An influential US medical journal is rejecting a call from the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F Kennedy Jr, to retract a large Danish study that found that aluminum ingredients in vaccines do not increase health risks for children, the journal’s editor told Reuters. Kennedy has long promoted doubts about vaccines’ safety and efficacy, and …
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Even though Robert Plant performs a few of Led Zeppelin‘s old songs at his solo concerts, the singer recently told Mojo why he won’t sing many of the band’s biggest “hits.” “What were the hits?” he asked the magazine in a new interview. “How can they be related to now? Where do they fit? They fit as a sort of …
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Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo has shared his memories of the private funeral service held for Ozzy Osbourne on July 31. Trujillo, who played bass in Osbourne’s solo band in the late ’90s, and co-wrote a number of songs on Osbourne’s 2001 album Down To Earth, was among the mourners at the service held on the grounds of the late singer’s …
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Hong Kong and global film icon Jackie Chan received a Career Leopard award on Saturday night and an enthusiastic welcome at the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland. And on Sunday morning, the legendary multi-hyphenate shared insights into his career during a talk at the festival that drew a large crowd that started lining up outside the cinema well ahead of time. Chan recalled …
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Good morning. You may have heard a saying along the lines that “when the US sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold”. So when the US health department announced plans to cut half a billion dollars in vaccine research funding on Wednesday, the world took notice. The US is the world’s largest funder of biomedical research, but this …
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Patriots owner Robert Kraft sees the deal that will make NFL Media part of ESPN and give the NFL 10 percent ownership of ESPN as another step toward the league’s global growth ambitions. “I think we’ve hooked up with the best partners we can have,” Kraft told NFL Network. “That will help expose us to more homes, more of an …
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On Tuesday, the league announced that it will sell NFL Network to ESPN, allowing ESPN to distribute NFL RedZone to pay-television operators and combine NFL Fantasy Football with ESPN Fantasy Football. In exchange, the NFL will take a 10 percent equity stake in ESPN. The NFL Network’s Judy Battista spoke with Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who is the chairman of …
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Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu BBC News Facebook/Jackson Police Department A man suspected of targeting and killing members of his girlfriend’s family and leaving a baby abandoned in front of a stranger’s home has been arrested in rural Tennessee. The weeklong manhunt for Austin Robert Drummond ended after local authorities instituted an early morning shelter-in-place for residents near Jackson after he was …
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Facebook Tweet Email Link A third person has been arrested on suspicion of helping a fugitive accused of killing four relatives of a Tennessee baby who was found abandoned alive last week, authorities said Monday. Meanwhile, authorities were scouring a wooded area near a private university in Jackson, Tennessee, on Monday afternoon as part of the investigation into the suspect …
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Robert Wilson, a leader in avant-garde theater who collaborated with Philip Glass, David Byrne and Lady Gaga over his six-decade career, has died. He was 83. The “Einstein on the Beach” director died Thursday at his home in Water Mill, N.Y., after a “brief but acute illness,” according to his website. “While facing his diagnosis with clear eyes and determination, …
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