Bill Gates Issues Warning About Next Pandemic
The Microsoft co-founder said he believes there is a 10-15 percent chance of a natural pandemic hitting in the next four ...
US children fall further behind in reading, make little improvement in math on national exam
New results from a national exam find that America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of ...
The CIA believes COVID likely originated from a lab but has low confidence in its own finding
The CIA believes the COVID-19 virus likely originated from a laboratory — but acknowledges the spy agency has 'low confidence ...
RFK Jr., Trump and the triumph of coronavirus surreality
There was a period of a few months after coronavirus vaccines became broadly available during which many Democrats engaged in ...
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UW study aims to spot the next pandemic before it spreads
The Seattle Pandemic Preparedness Cohort study is designed to give a real-time snapshot of which respiratory viruses are out ...
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WA chief justice reflects on pandemic’s lasting imprint on state courts
Like everything else, Washington’s court system was upended by COVID-19. Court proceedings paused or moved online. Cases piled up. Justice was delayed.
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Nearly 5 years after schools closed, the nation gets a new report card
There's some good news in math, mostly bad news in reading and lots of questions about why students are still struggling.
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CIA Now Says, With ‘Low Confidence,’ That Lab Leak Was Most Likely Source of Covid Pandemic
The Central Intelligence Agency previously said that two explanations were plausible, a lab leak or a natural source for the ...
CIA shifts stance on cause of COVID-19 pandemic, says lab leak 'more likely' than natural origin
The Central Intelligence Agency has assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic is “more likely” to have emerged from a lab rather ...
China complains about CIA changing its tune on COVID-19 origins theory
The news comes after the CIA announced over the weekend that COVID-19 most likely originated from a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2020.
College enrollment now higher than pre-pandemic levels
College enrollment numbers are higher than before the COVID-19 pandemic for the first time in five years. The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center released a report Thursday ...
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Most violent crime rates have fallen back to pre-pandemic levels, new report shows
During the 2024 campaign Donald Trump called FBI data showing a decline in crime "fake" and claimed crime was “through the ...