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Equatorial Guinea confirms 8 new cases of Marburg virus

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:36:48 GMT

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Equatorial Guinea has confirmed another eight cases of the “highly virulent” Marburg virus, a deadly hemorrhagic fever with no authorized vaccine or treatment.The World Health Organization on Thursday said that brings the country’s total number of cases to nine in the outbreak declared in mid-February.There are two known current outbreaks of Marburg on the African continent. Tanzania this week announced eight cases of Marburg, including five deaths. One of the people killed was a health worker.“Our pathogen genomics team will sequence samples from both places … and see if there is a relationship between the current two outbreaks,” the acting director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Ahmed Ogwell, told journalists on Thursday. He said results should be known within the week.The WHO said the new cases in Equatorial Guinea were found in the provinces of Kie Ntem, Litoral and Centro Sur, all with borders with Cameroon and Gabon.“The a...

Holocaust survivor becomes TikTok star educating young people

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:36:48 GMT

MORRISTOWN, N.J. (AP) — Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman is a TikTok star at age 85, thanks to her 17-year-old grandson.In the family living room in Morristown, New Jersey, he records short videos of his grandmother reminiscing about life in 1944 and 1945 when she was a 6-year-old child at the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. She also discusses her experiences before and after the camp.They say videos on her account have garnered 75 million views since the duo started posting in September 2021.Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman, 85, prepares to record a TikTok video with her grandson, 17-year-old Aron Goodman, in Morristown, New Jersey, on Monday, March 13, 2023. Goodman records TikTok videos of his grandmother describing her experiences as a six-year-old at Auschwitz concentration camp that have millions of views on the social media platform. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman, 85, prepares to record a TikTok video with her grandson, 17-yea...

Fox News reporter hugs son on camera as he leaves site of Denver school shooting

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:36:48 GMT

(The Hill) - A Fox News reporter hugged her son on camera as he came out of a Denver high school where a shooting occurred on Wednesday. Alicia Acuna, a reporter for the station’s Denver bureau, was reporting at the scene of East High School when she saw her son. She took a moment from her work to hug him and ask him if he was alright. “There’s no way you would have let your kid walk by,” Acuna said, referring to her brief pause in her reporting. She said her son kept her updated about what was happening at the school, and her sister was passing on information that she was getting from her daughter. Local police are searching for a teenager who they say shot two administrators at the school while being patted down before fleeing. The administrators were taken to the hospital with one in serious but stable condition and the other in surgery in critical condition. Police said the student used a handgun and fired multiple shots. Acuna has a total of three child...

What made Beethoven sick? Preserved hair that holds DNA offers clues

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:36:48 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 200 years after Ludwig van Beethoven's death, researchers pulled DNA from strands of his hair, searching for clues about the health problems and hearing loss that plagued him.They weren't able to crack the case of the German composer's deafness or severe stomach ailments. But they did find a genetic risk for liver disease, plus a liver-damaging hepatitis B infection in the last months of his life.These factors, along with his chronic drinking, were probably enough to cause the liver failure that is widely believed to have killed him, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Current Biology.This photo provided by researchers in March 2023, shows the Stumpff Lock, from composer Ludwig van Beethoven, in a laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany. Hundreds of years after Beethoven's death, researchers have pulled DNA from strands of his hair — and found clues about what killed him, according to a study publi...

City says most have left downtown Salvation Army shelter

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:36:48 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- The City of Austin says only 26 people remained at the Salvation Army downtown shelter on March 17, just one month after the shelter announced it would close. According to a memo released Wednesday from the City of Austin Homeless Strategy Division, 71 people left the downtown shelter since Feb. 17.The city memo says the Salvation Army reports that clients have gone to a variety of locations, including the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless (ARCH), the Austin Shelter for Women and Children, A New Entry, Community First! Village, Lifeworks, the SAFE shelter, as well as hotels provided through Front Steps veterans programming, and other permanent rental housing. The memo says others have reunified with family or have gone to self-paid hotels. One person asked for access to a previously offered transfer to The Salvation Army facility in Dallas. 17 have gone to an unknown destination or ended up in unsheltered homelessness.Of the 26 that remained on March 17, the m...

Bijan Robinson teaches swim lessons

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:36:48 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- A former Longhorn football star is making sure children learn the importance of safety in the water. Austin Parks and Recreation said Wednesday, former UT running back Bijan Robinson taught a swim lesson at Bartholomew Pool last week. According to Parks and Rec, Robinson worked with the department's Aquatic Division and Tankproof, a non-profit that provides free swim lessons in the Austin area.The announcement from Parks and Rec says Robinson learned about the importance of water safety early in life after nearly drowning when he was five. According to Parks and Rec, drowning is the single leading cause of death for children ages one to four-years-old and a leading cause for older children and adults. Nine children have drowned in Texas already this year. Former UT Football star Bijan Robinson, middle. (Courtesy: Austin Parks and Recreation)Registration for City of Austin swim lessons and swim teams opens on Monday, April 3 at 8 a.m. for Austin residents and Monda...

St. Paul’s new Korean restaurant Juche is dark, stylish and delicious

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:36:48 GMT

Although it was hard to watch so many restaurateurs suffer during the pandemic, there are definitely some silver linings.Cook St. Paul’s transformation into Juche, a dark, stylish Korean restaurant, is one of those.Owners Chris Her and Eve and Eddie Wu did a lot of soul-searching during the shutdowns, meditating on exactly what they wanted in a restaurant, and Juche is the result.I recently brought some friends to check out the new menu, which is a mix of Korean-influenced American food and traditional Korean dishes.The Payne Avenue space that housed Cook St. Paul, and before that Serlin’s, has always been small, but now it is intimate and inviting. The walls are painted black, there are three tall black booths that seat six people each, a few tables and a small bar.Sujeonggwa, a makgeolli-based cocktail, at Juche in St. Paul. (Jess Fleming / Pioneer Press)We had to wait a bit for a booth, and we happily did so at the little bar, where we ordered the Korean rice drink makgeolli, and...

98.3 TRY Social Dilemma: Can Grandparents Give Kids Haircuts W/O Parents Knowledge

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:36:48 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Today's 98.3 TRY Social Dilemma came from Katy, and it's about babysitting, in-laws, and kids. Here's the email: Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Hi Jaime. I'm in the midst of an argument with my husband and my in-laws. My in-laws, the kids grandparents, agreed to watch our kids for one night so that we could have a nice evening alone. We have two kids under the age of four, so we just wanted a night of quiet, and my husband's parents graciously agreed to watch them starting at noon, staying at our house all night, so we could go to a hotel, and then we would relieve them in the morning. It was a wonderful gesture. Until we came home and found out that they had gotten our son's hair cut without our permission. My four year old son had beautiful long hair, down about two inches past his shoulders. He loved it, and we loved it. Well, while they were babysitting, my husband's parents took our son and ha...

RCPD: Man pulled over had three arrest warrants

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:36:48 GMT

RUTLAND, Vt. (NEWS10) -- A Mendon, Vermont man with three arrest warrants was arrested on Wednesday after being pulled over, according to the Rutland City Police Department. Ethan Newton, 31, was also driving with a criminally suspended license, police say. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! On Thursday, around 8:36 p.m., Rutland police pulled over a car on N Main Street. Police say while conducting the traffic stop, they found Newton had three different arrest warrants. One was from the Rutland Police Department for allegedly failing to appear in court on an original charge of unlawful mischief, one from New Haven Vermont State Police for allegedly failing to appear in court for driving with a suspended license, and one from the Vermont Department of Corrections for alleged work crew failure. Newton was arrested and is held at the Marble Valley Correctional Center without bail.

Ask Amy: Wife wants her mom and husband to be friends

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:36:48 GMT

Dear Amy: I was raised by a single mother. She’s an educated, liberal feminist who brought me up to be a strong and self-sufficient woman.She is loving, open-minded and non-confrontational. We are very close, even though she lives in another state.Every year she comes to stay at my house for a week or two and the two of us travel to visit other relatives. I always thoroughly enjoy our time together.My husband was raised in a very patriarchal house by blue-collar workers who never denied him anything. He’s brilliant and extremely successful, even though he never finished college (but he is insecure about how smart he is).He’s a man’s man, physically strong, can fix anything, build anything, do anything he sets his mind to, takes excellent care of our grown children, and adores me.My problem is that my husband and mother don’t like each other.They don’t argue, but they definitely struggle to be in the same room.Once my husband and I were debating about so...