them off?

Americans are in total collective denial about how lethal our car dependency is. We have to stop normalizing the suffering caused by cars. | Continue reading


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China-linked disinformation campaign blames Covid on Maine lobsters

In mid-September, Marcel Schliebs, a disinformation researcher at the University of Oxford, spotted the emergence of a surprising coronavirus origin theory. | Continue reading


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Rep. Jim Banks Suspended from Twitter

Dr. Rachel Levine is the first transgender person to hold a U.S. Senate-appointment office. | Continue reading


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Ransomware hackers nervous, allege harassment from U.S.

Some of the most destructive ransomware hackers in the world appear to be on edge after the U.S. reportedly took down one of their colleagues. | Continue reading


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Alec Baldwin accidentally shot and killed someone

The film's director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, was killed and director Joel Souza was injured on the set in New Mexico. | Continue reading


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What Facebook knew about how it radicalized users

In the summer of 2019, a new Facebook user named Carol Smith signed up for the platform, describing herself as a politically conservative mother from Wilmington | Continue reading


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After 9/11, China grew to a superpower as a distracted U.S. fixated on terrorism

In 2001, the Bush administration was focused on China and tensions had spiked. The 9/11 attacks were a "geopolitical gift to China,“ says one expert. | Continue reading


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In historic first, Russian film crew lands after shoot aboard ISS

A Soyuz space capsule carrying a cosmonaut and two Russian filmmakers has landed after a 3.5-hour trip from the International Space Station. | Continue reading


@nbcnews.com | 2 years ago

Squid Game is entertaining the world. There's a different feeling in S. Korea

“Koreans love to be No. 1, but No. 1 at the cost of kind of airing your dirty laundry is a somewhat different thing," said Professor CedarBough Saeji. | Continue reading


@nbcnews.com | 2 years ago

Texas school district pulls books by acclaimed author amid critical race theory

Author Jerry Craft said he remains committed to "helping kids become the kind of readers that I never was; letting kids see themselves on my pages." | Continue reading


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Facebook, WhatsApp outage an annoyance for U.S., but big deal in rest of world

Messaging apps "have become deeply integrated into the delivery of primary health care, education and other government services,” one expert said. | Continue reading


@nbcnews.com | 2 years ago

Baby died due to ransomware attack on hospital, suit says

An Alabama baby was born with severe brain injury and eventually died due to botched care because her hospital was struggling with a ransomware attack, a | Continue reading


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96-year-old went on the run to skip Nazi war crimes trial arrested in Germany

The woman is accused of having contributed as an 18-year-old to the murder of 11,412 people when she was a typist at the Stutthof concentration camp. | Continue reading


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Yale University's controversial Vinland Map is a fake, new study confirms

The map was acquired by Yale in the mid-1960s and was said to be the earliest depiction of the New World. | Continue reading


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Remote work changed the workplace. Now let's change the work week – to 4 days

More hours don’t mean more work. In fact, fewer working hours can add the urgency and motivation needed to get the job done. | Continue reading


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