A federal appeals court ordered a new sentence for a North Carolina man who pleaded guilty to a petty offense in the Capitol riot, a ruling that could impact dozens of low-level cases in the massive Jan. 6, 2021 prosecution.
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When you go to get your newly updated Covid-19 booster this fall, you might want to choose the arm the vaccine goes in carefully.
The immune response may be stronger if your booster goes in the same arm as your last Covid-19 shot, according to a study published August 11 in the journal eBioMedicine.
“The question seems so banal, so trivial that nobody before has thought to ask it,” study coauthor Martina Sester, a biologist and head of the department of the Institute of Infection Medicine at Saarland University Hospital in Germany, said in a news release.
Two weeks after the booster, the number of “killer T cells” was significantly higher in those who had both shots in the same arm, according to the study.
Those cells, which attack and destroy the other cells they target, were present in 67% of the same-arm cases and only 43% in people who had their injections in different arms, according to study coauthor Laura Ziegler, a doctoral student at Saarland University.
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China's major state-owned banks were seen busy selling U.S. dollars to buy yuan in both onshore and offshore spot foreign exchange markets this week, in an attempt to slow the yuan's depreciation.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen gave her two cents on the matter of so-called “de-dollarization” during a congressional hearing stating that no currency currently exists that could displace the greenback. Just a thought.
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Costs of War is honored to receive the US Peace Memorial Foundation's 2022 US Peace Prize.
SUMMARY
- Over 940,000 people have died in the post-9/11 wars due to direct war violence, and several times as many due to the reverberating effects of war
- An estimated 3.6-3.8 million people have died indirectly in post-9/11 war zones, bringing the total death toll to at least 4.5-4.7 million and counting.
- 38 million — the number of war refugees and displaced persons
- The U.S. federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $8 trillion
- The U.S. government is conducting counterterror activities in 85 countries
- The wars have been accompanied by violations of human rights and civil liberties, in the U.S. and abroad. The Watson Ins.