Category Archives: Science
Canada presses for G7 quick-reaction group on cybersecurity after Ukraine invasion
OTTAWA — Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne is pressing G7 countries to establish a quick-reaction group on cybersecurity to help build up resilience to attacks following the invasion of Ukraine. Champagne suggested to a meeting of G7 dig...
Mixed Texas ruling allows trans youth parent investigations
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court on Friday allowed the state to investigate parents of transgender youth for child abuse while also ruling in favor of one family that was among the first contacted by child welfare officials
New Brunswick Court of Appeal maintains ban on sale of flavoured e-cigarettes
FREDERICTON — The New Brunswick Court of Appeal has upheld a lower court decision not to suspend the province's ban on the sale of flavoured e-cigarettes. Last September, the province banned all e-cigarette flavours except for tobacco, but a vape stor...
Biden administration to release $45B for nationwide internet
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is taking the first steps to release $45 billion to ensure that every U.S. resident has access to high-speed internet by roughly 2028, inviting governors and other leaders on Friday to start the application
Ex-nurse sentenced to probation in patient medication death
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A former Tennessee nurse whose medication error killed a patient was sentenced to three years of probation Friday as hundreds of health care workers rallied outside the courthouse, warning that criminalizing such mistakes will l...
No sea serpents, mobsters but Tahoe trash divers strike gold
STATELINE, Nev. (AP) — They found no trace of a mythical sea monster, no sign of mobsters in concrete shoes or long-lost treasure chests. But scuba divers
The AP Interview: US ‘vulnerable’ to COVID without new shots
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha has issued a dire warning that the U.S. will be increasingly vulnerable to the coronavirus this fall and winter if Congress doesn't swiftly approve new funding for more vaccines
Yukon expands second COVID-19 booster shot to residents 50 and older
WHITEHORSE — Yukon is making fourth doses of the COVID-19 vaccine available for residents aged 50 and older. The territorial government says six months must have passed since the recipient's third shot in order to receive the second booster dose. It sa...
N. Korea reports 6 deaths after admitting COVID-19 outbreak
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Six people have died and 350,000 have been treated for a fever that has spread “explosively” across North Korea, state media said Friday, a day after the country acknowledged a COVID-19 outbreak for the first
Experts: Arizona executioners took too long to insert IV
PHOENIX (AP) — The first execution in Arizona in nearly eight years was carried out more smoothly than the state’s last use of the death penalty, when a condemned prisoner who was given 15 doses of a two-drug combination gasped
