• Inside 'world's deadliest cave' that could cause next pandemic: Kitum in Kenya gave rise to Ebola and 'eye bleeding' Marburg virus

    Fatal 'hemorrhagic' or blood-letting fevers emerged from Kitum in the 1980s. Scientists ascribe Kitum's deadliness to the animals who scrape cave for salt. READ MORE:

  • Churchill Downs Releases Wagering Menu, Post Times for Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks Cards

    Churchill Downs players will be treated to massive pools and a variety of wagering opportunities on Kentucky Derby week beginning April 27 – opening night of the 44-day spring meet. Betting options will be plentiful, especially on Kentucky Derby Day which will feature 14 races including seven stakes. The betting menu will include five Pick 5s, five Pick 4s, and a mandatory payout in the 20-cent Derby City 6 jackpot. Read More

  • Lauryn Goodman looks tense at first glance since posting a poorly timed parenting post as Kyle Walker welcomes his fourth son with wife Annie Kilner

    Lauryn Goodman looked tense as she was spotted for the first time since her ex Kyle Walker welcomed a fourth child with wife Annie Kilner. The 33-year-old TV personality stepped out in Sussex on Wednesday and looked tense as she took a call - while strangely holding another phone in her free hand. Hours earlier, she was on her phone to share a post that came at an inopportune time as Kyle and Annie confirmed the birth of their fourth child. On Tuesday, Lauryn gushed on Instagram about how...

  • World Champs looking for third

    For The Madera TribuneMadTown Robotics will compete in the FIRST World Robotics Championship this week in Houston, Texas.Two-time FIRST World Champions MadTown Robotics, left Tuesday in a quest for the program’s third championship, and a back-to-back title. The MadTown Robotics team left Madera on Tuesday, and arrived in Houston later that afternoon. They will get settled, and get right to work.”We settle in and get ready for competition. It’s work until the job gets done,” adviser Vern...

  • World's chocolate supply threatened by devastating virus

    A rapidly spreading virus threatens the health of the cacao tree and the dried seeds from which chocolate is made, jeopardizing the global supply of the world's most popular treat.

  • 2024 Kentucky Derby Post Positions by the Numbers

    The Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve is rightfully known as the most exciting two minutes in sports; once the Churchill Downs starting gate springs open anything can (and often does) happen. For the 20 3-year-old Thoroughbreds expected to compete in 2024 it is one of the most important moments of their lives, and racing luck can make or break their Derby run from the start. Read More

  • Beyond Watches and Wonders: The latest in the world of watches

    From Japanese anime to Elton John, here are all the latest happenings in the world of watches in the wake of the year's Watches and Wonders showcase.

  • Samsung looks beyond mobile with latest DRAM

    Samsung claimed its latest DRAM chip would boost availability of low-power, high-performance memory beyond mobile into fields including PCs and vehicles by delivering the smallest form-factor of its kind to date.

  • Police look beyond borders for motive in Bondi massacre

    Investigators will head to Queensland as they try to unravel the motives of a man who fatally stabbed six people at a Sydney shopping centre, as the nation reels from the massacre. Five women and one man were murdered in the stabbing on Saturday at Bondi Junction Westfield. Seven victims remain in hospital, including an […]

  • Madams of money: A look at the 5 richest women in the world

    They see dollar signs in the billions, and their empires only seem to be growing. They are the richest women in the world.

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    It could take years to catch up on childhood vaccinations in Ontario post-pandemic

    Ontario is still playing catch-up on routine vaccinations that many children missed during the pandemic and public health officials are warning that it could take years to solve the problem. “What we see around the world is when the vaccination rates drop, you have a resurgence of vaccine preventable disease,” Dr. Anna Banerji, a Toronto-based pediatric infectious disease specialist, told CTV News Toronto. “If someone had measles and they were with a group of unvaccinated kids, then for...

  • Book Review: Through that lens, Klein looks deeply into the 'mirror world'

    But if your doppelganger is forever spouting extreme views that range from the ridiculous to the outright offensive, well, that would be no fun at all. This is the predicament that Naomi Klein finds herself in, since her doppelganger is Naomi Wolf. Apparently, sharing a first name and the label 'feminist' is enough to make two women interchangeable in the eyes of the doom-scrolling, trolling public. The problem for Klein is that Wolf, the author of an influential feminist text of the 1990s, The...