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The lambda variant of the novel coronavirus has received a flurry of news coverage since it was added to the World Health Organization variant watch list in June. Lambda swept through several South American countries earlier this year and has been detected in some U.S. states, including this week at a major hospital in Houston. Infectious-disease experts in the United States aren’t sounding any alarms about lambda yet. Its progress here has been slow, with fewer than 700 cases identified since it emerged in the country months ago. Moreover, experts say the threat from lambda is insignificant next to the highly transmissible delta variant, which is spreading rapidly among unvaccinated people and causing hospitalizations to spike for the first time in months. “It is not anywhere near as concerning as the delta variant,” said S. Wesley Long, medical director of diagnostic microbiology at Houston Methodist Hospital, which on Monday reported its first case of the lambda variant. “That’s the engine that’s going to be driving the surge in the U.S.”

Stories on major news sites like ‘The Washington Post,’ and ‘New York Magazine’ currently have porn embedded in them.

The Texas comptroller’s office says it will investigate whether the state should blacklist ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s for announcing it will no...

In 2020, they set off a smoke bomb during the party that sparked the El Dorado Fire.

Cinema is no stranger to adapting the works of Shakespeare, but it's still exciting when a filmmaker like Joel Coen attempts to bring their own spin to the Bard's work. He – working without brother Ethan this time – has Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand starring in The Tragedy Of Macbeth, and the first image featuring the central pair is online. While we don't yet know exactly what tweaks the director has made to the text, the announcement about the film making its world premiere on the opening night of this year's New York Film Festival details that, "Coen's tale of sound and fury is entirely his own – and undoubtedly one for our moment, a frightening depiction of amoral political power-grabbing that, like its hero, ruthlessly barrels ahead into the inferno." And beyond any narrative shifts, it's all shot in a stark chiaroscuro, in a style that echoes "the forbidding visual designs – and aspect ratios – of Laurence Olivier’s classic 1940s Shakespeare adaptations, as well as the bloody medieval madness of Kurosawa’s Throne Of Blood". So take that as you will (or as you like it).

Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene have teamed up and formed a joint fundraising committee. Unfortunately for them, they’re losing money. At the height of the controversy surrounding Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and the revelations that he’s under investigation for sex trafficking, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) bet big on a nationwide joint fundraising tour with her embattled colleague. But new campaign filings show that not only did the gamble not pay off, but that the much-maligned Republicans actually spent four times as much as they raised.

Phones belonging to top state health department officials were found with no text messages from January 2014 to October 2015. In October 2015, then-Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder finally announced that Flint’s water was contaminated with dangerous lead levels. That public admission had come after more than a year of pleading from the city’s residents to examine the situation. The city, Snyder promised, would immediately stop using water from the Flint River, which residents had been drinking for 18 months. The public announcement raised as many questions as it answered and kick-started a yearslong investigation into how the decision that delivered the toxic water to Flint had been made in the first place, how many people were sickened and killed as a result, and when senior government officials first learned of the deadly consequences. Along the way, however, investigators who were part of a three-year Flint water investigation beginning in 2016 kept drilling dry holes. Dr. Eden Wells became Michigan’s chief medical executive in May 2015. By then, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services had been aware for at least seven months of a significant increase in the deadly waterborne Legionnaires’ disease throughout Flint. But when investigators obtained access to Wells’s phone, they discovered something unusual. “For Dr. Wells’ phone the earliest message is from November 12, 2015,” then-Flint special prosecutor Todd Flood wrote in a subpoena petition obtained by The Intercept. During the key period that investigators were probing, no messages were found. In 2018, a judge ruled that Wells would have to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter, along with obstruction of justice, over her role in the water crisis. (Those charges were dropped by current Attorney General Dana Nessel in 2019; in January 2021, Nessel’s Flint water prosecutors recharged Wells with involuntary manslaughter, misconduct in office, and neglect of duty.) Other searches turned up similar results. The phone of Tim Becker, MDHHS’s chief deputy director, had no messages on it prior to April 14, 2016, two months before he left his role with MDHHS. Becker testified to having first asked questions about Flint’s Legionella outbreak in January 2015. Patricia McKane, an epidemiologist with MDHHS who testified that she was pressured to lie by Wells about elevated blood-lead levels in Flint’s children, was found to have only had four text messages on her phone from 2015 and seven total messages. (Wells denied pressuring her to lie.) Fellow MDHHS epidemiologist Sarah Lyon-Callo, director of the state Bureau of Epidemiology and Population Health, who Wells copied in an email responding to accusations by a Wayne State University professor that she was trying to conceal the link between the Flint River switch and the Legionella outbreak, had no messages prior to June 2016.

A New York City pilot program to respond to 911 calls for mental health crises with social workers instead of cops appears to be reducing unnecessary hospitalizations, while increasing the percentage of people who accept help when offered. The Behavioral Health Emergency Assistance Response Division, or “B-HEARD” program, which started in a portion of Harlem a month ago, has already…

“The inn was a boat. And then it became a life raft.”

It’s not shocking that someone who is young and thin is still young and thin when they’re no longer dressed as troll, a devil, or a lichen-covered rock.

People were disgusted over the slavery reenactment, and wondered how so many people could've agreed that this was a good idea.

"They are using children's cartoons to simplify and beautify illegal behavior on political issues," said Senior Superintendent Steve Li.

Oakland restaurants Kon-Tiki and Palmetto will require all patrons to provide proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test.

Bernhard Capital has pitched to take over management of municipal water and power systems. The federal infrastructure bill could help them. When flash flood warnings interrupted a monthslong spring drought in Fayetteville earlier this summer, crews kicked into gear, putting up road signs and roping off intersections. Sudden flood response has become second nature for the North Carolina city, which sits by the Cape Fear River on a rolling territory once carpeted in swampy wetlands. Now, even a few days of heavy rain can overwhelm pavement in low-lying Fayetteville, triggering creek swelling and storm drain overflows. Other basic infrastructure is in disrepair too, said D.J. Haire, a city councilmember. A lack of signal lights and inadequate street lighting have caused frequent car crashes in his district. Last year, Louisiana-based Bernhard Capital Partners (BCP), a private equity firm, came to city leaders and offered them a fix. BCP had $750 million available for the city to finance these and other overdue improvement projects. They would also invest in economic development programs, such as business incubators and training programs at Fayetteville State, a historically Black university. In return, BCP requested a contract to operate the city’s water and power utilities for the next 30 years, and keep the profits. “Many of these municipalities really don’t need to be in the business of operating utilities,” BCP co-founder Jeff Jenkins explained in a phone interview with the Prospect. “Bringing a private investment opportunity to these types of communities can really bolster and empower, especially underserved communities.”

Highland County Sheriff's OfficeA U.S. Army washout who identified as a so-called involuntary celibate plotted to “slaughter” women in a mass shooting at an unnamed Ohio university, with the goal of killing some 3,000 people after receiving his military training, according to an indictment unsealed in federal court.Tres Genco, 21, was arrested Wednesday and charged with one count of attempting to commit a hate crime and one count of illegally possessing a machine gun, prosecutors announced. He d

Tuesday was a day for paying tribute to its assassinated president, and installing new leaders. But to many struggling Haitians, they looked more than a little familiar.

David Johnston won’t touch money, except to destroy it

Nearly two decades have passed since President George W. Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq in 2003, arguably the greatest strategic blunder in American

A composer for the Opening Ceremony also stepped down this week amid news of his past bullying behavior.