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Hydroxychloroquine could have caused 17,000 deaths during COVID, study finds

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:37:00 GMT

Nearly 17,000 people may have died after taking hydroxycholoroquine during the first wave of COVID, according to a study by French researchers.The anti-malaria drug was prescribed to some patients hospitalized with COVID-19 during the first wave of the pandemic, “despite the absence of evidence documenting its clinical benefits,” the researchers point out in their paper, published in the February issue of Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy.Now, researchers have estimated that some 16,990 people in six countries — France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Turkey and the U.S. — may have died as a result.That figure stems from a study published in the Nature scientific journal in 2021 which reported an 11 percent increase in the mortality rate, linked to its prescription against COVID-19, because of the potential adverse effects like heart rhythm disorders, and its use instead of other effective treatments.Researchers from universities in Lyon, France, and Québec, Canada, used that fig...

‘Beyond crazy’: The liberal jew mugged by a post-Oct. 7 world

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:37:00 GMT

SAINT-JEAN-CAP-FERRAT, France — “If I had been given one dollar for each time someone told me that ‘the antisemitism you experience in France would never happen in America,’ I would be super rich now.”Delphine Horvilleur stops — “not that Jews care about money…,” she starts to say — and laughs wearily. She resumes her argument: The Oct. 7 Hamas attacks and Israeli war in Gaza have brought out on American campuses and in public debates what she recognizes from France’s recent history.Horvilleur is a French rabbi who is a fixture in the media and public debates in her home country. She is passionate, learned and, even when conversation turns dark, funny. The weariness is recent. She is politically a woman of the left, a not shy critic of Israel’s government and a feminist. But now she finds herself soundinglike her ideological sparring partners when it comes to Israel and the threat of antisemitism. In the past three months, her world was turned “upside down,” and she is st...

2 dead after early morning Dorchester crash, 1 in “grave” condition

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:37:00 GMT

An early morning crash on Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester Thursday claimed the lives of two.Massachusetts State Police confirmed that two occupants of a vehicle which rolled over on the street suffered fatal injuries. A third is in “grave condition” at a Boston hospital and a fourth is also hospitalized, but with non-life threatening injuries. All victims are male, three of whom are believed to be teenage juveniles. Investigators are still working to confirm the victims’ identities. https://twitter.com/MassStatePolice/status/1742935995237216390A state trooper on patrol on Morrissey Boulevard saw the vehicle crash on the northbound side of the road just after 3:15 a.m. near UMass-Boston. Additional state police and Boston police patrols, along with Boston Fire and EMS, were on scene shortly after. One victim was determined to be deceased on-site and the three other occupants of the car were transported to hospitals, where a second as pronounced dead. In a state...

Suspect sought in Attleboro armed robbery

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:37:00 GMT

Attleboro Police are looking for a suspect who was caught on surveillance video robbing a gas station while armed.Police responded to the Mobil gas station on Newport Avenue in South Attleboro just after midnight on Thursday morning, where the clerk told them a masked male had entered the convenience store and demanded the contents of the cash register be handed over, which the clerk complied with.According to police, the suspect subsequently “got into the passenger side of a newer model dark-colored sedan, possibly a Toyota product”. The car was last seen fleeing west-bound on Collins Street towards Washington Street, Route 1.https://twitter.com/AttleboroPolice/status/1742927125425029147The amount of money taken has not being disclosed.The suspect is described as a short male wearing a black North Face puffy jacket, a black hooded sweatshirt with the hood up, and awihte mask.He displayed a “dark semiautomatic handgun” and appeared to be waering dark colo...

Boston falls to Minnesota in PWHL opener 3-2

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:37:00 GMT

LOWELL – Boston made women’s hockey history on Wednesday, but Minnesota’s Taylor Heise stole the show.The PWHL’s top overall draft pick scored the opening goal on the first shot of the game, as the Boston franchise of the Professional Women’s Hockey League dropped the puck on its inaugural season, with a 3-2 loss to Minnesota, at Tsongas Center.A first-of-its-kind women’s hockey league that brings together the best players in the world, Wednesday’s PHWL game was the first to feature two American teams going head-to-head, in front of an amped up crowd of 4,012 in attendance.“It feels magical and surreal at the same time,” said Boston team captain Hilary Knight. “Understanding how important visibility is, it’s a fantastic time to have a professional league. And to be to be a part of the first few shifts, you really can’t put it into words. It’s so well overdue and so exciting for where it’s going.”Playing its first of a 24-game regular season slate, Boston endured some opening night j...

LIVE: Law enforcement responds to shooting at Perry High School

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:37:00 GMT

PERRY, Iowa -- A news conference has been scheduled to release information about a school shooting at Perry High School Thursday morning.Sgt. Alex Dinkla with the Iowa State Patrol said the briefing will be held at 10:00 a.m. near the Perry High School football field. The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation will conduct the press conference with the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office and the Perry Police Department.WHO 13 will stream the news conference live on www.who13.com.Multiple law enforcement agencies responded to the school after reports came in around 7:40 a.m. about a possible active shooter situation at the school. WHO 13 Photographer Jack Johnson is on the scene outside the school near 1200 18th Street and says police and Iowa State Troopers have blocked off the streets surrounding the school. He has seen several ambulances entering and leaving the school. Multiple air ambulances were also spotted arriving and leaving the area.Our photographer also witnessed some st...

Georgia deputy killed after being hit by police car during chase

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:37:00 GMT

LANETT, Ala. (AP) — A Georgia sheriff’s deputy was killed Thursday morning after being stuck by another law enforcement vehicle during a police chase that crossed into Alabama. The Coweta County Sheriff’s Office said Deputy Sheriff Eric Minix was killed in the crash after the pursuit by Georgia law enforcement of a stolen vehicle continued into Alabama.The sheriff’s office wrote in a social media post that, “during the apprehension of the suspect Eric was struck by a police car and was pronounced dead at an area hospital.”“We have lost a good deputy. We have lost a good man. We have lost a good friend,” the sheriff’s office wrote. WRBL-TV reported that the crash occurred on Interstate 85 in Chambers County, which is on the Georgia-Alabama border. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency is investigating the crash. A spokesman said they are working to gather additional information to release. Minix, who was also a K-9 officer, is survived by a wife and three daughters.The...

Wisconsin redistricting consultants to be paid up to $100,000 each

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:37:00 GMT

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Two consultants hired to analyze new legislative boundary lines in Wisconsin after the state’s Supreme Court tossed the current Republican-drawn maps will be paid up to $100,000 each in taxpayer money under terms of their contracts made public Thursday.Each consultant will be paid an hourly rate of $450, up to $100,000 total, but the state director of courts has the authority to exceed the maximum amount if she determines it is necessary, according to the contracts.Wisconsin is one of more than a dozen states currently wrestling with challenges to redistricting maps that were redrawn following the release of the 2020 U.S. census and first applied to the 2022 elections. Court challenges could result in new U.S. House and state legislative maps before the November election.In Wisconsin, the court last month ruled that the current legislative maps are unconstitutional because many districts aren’t contiguous. The court ordered that either the Legislature pass...

Thousands attend the funeral of a top Hamas official killed in an apparent Israeli strike in Beirut

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:37:00 GMT

BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of people took to the streets in Beirut Thursday the funeral of Saleh Arouri, top commander of the militant Palestinian group Hamas, who was killed earlier this week in an apparent Israeli airstrike in the Lebanese capital.Draped in Palestinian and Hamas flags, Arouri’s coffin along with those of two of his comrades were first taken to a Beirut mosque for prayers before being carried to the Palestine Martyrs Cemetery where top Palestinian officials killed by Israel over the past five decades have been buried. Arouri’s automatic rifle was placed on his coffin at the prayer service.Palestinian officials, including top Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk, as well as representatives of some Lebanese political groups attended the funeral. People tried to touch the coffins that were surrounded by Hamas members wearing green caps, some of whom were armed.“The enemy is running away from its failures and defeats (in Gaza) to Lebanon,” Hamas top leader Ismail...

Make 2024 a prosperous new year with financial resolution tips from experts

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:37:00 GMT

The champagne is gone, the ball has been dropped, and the holiday bills are starting to roll in. That means there’s no time like the present to make a New Year’s resolution — especially one that might help take some of the sting out of those bills. Experts say it really is possible to use Jan. 1 as an opportunity to turn over a new financial leaf. “There are certain times of year that are the best times to set a goal, and one of those is most certainly New Year’s,” said B.C.-based Kerry Taylor, a financial journalist and creator of the financial website Squawkfox.com. “There’s science called the fresh start effect, and it’s a really cool way to make resolutions stick. What it is, is a psychological phenomenon where we feel more motivated and excited to attack a goal based on the time of year.”That’s good news for the 38 per cent of people who have chosen “improve finances” as their New Year’s resolution for 2024, according to For...