UNC-Chapel Hill faculty member killed in shooting that sent campus into lockdown (www.nbcnews.com)
A University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill faculty member was killed Monday in a shooting that prompted a campuswide lockdown while officials searched for an “armed and dangerous person,” university officials said....
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Medicare's priciest drugs may get cheaper as feds start negotiations. Big Pharma objects. (www.usatoday.com)
The Biden administration this week is expected to announce the first 10 prescription drugs the federal government will negotiate under a new federal law that aims to reduce the cost of Medicare’s most expensive medicines....
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What we know so far about a mysterious Tiger Global memo that’s making its way around Wall Street (fortune.com)
Everyone is talking about an anonymous memo containing damning—and potentially fabricated—accusations against the hedge fund....
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Zambia-Egypt plane seizure: The cash and fake gold that no-one is claiming (www.bbc.com)
The world might have remained oblivious to it all were it not for a journalist whose fact-checking website, Matsda2sh, accused officials in Egypt of involvement in the incident....
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Plant diversity in urban green spaces led to sevenfold increase in insect species, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
The benefits of urban greening initiatives are increasingly well documented: they can help mitigate the effects of urban heating, and improve physical health and mental wellbeing. And even small greening actions in cities can significantly improve local biodiversity, new research suggests....
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Women Say Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Are Rife in Group for Realtors (www.nytimes.com)
One woman said the man put his hands down his pants in front of her. Another woman said the same man texted her a picture of his crotch. A third woman said she had a consensual relationship with the man, only to have him retaliate after it ended....
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Man in jail for allegedly holding woman captive in makeshift dungeon caught trying to escape cell (www.cnn.com)
The Oregon man arrested for allegedly holding a woman captive in a makeshift cinder block dungeon was caught trying to escape jail, officials said....
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As Ralph Yarl begins his senior year of high school, the man who shot him faces a court hearing (apnews.com)
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CVS pushes into making cheaper versions of complex drugs with new discount Humira (www.cnbc.com)
CVS Health is partnering with drugmaker Sandoz to produce a near identical version of the blockbuster arthritis treatment Humira....
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Rumours swirl after Xi Jinping fails to give key Brics speech (www.theguardian.com)
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Satellite images capture a look at Tropical Storm Hilary's flooding in Palm Springs (www.nbcnews.com)
The desert community got more than 3 inches of rain, the most precipitation recorded there on a single day....
Teva to pay $225M to settle cholesterol drug price-fixing charges (apnews.com)
The generic drug maker Teva Pharmaceuticals agreed Monday to pay $225 million to settle price-fixing charges related to sales of a major cholesterol-lowering drug. The U.S. Department of Justice said the agreement also requires Teva to divest its business making and selling the drug, pravastatin, a generic version of the...
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Twitter to hide news headlines from link previews (9to5mac.com)
Twitter (now X) has become a great platform for following news, and many media groups (including ours) share links to...
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Medicine without doctors? State laws are changing who treats patients. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Arlene Wright is a doctor, but she doesn’t want people to call her one....
Russian and Chinese warships sail close to Japanese islands on eve of Biden's trilateral summit (www.cnn.com)
Japan expressed “grave concern” after Chinese and Russian warships sailed close to its southern islands on Thursday, just a day before its leader is expected to discuss rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific at a summit with counterparts from South Korea and the United States.
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The Antiabortion Judge With a Financial Ethics Problem (jacobin.com)
For years, Allyson Ho has received payments from the Alliance Defending Freedom. When the right-wing advocacy group argued a case in her husband’s court, Judge James Ho cast a decisive vote to cut off remote access to the abortion pill mifepristone.
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Invasive yellow-legged hornet, which ‘poses a threat to honeybees,’ detected in the wild for the first time in the United States (www.cnn.com)
The first live specimen of a yellow-legged hornet, which “poses a threat to honeybees and other pollinators,” has been detected in the wild in the United States, according to a release from the Georgia Department of Agriculture....
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Space race 2.0: Russia, India, China and the U.S. are heading for the lunar south pole (www.nbcnews.com)
Uncrewed Russian and Indian spacecraft could land in the area next week, while the U.S. is trying to land astronauts there by 2025.
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Maui's emergency management chief resigns, citing health reasons, a week after start of deadly wildfires | CNN (www.cnn.com)
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Why do wildfires often ignite a firestorm of conspiracy theories? (www.cbc.ca)
Emergency room doctors beg for help treating children with mental health illnesses (www.nbcnews.com)
Faced with bottlenecks and backlogs of patients in need of emergency care, doctors say they are unequipped to handle the growing pediatric mental health crisis.
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Government's own experts found 'barbaric' and 'negligent' conditions in ICE detention (www.npr.org)
These findings are all part of a trove of more than 1,600 pages of previously secret inspection reports written by experts hired by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. In examining more than two dozen facilities across 16 states from 2017 to 2019, these expert inspectors found...
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San Francisco staff told to work from home as crime wave makes office unsafe (www.telegraph.co.uk)
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Pacific Northwest heat wave could break temperature records through Thursday (www.npr.org)
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