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The World Health Organization and around 500 experts have agreed for the first time what it means for a disease to spread through the air, in a bid to avoid the confusion early in the COVID-19 pandemic that some scientists have said cost lives.The Geneva-based U.N. health agency released a technical document on the topic on Thursday. It said it was the first step towards working out how to better prevent this kind of transmission, both for existing diseases like measles and for future pandemic threats.The document concludes that the descriptor "through the air" can be used for infectious diseases

As anti-Israel protests take over public spaces from the Golden Gate Bridge to Columbia University, one attorney went viral for her admonishment of such "clueless defenders" of the Palestinians' top benefactor, the hardline theocrats in Tehran.Elica Le Bon, who self-describes herself as a "daughter of Iran," asked protesters where their voices were when the regime of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was "lynching Iranian men from cranes for protesting" and punishing women who object to Iran's subjugation of their gender."If you'd listened to us for the past two years, much less the past 45 years, you'd know that Iranians don't want war

You've seen us on screen, but have you ever wondered what we're like off-camera?For the last few months, I’ve enjoyed checking in with some of your favorite Fox personalities to learn more about who they are behind the scenes.What's the one thing Jesse Watters couldn’t live without? What's Bill Hemmer’s favorite Halloween costume? And what's sitting on Greg Gutfeld’s nightstand? But that's not all! The fun is just getting started.This week, we're excited to shine the spotlight on Griff Jenkins. He is a Washington-based national correspondent for Fox News Channel and a co-anchor of "FOX News Live." He joined the network

Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser apparently traveled to the ritzy Masters golf tournament on the taxpayer's dime – writing off the expense as a business opportunity to "promote sports and economic development" in the nation's capital. Professional golf's major event The Master's in Augusta, Georgia is more than 500 miles from Washington, D.C.According to the mayor's public schedule, Bowser attended the world-renowned golf tournament, "as part of a sports and economic development visit."MAYOR BOWSER DIRECTLY ASKED IF PEOPLE SHOULD ‘FEEL SAFE’ IN DC: ‘WHAT’S THE PLAN?'SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER SPOTTED AT DALLAS DIVE BAR AFTER WINNING 2024 MASTERSA spokesperson confirmed to DC News

New York City health officials issued a warning about the increase in transmitted bacterial illness spread by rat urine after 24 cases were reported in 2023, the most for any year. Only six cases of leptospirosis have been reported in the city so far this year but numbers were trending upward, the New York City Department of Health said. Cases in New York are largely associated with exposure to materials contaminated with rat urine from the Norway rat. The disease can cause fever, headache, chills, muscle aches, vomiting, diarrhea, cough, conjunctival suffusion, jaundice, and rash, Celia Quinn, the deputy commissioner for the

BERLIN, Vt. (AP) — Hundreds of Vermont farms are still recovering from last July's catastrophic flooding and other extreme weather as they head into this year's growing season.Dog River Farm, in Berlin, Vermont, lost nearly all its produce crops in the July flooding. The farm removed truckloads of river silt and sand from the fields before another round of flooding in December washed away more precious soils, wiped out the farm's garlic planted in late fall and left behind more silt and several giant holes in a field, said owner George Gross on Wednesday.VERMONT OFFICIALS URGE FARMERS TO DOCUMENT, REPORT

Members of the antiwar group Code Pink told Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday to "stop supporting mass murder" over the Biden administration's support of Israel as it continues to battle Hamas terrorists. Austin was leaving a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense hearing where he and other leaders testified about the Department of Defense fiscal 2025 budget request when Code Pink members voiced their discontent with U.S. policy toward Israel. "We feel that he knows better than to say ‘this is not a genocide’ and he knows that Israel is violating international law and U.S. law, and so he should stand up

Sydney Sweeney may be one of Hollywood's biggest rising stars, but some people don't see the appeal.Longtime film producer Carol Baum attended a screening of her 1988 movie "Dead Ringers" at the Jacob Burns Film Center in New York, and in a discussion following the film, she reportedly took the opportunity to slam Sweeney for both her looks and her talent."There's an actress who everybody loves now — Sydney Sweeney," Baum said, per the Daily Mail. "I don't get Sydney Sweeney."SYDNEY SWEENEY WANTS TO ‘PUSH THE BOUNDARIES’ IN ACTING, DOESN'T LIKE TO REHEARSEThe producer said that she'd recently watched "Anyone