By Maggie Fox, CNN Updated 15 hrs ago Vaccination alone won’t stop the rise of new variants and in fact could push the evolution of strains that evade their protection, researchers warned Friday. They said people need to wear masks and take other steps to prevent spread until almost everyone […]

By Michael Blackmon Posted on July 29, 2021 JD Blackstone, a 33-year-old amateur adult performer based in Atlanta, has been working as a porn star — on-again, off-again — for about a decade. (He has a regular 9-to-5 job in public health advocating for HIV prevention and awareness.) But in […]

July 24, 2021 at 9:55 am | Updated July 24, 2021 at 11:28 am By Sheera Frenkel SAN FRANCISCO — The article that appeared online Feb. 9 began with a seemingly innocuous question about the legal definition of vaccines. Then over its next 3,400 words, it declared coronavirus vaccines were […]

2021-07-24 11:56:22 Spain has promised citizenship to Sephardic Jews. Now they feel betrayed. In 2015 Spain announced it would grant citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews deported during the Spanish Inquisition. Then the rejections started pouring in this summer. MADRID – Maria Sanchez, mental health therapist at retirement in Albuquerque,has […]

Ananth Krishnan writes: 23 JULY 2021 08:31 IST UPDATED: 24 JULY 2021 07:19 IST He inspects newly opened and strategically important railway line China’s President Xi Jinping this week became the first Chinese leader in many years to visit Tibet as well as its southeastern border region with India, as […]

[Many fully vaccinated people are beginning to wonder if it’s time to wear masks again, and more] Tara Parker-Pope writes: Fri, July 23, 2021 As the delta variant spreads among the unvaccinated, many fully vaccinated people are also beginning to worry. Is it time to mask up again? While there’s […]

Moscow is also reported to be open to some kind of cooperation with the U.S., though far short of American bases in Central Asia. By Catherine Putz 21 July 2021 Following military drills with Tajikistan last week, the commander of Russia’s Central Military District said on July 19 that Russia […]

Government minister and teenagers clash. By Norimitsu Onishi and Constant Meheut France has long sought to create a secular, color blind republic. But the confrontation between a government minister and a youth convention shows how the new generation is questioning those values. POITIERS, France – It was supposed to be […]

By Saif Hasnat and Mujib Marshal DHAKA, Bangladesh – Think of it like the Amazon, but for cows, goats and sheep. And this holiday season, sales are exploding. Each year, farmers in Bangladesh, home to around 10 percent of the world’s Muslim population, raise millions of animals for sacrifice on […]

Interfaith unions in India. After a woman, who was born a Sikh, married a Muslim man, her parents accused him of kidnapping. She said she married for love. Her parents called it coercion. By SAMEER YASIR, EMILY SCHMALL AND IQBAL KIRMANI SRINAGAR, Kashmir — Manmeet Kour Bali had to defend […]