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Omicron Shows the Unvaccinated Will Never Be Safe

January 6, 2022 By sdcnews

By Danny R. Johnson – National News Editor The Omicron variant of SARS CoV2 has quickly upended at least three facts we thought we had established about the COVID-19 pandemic. First, the transmissibility of Omicron has shattered all previous records, including those set by the Delta variant, which briefly had been considered just about worst-in-class […]

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Who’s got your mail? Google and Microsoft, mostly

December 24, 2021 By sdcnews

By Newswise Who really sends, receives, and, most importantly perhaps, stores your business’ email? Most likely Google and Microsoft, unless you live in China or Russia. And the market share for these two companies keeps growing.  That’s the conclusion reached by a group of computer scientists at the University of California San Diego, who studied […]

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Do protests matter?

November 25, 2021 By sdcnews

By Newswise Washington, D.C.–Recent protests in the U.S. over police brutality have attracted much global attention, but many scholars have found that protest alone is not sufficient to bring about policy change.  Others have found that protests have a limited impact, such as on media attention or influencing Congressional hearings. So, can protest actually bring […]

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The Rittenhouse Acquittal Opens the Door for Possible Mass Vigilantism

November 25, 2021 By sdcnews

By Danny R. Johnson – National Political News Editor The United States is a nation awash in firearms, and gun owners are a powerful and politically active constituency. In state after state, they have helped elect politicians who, in turn, have created a permissive legal regime for the carry and use of firearms, rules that […]

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Black and Latinx conservatives “Upshift” competence to White audiences

August 1, 2021 By sdcnews

By Newswise When communicating in mostly white settings, politically conservative Black and Latinx Americans use words associated with competence more often than their liberal counterparts, distancing themselves from negative racial stereotypes, according to a new study by Yale social psychologist Cydney Dupree. The study, published in the journal Nature Human Behavior, combined several experiments to […]

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Biden Is Speaking to an America That Does Not Exist

July 17, 2021 By sdcnews

By Danny R. Johnson/Political News Editor WASHINGTON–Joe Biden is not known as a fiery orator, but the president was riled up on Tuesday. Biden spoke in Philadelphia about voting rights, calling a current round of state laws and bills, plus rhetoric emanating from Donald Trump and others, “the most significant test of our democracy since […]

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What the Push to Celebrate Juneteenth Conceals

June 21, 2021 By sdcnews

By Danny R. Johnson – Political News Editor When you are Black in America, how do you celebrate progress? How do you honor the history and memory of emancipation, liberation, and advancement? How do Black people mark a moment when a positive change transformed the trajectory of their lives, their nation? For many Black Americans, […]

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Chauvin’s Conviction Is the Exception That Proves the Rule

April 21, 2021 By sdcnews

By Danny R. Johnson – Washington, DC Correspondent The former Minneapolis police officer was found guilty on all three counts he faced—but his trial was a demonstration of how difficult efforts at accountability remain. Jurors in Minnesota took barely 10 hours to convict Derek Chauvin in the May 2020 death of George Floyd on all […]

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FDA warns consumers about possible microbial contamination in hand sanitizers

April 14, 2021 By sdcnews

Washington, D.C.–The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers and health care professionals not to use Durisan Antimicrobial Solutions Hand Sanitizer manufactured by Sanit Technologies, LLC in Sarasota, Florida, due to microbial contamination. Durisan has voluntarily recalled its hand sanitizer product. Durisan tested its hand sanitizer and found microbial contamination including high levels […]

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Social media influencer charged with 2016 election disinformation campaign

January 29, 2021 By sdcnews

A Florida man was arrested Wednesday morning on charges of conspiring with others in advance of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election to use various social media platforms to disseminate misinformation designed to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote. Douglass Mackey, aka Ricky Vaughn, 31, of West Palm Beach, was charged by a criminal […]

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