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The Fight to Get a Vaccine to Center of Ebola Outbreak

The Fight to Get a Vaccine to Center of Ebola Outbreak

Medical investigators will need to overcome the rural region’s extreme logistical hurdles to reconstruct transmission chains, vaccinate contacts and halt the spread. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/health/ebola-congo-outbreak.html?partner=rss

Supreme court sides with baker who refused to make gay wedding cake

Court rules in favor of Masterpiece Cakeshop, but doesn’t address principle of whether a business can refuse to serve gay peopleProject Blitz: the legislative assault by Christian nationalistsThe US supreme court on Monday ruled in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a...

Native Americans Sue To Keep Use of Prayer Ground

On Monday, a suit was filed in New Jersey federal district court on behalf of the Native American Ramapough Lenape Nation claiming that local officials along with a neighboring housing association are attempting to prevent the Ramapoughs from using their own prayer ground for religious activities....

Monthly Challenge: Become an Early Bird

Monthly Challenge: Become an Early Bird

In the Disney movies of my youth, there was always a glorious “early morning sequence.” As the cartoon sun began to rise, some unbearably cheerful bluebird or woodland creature — or heck, the entire animal kingdom — would emerge from their slumber to greet the day.… Read more The post Monthly...

Voices: 25 and Still Alive

Voices: 25 and Still Alive

“I’m fine,” I say. But I’m not fine. I almost died at 24 of a heart attack caused by a rare autoimmune disorder. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/well/live/25-and-still-alive.html?partner=rss