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Mum convinced husband and her kids to leap from seventh floor balcony to deaths

Authorities said conspiracy theorist Nasrine Feraoun had convinced her family that the world was not worth living in, due to the Covid pandemic and the Ukraine war

Daily Mirror

Factbox-Boris Johnson's defence over allegations he misled UK parliament

British former prime minister Boris Johnson has accepted he misled parliament over the answers he gave about parties held in government buildings during coronavirus pandemic lockdowns, but denied having done so "intentionally or recklessly".

Reuters

Johnson’s defence over partygate ‘beggars belief’, say public

The former prime minister has said he was acting ‘in good faith’ when he told Parliament all pandemic rules had been followed.

The Independent UK

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Did Raccoon Dogs Spread Covid-19? What the New Genetic Reports Really Tell Us

New analysis of genetic sequences collected at the outset of the pandemic connects raccoon dogs as a possible vector of Covid-19 to humans.

Inverse

2022 vote studies: Proxies helped keep participation at record pace

WASHINGTON — A year after setting a record for vote participation, thanks largely to a pandemic-driven House rule allowing members to delegate someone else to vote for them, Congress kept up the pace in 2022 — even as the number of votes taken increased.

Tribune News Service

Summer travel is likely to remain hot, so book early

Travel experts say they aren’t seeing any dip in travel demand for the busy summer season or shoulder seasons, but people will likely spend a lot more money this year to take their vacation

The Independent UK

Falkirk pupils praised as results hold steady despite pandemic disruption

The numbers show pupils going on to 'positive destinations' dipped slightly while fewer pupils chose to go to university

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Four fungi that threaten public health

Move over, viruses: Fungal infections (and even fungal pandemics) are a real thing

Salon

Republicans' COVID vaccine tightrope

Experts say there's a fine line between responsibly scrutinizing policy and fueling misinformation.

Axios

Review: 'Künstlers in Paradise,' by Cathleen Schine

FICTION: A Jewish grandmother revisits her youth among Hollywood émigrés — including an interlude with Greta Garbo — during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: LA’s half-empty, crime-ridden Metro trains don’t have to stay that way

It’s no secret that the pandemic devastated public transit systems across the country, and Los Angeles’ ever-expanding Metro rail system is no exception. With many white-collar employees now working remotely for all or much of the week, ridership on the region’s subway and light-rail lines is still around just two-thirds…

Los Angeles Times

2022 Vote Studies: Proxies helped keep participation at record pace

Thanks largely to a pandemic-driven House proxy rule, Congress kept up a record pace for vote participation.

Roll Call

Can regulation shape cryptocurrencies into useful business assets?

One of the more complex corners of the technology industry businesses often refrain from touching is the cryptocurrency market. Built on a principle of a decentralised market, away from the prying eyes of central bodies or governments, and utilising blockchain technology to provide a clear and concise record of all…

IT Pro

Editorial: The next chapter: COVID emergency draws down, but COVID will remain

The end of the pandemic has been less like a car slamming on the brakes and more like a ship that has turned off its engines and is slowly gliding to a stop.

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Commentary: The health of Americans is a big reason for our high COVID-19 death rate

For the past three years, the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated, and will continue to demonstrate in the future, that America is one of the unhealthiest countries in the industrialized world. Critics on the right and left harp on how the pandemic was handled, but in fact the dismal outcomes in…

The Denver Post

Colorado — a national hub for eating disorder treatment — hopes to slow surging rate of stigmatized illness

DENVER — Two weeks after a routine trip to a health clinic turned into a psychiatric hospitalization, Emma Troughton was on a plane to Denver.

TechRadar

New ways to manage security risk in the volatile post-pandemic world

Rapid social and technological change have created the most volatile and complex environment for international businesses in decades.

The Independent UK

Fed facing a blurrier outlook as it meets to weigh rate hike

The Federal Reserve is grappling with a hazier economic picture clouded by turmoil in the banking industry and still-high inflation just as it meets to decide whether to keep raising interest rates or declare a pause

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Chicago Sun-Times

Cases of superbug fungus rose dramatically during the pandemic

Candida auris is a form of yeast that is not a danger to healthy people but can be deadly to fragile people staying in hospitals and nursing homes.

The Independent UK

Scheme to help long-term unemployed ‘overestimated support by almost half’

The Restart scheme was designed to help 1.4 million people into work post-Covid but its ambitions were scaled back.

Fortune

The big winners of the pandemic: 2% mortgage rate holders

Homeowners who locked in mortgage rates around 2% or 3% may just be the big financial winners of the pandemic, given that rates are currently hovering around 7%.

ABC News

Aspiring Aussie musicians considering a career change as COVID recovery lags, survey finds

Major festival and tour cancellations made many a headline since the pandemic halted travel and gatherings, but Australia's local live acts have been impacted so heavily, almost three-quarters of them are considering ditching music altogether.

Chicago Sun-Times

Illinois educators try to tackle pandemic learning loss with high-impact tutoring

One educator compared the learning disruption caused by the pandemic to water freezing in cracked pavement, deepening the divide.

ABC News

Can a chatbot help women who have experienced racism?

When Priyanka was told to "take her COVID virus back to where she came from" during the height of the pandemic, she decided to create Maya Cares, the first chatbot to help women of colour identify whether they have gone through a racist incident.

The Independent UK

Novel inspired by pandemic worry wins Waterstones Children’s Book Prize

The young author was awarded a £5,000 prize and a commitment from the book retailer to support her writing career.

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