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Key Scientist in Covid Origin Controversy Misled Congress on Status of $8.9 Million NIH Grant

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:30 GMT

Key researchers who testified before the House subcommittee investigating the origin of Covid-19 virus last week misled Congress about the nature of a multimillion-dollar grant that was pending at the time they joined a critical conference with Drs. Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci in February 2020, according to National Institutes of Health documents. The debate over the origin of the novel coronavirus has also evolved into a meta-debate over how the narrative supporting a natural emergence was initially crafted in the winter and spring of 2020. That inquiry focuses on a group of scientists who spoke confidentially with Collins and Fauci — then the heads of the National Institutes for Health and its sub-agency National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, respectively — in February and quickly began writing a paper that would set the tone for public understanding of the virus’s origin for a year or more. On the call, the scientists suggested they leaned toward a lab ...

A retired Canadian policeman has been charged with helping China intimidate someone

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:30 GMT

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A former member of Canada’s national police force has been charged with conspiracy over allegations that he helped China’s government intimidate a person, police said Friday. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a news release that retired Mountie William Majcher is accused of helping the Chinese government identify the person targeted in the intimidation. They said that Majcher, 60, used his network of Canadian contacts to get intelligence or services that benefited China.The police agency described Majcher as being “from Hong Kong,” but did not immediately clarify whether that meant he currently resided in the Chinese territory. Police have not said who was the target of Beijing’s alleged intimidation campaign. Majcher is charged with conspiracy and preparatory acts for the benefit of a foreign entity, police said.The Chinese embassy in Ottawa didn’t immediately return a message seeking comment. Earlier this year the Canadian governmen...

Biden picks a female admiral to lead the Navy, officials tell AP. She’d be the first woman on the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:30 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden picks a female admiral to lead the Navy, officials tell AP. She’d be the first woman on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.Source

Máximas goleadoras del Mundial Femenino 2023: datos y estadísticas

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:30 GMT

Consulta quiénes son las máximas goleadoras de la Copa Mundial Femenina 2023 de Fútbol y quién va ganando la carrera por la Bota de Oro del campeonato como máxima artillera.En 2019, la jugadora estadounidense Megan Rapinoe ganó la Bota de Oro tras anotar seis goles y repartir tres asistencias. Su compañera de selección Alex Morgan logró la Bota de Plata tras empatar en la cantidad de goles y asistencias aunque en una cantidad mayor de minutos disputados. La inglesa Ellen White fue Bota de Bronce con seis goles y cero asistencias.La información de esta tabla se actualiza en vivo y en directo con el transcurso de los partidos jugados.Máximas goleadoras del Mundial Femenino de Fútbol 2023The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.Source

Solar panels on water canals seem like a no-brainer. So why aren’t they widespread?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:30 GMT

Back in 2015, California’s dry earth was crunching under a fourth year of drought. Then-Governor Jerry Brown ordered an unprecedented 25% reduction in home water use. Farmers, who use the most water, volunteered too to avoid deeper, mandatory cuts. Brown also set a goal for the state to get half its energy from renewable sources, with climate change bearing down. Yet when Jordan Harris and Robin Raj went knocking on doors with an idea that addresses both water loss and climate pollution — installing solar panels over irrigation canals — they couldn’t get anyone to commit.Fast forward eight years. With devastating heat, record-breaking wildfire, looming crisis on the Colorado River, a growing commitment to fighting climate change, and a little bit of movement-building, their company Solar AquaGrid and partners are preparing to break ground on the first solar-covered canal project in the United States.“All of these coming together at this moment,” Harris said. “Is th...

Live updates | South African Lamprecht goes from lead to nearly missing the cut at British Open

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:30 GMT

LAMPRECHT GOES FROM LEAD TO NEARLY MISSING CUTHOYLAKE, England (AP) — Christo Lamprecht didn’t last long at the top of the British Open leaderboard.The South African amateur went from a tie for the lead on the first day to being on the verge of missing the cut on the next.Lamprecht made five bogeys on his first seven holes on Friday, then added three more on the back nine to finish with an 8-over-par round of 79. He finished at 5 under on Thursday to take the lead alongside Tommy Fleetwood and Emiliano Grillo.The second-round collapse left Lamprecht at 3 over for the tournament, on the current cut line.The big-hitting 22-year-old Lamprecht qualified for the Open by winning the British Amateur at Hillside this month. He has been considered among the top college players in the U.S. for the last two years.___WHAT TO KNOW— A day of surprises at British Open.— South African amateur Christo Lamprecht is a big man with a big game— Rasmus and Nicolai first set of twins playing the British O...

Md. woman dies after East-West Highway crash

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:30 GMT

Montgomery County, Maryland, police said a 54-year-old woman has died following a crash on East-West Highway this weekend.Delois Freeman, a resident of Olney, Maryland, was a passenger inside a Toyota Sienna minivan when the crash happened about 4:10 p.m. Sunday, according to police.Officials said the van Freeman was in was going eastbound in the area of East-West Highway and Blair Mill Road when a pickup truck traveling westbound turned left, hitting the minivan. Officials said she Freeman was injured in the crash and taken to the hospital. She died on Monday.Police ask anyone with information to contact the county’s crash reconstruction unit by calling 240-773-6620.Source

Are Coloradans more excited about 'Barbie' or 'Oppenheimer?'

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:30 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — After what feels like months of anticipation, July 21 has arrived which means "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" are showing in theaters across the country. But which movie are Coloradans more excited about?Colorado has a unique connection to Barbie as the creator of the doll itself grew up in Denver. Ruth Handler and her husband, Elliot Handler, met while at East High School. The couple formed the Mattel company with business partner Harold Matson in 1945 after moving to California. The Barbie x Crocs collab has arrived just in time However, many Coloradans were also excited to see "Oppenheimer" and the several different formats it was being shown in.So, what does the data say about which movie people are more interested in?One way to measure the popularity of each movie is to look at Google search data. According to Google, more people in Colorado searched "Barbie" in the last month than "Oppenheimer." trends.embed.renderExploreWidget("TIMESERIES", {"comparisonItem...

Nationalist and convicted killer Igor Girkin who dared criticize Putin under arrest

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:30 GMT

Igor Girkin, a former soldier-spy and critic of President Vladimir Putin’s conduct of the war against Ukraine, was detained on Friday on charges of inciting extremism after the latest in a series of diatribes against the Kremlin chief appeared to go too far.Girkin, who goes by the nom de guerre Strelkov (“Shooter”), gained notoriety in 2014 when he led a band of irregular troops into Eastern Ukraine and briefly became the breakaway region’s defense minister. He was convicted in absentia of murder by a Dutch court over his role in shooting down a Malaysian Airlines passenger jet, a tragedy that cost 298 lives.The 52-year-old has since reinvented himself as an ultra-nationalist military commentator and has delivered a series of withering critiques of Russia’s war aims and strategy in Ukraine.In a statement posted to Girkin’s Telegram channel, his wife Miroslava Reginskaya said that representatives of Russia’s Investigative Committee — an anti-corruption and crime-fight...

Biden chooses Admiral Lisa Franchetti to become the first woman in US history to be top officer in the Navy

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:30 GMT

(CNN) — President Joe Biden has selected Admiral Lisa Franchetti to be the Navy’s top officer. If confirmed, she would be the first woman in the Navy’s history to hold the job, and the first woman in the joint chiefs of staff.Franchetti, who is currently serving as the vice chief of naval operations, commissioned in 1985 and has served as the commander of US Naval Forces Korea, deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Warfighting Development, and director for Strategy, Plans, and Policy of the Joint Staff, according to her official biography. She has also commanded two carrier strike groups, and became the Vice CNO in September 2022.Franchetti will likely join a growing contingent of senior general and flag officers, however, who are not confirmed for their next position quickly, as Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville has continued his hold of senior military nominations.Tuberville has vowed to maintain his hold in protest of Pentagon reproductive health policies that were announced e...