Category Archives: Science
More Manitobans eligible for second COVID-19 booster shot, province says
WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government expanded eligibility for second COVID-19 booster shots Friday as pandemic hospitalization numbers continued to slowly drop. Indigenous people ages 30 and up and others 50 and older can now get a second booster. The mi...
Dutch leader faces pressure over old-school text messages
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The long-serving Dutch prime minister is in hot water over his low-tech cell phone. Mark Rutte is facing unusual political and public
Biden: SKorean chip plant a model for deeper ties to Asia
PYEONGTAEK, South Korea (AP) — President Joe Biden opened his trip to Asia on Friday by touring a South Korean computer chip factory that will be the model for a plant in Texas, holding it out as an illustration of
Disinformation board’s ex-leader faced wave of online abuse
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nina Jankowicz, like so many millennials, was excited to share a social media post announcing her new job on Twitter late last month when she was named executive director for a new disinformation board established by the
N. Korea’s low death count questioned amid COVID-19 outbreak
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Friday that nearly 10% of its 26 million people have fallen ill and 65 people have died amid its first COVID-19 outbreak, as outside experts question the validity of its reported fatalities
540 people in B.C. hospitalized with COVID-19, milder cases among vaccinated
VANCOUVER — The latest figures on COVID-19 show 540 people in British Columbia are currently hospitalized with the virus, 49 of them in critical care. The BC Centre for Disease Control says 59 people have died in the last week, for
CDC urges Pfizer booster for children ages 5 to 11
Kids ages 5 to 11 should get a booster dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, advisers to the U.S. government said Thursday. The Center for Disease Control and
Federal judge again extends ban on Kentucky abortion law
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday extended an order blocking key portions of a new Kentucky abortion law that had forced the state's two clinics to temporarily halt abortions.
Carbon removal technologies to get $3.5B federal investment
NEW YORK (AP) — The federal government is investing in machines that suck giant amounts of carbon dioxide out of the air in the hopes of reducing damage from climate change.
Health minister pledges support for Ukraine as WHO confirms attacks on health care
OTTAWA — Canada's federal health minister has pledged to rouse support from his international colleagues for rebuilding the besieged health-care system in Ukraine, where facilities and ambulances have come under attack during the Russian invasion. "I k...
