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US federal judge sentences West Virginia man who threatened Dr. Anthony Fauci to 3 years in prison

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Fauci is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Chief Medical Advisor to the president. . Our agency, working closely with our law enforcement partners, will continue to bring those who threaten violence to justice. Thomas Connally Jr.

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Federal Health Agency Seeks to Identify Barriers to Cannabis Research

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has posted a request for information titled, “Investigators’ interests in and barriers to research studies on the health effects of cannabis and its constituents,” hoping to help “strengthen the scientific evidence” of the plant’s therapeutic potential, reports Marijuana Moment.

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Afghanistan dispatches: ‘There was a bomb blast today in Kabul in which two Taliban soldiers and four to six school students were injured.’

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For privacy and security reasons we are withholding our correspondent’s name and institutional affiliation. The Taliban have established commissions in various sectors to govern the country; these commissions operate in areas such as justice, finance, health, security and etc. They are also not going to any gatherings at the ministry.

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Families of Missing Indigenous Women Call Out Indifference, Double Standards

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too often their cases receive little to no news media attention and their families can face doubts and delays from law enforcement agencies, reports The Guardian. Its authors determined that more than 95 percent of the cases in the report had not received coverage by national or international news agencies.

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Human rights groups allege Egypt imposes travel bans and asset freezes to curb dissent

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They have had a detrimental effect on the health, families and careers of those banned from travel. A report by the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) and the Freedom Initiative found that a 1994 interior ministry decree empowers security agencies to impose travel bans without court orders for a renewable three-year period.

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Violence and natural resource depletion linked in international report

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The second edition of the Ecological Threat Report (ETR), released by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP), assesses threats “relating to food risk, water risk, rapid population growth, temperature anomalies and natural disasters.” billion people,” a 45-percent increase over current numbers. billion people.

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Will British Cops be Allowed to Carry Naloxone?

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The study was overseen by Edinburgh University’s Scottish Institute for Police Research, and supported by the Chief Constable of Police Scotland, Iain Livingstone. The study was overseen by Edinburgh University’s Scottish Institute for Police Research, and supported by the Chief Constable of Police Scotland, Iain Livingstone.