Lester Holt, the anchor and managing editor of "NBC Nightly News" for a decade, announced Monday that he is stepping down from the long-running broadcast at the beginning of the summer. read more
Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning soul singer best known for her celebrated interpretations of romantic ballads like "Killing Me Softly With His Song," as well as her professional collaborations and social activism, has died, according to a statement from her publicist. Flack died at home surrounded by her family, Elaine Schock, her publicist, told CNN. Her death followed several years of health challenges, including a diagnosis, revealed publicly in late 2022, of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. The progressive condition, often referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease, made it impossible for Flack to sing, her representatives said at the time. read more
A newly discovered bat coronavirus uses the same cell-surface protein to gain entry into human cells as the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, raising the possibility that it could someday spread to humans, Chinese researchers have reported. The virus does not enter human cells as readily as SARS-CoV-2 does, the Chinese researchers reported in the journal Cell, opens new tab, noting some of its limitations. The scientists said that like SARS-CoV-2, the bat virus HKU5-CoV-2 contains a feature known as the furin cleavage site that helps it to enter cells via the ACE2 receptor protein on cell surfaces. In lab experiments, HKU5-CoV-2 infected human cells with high ACE2 levels in test tubes and in models of human intestines and airways. In further experiments, the researchers identified monoclonal antibodies and antiviral drugs that target the bat virus. read more
A Connecticut man known as the "Bridgeport Cannibal Killer" has been granted a conditional release, according to multiple reports. In 2013, Tyree Smith was found not guilty by reason of insanity in relation to the 2012 killing of Angel Gonzalez, whose body was discovered after he was hacked to death in a vacant apartment in Bridgeport, per NPR. The outlet reported that Smith's cousin testified that Smith admitted to eating one of Gonzalez's eyeballs and part of his brain at the time. According to area news outlet NBC-CT, Smith " who resides at the Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown " was granted the conditional release after a review hearing regarding his case by the Connecticut Psychiatric Security Review Board on Friday, Feb. 22. read more
One person has been killed and several police officers injured in a knife attack in France that President Emmanuel Macron has described as "Islamist terrorism". A man shouting "Allahu Akbar" ("God is greatest") launched the attack at a packed market in the eastern city of Mulhouse on Saturday afternoon, France's anti-terrorism prosecutor's office said. A 37-year-old Algerian man was arrested, according to the prosecutors' office, which is investigating the stabbings. The suspect had been on a list of people flagged for radicalism, the regional prosecutor said. The victim was a 69-year-old Portuguese man, prosecutors revealed. Mr Macron branded the knifeman "an Islamic extremist", saying: "It is without any doubt an act of Islamist terrorism." The government had "complete determination" to respond to the attack, he said, and also expressed "the solidarity of the nation" with those attacked and their loved ones.
ON Doxing - perfectly ok because of who those people are. Posted by YAV at 2025-02-26 12:07 PM |