How a Miami School Became a Beacon for Anti-Vaxxers

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Ms. Centner, an avid social media user who has long used her accounts to document her luxurious lifestyle, took effective control of the school last year, in the midst of the pandemic. She told the community that the school, with prekindergarten through eighth grades, would focus on “happiness” and espouse “medical freedom.” Leila Centner, the … Read more

View: Mamata’s victory will give new heart to an otherwise demoralised opposition

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Shiva Sen has already hailed her as a ‘Bengali tigress.’ The underlying message being: If she can come out tops against such odds, so can we. Synopsis The suspense of the last few weeks over whether or not Mamata Banerjee ‘will make it’ helped her in more ways than one. It made her into a … Read more

Trinamool demands recount in Nandigram

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The Trinamool Congress has demanded recounting in Nandigram constituency from which Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had stood, alleging a number of illegalities in the vote counting process. According to unofficial sources Banerjee lost the Nandigram assembly elections to BJP candidate and her former lieutenant Suvendu Adhikari by around 1,700 votes. However, Election Commission could not … Read more

Mamata Banerjee effects landslide on a wheelchair – Defectors, boisterous campaign boomerang on BJP as poor stand by Didi

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Mamata Banerjee-led All India Trinamool Congress has retained West Bengal, delivering a blow to the Bharatiya Janata Party which had made wresting the state its main target in this round of assembly elections. Trinamool won 215 seats and decimated the Left Front and Congress. The BJP, which had won almost half the number of Lok … Read more

Elon Musk asks Twitter for help coming up with SNL sketch ideas

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The Tesla CEO tweeted, “Throwing out some skit ideas for SNL. What should I do?” The billionaire suggested “Baby Shark & Shark Tank merge to form Baby Shark Tank,” “Woke James Bond,” and “Irony Man — defeats villains using the power of irony.” SNL cast member Chris Redd advised Musk start by getting the SNL … Read more

Opinion | Whale Mothers Need Their Moms. So Do I.

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Human females are joined by only a handful of other animals, including a few long-lived whale species, that have a lengthy life phase when reproduction ends and the time arrives to pitch in with the grandkids. This all-hands (or all flippers) approach to ensuring your genetic legacy apparently pays dividends. A 2019 parsing of preindustrial … Read more

Himanta Biswa Sarma wins for fifth time, sidesteps query on chief ministership

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After winning a fifth consecutive term in Assembly polls, BJP leader and senior Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said that he did not want to talk about who would become the next chief minister of the state as the decision will be made by the party’s central parliamentary board. The BJP had projected … Read more