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Berlin police raided homes and jewelry shops Wednesday on suspicion they could be connected to efforts to fence a massive 100-kilogram Canadian gold coin - piece by piece - that was stolen from a museum in the German capital.

The coin, with an estimated value of 3.75 million euros ($5.82 million Cdn) was stolen from Berlin's Bode Museum in 2017 and has not yet been recovered.

The morning raids were focused on eight suspects, aged between 14 and 51, of various nationalities, police said.

They are alleged to have been part of a ring that obtained stolen gold to melt it down and forge collector coins, then sell them as genuine through jewelry stores operated by them or their relatives. Some of the counterfeits are already circulating, police said.

Cash, counterfeit coins seized

The searches led to the discovery of counterfeit coins, forgery tools and a "five-digit" sum of cash, police said.

"The evaluation of the evidence is ongoing," police said. "Among other things, a possible connection to the theft of the gold coin from the Bode Museum is being be examined."

Berlin prosecutors said there were no arrests but that the investigation was continuing.

Arrests in Dresden jewel theft

The searches came just two days after the arrest of a key suspect in the spectacular theft of 18th-century jewels from a Dresden museum last year. The suspect is from a crime family linked to the Canadian gold coin theft.

Mohamed Remmo, 21, was arrested by Berlin authorities in a car in the Neukoelln district of the city on Monday evening. His twin brother, Abdul Majed Remmo, remains on the lam.

Police and prosecutors would not comment on whether there was a connection between the arrest and the searches, but members of the same family were convicted earlier this year for the Canadian gold coin theft.

Cousins Ahmed Remmo and Wissam Remmo, along with a friend who worked as a security guard at the museum, were all convicted of that Canadian gold coin heist and sentenced to several years in prison.

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Police in Berlin raided homes and jewelry shops on Wednesday as part of their investigation into the theft of a Canadian gold coin worth millions of dollars. Police believe it may have been melted down and forged into smaller collector coins.

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Loose pig captured in New York City park, second pig still on the loose

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Loose pig captured in New York City park, second pig still on the loose

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Un homme dans la vingtaine a péri dans la nuit de mercredi à jeudi dans une violente collision dans le secteur de Beaconsfield, dans l'ouest de l'île de Montréal.

Peu avant 2 h, le conducteur qui circulait en direction est sur l'autoroute 20 aurait emprunté la voie de desserte à la sortie de l'avenue Woodland.

Une fois arrivé au-dessous du viaduc, le véhicule serait entré en collision avec un muret en béton érigé près du coin de l'avenue Woodland et de la rue Beaurepaire Dr.

Le décès du conducteur a été constaté sur place et son véhicule a subi des dommages considérables, après avoir pris feu, a relaté Raphaël Bergeron du Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM).

L'identité de la victime n'a pas été déterminée, tout comme la cause de la collision, selon le SPVM.

Perte de contrôle ou geste volontaire, trop tôt pour se prononcer, a ajouté l'agent Bergeron.

Des techniciens en scène d'accident devaient analyser la scène et tenter de mieux comprendre les circonstances entourant ce tragique événement.

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[PHOTOS] Montréal: un mort dans une collision à Beaconsfield

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Un homme dans la vingtaine a péri dans la nuit de mercredi à jeudi dans une violente collision dans le secteur de Beaconsfield, dans l'ouest de l'île de Montréal. Peu avant 2 h, le conducteur qui circulait en direction est sur l'autoroute 20 aurait emprunté la voie de desserte à la sortie de l'avenue Woodland.

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A health care worker in Alaska suffered a severe allergic reaction to Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine minutes after getting the jab.

Dr. Lindy Jones, the emergency room medical director at Juneau's Bartlett Regional Hospital, said the Juneau woman, whose name was not reported, felt flushed and short of breath Tuesday, The Associated Press reported.

Shortly after the vaccines were first administered in Britain last week, resulting in the reporting of a few similar allergic reactions, stateside health authorities called on doctors to keep an eye out for allergic such reactions to the Pfizer and BioNTech collaboration.

Contrary to the Brits who experienced this, the Alaska woman does not have a history of allergic reactions.

Jones said the woman was given the "standard treatment" of epinephrine and thankfully "responded immediately," Alaska Public Media reports. The woman was also treated with antihistamines like Benadryl and Pepsid, and steroids - which Jones said was also standard for such a reaction.

When she was taken off epinephrine though, her symptoms came back and the woman was subsequently kept over night in the ICU.

"Assuming there's no further symptoms now that she's off all medication," as Jones said, she should be discharged Wednesday evening.

Her reaction aside, the woman had hoped to receive the second dose of the vaccine in coming weeks, according to one of her doctors, Noble Anderson. But now she will not be able to get that follow-up jab.

The woman's anaphylactic response to the vaccine is the first reported in the U.S., according to Dr. Jay Butler, CDC's deputy director for infectious diseases.

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A health care worker in Alaska suffered a severe allergic reaction to Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine minutes after getting the jab. Dr. Lindy Jones, the emergency room medical director at Juneau's Bartlett Regional Hospital, said the Juneau woman, whose name was not reported, felt flushed and short of breath Tuesday, The Associated Press reported.

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Well isn't this one lovely dose of grim reality.

As a basic principle, you shouldn't let outside factors impact your work. If you have a job to do, it's your duty to do it whether you're having a great or horrible day.

Of course, limits apply. If you're, say, seriously sick, then by all means take a day off.

But even the most dedicated of employees is not immune to psychology. Try as we might to stay stoic, having something good or bad happen to you can have a drastic effect on the quality of your work.

At times, being distracted at work can even have lethal consequences. A new British study has highlighted this grim reality when it comes to surgeons.

The study, published in the British Medical Journal, found that elderly U.S. patients undergoing surgery are much more likely to die if their operation falls on the surgeon's birthday. The 30-day mortality rate in such cases leaps up by a whopping 23%.

This isn't some isolated statistic, either. The researchers took a look at 980,876 operations, carried out by 47,489 surgeons.

The highlighted operations included 17 of the most common emergency surgical procedures performed on patients aged 65 to 99. Among them were heart operations, hip and leg surgeries, and appendectomy.

'Distracted by Life Events'

The researchers picked only emergency procedures for the study in order to eliminate potential selection bias. They wanted to make sure that patients picking their surgeons - or vice versa - didn't have an effect on the results.

Out of the nearly one million cases they reviewed, 2,064 fell on the surgeon's birthday. And indeed, the patients coming out of those surgeries were more likely to die within 30 days.

"Among Medicare beneficiaries who underwent common emergency surgeries, those who received surgery on the surgeon's birthday experienced higher mortality compared with patients who underwent surgery on other days," the researchers wrote.

"These findings suggest that surgeons might be distracted by life events that are not directly related to work," they added.

Gee, you think? It's almost like doctors are just human or something.

In terms of numbers, the 30-day mortality rate rose from 5.6% to 6.9% when it was the surgeon's birthday. That might sound small, but as we said, it is a 23% increase when you look total numbers.

Have a Blood-Red Christmas

According to the scientists, this result is comparable to the mortality rate increase that can be seen over holidays (like Thanksgiving or Christmas) and weekends. Another study has found that Scottish patients going to the hospital during public holidays had a 27% higher mortality rate than those who went on a normal day.

However, the researchers conclude that using the birthday as a measurement point is more revealing.

"Our use of surgeon birthdays as a 'natural experiment' is arguably better than using other distracting events used in previous studies, because those events not only affect physicians' performance but also influence patients' decision to seek care," they said.

In other words, people tend to not go the hospital over holidays unless they're really, really sick. Seriously ailing patients naturally have a higher chance of dying, so that skews the mortality rate up during holidays.

This could mean that birthdays kill more people than holidays. Yikes.

Distractions Piling Up

To ensure that their results were as accurate as possible, the researchers had strict controls for which operations they included in the study. To begin with, they eliminated surgeons who had unusually high patient mortality rates - that is, those who weren't necessarily all that great in their jobs.

They also excluded the birthdays that fell on a Friday. The upcoming weekend of celebrations could have a disproportionate effect on the results.

Finally, they decided to not count significant milestone birthdays, such as the surgeon turning 50.

As to why they observed this birthday effect, the researchers had some suggestions.

"First, surgeons could be under relatively higher time pressure - feeling rushed to complete procedures on time - on their birthday compared with other days of the year, because they might have important evening plans to celebrate their birthday," they said.

"Second, conversations related to birthdays with other team members during surgical procedures could be distracting, leading to medical errors," they added.

Surgeons could receive distracting birthday-related phone calls and messages in the operating room, the research found. They might also let their less experienced trainees do more during the operation to lessen their workload on their birthdays.

"Finally, it is also possible that postoperative care decisions could differ on surgeons' birthdays. For example, surgeons may be less likely to return to the hospital to see their patients who show signs of deterioration if they are having dinner with family and friends," the researchers concluded.

Not Just Doctors, Though

It does sound pretty unprofessional for surgeons that their patients are more likely to die if it's their birthday. But - like we already mentioned - you have to remember that even doctors are only human.

Nor are doctors alone in having external factors influence the quality of their work. According to Psych News Daily, the decisions of judges during court cases - for example - can differ based on anything from the day's weather to the results of a recent football game.

The takeaway here seems to be that we should try to keep our heads straight when doing our jobs. But if you know it's the doctor's birthday, you might want to reschedule your grandma's hip surgery.

You know, just in case.

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Well isn't this one lovely dose of grim reality. As a basic principle, you shouldn't let outside factors impact your work. If you have a job to do, it's your duty to do it whether you're having a great or horrible day. Of course, limits apply.

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Global rich must cut their carbon footprint 97% to stave off climate change, UN says

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This year's economic shutdowns have done little to reduce the world's carbon emissions. While pollution has dipped, greenhouse gases keep accumulating in the atmosphere, locking in future decades of climate disruption and extreme weather. A recent United Nations report says the so-called emissions gap - the "difference between where we are likely to be and where we need to be" on climate policy - is as big as ever.

As for who's chiefly responsible for the gap, it's the global rich, the report says. Just 10% of the world's population emits nearly half of the world's carbon pollution. The top 1% of income earners around the world, a group that includes 70 million people, account for 15% of emissions - more than the 3.5 billion people in the bottom 50%.

The upshot: When it comes to cutting their emissions, "The richest 1% would need to reduce their current emissions by at least a factor of 30, while per capita emissions of the poorest 50% could increase by around three times their current levels on average," the U.N. says. That translates into a reduction of 97% in carbon-emissions for the wealthiest people.

More money, more pollution

Researchers have long known that carbon emissions are closely tied to income. "Higher income per capita means higher emissions per capita, most of the time," said Justin Caron, an environmental economist and professor at HEC Montreal, the University of Montreal's business school.

"It's not true of other pollutants," he added. "Rich countries tend to be cleaner on other things, have cleaner water and air, but that's not true for CO2."

That's partly because wealthier people consume more: They buy more goods, own more cars, have larger houses that take more energy to heat. Carbon emissions are effectively embedded across much of the global economy, so consuming in general is akin to polluting.

But some particularly polluting activities remain the province of the global rich. At the top of the list: international air travel, which, if it were a country, would be the eighth-largest emitter in the world.

While flying has become more democratized in recent years, "Aviation remains the preserve of high-income earners," the UN said. A study last month in the journal Global Environmental Change found that just 2% to 4% of the world's inhabitants boarded an international flight in 2018, and half of all emissions from commercial flights come from 1% of the world's population. (That's not accounting for private flights, which are even more intensely polluting.)

"Per capita emissions are one more manifestation of the tremendous inequality that's a fact of life in our society that we need to address," said Taryn Fransen, a senior fellow with the Global Climate Program at the World Resources Institute.

Galloping inequality

Inequality is also a fact of life within the wealthiest countries that pollute the most. (Nearly 80% of global emissions came from the member states of the G20, the UN said.) For instance, a household in the U.S. that makes more than $150,000 has a carbon footprint four times the size of a household that makes just $9,000.

If there is a silver lining in these figures, it may be the possibility of tackling both climate disruption and economic inequality in one fell swoop.

Economists' favorite tool for this is a , which would make the most polluting activities (such as flying) much more expensive and thereby less popular. Leading inequality scholar Thomas Piketty has proposed solutions like taxing airplane tickets or creating a global fund for climate restoration projects, with the biggest polluters contributing most.

The U.N. report focuses on the importance of lifestyle change: Choosing less polluting forms of transportation, like bikes, trains and buses, and moving to plant-based diets. However, it's unlikely that large numbers of people will voluntarily shift their consumption patterns without help from the governments and corporations that encouraged those patterns in the first place.

"People are not driving a car because they want a carbon-intensive lifestyle - people are driving a car because that is the access to transportation that our society provides," Fransen said. "It's the responsibility of policymakers to support alternatives that give people the goods they need without destroying the climate."

Policymakers have not done so, historically, because the wealthy people who do most of the polluting also have the greatest ability to shape economic and environmental policies. This year's economic crash could help jump-start climate measures by spurring environmentally beneficial investment - for instance, funding a large expansion of public transit, which has taken an unprecedented hit thanks to COVID-19, or adding bike infrastructure. Lawmakers could also make financial relief for polluting industries conditional on meeting environmental goals.

Too few countries have done so, the U.N. says, instead choosing to double down on polluting industries. For instance, while the drop in air travel during the pandemic can be seen as a positive development for the planet, the U.S. and most European Union countries bailed out airlines with no environmental requirements, although the U.S. deal included temporary worker protections.

Changing social norms could also play a part, albeit a small one. If, post-pandemic, large numbers of people continue to work from home and conduct business on Zoom, rather than flying, it could make an impact.

"At some point, air travel is the most CO2-intensive activity that we do," Caron said. "Any dent into that could have a long-lasting positive effect."

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A Canadian astronaut will be on NASA’s Artemis deep space lunar orbit

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One Canadian astronaut will be joining a record-setting voyage into deep space around the moon in the second phase of NASA's Artemis program, expected to launch in 2023.

The major new public-private space program has the ambitious goal of taking humans back to the lunar surface - including the first woman to land on the moon - and keeping them there.

Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains made the announcement on Wednesday, saying the Canadian and American governments have signed a new treaty outlining Canadian participation in the Artemis missions and locking in a seat for a Canadian astronaut on the 2023 launch.

That agreement will make Canada the second country in history to have an astronaut travel into deep space and fly around the moon, and also locks in a second flight for a Canadian to the Lunar Gateway station which is still yet to be built.

In an interview with Global News, Bains said he also isn't ruling out the possibility of getting Canadians on future missions as well, including potentially the Artemis III moon landing voyage.

"I won't close the door on that. We're still fairly optimistic. We want to continue to build on the momentum that we have when it comes to the investments we made in our space program," he said.

" I'm very excited and over the moon."

The Canadian government has pledged $1.9 billion to the Lunar Gateway project, which Bains said includes the cost of the seats on the Artemis II mission and to the Lunar Gateway itself.

The Canadian Space Agency has four active Canadian astronauts working at NASA's Johnson Space Center: Jeremy Hansen, Joshua Kutryk, Jennifer Sidey-Gibbons and David Saint-Jacques.

"I'm very excited about the opportunities that lie ahead for Canada," said Jeremy Hansen in a discussion among the astronauts that took place along with the announcement.

Hansen compared the mission's significance with the Apollo 8 mission.

"This time when we return to the moon, our eyes are fixed back on our planet and the challenges that face us here," he said, emphasizing the huge amount of collaboration involved in the missions.

"That same collaboration is needed as we tackle big global challenges like climate change."

Jennifer Sidey-Gibbons also emphasized the scientific potential of the missions.

She said research on water and ice distribution on the moon, as well as being able to study implications of space environments for medical research and environmental science, will play a key part in helping shape the way forward towards travel further into the solar system.

"It means Canadians will be there to help facilitate all that future science," she said.

"It's wonderful Canada gets to be part of the most exciting part of this new venture."

Bains added the voyages will offer "enormous opportunities" for Canadians to do cutting edge research and science on two key issues.

"The two areas that we will focus on is the environment and looking at the impact of climate change on the Earth's atmosphere, as well as biomedical technologies," he said.

"Now, more than ever with COVID-19, we know how important it is to look at cutting edge research when it comes to the health care challenges that we're facing."
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NASA put the first men on the moon in the 1960s and 1970s but hasn't returned since.

The American space shuttle program collapsed in 2011 in the wake of the Challenger and Columbia disasters, and a lack of sustained funding for the program and its shuttles.

However, an injection of money and technology from the private sector, as well as renewed political and strategic interest in space exploration, has spurred a major revival in recent years.

The Artemis missions have three core phases: Artemis I, Artemis II and Artemis III.

Artemis I will be an uncrewed maiden flight of the new Space Launch System and the Orion orbiter.

Artemis II, which will include a Canadian astronaut, will be the first crewed test flight of the system and orbiter, lasting 10 days and setting a new record for the farthest human travel from the Earth as four astronauts circle the moon twice before returning to land.

Artemis III, expected to take place in 2024, will launch the first woman and next man to the surface of the moon using a new lunar landing system.

Lisa Campbell, president of the Canadian Space Agency, said the country has a "strong core" of astronauts ready to join the mission, but that there is no decision yet on who will be on the missions.

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Boko Haram claims responsibility for abduction of Nigerian students

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Southern California was hit by three earthquakes on Monday, according to data logged by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

At 11:19 p.m. last night, a magnitude 3.5 tremor was recorded roughly eight miles from Morongo Valley, San Bernardino County, taking place at a depth of four miles.

According to the USGS data, a magnitude 3.4 tremor hit San Bernardino County east of Los Angeles at 1:28 a.m. on Monday, striking close to the city of Loma Linda. Shortly after, recorded at 2:56 a.m., a magnitude 3.6 earthquake was felt at the Mojave Desert near the Kern County city of Ridgecrest, initially striking close to Little Lake.

There were no reports of injuries or damage as a result of the earthquakes, according to ABC7. Still, the two similarly-sized earthquakes earlier Monday morning sparked social media comments from some California residents who said they felt the impacts.

"I was already half asleep playing Sims then I felt the earthquake now I'm fully awake," one Twitter user noted in a post that was liked more than 100 times.

Others took a relaxed approach to reports about the tremors. "It's weird to live in a place where frequent, tiny earthquakes are normal. California keeps you on your toes!" tweeted Danielle Crespo. Another person said: "You know you're from California when 'earthquake' is trending yet no one you know in real life [has] mentioned it."

Its weird to live in a place where frequent, tiny earthquakes are normal. California keeps you on your toes! ðŸ¤·ðŸ"â€â™€ï¸
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You know you're from California when "earthquake" is trending yet no one you know in real life mentioned it.
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Some California residents in closer proximity to the Morongo Valley quake shared their experiences to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC).

"Heard it more than we felt it. Very light movement but the sound it made, confirmed it was coming from deep underground," said one person based in Banning, roughly 13 miles southwest from the epicenter. A person in Desert Hot Springs, 14 miles south of the epicenter, described it as being "an abrupt shake lasting about two seconds."

By most accounts, the later Morongo Valley quake was fairly tame. "One little shake but made me realize that it was an earthquake," noted a person about 17 miles away.

Magnitude is a measure of an earthquake's size. Experts from Michigan Tech have said that quakes between magnitude 2.5 and magnitude 5.4 are often felt, however they typically only cause minor damage.

In comparison, quakes between 6.1 and 6.9 can cause significant damage to populated areas, while quakes of more than magnitude 7.0 are considered to be major.

"An earthquake is what happens when two blocks of the earth suddenly slip past one another," the USGS says. "The surface where they slip is called the fault. The location below the earth's surface where the earthquake starts is called the hypocenter, and the location directly above it on the surface of the earth is called the epicenter."

As reported, both the San Bernardino County and Mojave Desert are found along the San Andreas Fault, an 800-mile region known for its turbulent tectonic activity. It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.

According to the USGS, the largest historical earthquakes that occurred along the San Andreas fault were in 1857 and 1906, with the latter, estimated at a magnitude 8.3, claiming 700 lives and causing millions of dollars worth of damage in the state.

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Southern California was hit by three earthquakes on Monday, according to data logged by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). At 11:19 p.m. last night, a magnitude 3.5 tremor was recorded roughly eight miles from Morongo Valley, San Bernardino County, taking place at a depth of four miles.

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Police Showed Up To A $2 Taco Sale At A New Montreal Restaurant To Disperse Huge Crowds

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Man stabbed multiple times following fight at party, Toronto police say

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Toronto police say a man was seriously injured after being stabbed following reports of a fight that broke out at a party.

Emergency crews were called to Dupont Street and Campbell Avenue at around 9 a.m. Sunday.

Toronto paramedics said a man was transported in serious but non life-threatening condition to a trauma centre.

Police said the man was stabbed multiple times.

The suspect is described by police as a man with a slim build and was wearing a grey sweater at the time of the incident. He also fled the scene on foot, police added,

Anyone with information is asked to call investigators.

STABBING:(UPDATE)
Dupont St & Campbell Ave
- large police presence o/s
- officers located a man suffering from multiple stab wounds
- @TorontoMedics o/s - advised serious injuries, transporting man to hospital
- suspect: male/black, slim, grey sweater, fled on foot#GO2122690
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Toronto police say a man was seriously injured after being stabbed following reports of a fight that broke out at a party. Emergency crews were called to Dupont Street and Campbell Avenue at around 9 a.m. Sunday. Toronto paramedics said a man was transported in serious but non life-threatening condition to a trauma centre.

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Holocaust survivor shares stories of lockdowns far worse than today's 

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Two more women died this week after saying no

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Two women were killed this week because they had the temerity to say no to men.

Tamara O'Neal, a doctor at Chicago's Mercy Hospital, was murdered by her former fiance; Dr. O'Neal had recently called off the engagement. Aisha Fraser was waiting for her divorce to be finalized when her estranged husband stabbed her to death - Fraser's 8- and 11-year old daughters watched their mother die.

These crimes weren't only domestic violence murders: they were rejection killings - a term I use to describe attacks by men furious with the women who deny them. Events like these - where women with abusive partners are killed when they are trying to leave the relationship, or have already left - have become sickeningly familiar in the United States.

Despite the rise of explicitly misogynist crimes and the increased attention on women's issues, there's no comprehensive tracking mechanism for rejection violence and rejection killings. Instead, it's just story after tragic story.

There's a reason that women give out fake phone numbers or invent boyfriends.

Tiarah Poyau was a 22-year-old graduate student and aspiring accountant when she told a man at a dance party to "get off" after he started to grind on her. His response was to shoot her in the face. Iowa college student Mollie Tibbets was killed by a man she told to leave her alone when he approached her while she was jogging. A Detroit mother of three was killed because she refused to give a stranger her phone number. A New York woman had her neck slashed when she declined her attacker's offer for a date. And while all women are impacted, it is women of color who are disproportionately hurt or killed by this kind of violence.

There's a reason that women give out fake phone numbers or invent boyfriends - we've learned that our own lack of interest in someone is not a valid enough reason to say no. Plus, we never know how angry a rejected man is going to get. Angry enough to send a cruel text or call us a bitch? Or angry enough to hurt us?

We know this is about sexual entitlement: our culture teaches men from the time they are boys that women's bodies, sexuality, time, and attention are there for them, and this happens in a country that doesn't put resources toward the nuanced violence that American women often face.

Americans themselves can see what's happening. When the Trump administration tried to wield Mollie Tibbets' death as a racist cudgel in their war on immigrants, for example, Tibbets' family didn't let it stand. "Mollie was murdered because a man denied her right to say no," her cousin wrote. Every time a woman is murdered for denying a man something he wanted, feminists raise the alarm, and anti-violence experts make the connections that politicians often don't.

But imagine if instead of counting on social media or individual women to name and explain what is happening, we tracked rejection killings in the same way we do rapes and domestic violence. If we dedicated funding and research toward murders that are connected by entitlement, misogyny, and toxic masculinity. Murders that show no sign of stopping.

Because when I wrote that two women were killed this week for saying no, the truth is that I'm not sure that's accurate - that number is probably higher. For all of our sake, I'd like to know how wrong I am.

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Two women were killed this week because they had the temerity to say no to men. Tamara O'Neal, a doctor at Chicago's Mercy Hospital, was murdered by her former fiance; Dr. O'Neal had recently called off the engagement.

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School asks parents to stop throwing late students over closed gate

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Nov. 13 (UPI) -- An elementary school in France put up a pair of posters outside their fence with an unusual request for parents: Don't throw late students over the closed gate.

The Trillade school in Avignon put up signs outside its gate showing a cartoon of a parent sending a small child airborne to get over the fence. The text on the sign asks parents not to throw their children, and instead wait for the gates to be opened again at 10 a.m. or 3 p.m.

Principal Sanaa Meziane told La Provence that parents "literally threw their children" over the gate when they arrived to find it closed.

Meziane said there were only a few scattered incidents, and no reported injuries, but there were enough tossed children to inspire school officials to take action and post the warnings as a "reminder."

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Nov. 13 (UPI) -- An elementary school in France put up a pair of posters outside their fence with an unusual request for parents: Don't throw late students over the closed gate. The Trillade school in Avignon put up signs outside its gate showing a cartoon of a parent sending a small child airborne to get over the fence.

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Hiker alive and well after 'dying' for 45 minutes

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A hiker who was rescued after getting lost overnight in a US national park has been brought back to life despite his heart stopping for 45 minutes.

Michael Knapinski, aged 45, got lost in Mount Rainier national park in freezing conditions last weekend.

He was found and airlifted to a hospital in Seattle, Washington state. He had a pulse when he arrived at hospital but then his heart stopped.

"He died while he was in the ER," Dr Jenelle Badulak told The Seattle Times.

The medical team performed CPR on Mr Knapinski and hooked him up to a extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine. This pumped blood from his body into a heart-lung machine that removed carbon dioxide, and then back inside him.

After about 45 minutes, his heart started again. Two days later, he woke up.

"He was crying and they were crying, and I'm fairly sure I cried a little bit," said trauma nurse Whitney Holen.

"It was just really special to see someone that we had worked so hard on from start to finish to then wake up that dramatically and that impressively."

Mr Knapinski, who is still recovering, told CBS that he had started hiking after overcoming a serious drug addiction.

"I used to be a very unhealthy, sickly man and I got into hiking and it changed my lifestyle," he said, adding that the medical staff had refused to accept he was gone.

"They did one heck of a job at keeping me alive," he said.

What happens to the body in the cold?

Philippa Roxby, BBC News health reporter

Extreme cold can kill, but it can also have a protective effect on the body in certain, rare circumstances.

If the heart stops at normal body temperatures for too long, there is little hope of survival due to brain damage.

But in freezing temperatures, the brain and body can be protected by the cold because it stops them deteriorating.

There have been other examples of adults and children surviving after spending long periods in very cold temperatures.

Last winter, for example, a woman was "brought back to life" by doctors after her heart stopped for six hours when hiking in the cold of the Pyrenees.

This is very rare though - normally even in the cold, brain damage would have set in after about an hour.

Doctors also use the same principle to cool the bodies of newborn babies to try to reduce the risk of brain damage after a difficult birth.

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A hiker who was rescued after getting lost overnight in a US national park has been brought back to life despite his heart stopping for 45 minutes. Michael Knapinski, aged 45, got lost in Mount Rainier national park in freezing conditions last weekend. He was found and airlifted to a hospital in Seattle, Washington state.

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U.S. President Donald Trump, with two months left in office, last week asked for options on attacking Iran's main nuclear site, but ultimately decided against taking the dramatic step, a U.S. official said on Monday.

Trump made the request during an Oval Office meeting on Thursday with his top national security aides, including Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, new acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller and General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the official said.

Trump, who has refused to concede and is challenging the results of the Nov. 3 presidential election, is to hand over power to Democratic President-elect Joe Biden on Jan. 20.

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The official confirmed the account of the meeting in The New York Times, which reported the advisers persuaded Trump not to go ahead with a strike because of the risk of a broader conflict.

"He asked for options. They gave him the scenarios and he ultimately decided not to go forward," the official said.

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The White House declined comment.

Trump has spent all four years of his presidency engaging in an aggressive policy against Iran, withdrawing in 2018 from the Iran nuclear deal negotiated by his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama, and imposing economic sanctions against a wide variety of Iranian targets.

Trump's request for options came a day after a U.N. watchdog report showed Iran had finished moving a first cascade of advanced centrifuges from an above-ground plant at its main uranium enrichment site to an underground one, in a fresh breach of its 2015 nuclear deal with major powers.

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Alireza Miryousefi, spokesman for Iran's mission to the United Nations in New York, said Iran's nuclear program is purely for peaceful purposes and civilian use and Trump's policies have not changed that. "However, Iran has proven to be capable of using its legitimate military might to prevent or respond to any melancholy adventure from any aggressor," he added.

Iran's 2.4 tonne stock of low-enriched uranium is now far above the deal's 202.8 kg limit. It produced 337.5 kg in the quarter, less than the more than 500 kg recorded in the previous two quarters by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

In January, Trump ordered a U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani at Baghdad's airport. But he has shied away from broader military conflicts and sought to withdraw U.S. troops from global hotspots in keeping with a promise to stop what he calls "endless wars."

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A strike on Iran's main nuclear site at Natanz could flare into a regional conflict and pose a serious foreign policy challenge for Biden.

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Biden's transition team, which has not had access to national security intelligence due to the Trump administration's refusal to begin the transition, declined comment.
(Reporting by Steve Holland; Additional reporting by Michael Martina and Michelle Nichols; Editing by Mary Milliken, Cynthia Osterman, Leslie Adler and Lincoln Feast.)

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Trump asked for options to attack Iran nuclear site, was talked out of it: reports

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Nov. 16 (UPI) -- A champion racing pigeon sold by a Belgian trainer broke a world record and became the world's most expensive pigeon when it sold for nearly $1.9 million.

New Kim, a 2-year-old bird put up for sale on the PIPA auction website by retired trainer Gaston Van De Wouwer, 76, fetched a top bid of $1,894,672 at the close of the auction Sunday.

The website said the pigeon was purchased by a Chinese buyer using the pseudonym Super Duper.

The buyer's real name was not revealed, but PIPA said it was the same man who previously set the world record in March 2019, when he paid $1.4 million for a champion racing pigeon named Armando.

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US Navy destroyer shoots down an ICBM in milestone test

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WASHINGTON - The U.S. Navy has shot down an intercontinental ballistic missile over the Pacific Ocean with an SM-3 Block IIA missile in a milestone test that demonstrated a potential scheme to defend Hawaii, the Missile Defense Agency announced Tuesday morning.

The test, which comes on the heels of the revealing of a larger North Korean ICBM in October that could potentially strike the U.S. East Coast, is the first time the United States has shot down an ICBM with anything other than a ground-based interceptor, an MDA official said.

Just before 1 a.m. Eastern Time, MDA oversaw a test where a missile was fired from Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll toward the open ocean northeast of Hawaii. The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer John Finn, equipped with Aegis Baseline 9, received a track from an external sensor through the Command and Control Battle Management Communications network.

The ship then fired on and destroyed the target with the SM-3IIA, the release said.

In a statement, the head of the MDA said it was a big accomplishment for the agency and showed how a potential defense of Hawaii scheme could work in conjunction with ground-based interceptors now based in Alaska.

"This was an incredible accomplishment and critical milestone for the Aegis BMD SM-3 Block IIA program," said Vice Adm. Jon Hill. "The Department is investigating the possibility of augmenting the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system by fielding additional sensors and weapon systems to hedge against unexpected developments in the missile threat.

"We have demonstrated that an Aegis BMD-equipped vessel equipped with the SM-3 Block IIA missile can defeat an ICBM-class target, which is a step in the process of determining its feasibility as part of an architecture for layered defense of the homeland."

This was the sixth test of the SM-3IIA from a Navy ballistic missile defense-capable ship, and the first time the Navy has shot down an ICBM. The test was to fulfill a congressional requirement to test the SM-3IIA against ICBMs before the end of the year. It was originally slated for May but was delayed because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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The successful test marks another positive step for SM-3 after a run of bad luck in recent years, including an incident where a sailor inadvertently triggered a self-destruct of the missile in flight by misidentifying the incoming missile as a friendly target. A test in 2018 also failed.

Raytheon, which developed the SM-3IIA, was thrilled by the successful test.

"This first-of-its-kind test shows that our nation has a viable option for a new layer of defense against long-range threats," said Bryan Rosselli, vice president of Strategic Missile Defense at Raytheon Missiles & Defense.

Tom Karako, an expert in missile defense policy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said in an email that the test was a big deal for the Aegis system, and that while SM-3IIA won't replace the much larger ground-based missiles, it is reason to celebrate.

"This milestone for homeland defense also represents the continuing success of evolving Aegis to today's increasingly complex air and missile defense challenges," Karako said. "Standard [Missiles] are not going to replace missiles of significantly larger diameters anytime soon. But by creating flexibility, this capability buys time and creates a bridge toward a future, next generation capability."

It's also a big accomplishment in the Navy's venerable Aegis program, Karako said, the Navy's system developed from the late 1960s in recognition that human reaction times would be insufficient in an era of mass missile fires at ships. Today, Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor for Aegis today. It was originally developed under auspices of RCA, followed by General Electric.

The system combines highly sensitive radars with sophisticated missiles to combat air threats. It was primarily developed to defend aircraft carriers but as the U.S. has become more invested in ballistic missile defense, the service has expanded the capabilities to include protection from nuclear missile attacks from countries such as Iran or North Korea.

The Aegis project was for years led by Adm. Wayne E. Myer, who died in 2009.

"Admiral Wayne Meyer is looking down with pride on the men and women of the Aegis family, and what they accomplished today," Karako said.

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The Weeknd has been announced as the headline performer at next year's Super Bowl.

The Grammy award-winning Canadian singer, whose hits include Starboy and Blinding Lights, will take to the stage in what's set to be an unusual year for America's biggest sporting event due to the pandemic.

"We all grow up watching the world's biggest acts playing the Super Bowl and one can only dream of being in that position," he said in a statement. "I'm humbled, honored and ecstatic to be the center of that infamous stage this year."

The singer teased his performance in a number of tweets earlier on Thursday.

"The Weeknd has introduced a sound all his own," said Jay-Z , who advises the NFL on musical events, in a statement. "His soulful uniqueness has defined a new generation of greatness in music and artistry."

It is unsure as to exactly how the Super Bowl will look in 2021, with Covid-19 numbers up across most of the US. Reports suggest that the Raymond James Stadium in Florida will be reduced to just 20% capacity when the game happens on 7 February. Fans will be required to wear masks and there will be seating pods at least 6ft apart. The NFL has stated that there remains no confirmation on the capacity as yet.

It is also unsure whether the game will remain in February, with the NFL suggesting it might move to March. Just recently, a revised set of safety guidelines were released recommending masks on the sidelines.

The Weeknd follows on from this year's performers Jennifer Lopez and Shakira who received strong reviews after middling notices for Maroon 5 and Justin Timberlake in years prior. This year, his fourth studio album After Hours became the most streamed R&B album ever.

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Hacking attacks launched by online criminals against the Canadian government are growing increasingly sophisticated, warns the head of Canada's cyber security agency.

"We certainly do see state actors, but by far and large it's cybercrime, which I would say is getting more and more sophisticated," Scott Jones, head of the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, told CBC News.

The motivations for such attacks vary widely, he said. Some criminals play for small stakes - trying to pick off individual government employees for their SIN numbers and passwords, for example.

"Then there are the more organized [attacks] that see the government as a target and they're looking for financial gain, and those would be more sophisticated. They would tend to be looking for access to be able to do reconnaissance-type things," said Jones.

To protect itself, the federal government has something called a "host-based sensor program" installed on over half a million computers across more than 50 federal departments.

While the CSE typically says nothing in public about its defensive capabilities, and cites operational security when keeping those details private, the agency recently published details of the in-house host-based sensor program.

"Host-based is really about what we can see to make sure that nothing ... is happening inside of the government networks that we don't want and expect," Jones said.

'Hundreds of thousands of events a day'

The CSE's cyber centre provides the outermost layer of the government's online defences by detecting threats at the network level. The host-based sensor program is the inner layer of defence, warning system administrators when it detects something out of the ordinary on a government server.

While most malware and phishing attempts are detected by the government's frontline security, Jones said, those types of scams are becoming more sophisticated.

He said that if a piece of malware somehow made it past the palace gate and a government worker clicked on it, the host-based sensor program would send up a distress signal.

"We see hundreds of thousands of events a day across the government, not all of them malicious. Sometimes it's just software that is just starting to behave weirdly or somebody has chosen to do an upgrade," he said.

"And then yeah, absolutely, we see malicious software installed. We are able to stop it and make sure it doesn't happen again"

When asked how successful the program has been in stopping attacks, a spokesperson for the CSE said that while "no network is fully impenetrable ... we are very confident in its defence capabilities."

The program also serves a canary-in-a-coal-mine function, helping Canadian gatekeepers detect new methods being employed by those looking to infiltrate government technology - and giving them a chance to warn others, said Jones.

"It sees things that we've never seen before. So it's not in our threat intelligence feeds from commercial providers," he said.

"So yes, you can try and use your malware against us, but we're going to publish and we're going to make sure that people know about it so that you can't use it against anybody else.

"Which means cyber criminals would have to go back and they would have to redevelop some of their software. They would have to look at how to change the path they use to steal information. Our strategy is really about how do we make it more expensive to come after Canada."

British counterparts now adopting program

The host-based sensor program officially launched about eight years ago - when the agency came to realize that most government workers would soon be working off their smartphones and connecting to their offices remotely.

The agency has decided to go public now to explain more of what it does to Canadians, said Jones.

"I can't hide the fact that our genesis is from a sort of intelligence organization that prided itself on really not being known," he said.

"It was really time to start showing people, 'Here, this is one of the things we do for the government, we are good at this.' I know it's not Canadian to say things like that, but we're really good at this."

The success of the program recently won over the CSE's British counterpart, the National Cyber Security Centre, which partnered with the cyber centre to implement a version of the host-based system on U.K. government systems.

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C'est le nouvel angle d'attaque du camp Trump pour dénoncer le "vol" de la présidentielle américaine: le logiciel électoral Dominion aurait, selon lui, réattribué à son rival des millions de votes destinés au président ou les aurait effacé. Qu'en sait-on?
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Dominion Voting Systems est une entreprise canadienne fondée en 2003 et dont le siège social américain se trouve à Denver, dans l'État du Colorado.

Spécialisée dans les technologies électorales, elle fournit à des autorités locales les machines et le logiciel associé que de nombreux Américains utilisent pour voter.

Selon une étude de l'école de commerce Wharton de l'Université de Pennsylvanie, sa technologie concernait plus de 71 millions d'électeurs américains en 2016, dans un total de 1635 collectivités.

Ce qui en fait le deuxième plus gros fournisseur du pays, derrière l'entreprise Election Systems & Software.

Donald Trump a relayé, jeudi, dans un tweet, en lettres majuscules, des informations de la chaîne conservatrice One America News Network (OANN), selon lesquelles le logiciel Dominion aurait "effacé 2,7 millions de votes Trump à travers le pays", et que des centaines de milliers de votes qui lui étaient destinés avaient été réattribués à Joe Biden dans des États utilisant la technologie Dominion.

Sa garde rapprochée s'appuie depuis sur ces "informations" pour attester la fraude électorale de grande ampleur qu'elle dénonce sans éléments concrets à l'appui.

À commencer par l'avocat personnel du président, Rudy Giuliani, qui a déclaré dimanche sur une autre chaîne conservatrice, Fox News, que Dominion était "une entreprise de la gauche radicale".

"Une entreprise étrangère, qui a des liens très étroits avec le Venezuela, et donc la Chine, et utilise un logiciel d'une entreprise vénézuélienne ayant servi à voler des élections dans d'autres pays", a-t-il développé, entre autres accusations aux accents complotistes.

OANN n'a pas publié en ligne son reportage sur Dominion dont Donald Trump s'est fait l'écho jeudi sur Twitter.

Le responsable de la chaîne a indiqué, dans un courriel à CNN, qu'il figurerait dans une enquête grand format amenée à être diffusée les 21 et 22 novembre, sans préciser sur quelles preuves il s'appuyait.

L'entreprise Dominion Voting Systems s'est défendue dans un communiqué de toute défaillance de son logiciel.

Elle évoque des "erreurs humaines" dans le traitement des données de "certains comtés", notamment du Michigan, mais assure que ces incidents isolés ont été rapidement réglés.

Plusieurs autorités électorales locales et nationales, dont l'agence de cybersécurité et de sécurité des infrastructures (CISA), qui dépend du ministère de la Sécurité intérieure, ont par ailleurs écarté, jeudi, la possibilité d'une manipulation des votes sur machines.

"Il n'existe aucune preuve d'un système électoral ayant effacé, perdu ou changé des votes, ou ayant été piraté de quelque façon que ce soit", ont-elles affirmé dans un communiqué commun. "L'élection du 3 novembre a été la plus sûre de l'histoire des États-Unis".

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L’équipe de la capsule Dragon de SpaceX à bord de la Station spatiale internationale

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(Washington) Les quatre astronautes, trois Américains et un Japonais, emmenés en orbite par la capsule Dragon de la société privée SpaceX sont montés mardi à bord de la Station spatiale internationale (ISS).

Ivan Couronne
Agence France-Presse

Le vaisseau " Resilience " s'est amarré mardi à 00 h 01, selon des images diffusées en direct sur l'internet par la NASA, l'agence spatiale américaine, qui espère ne plus avoir à dépendre des fusées russes pour rejoindre l'ISS.

Les quatre astronautes ont ensuite flotté en apesanteur à travers le sas jusque dans la station, où ils ont été accueillis par les trois membres d'équipage.

" Merci de me permettre de vous dire bonjour à tous ", a déclaré la cheffe des programmes habités de la NASA, Kathy Leuders, dans une vidéo transmise aux astronautes. " Je voulais juste vous dire à quel point nous sommes fiers de vous ".

La capsule, baptisée " Resilience ", a été lancée par une fusée Falcon 9 réutilisable de la firme privée SpaceX, le nouveau moyen de transport spatial de la NASA après neuf ans de dépendance envers la Russie et le premier engin à être qualifié par la NASA pour transporter des êtres humains depuis la navette spatiale, il y a presque 40 ans.

La fusée Falcon avait décollé à l'heure prévue lundi soir du centre spatial Kennedy, en Floride (sud-est des États-Unis), avec Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker et Soichi Noguchi sanglés dans la capsule Dragon fixée au sommet.

" C'était un sacré lancement ", a commenté le commandant Michael Hopkins une fois en orbite.

Le premier étage s'est détaché rapidement avant de revenir amerrir sur un navire-drone, la marque de fabrique de SpaceX. Douze minutes après le décollage, à 200 km d'altitude et une vitesse de 27 000 km/h, la capsule Dragon s'est détachée du second étage.

SpaceX a confirmé qu'elle était sur la bonne orbite pour rejoindre l'ISS un peu plus de 27 heures plus tard.

Les astronautes, qui ont rejoint dans la station deux Russes et une Américaine, resteront six mois dans le laboratoire orbital, filant autour de la Terre à 400 km au-dessus des océans.

Ce premier vol opérationnel fait suite à une mission de démonstration réussie, de mai à août, lors de laquelle deux astronautes américains avaient été conduits vers l'ISS puis ramenés sur Terre sans encombre par SpaceX, première société privée à accomplir cette prouesse technologique.

Au total, SpaceX doit lancer deux autres vols habités en 2021 pour la NASA, dont un au printemps avec l'Européen Thomas Pesquet, et quatre missions de ravitaillement cargo dans les 15 prochains mois.

Une mission purement privée, via le partenaire Axiom Space, est également prévue fin 2021. La NASA a laissé entendre que l'acteur américain Tom Cruise pourrait se rendre dans l'ISS, ce qui n'a pas été confirmé.

Et SpaceX pourrait également ajouter " une autre mission amusante, je vous en parlerai plus tard ", a glissé Gwynne Shotwell, la numéro deux de SpaceX, lors d'une conférence de presse.

" La NASA était un désastre fini quand nous avons pris les choses en main. Aujourd'hui, c'est le centre spatial le plus couru et le plus avancé du monde, de loin ! " a tweeté le président Donald Trump, s'appropriant le succès d'un programme lancé sous ses deux prédécesseurs.

Le président élu démocrate Joe Biden a également félicité la NASA et SpaceX. " C'est la preuve du pouvoir de la science et de ce que nous pouvons accomplir en combinant innovation, inventivité et détermination ", a-t-il tweeté.

Un problème du système de contrôle de la température dans l'habitacle s'est produit mais a été rapidement résolu. " C'était juste un petit problème de démarrage ", a confirmé Kathy Lueders, cheffe des vols habités de la NASA.

À quand la Lune ?

Il a fallu neuf ans aux Américains pour certifier le successeur des navettes spatiales, mises à la retraite en 2011. La NASA a choisi des partenariats public-privé. Un second appareil, Starliner, fabriqué par Boeing, a pris du retard et pourrait être opérationnel dans un an.

La NASA espère poursuivre la coopération avec la Russie. Elle a proposé des échanges de sièges, mais les négociations entre la NASA et l'agence spatiale russe Roskosmos traînent.

La réalité est que les liens entre Washington et Moscou dans le domaine spatial, l'un des rares où ils restaient bons, se distendent.

Rompant avec plus de 20 ans de coopération sur l'ISS, la Russie ne participera pas à la prochaine mini-station voulue par la NASA autour de la Lune, la Gateway.

Pour Artemis, ce programme américain de retour sur la Lune en 2024, la NASA a signé des partenariats avec d'autres agences spatiales, dont le Japon et l'Europe, mais l'avenir n'est pas dégagé : elle n'a pas encore reçu du Congrès américain les dizaines de milliards de dollars nécessaires pour le finaliser.

Et Joe Biden n'a pas repris à son compte l'objectif de 2024.

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Quebec, Ontario weigh extending winter break at schools as COVID-19 cases surge

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Canada's two largest provinces are grappling with whether to extend winter school breaks as Quebec and Ontario continue to set records for COVID-19 infections.

In Quebec, schools have accounted for about 20 per cent of new COVID-19 cases in each of the past two weeks. The case count in Ontario, meanwhile, has been persistently high, with the province recording 1,575 new infections on Thursday, increasing exposure for students and staff.

Provincial governments have been reluctant to close schools, even temporarily, pointing to the social and emotional well-being of children. However, as the pandemic caseload in communities increases, educators and public-health officials worry how this will affect classrooms.

In Ontario, the heads of school boards are calling on the province to extend the winter break for students and staff.

Quebec's Premier François Legault told reporters on Thursday that an extended closing around the winter break was being considered, but he emphasized his reluctance to take such a drastic step. He said that more than 1,100 classrooms are currently closed, but, more significantly, 324 of the closings came in the past two days.

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"The last places we want closed are schools," he said.

Quebec has had some of the country's most restrictive pandemic measures since early October, including limiting gatherings and closing indoorand outdoor dining. The restrictions have slowed the spread of the virus but have not driven infections down to levels seen in the summer.

The discussions around school closings in Quebec may portend what other parts of the country could soon have to confront as COVID-19 surges in Ontario and Western Canada.

Schools across the country abruptly closed their doors to in-class instruction in the spring as the first wave of the pandemic hit, leaving many families struggling with online learning. When schools opened this fall, provinces put in place different levels of health and safety measures, and Ontario, in particular, provided families with the option of virtual learning.

Tony Pontes, executive director of the Council of Ontario Directors of Education, said on Thursday that his organization has spoken to the province's Ministry of Education about extending the winter break so staff and students would not return to school buildings on Jan. 4.

"It's only discussion at this point, but the directors have expressed concern and recommended that the ministry consider either a few days or in fact the whole week," Mr. Pontes said in an interview, adding that the heads of school boards are suggesting that students would learn virtually during that period.

He said that directors are worried about students and staff who may gather with their families over the December holidays and then return to school just days later. With a bit of time betweenthe holidays and the reopening of schools, "hopefully if someone is symptomatic, they would discover that before they come back to school," Mr. Pontes said.

He said that the ministry has acknowledged the concern and is considering the request.

Lawrence Loh, the Medical Officer of Health in Peel Region, west of Toronto, said cases in schools have been a reflection of community transmission rather than a driver of them. Infection rates in Peel have climbed rapidly.

"If you throw enough cases at the school system, and if our case counts continue to rise, then there will need to be some sort of reckoning," Dr. Loh told reporters on Thursday. "We need to really limit our interactions, get this under control, because ultimately schools are one of the last things that we want to close knowing that many students benefit ... from being in that setting."

Caitlin Clark, a spokeswoman for Ontario's Education Minister Stephen Lecce, said the government has not considered any modification to the school-year calendar. "Our focus remains on doing everything we can to keep students and educators safe, while keeping schools open and students learning in person," she said.

Still, a memo from the deputy minister of education, Nancy Naylor, to school board directors in October asked them to be ready for a possible move to remote learning should cohorts of students or entire schools move into self-isolation.

"To be prepared for a potential closure, school boards should have plans in place so they can move to remote learning quickly," Ms. Naylor wrote in the memo, a copy of which was obtained by The Globe and Mail.

She added: "The continuity of learning is paramount to provide stability and consistency in the lives of our students."

Manny Figueiredo, the director of education for the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board, said his board sent a survey to families asking if they had devices and internet services should classrooms or schools move to remote learning.

"We are asking families to assess their preparedness to have students learn from home should a school close due to an outbreak or in the event the Ministry of Education directs us into a full remote-learning scenario," Mr. Figueiredo said.
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South Dakota ER nurse Jodi Doering has seen some disturbing examples of COVID-19 denial as she works through the pandemic.

After a Twitter thread of her experiences started circulating, Doering appeared on CNN's New Day on Monday to describe how South Dakota hospitals are overwhelmed with coronavirus patients - and yet some of them don't believe the virus they have is real. While many patients are "grateful for the care they receive" from nurses, some COVID-19 patients spend their last moments refusing to call family and friends because they're convinced they're going to be fine, Doering said. "Their last dying words are, 'This can't be happening. It's not real,'" Doering recalled. In some cases, patients even insist they have the flu or lung cancer to avoid acknowledging the coronavirus.

A South Dakota ER nurse @JodiDoering says her Covid-19 patients often "don't want to believe that Covid is real."

"Their last dying words are, 'This can't be happening. It's not real.' And when they should be... Facetiming their families, they're filled with anger and hatred." pic.twitter.com/tgUgP6znAT

- New Day (@NewDay) November 16, 2020

Doering went on to mention how more people have died of COVID-19 in South Dakota - 644 - than even live in the town where she's from. South Dakota has the highest COVID-19 mortality rate of almost anywhere in the world - only North Dakota and the entire countries of Belgium and the Czech Republic rank higher. Without a mask mandate and with low rates of mask wearing, the Dakotas have seen coronavirus cases spike over the past few months.
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South Dakota ER nurse Jodi Doering has seen some disturbing examples of COVID-19 denial as she works through the pandemic.After a Twitter thread of her experiences started circulating, Doering appeared on CNN's New Day on Monday to describe how South Dakota hospitals are overwhelmed with coronavirus