Three U.S. airports have started screening incoming passengers from central China.
Lynley Price
Posted inHealth, Nation & World, New England
Lyme disease vaccine for mice could help prevent human infections
Scientists completed a three-year study that gave vaccine-coated pellets to mice in the backyards of 32 homes, and results show a 26% drop in infection.
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Facing Senate trial crunch, Democrats blitzing Iowa, other early states
Sens. Warren, Sanders and Klobuchar will serve as jurors in President Trump’s impeachment trial, which could take up the next couple of weeks.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
LGBT activists say new bills target transgender youths
The medical bans – now pending in Colorado, Florida, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina and South Dakota – are likely to surface elsewhere.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
Thousands gather for Women’s March rallies across U.S.
Three key issues seem to galvanize most of the protesters in Washington: climate change, immigration and reproductive rights.
Posted inPolitics
Biden says he’d consider Kamala Harris ‘for anything’ she wants
The former vice president tells the Sacramento Bee’s podcast that Harris is ‘qualified to be president’ and ‘an incredible talent with unlimited potential.’
Posted inNation & World
Homeless moms evicted after battle to live in vacant California home
Four women were ordered by a judge last week to leave a house they occupied illegally in Oakland to protest the state’s lack of affordable housing.
Posted inNation & World
Philippine volcano trembles more, spews lava half-mile high
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology says about 50 volcanic earthquakes were detected over eight hours Tuesday, indicating rising magma.
Posted inNation & World
Jet drops fuel onto Los Angeles school playground
More than 70 firefighters and paramedics respond, and 17 children and nine adults are treated for minor injuries.
Posted inNation & World
Pitched clashes near Lebanon’s central bank amid protests
Demonstrators accuse the bank’s governor of financial policies that have worsened the country’s liquidity crunch.