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  After getting locked out of Twitter and Instagram for antisemitic posts the rapper formerly known as Kanye West is offering to buy right-wing friendly social network Parler shortly. For his opinions with no gatekeeper legally known as Ye, the acquisition of Parler would give West control of a social media platform and a new outlet. Who will listen, the question is? To support free speech by having looser rules and moderation even among the new breed of largely right-wing, far-right and libertarian social apps that purport, there is no clear roadmap to growing it beyond a niche platform chasing crumbs left by mainstream social media, Parler’s user base is tiny and with competition only increasing for the relatively small swath who want to discuss politics online of mostly older people. Things may get even more complicated for Parler, if Tesla CEO Elon Musk goes through with his planned purchase of Twitter. Including reinstating the account of former President Donald Trump he would lik

  According to new federal data, Racial and ethnic minorities are more likely to be hospitalized with the flu in the United States. Through the 2021-22 flu seasons excluding the 2020-21 season and flu vaccination coverage from the 2010-11 season through the 2021-22 season a new report looked at data from 2009-10 published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday. They found that compared to white adults, among Black adults influenza-related hospitalizations were 80% higher. During most seasons, hospitalization rates for Black adults were between 1.5 and 2.4 times the rates among white adults although there was some variation by season. Additionally, American Indian and Alaska Natives (Ai/AN) flu-related hospitalizations were 30% higher and hospitalizations among Hispanics were 20% higher.  For AI/AN adults during the 2011-12 season rates were highest and the 2021-22 seasons with rates 2.7 times those of white adults. Meanwhile for Hispanics, the highest rates were s

  Since last week renewed tribal clashes in southern Sudan have killed at least 13 people and injured more than two dozen others in the latest violence to hit the chaotic nation in recent months, the U.N. said Monday. The main factions of the sprawling pro-democracy movement have made progress in internationally backed talks and the violence in the Blue Nile province came as the country’s ruling generals. The aim found a way of military coup that plunged Sudan into worsening turmoil Out of last year’s discussions.  According to the U.N. Office on Thursday over a land dispute in the Wad al-Mahi District between the Hausa and Birta ethnic groups began for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs clashes.  It said before subsiding Sunday the fighting, which lasted for four days, displaced at least 1,200 people who were taking refuge in schools there. For its residents to get their daily needs met it said Government offices and the town’s market were closed, making it difficult. On people’

  Despite sharp increases in interest rates meant to cool the economy with year-over-year inflation barely easing in the latest Consumer Price Index report, a recession is “possible but not inevitable”, on Sunday, Pete Buttigieg Transportation Secretary said.  If the threat of recession worried him Buttigieg was asked in an interview on “This Week”. Buttigieg told anchor George Stephanopoulos, adding that it’s “been hard for the supply side to keep up, “Look, it’s possible but not inevitable, Americans have more income, in this almost Americans have jobs historically low level of unemployment because a part of why we do see a lot of pressure on prices is that while the demand has come back”. Buttigieg said, by the COVID-19 pandemic referring to a supply-chain crunch exacerbated “That’s a big part of what we’re working on the infrastructure side dealing with some of the bottlenecks we have, we have in transportation infrastructure that’s needed to be upgraded for decades that dealing wi

  On Wall Street Friday Technology stocks led a broad rally, capping another strong week for the market, as investors welcomed solid profits from Apple and other companies. Since August posted its first back-to-back weekly gains and the S&P rose 500 2.5%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite climbed 2.9% and the Dow Jones Industrial average rose 2.6%. Lifting the Russell 2000 index by 2.3%, smaller company stocks also gained ground. During the summer than expected Apple’s latest quarterly results showed the iPhone maker made even fatter profits. Its shares rose 7.6% and technology stocks led a rally that had largely been beaten up a day earlier. Intel jumped 10.7% even though it said it saw “worsening economic conditions after delivering a much bigger profit than analysts forecasted”.  After they also topped Wall Street’s profit expectations Gilead Sciences soared 12.9%, and T-Mobile US gained 7.4%. After new data showing the economy grew modestly in the third quarter and inflation ease

To explore life in France since the 1940s this year on Thursday French author Annie Ernaux won the Nobel Prize in literature for blending fiction and autobiography in books that fearlessly mine her experiences as a working-class woman. Ernaux has probed deeply personal experiences and feelings – love, sex, abortion, shame within a society split by gender and class divisions over five decades in more than 20 books published. “In power, it doesn’t seem to me that women have become equal in freedom” Ernaux said and to abortion and contraception she strongly defended women’s rights, after a half-century of defending feminist ideals. At a news conference in Paris she said that “I will fight to my last breath so that women can choose to be a mother, or not to be. It’s a fundamental right”. Before it was legalized in France Ernaux’s first book, “Cleaned Out,” was about her own illegal abortion. In her small-town background in the Normandy region of northwest France the prize-giving Swedish Ac

  As the U.S. military warned the North that the use of nuclear weapons “will result in the end of that regime, on Friday North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea in its first ballistic weapons launches in two weeks”.   In a statement Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said that from the North’s eastern coastal Tongchuan area around midday on Friday South Korea’s military detected the two launches.  South Korea’s military has boosted its surveillance posture and the United States maintains readiness amid close coordination, it said. The U.S. Indo Pacific Command said To the United States or its allies the launches did not pose an immediate threat but highlighted the “destabilizing impact” of North Korea’s illicit nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs. Since Oct. 14 the North’s first ballistic missile tests, the back-to-back launches, came on the final day of South Korea’s annual 12-day “Hoguk” field exercises, which also involved an unspecified number of