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When summer began, there was a sense of hope among parents, students, and teachers that the new school year would be far different than the previous one. However, the Delta variant of COVID-19 has replaced that sense of hope with a sense of foreboding. Despite her apprehension, Weingarten assured parents that children would be in the classroom this year.“We are preparing to be fully in school all across the country. I want to assure parents of that. Teachers are … rolling up their… Source link

With the Delta variant driving a surge in COVID-19 infections, accounting for more than 90% of new cases across the U.S., health officials warn the threat of the contagious variant is “serious” as infected patients crowd hospital beds in hard-hit regions. “I cannot emphasize enough how serious this situation is,” Dr. Elizabeth Clayborne, emergency physician at UM Capital Region Medical Center, told Yahoo Finance Live, referring to the Delta variant. “This is a wake-up call for everyone… Source link

A regional deputy belonging to an opposition party in El Salvador and a group of citizens have sued the government over the country’s new bitcoin law, calling it unconstitutional. According to a report on Tuesday by Spain’s second-largest newspaper, El Mundo, Jaime Guevara of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMNL) has joined a group of citizens to oppose the law. FMNL is one of the country’s two major political parties, and Guevara is the deputy of Morazán, a province in… Source link

Google’s John Mueller was asked what’s the right way to target a specific country with a website. The person asking the question asked if a country code top level domain specific to the country and the location of the hosting was important. Geotargeting Geotargeting is a reference to the practice of targeting a website (or section of a website) to a specific country. There are benefits to geotargeting. Many people trust and feel at ease with a website that is targeted at a specific country,… Source link

A homeless woman found on the streets of Mexico has claimed to be an American who was kidnapped 27 years ago in Texas. The woman, who is claiming to be Jane McDonald-Crone, was found resting under a blanket in the streets of Monterrey, in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, earlier this month. She caught the attention of Abraham Gonzalez, who has reportedly helped homeless people in the area by giving them necessities. Gonzalez told local broadcast Univision he noticed a homeless person under some… Source link

The golf world is honoring Tiger Woods on Sunday in a stunning display of red and black throughout the country’s golf courses. Woods suffered serious leg injuries in a one-vehicle rollover accident early Tuesday morning. He is continuing to receive care at the hospital following surgeries, but his career is in jeopardy after the accident. The gesture throughout the sport, naturally, left Woods extremely grateful.  It is hard to explain how touching today was when I turned on the tv and saw all… Source link

Russia is seeking to unlock unknown prehistoric viruses up to 50,000-years-old by extracting biological material from carcasses of ancient animals frozen in permafrost. Scientists from the Kremlin’s equivalent of Porton Down are this week taking samples from a collection of beasts preserved in ice which have been found in recent years. They are working with the remains of extinct woolly mammoths and hairy rhinos, as well as prehistoric dogs, horses, elk, rodents and hares. The oldest animal… Source link

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(Microsoft Image) Microsoft is wading into a dispute between Google and the Australian government by asserting that it would never threaten to leave the country, as Google did last week. Google is against a proposed new law which would make tech giants negotiate payments with local publishers and broadcasters for content included in search results or news feeds, CNBC reported. The company is threatening to block its search engine in Australia as a result. “While other… Source link

The election of Joe Biden was splashed across the front pages of newspapers in the United States and around the world on Sunday, a day after major media outlets called the 2020 presidential race in Biden’s favor. Many front pages featured images of Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris, who made history as the first woman, first Black person and first Asian American to be elected to the vice presidency. And virtually none of them included President Trump, who has yet to concede the race. The New… Source link