"The historic walled Old City of Jerusalem came alive this week with Christian and Jewish religious festivals now that more than a third of the city is inoculated against COVID-19." Welcome to your next spike, Israel.
"Writing in March in the journal Current Biology, scientists described what they found in 10 tusks collected from animals in northwest Greenland. Because a tusk grows continuously over the many decades of a narwhal’s life, the researchers could read the outsized teeth like the rings of a tree. They found that between 1962 and 2000, the mercury in the tusks increased by an average of 0.3 percent a year, but between 2000 and 2010 it increased by 1.9 percent per year. This is consistent with increased mercury discovered in the bodies of other top predators in several regions across the Arctic, possibly due to air pollution blowing in from the south."
"Twenty-two mummified members of ancient Egyptian royalty passed through downtown Cairo in an awe-inspiring parade on Saturday. The event, which drew fanfare to the country's robust collections of antiquities in an elaborate procession, saw the mummies being relocated from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, about 3 miles away in nearby Fustat."
"Some residents in Manatee County, Florida, were evacuated from their homes over Easter weekend as officials cited fears that a wastewater pond could collapse 'at any time.' Florida Governor Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency for the area on Saturday… County officials said the pond, located at the former Piney Point phosphate processing plant, has a 'significant leak,' according to CBS affiliate WTSP-TV. The Manatee County Public Safety Department told people near the plant to evacuate due to an 'imminent uncontrolled release of wastewater.'"
"A technique that induces imaginary sounds in both mice and people could help scientists understand the brain circuits involved in schizophrenia and other disorders that cause hallucinations."
"The United States has put Johnson and Johnson in charge of a plant that ruined 15 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine and has stopped British drugmaker AstraZeneca Plc from using the facility, a senior health official said on Saturday."
"A senior Jordanian official on Sunday accused the country’s former crown prince of conspiring with foreign elements in a 'malicious plot' that threatened national security… Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi told reporters that the plot had been foiled at the 'zero hour.'"
"French police have been investigating an international ring of toy thieves with a particular affinity for the colorful, interlocking bricks, according to a recent report from The Guardian."
"A naval mine washed ashore in Broward County where many people usually go to relax on the beach… An investigation is currently underway, and a response team was activated."
"Nationwide, 6.6 million students can't obtain their transcripts from public and private colleges and universities for having unpaid bills as low as $25 or less, the higher education consulting firm Ithaka S+R estimates."
"The federal investigation targeting Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz is specifically looking into whether he and an associate in his home state of Florida provided cash or others things of value to women they had sex with after connecting online, The New York Times first reported Thursday evening and a source familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News."
"One U.S. Capitol Police officer is dead and another is hospitalized with injuries after an apparent attack Friday at a Capitol checkpoint in which a man rammed his car into officers and lunged at them with a knife, police said."
"This summer's Major League Baseball Draft and the All-Star Game won't be held in Atlanta, MLB officials announced Friday… The withdrawal of the two events from the city in July is in response to Georgia's recently enacted voting restrictions, which critics, including President Biden, have denounced as 'Jim Crow in the 21st century"' because they say the legislation will disproportionately affect communities of color."
"The companies had offered cautious statements, and what Ufot calls 'hand-wringing' and 'shoulder shrugging.' That is, until Wednesday, when Atlanta-based Delta Airlines and Coca-Cola issued forceful condemnations of Georgia's new restrictive voting law, enacted last week. From there, corporate criticism of Republican voting bills seemed to spread like wildfire — moving across state lines and morphing into a national trend that activists say finally reflects the urgency of the sheer number of restrictions under consideration across the U.S." Call me when these companies' PACs stop giving money to these Republicans.
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