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Reform Candidates Accused Of Spreading Racism And Misogyny

Reform Candidates Accused Of Spreading Racism And Misogyny

Published by Sam Flores

Dozens of candidates standing for Reform UK in next month’s council elections have been accused of posting offensive content online. Labour has produced a dossier containing social media posts by 45 of those standing for the party on May 7. They include Alan Stay, who is standing for election to the Isle of Wight council, and posted the N-word and pictures of golliwogs. Angus Dalgeish, standing for Sutton council, claimed King Charles’s and Princess of Wales’s cancers were caused by the Covid vaccines. A candidate for Sefton council, Jay Cooper. shared social media posts alleging “ultimate” proof the 9/11 terror attacks were fake. The dossier also includes the revelations from HuffPost UK last week about a series of candidates. Janine Crook, who is standing in Darwen East, wrote on Facebook in November 2021: “I partly agree but in my area Aussie is used in a friendly manner and ‘P***’ used as an insult. I do think that is the problem.” Reform’s Barnsley candidate Theresa Arnold said people supporting Ukraine’s war efforts should feel like “mugs” …

Catching a cold can delay cancer from spreading to the lungs

Catching a cold can delay cancer from spreading to the lungs

Published by skeptic

The lungs are one of the most common places for cancers to spread to from elsewhere in the body CAVALLINI JAMES/BSIP/Universal Images Group/Getty Images Respiratory infections seem to temporarily reduce the spread of cancer to the lungs from elsewhere in the body. Infecting mice with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) – which causes cold-like symptoms and infects nearly everyone by age 2 – helped to prevent breast cancer cells from taking hold in their lungs. This has raised hopes that the same mechanism, which involves activating infection-fighting proteins, could one day be utilised in a drug. Most cancer deaths occur when tumour cells spread from their original location in the body. They can often be treated with surgery or radiation in the early stages, but once the cancer has spread, “everything is much more difficult, and treatment success really diminishes”, says David Withers at Oxford University, who wasn’t involved in the research. The lungs are one of the most common sites for cancer to spread to, which has made the role of respiratory infections like flu, covid-19 …

Scientists Puzzled by Huge Shadowy Blight Spreading Across Surface of Mars

Scientists Puzzled by Huge Shadowy Blight Spreading Across Surface of Mars

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech A shadowy presence is spreading across the surface of Mars. New images released by the European Space Agency that were taken by its Mars Express orbiter show a rapid transformation taking place in the planet’s Utopia Planitia basin, which scientists believe was once the site of an ancient ocean. Today, it’s a veritable battleground between the forces of light and dark. That’s only being slightly hyperbolic. In one half of a composite image taken with the mission’s High Resolution Stereo Camera is the Red Planet’s traditionally light colored, sandy beige surface. In the other half, the landscape is a dark reddish-brown, as if corrupted by a horrific blight. Mars Express has captured a blanket of dark ash creeping across the Red Planet. It has spread hundreds of kilometres in less than 50 years. 1/4 pic.twitter.com/vxz8cIvsGM — ESA Science (@esascience) April 15, 2026 Planetary scientists are still piecing together what’s behind the unusual phenomenon. They suggest the dark presence …

William Shatner Says AI Is Spreading Horrific Rumors About Him

William Shatner Says AI Is Spreading Horrific Rumors About Him

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech The advent of powerful generative AI tools has supercharged the proliferation of disinformation, with viral and fictional stories making the lives of public figures a living hell. Facebook, in particular, has been overrun with misleading news stories, often featuring AI-generated images, that attract huge engagement. Now William Shatner, the 95-year-old actor of “Star Trek” fame, has become the latest victim of the trend. “My daughter came over to tell me her daughter heard that I had brain cancer,” he wrote in a caption of a April 2 Instagram post, which showed him sitting in a patio chair, smiling into the camera. “She took this photo and sent it to me to upload to prove I’m not ill.” In a post on X, the Canadian actor further explained that “there is a page on Facebook that is using AI to create horrible fake news stories about me.” Screenshots attached to his post show AI-generated pictures of him lying in …

I’m a doctor. Here’s what you need to know about Covid variant spreading quickly across US

I’m a doctor. Here’s what you need to know about Covid variant spreading quickly across US

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the Well Enough newsletter with Harry Bullmore for tips on living a healthier, happier and longer life Get the Well Enough email with Harry Bullmore Get the Well Enough email with Harry Bullmore A variant of COVID-19 called BA.3.2, which has circulated under the radar since late 2024, is now spreading quickly across the United States. As a pulmonary and critical care doctor, I see many patients who are at high risk for severe COVID-19 due to chronic lung disease, as well as patients living with long COVID. All of them ask me how worried they should be about new variants of the virus. There’s no sign so far that BA.3.2, nicknamed Cicada, is any more dangerous or causes more severe disease than the variants that were circulating in the winter of 2025-26. But because it’s significantly different from them, the current COVID-19 vaccine may not be as effective against it. Where did the BA.3.2 variant come from? BA.3.2 is descended from the omicron variant, which emerged in late 2021. Compared to the current …

The Private Credit Crisis Is Spreading

The Private Credit Crisis Is Spreading

Published by Jenni Sidey

Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance The private credit crisis is spreading to another corner of the market that I warned about back in October, when I wrote about 10 parts of the market I’d avoid. For years I’ve been warning that buy now pay later (“BNPL”) industry was built on a pretty fragile foundation. The quality of the loans was always the obvious problem. The entire business model revolves around extending instant credit with minimal underwriting to consumers making small purchases. Companies whose primary innovation is allowing consumers to split a $40 online purchase into four installment payments probably aren’t lending to the most creditworthy segment of the population. If anything, the model practically guarantees the opposite. When financial companies create products that allow consumers to finance extremely small discretionary purchases, they are effectively targeting borrowers who either don’t have the liquidity to cover those purchases outright or who have already exhausted more traditional forms of credit. When consumers are putting things like f**king Chipotle Burritos and Hostess Twinkies on layaway, the borrower pool you are dealing with is …

CDC: Little-Known Virus With No Vaccine Spreading In US

CDC: Little-Known Virus With No Vaccine Spreading In US

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The human metapneumovirus (HMPV) is spreading in the United States, including in California and the Great Lakes region, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A person receives a vaccine in Los Angeles in a file photograph. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images Symptoms include cough, fever, and nasal congestion, and, unlike better-known respiratory viruses, HMPV does not have a vaccine or known treatments, the CDC stated. “There’s no specific treatment that’s generally recommended,” Dr. Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of California–Davis Children’s Hospital, said in a video released by the school. “For the youngest children, using a bulb syringe to clear the congestion can be useful. Sometimes a humidifier or vaporizer may be useful, especially if they have something like croup as a complication of infection and trying to make sure that they don’t get dehydrated and get enough fluids.” Hospitalized patients typically receive supportive care, or oxygen if they need it, and intravenous fluids to prevent or …

How the Iran conflict is spreading — in pictures

How the Iran conflict is spreading — in pictures

Published by Sam Flores

The conflict in the Middle East is rapidly expanding across the region as the U.S. and Israel-led war with Iran enters its sixth day. Images published Thursday showed destruction across Tehran after nearly a week of strikes on Iran’s capital. Iran has retaliated by launching a wave of missiles and drones at Israel, as well as targeting U.S. allies in the region. Explosions have been reported in Qatar and Bahrain, while oil-rich Azerbaijan said it was attacked by two Iranian drones and Tehran claimed naval fighters had struck a U.S. tanker in the north of the Persian Gulf. U.S. President Donald Trump has said the Iran war could last for four to five weeks but warned the campaign could also “go far longer than that.” A driver stops as a smoke plume rises after an airstrike on March 5, 2026 in the Boroujerdi Town neighborhood in southern Tehran, Iran. Majid Saeedi | Getty Images News | Getty Images Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwards An Israeli tank moves in Southern Lebanon near the border with Israel, …

Spreading crushed rock on farms could absorb 1 billion tonnes of CO2

Spreading crushed rock on farms could absorb 1 billion tonnes of CO2

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Crushed basalt being spread in a field trial of enhanced rock weathering for carbon dioxide removal in Queensland, Australia Paul Nelson Spreading crushed silicate rocks like basalt on fields could remove up to 1.1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere annually while increasing crop yields, according to an analysis of the method’s global potential. But some researchers question whether that figure is really achievable. Known as enhanced rock weathering, this technique accelerates the breakdown of rocks by rainwater, a natural process that, over millions of years, has transferred CO2 from the atmosphere to the ocean and helped cool the planet in hothouse-Earth periods. Farmers have been spreading ground limestone on fields for centuries to improve nutrient uptake in crops. “The main benefit is through sort of solving atmospheric CO2 through chemical reactions,” says Chuan Liao at Cornell University in New York. “And there are also some side benefits, such as adding… magnesium, calcium potentially, to supplement soil nutrients.” As emissions continue to increase, the United Nations climate body has said humanity will require …

Behind the ‘Free Maduro’ Message Spreading in Caracas

Behind the ‘Free Maduro’ Message Spreading in Caracas

Published by Sam Flores

new video loaded: Behind the ‘Free Maduro’ Message Spreading in Caracas Our reporter Anatoly Kurmanaev looks around Caracas, Venezuela, describing how the “Free Maduro” graffiti and billboards around the city, which also appear on Delcy Rodríguez’s social media pages, help her as she balances her ties to Nicolás Maduro with her political rebranding. By Anatoly Kurmanaev, Melanie Bencosme, Leila Medina and Stephanie Swart February 3, 2026 Source link