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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. arrives to testify before the Senate Finance Committee on September 4, 2025. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR., the secretary of health and human services, made so many misleading or false statements during his testimony before the Senate Finance Committee last Thursday that it was genuinely difficult to …

News – Ancient DNA Pinpoints Culprit Responsible for World’s First Pandemic  Archaeology Magazine The “Plague Of Justinian” May Have Been The First Pandemic. DNA At A Mass Grave Has Finally Identified Its Cause.  IFLScience Scientists discover bacterium responsible for first epidemic in human history  Caliber.Az The Justinian Plague: How climate and trade fuelled the first pandemic in history  Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1,500-year-old mystery …

A “Now Hiring” sign at a Journeys store in the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, on Tuesday, June 3, 2025. Adam Gray | Bloomberg | Getty Images Job openings ticked down in July to levels rarely seen since the Covid pandemic, bolstering fears of cooling in the labor market. The Job Openings and Labor Turnover report showed around 7.18 …

US holiday spending set for steepest drop since pandemic, PwC survey shows  Reuters Gen Z slashes holiday budgets ahead of shopping season  NBC News Holiday shoppers plan first spending pullback since 2020, PwC report says  Axios U.S. holiday spending likely to see sharpest decline since pandemic – PwC (XLY:NYSEARCA)  Seeking Alpha Holiday spending, especially by Gen Z, is expected to drop this year, survey …

Q: Because, as the title suggests, the next pandemic could be worse? A: One of the things that saved us with MERS and SARS was they weren’t as infectious but, on the other hand, killed 25%-30% of the people who got it. COVID killed 1½%. Since I wrote this book, we have uncovered a new virus in China — from …

Ancient DNA solves mystery behind world’s first pandemic  Euronews.com DNA study reveals origin of world’s first pandemic that swept through Mediterranean  The Independent World’s first pandemic mystery solved: Scientists uncover Yersinia pestis through ancient DNA after 1,500  The Times of India DNA reveals plague bacteria behind the first pandemic  The Jerusalem Post Secrets of plague bacterium revealed by mass grave  The Independent Source link

By Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Aug 31, 2025 / 07:10 am Pope Leo XIV on Sunday prayed for the victims of a shooting at a Catholic church in Minneapolis and deplored a worldwide “pandemic of arms” that has left many children dead or injured. “Our prayers for the victims of the tragic shooting during a school Mass in the American …

For the first time, researchers have uncovered direct genomic evidence of the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian — the world’s first recorded pandemic — in the Eastern Mediterranean, where the outbreak was first described nearly 1,500 years ago. The landmark discovery, led by an interdisciplinary team at the University of South Florida and Florida Atlantic University, with collaborators in …

Pope demands end to ‘pandemic of arms’ as he prays for victims of Minnesota school shooting  Politico Annunciation Church shooting: Victim count increases to 23  FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul Pope Leo urges end to “pandemic of arms” after Minnesota shooting  Axios Haunting footage shows suburban Minneapolis home where trans gunman plotted school attack  Fox News In Secret Diaries, the Church Shooter’s Plans for Mass …

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Sunday called for an end to the “pandemic of arms, large and small,” as he prayed publicly for the victims of a shooting during a Catholic school Mass in the United States. History’s first U.S. pope spoke in English as he denounced the attack and the “logic of weapons” fueling wars around …