A man who murdered a Lyft driver in Texas before barging into a police department headquarters and opening fire may have drawn inspiration from terrorists outside the country, authorities said Monday. Imran Ali Rasheed was investigated by the FBI from 2010 to 2013 for potential terror ties. That probe was closed when investigators concluded Rasheed…
High Jumper Sam Grewe Wins Gold, Heads to Medical School
TOKYO—Sam Grewe made a choice when he was 13 to have his right leg amputated after he was diagnosed with an aggressive bone cancer. He could have chosen to keep the leg, but he said it would have been a frail limb once surgeons carved out the “fist-size tumor.” That procedure also would have ruled…
Google Delays Mandatory Return to Office Until January, Citing Pandemic Uncertainty
Google has announced it is pushing back the date when employees will be required to head back to offices, citing uncertainty around the dynamics of the outbreak. Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., which owns Google, said in an Aug. 31 blog post that the tech giant is extending its current voluntary return-to-office…
Farmstand Fresh: Corn Crepes for a Late Summer Meal
Roadside farmstands are making a comeback. They have been around forever, more common in some places than in others. Growing up in New England, I saw a lot of self-serve apple stands, but they never provided anything close to one-stop shopping. Today, some of the farmstands where I live are getting pretty close. From a…
NTD Business Full Broadcast (Aug. 31)
Consumer confidence plummeting to its lowest level in 6 months. We look at what that means for the economy. We might see fuel prices go up even more soon. Ida forced oil production to shut down, and experts say you should expect price fluctuations heading into the labor day weekend. And South Korea passes a…
Facebook: Deletion of Marine Mother’s Account a Mistake
August 31, 2021
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The deletion of an Instagram account belonging to a mother whose Marine son was killed in Afghanistan last week was a mistake, parent company Facebook said Tuesday. Shana Chappell raised an alarm on Facebook on Monday after she said her account was removed. Chappell said she believed the deletion was “because [I] gained so many…
Chicago Watchdog Finds ShotSpotter Technology Rarely Detects Gun Crimes
CHICAGO—Only 9 percent of ShotSpotter alerts responded to by Chicago police officers led to evidence of gun crimes, according to an August report by the City of Chicago’s Office of Inspector General (OIG). The ShotSpotter system, developed by a California-based company named ShotSpotter, uses acoustic sensors to detect gunshots in real-time for faster and more…
Why Is COVID-19 Severe for Some?
Are the antibodies we produce to fight COVID-19 infection causing severe disease? A new paper—so new in fact that it hasn’t yet been peer-reviewed—from scientists in Hangzhou, China, appears to indicate just that. The researchers’ data suggests that at least two antibodies that target the spike protein that enables the COVID-19 virus to enter human…
Why Is COVID-19 so Severe?
Are the antibodies we produce to fight COVID-19 infection causing severe disease? A new paper—so new in fact that it has not yet been peer-reviewed—from scientists in Hangzhou, China, appears to indicate just that. The researchers’ data suggests that at least two antibodies which target the spike protein that enables the COVID-19 virus to enter…
Why Is Covid so Severe?
Are the antibodies we produce to fight COVID infection causing severe disease? A new paper—so new in fact that it has not yet been peer-reviewed—from scientists in Hangzhou, China, appears to indicate just that. The researchers’ data suggests that at least two antibodies which target the spike protein that enables the COVID virus to enter…
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