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Harbor-UCLA doctor is fired after county finds he regularly gawked at patients' genitalia

Ataff members at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, a public hospital run by the county, told investigators that Dr. Louis Kwong sometimes looked under the surgical covers of anesthetized Black males and discussed the “genitals of the day."
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Owner Crosses Path With Her Cat in the Wild, and Her Reaction Is Hilarious
Social media users were amused by the cat's reaction, with one saying the owner was "ghosted."
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Hearts Melt As Male Cats Go Into "Mom Mode" When Their Baby Sister Wakes Up
The two boys immediately start showering their little sibling with love and affection.
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Princess Charlotte's Adorable Moment With Prince George Caught on Camera
A clip from Charlotte and George's visit to Wales with their parents to mark the 2022 Platinum Jubilee has gone viral.
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Here’s the latest on the trial.
Douglas Daus, a forensic analyst in the Manhattan district attorney’s office, obtained the audio from the phones of Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s former fixer.
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Green Bourbon on Kentucky Derby Day? Making the Climate-Friendly Cocktail
Whiskey making is energy-intensive, emitting 6 pounds of CO2 for every bottle. A heat battery holds the promise to make bourbon more climate-friendly.
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Russian Troops Have Entered Air Base Hosting U.S. Soldiers
Mahamadou Hamidou/ReutersRussia has sent troops into an air base in Niger that is hosting American soldiers, reports say, after the country’s ruling junta ordered all U.S. forces to leave the West African nation.The situation at Air Base 101 in Niamey, the capital city, comes as relations between Washington, D.C. and Moscow are at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War due to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. It’s not clear how many American troops are on the base, but an unnamed U.S. official told the Associated Press that only a small number of U.S. forces remained.The official also said the Russian troops had arrived last month after Niger told the U.S. to withdraw its almost 1,000 troops from the country. Before the junta seized power in a coup in July 2023, Niger had been an important partner in U.S. counterterror operations in the Sahel region of Africa where groups affiliated with ISIS and al Qaeda operate.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Lee Greenwood on America's veterans and pride in our country: 'I have great faith'
As his new DVD, "An All-Star Salute to Lee Greenwood" — a concert filmed in Alabama — goes on sale May 3 to help America's veterans, the Grammy-winning singer shared his faith in the U.S.A.
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Lewiston bowling alley to reopen months after Maine's deadliest mass shooting
A Lewiston bowling alley is set to reopen following a shooting that took place last October in which a gunman opened fire inside, killing eight people.
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Russia Issues Ominous Response to NATO Member's 'Dangerous' Ukraine Push
The United Kingdom's "verbal escalation" poses a threat to European security, Vladimir Putin's spokesman said.
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IRS Unveils Major Changes in New 18-Month Plan
Commissioner announces bid to improve taxpayer services, fairness and technology to make a difference to the nation.
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NYT 'Connections' Hints May 3: Today's Clues and Answers for Game #327
Should you need help with today's "Connections," Newsweek has provided a series of hints as well as the answers.
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Here are the job candidates that employers are searching for most
Job site Indeed identified the top 10 most sought-after job candidates by employers and recruiters. Here's what they found.
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Letitia James' Tumultuous Week
The New York attorney general has seen a mixture of highs and lows in office in the past few days.
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Catholics' support swings for Trump over Biden by significant margin: poll
Catholics now support former President Donald Trump over President Biden by a wide margin, according to new demographic polling from the Pew Research Center.
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'Wordle' #1,049 Clues for Today's Answer, Friday, May 3 Puzzle
There's a good reason why every "Wordle" word is five letters long and that players are allowed six guesses, Josh Wardle, the game's creator, told Newsweek.
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Palos Verdes Peninsula landslides can tell us a lot about L.A. history
A complex mixture of human and geological factors mean that this stunningly beautiful peninsula of seaside Southern California homes is also, at times, perilous.
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Biden expanded two national monuments in California. Three more to go
There are three more proposals, including the Chuckwalla Mountains, to add to California's national monuments. Biden should act on them before his first term is up.
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F1 News: Adrian Newey In Talks With All-New Team After Red Bull Exit
Adrian Newey's talks with another F1 team hints at an insane partnership reunion.
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Zombie Trainers and a New Era of Forced Labor | Opinion
Creating invisible jobs that benefit employers financially is forced labor by way of fraud, and, yes ... it is already illegal.
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House Republicans at the ‘Liberation Camp’
Representative Lauren Boebert had an important point to make. But it could be difficult to hear the rabble-rousing Republican from Colorado over a packed-in crowd of counter-agitators.“So this is what the students here at GW University are facing each and every day,” Boebert was trying to say into a bank of microphones in the middle of the downtown Washington, D.C., campus of George Washington University on Wednesday afternoon. She and five of her GOP colleagues from the House Oversight Committee had just toured an encampment of tents, or a “liberation camp,” that protesters had put up last week in opposition to Israel’s war in Gaza.“Their learning activities are being disrupted,” Boebert said of the students. “Their finals are being disrupted.”But protesters kept disrupting Boebert. Or were she and her friends from Congress the disrupters in this particular Washington-bubble showdown? Who were the rabble in this equation, and who were the rousers?“What about you in that theater?” one woman called out at Boebert from the back of the crowd, referring to a September incident in which the congresswoman was kicked out of a musical comedy after canoodling with a date, vaping, and talking in the midst of the production.This was not the same protester as the one who had been trailing behind Boebert holding up a cardboard sign that said, simply, Beetlejuice, referring to the play that she’d been evicted from. (Google it, and you’ll find security footage of the episode—or don’t.)[David A. Graham: Biden’s patience with campus protests runs out]If only theaters could always incubate such frivolity. But these are bloody days in the embattled theater of the Middle East, which have in turn triggered a spate of protests on American campuses, marked by episodes of bigotry, sporadic violence, and arrests. Combine this with a group of elected performance artists who couldn’t help but try to grab a cheap morsel of attention from this bitterly serious conflict, and you have the political theater that played out on Wednesday.“Dude, are you gonna talk, or am I gonna talk?” Representative Byron Donalds, Republican of Florida, admonished a protester who interrupted his turn at the mic, after Boebert had spoken. Donalds wore dark glasses and a tight-fighting navy suit.Like his colleagues, Donalds called for the immediate removal of the protesters from campus—something that, to this point, the D.C. police department has declined to do. “The mayor is weak in the face of foolishness,” Donalds said, referring to Washington’s chief executive, Muriel Bowser.“You wouldn’t allow someone to stay in your house or stay in your dorm room. You would have them removed,” Donalds said. “Everybody believes in peaceful protest, but this is trespassing.”“What about January 6?” a man standing next to me called out. Yes, what about that, sir?“Calm down. I’m talking now,” Donalds said, addressing another heckler.[Tyler Austin Harper: America’s colleges are reaping what they sowed]About 20 minutes earlier, Representative James Comer, the chair of the House Oversight Committee, had also urged calm as he paraded through the tent city. People shouted after Comer, mocking his committee’s fizzling effort to impeach President Joe Biden, while another said something about Hunter Biden. The voices and signs all blurred together into a muggy cacophony.“Lauren Boebert, seen any good movies lately?”Lesbians for Palestine.I Stand With Israel.Comer led his delegation past a row of tables covered with donated food for the protesters—pizza, granola bars, peanuts, bags of tangerines. Everything is FREE, like Palestine will be free, advertised a poster on the food spread, which covered several yards at the edge of the quad.“Mr. Chairman, do you think your appearance today is going to lead to police violence on campus?” a man with a British accent asked Comer.“Probably,” the congressman said, projecting zero concern.“You want some pizza?” another onlooker asked Comer, who kept walking.The congressman seemed eager to get on with the quick and chaotic press conference that would punctuate the lawmakers’ visit. “Thank you, Mr. Chairman, thank you,” an outnumbered supporter yelled out. The congressman waited for his colleagues to make their brief statements and seized the closing message for himself.“Help is on the way for George Washington University,” promised Comer, who then joined his colleagues as they struggled through a thick crowd—and a “Beetlejuice” chant—before departing this enclave of academia and heading back to their own pillared sanctum on Capitol Hill.
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Brittney Griner: What I Endured in a Russian Prison
"Prison is more than a place. It’s also a mindset," Brittney Griner writes in an excerpt from her book about surviving imprisonment in Russia.
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No one wants to think about pandemics. But bird flu doesn’t care.
Rescued chickens gather in an aviary at Farm Sanctuary’s Southern California Sanctuary on October 5, 2022, in Acton, California. | Mario Tama/Getty Images A pandemic response that amounts to hoping and praying isn’t nearly enough. The so-called “bird flu” H5N1 virus only rarely infects humans. Over the course of several decades during which it has circulated and resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of birds, about 880 cases in humans have been reported, generally in humans who work very closely with livestock. But when it does make the leap to human hosts, H5N1 is often lethal — out of 26 cases reported since 2022, seven people died. That’s why it’s troubling that H5N1 has been recently discovered to have quietly spread across the country’s dairy farms, with testing finding genetic material of the virus present in 1 in 5 milk samples across the country. (Pasteurization kills the virus, so milk remains safe to drink.) That prevalence suggests that H5N1 is now spreading in mammals — and since cows on dairy farms are in frequent contact with farm workers, it seems likely the virus will have many chances to evolve to spread more easily among humans. If it does that, we may have another pandemic on our hands. None of that is great news, but the thing that has struck me most about the bird flu outbreak is that among the general public, it’s been greeted with a weariness that borders on indifference. The dominant attitude I’ve encountered when I ask people their concerns about bird flu amounts to “Well, I hope that doesn’t happen; I don’t have it in me to go through a pandemic again.” The Covid-19 pandemic was awful for people — not just for the millions who died and the many more who it hospitalized and lastingly affected, but also for the billions whose daily life it damaged, from lockdowns and school closures to dramatic new restrictions on movement and travel. You might expect that precisely because Covid-19 was so awful, the general public would be raring to make sure it can never happen again, by insisting our leaders do whatever it takes to be prepared for the next pandemic. But that doesn’t seem to have happened. Instead, with trust in our public health institutions badly damaged and many people suffering from pandemic fatigue, we now lack the attention span for the kind of serious policy response that could feasibly prevent the next pandemic. Repeated efforts to get a serious pandemic prevention program through Congress have fizzled. Despite the desperation of Americans to not go through this again — or possibly because of the desperation of Americans to not go through this again — we’ve basically decided to handle pandemic preparedness by hoping really sincerely it doesn’t happen again. But it will. If not with this virus, another one. Crossing our fingers isn’t a policy response H5N1 has never, as far as we know, had sustained human-to-human transmission. It may never mutate to be capable of that — many viruses don’t. The CDC says “the current public health risk is low,” and while that gives me flashbacks to Covid, it’s accurate at this moment; unless you spend a lot of time with cows or poultry, or drink raw milk, you’re unlikely to be exposed unless the virus evolves new capabilities. H5N1 has been dancing along the line of human spillover for more than 25 years without making the full leap. Hoping really hard that it goes away might work out fine. But if we are truly desperate to prevent the next pandemic — if we feel very viscerally that we can’t do this again, that our normalcy and our unmasked gatherings are among the most precious things we have these days — then that’s reason to prioritize preparedness more highly, not less so. We need an actual, serious policy response aimed at looking closely at the possible origins of pandemics, at how to reduce human-wildlife interfaces. We should be closely monitoring research with pandemic potential, and work to improve our infrastructure for spotting pandemics early, developing vaccines and countermeasures. If we want to stop pandemics, then stop pandemics It’s very understandable that the general public doesn’t want to have to become an expert in the different varieties of pandemic-potential virus out there. They don’t want to check the CDC website for case numbers, don’t want to see another round of school closures, don’t want to let pandemics consume their life again. But if there’s limited public pressure to prevent the next pandemic — the issue doesn’t rank among the most important ones for the 2024 elections — policymakers will evidently just not do it. So I think we have to, somehow, process the wreckage wrought by Covid, and turn our sense that we can’t live through this again into a determination to do better so we never have to. Pandemics aren’t like earthquakes. They happen for predictable reasons, and we know how to stop them. It would be an enormous tragedy if we fail to get that work done because Covid-19 was so painful and so exhausting that we can’t even think clearly about the possibility it might happen again. A version of this story originally appeared in the Future Perfect newsletter. Sign up here!
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Fox News ‘Antisemitism Exposed’ Newsletter: Columbia calls NYPD, fraternity goes viral for defending US flag
Fox News' "Antisemitism Exposed" newsletter brings you stories on the rising anti-Jewish prejudice across the U.S. and the world.
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House-passed antisemitism bill may violate First Amendment warn critics: 'Misguided and harmful'
Some commentators and lawmakers condemned the new Antisemitism Awareness Act that just overwhelmingly passed in the U.S. House, claiming it violates free speech rights.
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China sees resurgence of rap music as emerging musicians find their voices
The resurgence of hip-hop in China has marked a significant journey from suppression to prominence. In 2018, Chinese censors imposed restrictions on hip-hop.
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Alabama Gov. Ivey signs bill to ensure President Biden appears on November ballot
AL lawmakers signed a bill to ensure President Joe Biden will appear on the November ballot since he won't be formally nominated until after Alabama's early certification deadline.
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Kyle Richards ditches Mauricio Umansky’s last name in monogram Mother’s Day necklace
The "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star's estranged husband, Mauricio Umansky, has reportedly moved out of their shared home and into a condo.
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Dad killed as plane crashes just feet from multi-million dollar homes
A married dad was killed when his small plane crashed in a ritzy Georgia neighborhood – with shocking images showing it in flames just feet from a mansion.
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Unveiled: H5N1 Connection to Lab Research
The Wellness Company and their new prescription Contagion Kits are the gold standard when it comes to keeping you safe and healthy. The post Unveiled: H5N1 Connection to Lab Research appeared first on Breitbart.
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Donald Trump Stung by Double Polling Blow
Two polls have suggested the former president will lose November's presidential election to Joe Biden.
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Fani Willis Under Pressure As Investigation Ramps Up
A Georgia Senate committee will reconvene on Friday to hear testimony about Willis' hiring of Nathan Wade in Donald Trump's election interference case.
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Kristi Noem Hit With Brutal Community Note
Kristi Noem's defense of the killing of her dog Cricket allegedly morphs from "danger to livestock" to "threat to her kids."
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The Knicks’ triumph over the 76ers was epic — the Pacers series should look much different
One of the best first-round playoff series in NBA history ended with an historic performance.
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Maybe it’s time for the Fed to start obfuscating a little bit
Inflation is higher than the Federal Reserve wants. What should it do?
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Shocking video shows teen ATV rider smashing into windshield of a cop car that cut him off in Connecticut park
“This is an unfortunate and stark reminder of the extreme dangers of illegal ATV and dirt bike riding on city streets, both for pedestrians and the operators of the vehicles themselves," New Haven Police Chief Karl Jacobson said.
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Elections 2024 latest news: Biden to honor distinguished Americans; Trump back in N.Y. court
Live updates from the 2024 campaign trail with the latest news on presidential candidates, polls, primaries and more.
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Crimea Bridge Explosion Caused by Equivalent to 10 Tons of TNT: Russia
Ukraine struck the 19-kilometer (nearly 12-mile) road and rail bridge on October 8, 2022 and again in July 2023.
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War-scarred village in Ukraine finds solace in vibrant new church
A new church is bringing spiritual comfort to war-weary residents of the Ukrainian village of Lypivka this Orthodox Easter season. Two years ago, it provided refuge.
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When Writers Silence Writers
PEN America and the authoritarian spirit
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Walter Kirn’s Politics of Defiance
If you punch at everything, sometimes you hit the wrong target.
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The Sports Report: Watch James Harden disappear into thin air
James Harden produced one of his trademark playoff performances in Game 5, scoring only seven points.
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To the Gaza protesters helping to elect Trump: Give it a rest
You must have been doing for the last eight years what Trump has been doing in court the last three weeks: Napping.
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Bernhard Langer, who talked to Aaron Rodgers, returns to golf three months after Achilles tear
Bernhard Langer is about to one-up Aaron Rodgers.
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Donald Trump's Defense Might Have Just Helped the Prosecution
Randall Eliason, a former federal prosecutor, reacted to claims that Stormy Daniels wanted to extort Trump ahead of the 2016 election.
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Donald Trump 'Couldn't Handle' One Night in Jail: Mary Trump
"Imagine him alone in a cell, cut off from the world, without his phone," the former president's niece wrote.
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Search underway for missing Australian, American surfers in Mexico
Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and their American friend have not been seen since April 27.
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Dog's Reaction to Kristi Noem Goes Viral—There's Just One Problem
The South Dakota governor has faced days of criticism from her fellow Republicans and Democrats, alike, after admitting to killing one of her own puppies.
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Maui suing cellphone carriers over wildfire alerts it says people never got
A lawsuit says if emergency responders had known about widespread cellphone outages during the deadly Maui wildfires, they would've used other methods to warn about the disaster.
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