Cardinal Peter Turkson, seen by some as a candidate to become the first African pope in about 1,500 years, has abruptly offered his resignation from a key Vatican department, sources familiar with the matter said on Saturday. Turkson, 73, from Ghana, has been a key adviser to Pope Francis on issues such as climate change and social justice, and is the only African to head a Vatican department. According to the Vatican sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the pope has yet to decide whether to accept the resignation.
Newport, a seaside city in Wales, is famous for its docks and industrial heritage — and for allegedly having half a billion dollars worth of Bitcoin buried in its local landfill. Former IT worker James Howell mined the cryptocurrency back in 2013, well before its value skyrocketed. "I found a blank 20GB hard drive in my drawer instead of thousands of Bitcoin," Howell told CBS News.
One evening in June 2020, a City Council budget meeting in this college town near the Canadian border stretched past midnight after hundreds of residents had logged on to Zoom to speak. Over nine hours, bleary-eyed councilors heard a message that had rippled across the country in the wake of George Floyd's death. Burlington, however, decided to slash almost 30 percent of its police force by attrition.
As strained U.S. hospitals brace for a new surge of COVID-19 cases caused by the fast-spreading omicron variant, doctors are warning of yet another challenge: the two standard drugs they've used to fight infections are unlikely to work against the new strain. For more than a year antibody drugs from Regeneron and Eli Lilly have been the go-to treatments for early COVID-19, thanks to their ability to head off severe disease and keep patients out of the hospital. But both drugmakers recently warned that laboratory testing suggests their therapies will be much less potent against omicron, which contains dozens of mutations that make it harder for antibodies to attack the virus.
“If a hundred people die in a plane crash, we go nuts. ... But if they die on our roads we see it as the cost of doing business.”
“We often call these terrible tragedies ‘accidents,’ as though they were acts of God … They are not.”
“Blaming human error alone is convenient, but it places all Americans in greater danger.”
“Controlling speeds on roads is the most important goal of any car safety strategy.”
“[Driving] undermines urban design, which ends up encouraging more driving instead of ... cycling, walking or riding the bus.”
Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
