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Head-to-head comparison of SARS-CoV-2 antigen-detecting rapid test with self-collected anterior nasal swab versus professional-collected nasopharyngeal swab
Background: Two antigen-detecting rapid diagnostic tests (Ag-RDTs) are now approved through the WHO Emergency Use Listing procedure and can be performed at the point-of-care. However, both tests use nasopharyngeal (NP) swab samples. NP swab samples...
European payment methods available worldwide in minutes, not months
Stripe businesses around the world can accept payments from more European buyers in minutes.
Nevada Halts Use of Rapid Coronavirus Tests in Nursing Homes, Citing Inaccuracies
Two tests made by Quidel and BD repeatedly delivered false-positive results, prompting the state to stop using them.
Hong Kong Is China, Like It or Not
After months of chaos in the city, something had to be done, and the Chinese government did it.
America is now a mafia state
A conversation with Sarah Kendzior, scholar of authoritarianism and vindicated alarmist
How Conspiracy Theories Are Shaping the 2020 Election—and Shaking the Foundation of American Democracy
Democracy relies on an informed public responding to real-life facts. But a growing number of Americans are untethered from reality.
Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’
The president has repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of service members, and asked that wounded veterans be kept out of military parades, multiple sources tell The Atlantic.
USPS says Pa. mail ballots may not be delivered on time, and state warns of ‘overwhelming’ risk to voters
A new warning from the Postal Service cast fresh doubt on Pennsylvania’s ability to conduct much of the 2020 election by mail, as President Donald Trump escalates his false attacks on mail voting.
Trump wants to cut mail-in voting. The Republican machine is helping him.
Trump’s campaign and the Republican Party have taken to the courts dozens to challenge voting rules. Trump's aides are pondering possible executive actions.
TikTok Teens Reserved Trump Tulsa Tickets With No Plans to Go — Bloomberg
U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday hosted a fraction of the expected supporters. Some of the no-shows may have been teenagers who decided to RSVP with no intention of attending.
‘Everybody has their eyes on America’: Black Lives Matter goes global | Free to read
Calls for racial justice demonstrate how the US is still a moral and political touchstone
Study: 100% face mask use could crush second, third COVID-19 wave
We've all heard it many times: Wear a face covering - indoors, outdoors, on trains and buses. At work, in the supermarket and at church. But now a new modeling study out of Cambridge and Greenwich universities suggests that face masks may be even...
I’m an E.R. Doctor in New York. None of Us Will Ever Be the Same.
A Covid diary: This is what I saw as the pandemic engulfed our hospitals.
Republicans Condemn FBI’s Use of Surveillance Powers They Long Supported
Republican senators expressed outrage Tuesday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had committed errors in how it sought and obtained surveillance on a former Trump campaign adviser, a sharp pivot for several lawmakers.
Better Schools Won’t Fix America
Like many rich Americans, I used to think educational investment could heal the country’s ills—but I was wrong. Fighting inequality must come first.
Harrison Metal — General Management
Many of you -- the best and brightest of your generation -- won’t go to business school. And you aren’t going to get long apprenticeships...
Militia in New Mexico Detains Asylum Seekers at Gunpoint
A citizens militia known as the United Constitutional Patriots has begun detaining families of asylum seekers at gunpoint before handing them over to Border Patrol agents.
The girl who executed Nazis after seducing them in bars dies aged 92
Freddie Oversteegen and her sister Truus would often go out looking for Nazis.
Music, Feeling, and Transcendence: Nick Cave on AI, Awe, and the Splendor of Our Human Limitations
“What a great song makes us feel is a sense of awe… A sense of awe is almost exclusively predicated on our limitations as human beings. It is entirely to do with our audacity as humans …