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CDC Removes Guidelines Saying Virus Can Spread From Air Particles “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pulled new guidelines acknowledging the coronavirus could be transmitted by tiny particles that linger in the air, saying a draft version of proposed changes was posted in error on its website.”
No matter what the CDC says, here’s why many scientists think the coronavirus is airborne “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed language Monday from its website that said the novel coronavirus spreads via airborne transmission, the latest example of the agency backtracking from its own guidance.”
NYPD officer, an Army reservist, worked as spy for China, federal prosecutors allege “Baimadajie Angwang, assigned to a Queens precinct, was tracking supporters of Tibet, officials said.”
Luxury cars, MAGA flags and Facebook invites: How an unknown Idaho family organized the Portland rally that turned deadly “An architect and his family, not known as political activists, staged one of the most dramatic pro-Trump demonstrations of the summer.”
NIH staffer to retire after he was exposed as the blogger behind anti-Fauci, anti-mask stories
Mueller Team Could Have Done More in Trump-Russia Inquiry, Insider Says
WHAT I’M READING + WATCHING + LISTENING TO
🎧 LISTEN: The Fight Over Ginsburg's Supreme Court SeatSiobhan Hughes and Viveca Novak explain the brewing battle over the open Supreme Court seat and how it could affect the cases before the court this year.
Psychedelic medicine is going mainstream. Will it be accessible to all?
THE COMMENT
“Republicans were able to block Judge Merrick Garland and install a conservative majority on the Supreme Court despite representing less than half of the population. The Senate overrepresents white conservatives, while minority voters are more underrepresented than at any time since 1870. A white conservative minority imposing its will on a diverse majority — in part through federal judges serving lifetime appointments — is a fundamentally unhealthy dynamic for our democracy.” - Adam Jentleson
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