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Month: June 2021

Missouri becomes hot spot for Delta variant fueling hospitalizations while vaccination efforts lag

By Angela Barajas and Martin Savidge, CNN In June Louie Michael and his wife, Patti, were admitted as Covid-19 patients at Springfield’s Mercy Hospital, one of two major hospitals in southwest Missouri. Pattie was hospitalized first. She has asthma and is immunocompromised. Michael followed the next day, arriving by ambulance. He chronicled his bout with

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Palm Desert drive-thru ban upheld after city council rejects changes

A decades-old ban on drive-thrus in most of Palm Desert will remain in place after city council rejected a proposal to modify it Thursday night. The proposal would have enabled drive-thrus to be built, under certain restrictions, along areas of Highway 111 and Fred Waring Drive. It addressed environmental concerns, countered drive-thru oversaturation, and required

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A Parkland shooting victim’s parents tricked a former NRA president into giving a graduation speech for a gun violence prevention video

By Alaa Elassar, CNN The parents of a student who died during the Parkland school shooting tricked a former president of the National Rifle Association (NRA) to give a speech in front of thousands of empty chairs representing victims of school gun violence. Video posted online shows David Keene addressing a makeshift field in Las Vegas. Keene thought

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Universe, we have a problem: NASA’s investigating an outage on the Hubble Space Telescope

By Kristen Rogers Universe, we’ve got a problem: The payload computer aboard the Hubble Space Telescope that has shaped our understanding of the cosmos for over 30 years has stopped working. After the June 13 malfunction, Hubble’s payload computer stopped receiving the “keep-alive” signal that’s a “standard handshake between the payload and main spacecraft computers

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