10/19/21 Pandemics Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments The COVID-19 pandemic has led to more than 218 million infections and over 4.5 million deaths as of 3 September 2021. Nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), such as case isolation, quarantining contacts, and the complete lockdown of entire countries, were implemented in an effort to contain the pandemic. But Read More >

10/19/21 Misinformation Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments The global race to develop new stem cell-based COVID-19 treatments during the pandemic was filled with violations of government regulations, inflated medical claims and distorted public communication, say the authors of a new perspective published 15 October in the journal Stem Cell Reports. read more

FORT SMITH, Ark. — An Arkansas police officer was slashed in the neck with a weapon before opening fire and fatally shooting a suspect who stabbed and beat his 15-year-old son to death with a rock. Officers also found a woman who was killed after receiving multiple stabs wounds. The police chief confirmed three deaths Read More >

10/18/21 Extremism Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments The man held for the fatal stabbing last week of a British lawmaker had been referred to the British government’s anti-extremism program, called Prevent, because of his radical Islamist views, but the country’s security services, including MI5 – Britain’s domestic intelligence agency – had not deemed him Read More >

As part of a series of events honoring law enforcement personnel who have died in the line of duty, the FBI recognized the sacrifices of its partners and honored its own fallen.

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HAITI — A group of missionaries — 16 Americans, one Canadian — were kidnapped in Haiti on Saturday. Someone from the ministry sent a harrowing cry for help on WhatsApp, according to reports. A voice on an audio recording described as a “prayer alert” from Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries and obtained by The Washington Post Read More >

LEXINGTON, S.C. — A South Carolina elementary school teacher has found herself in trouble with the law and unemployed after reportedly placing marijuana edibles that resembled candy into a reward box for students in her classroom, according to reports. A teacher at Rocky Creek Elementary School in Lexington, Victoria Farish Weiss, is the educator at Read More >

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Christina Nance was found dead inside a Huntsville Police Department van parked in an outside parking lot. Although police said there were no signs of foul play, the family demanded answers, Law Officer reported. Now, family members of Nance, 29, acknowledge that she crawled into the police vehicle and was there 10 Read More >

Officers can still stop drivers for violations that impact public safety, like running a red light