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• CDC report: Covid variant BA.2.86 detected in US wastewater according to early testing

  23-08-2023 23:06 via cbsnews.com
  
  (CNN) — Preliminary testing of wastewater in the United States has detected the new highly mutated coronavirus variant BA.2.86, according to a risk assessment posted Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The CDC did not give details on where the positive wastewater sample had been collected but said it was part of routine monitoring through its National Wastewater Surveillance System.Around the world, nine sequences of the new variant have been repor
  
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• Best Places to Work: Snellings Walters Insurance Agency offers 'strong sense of purpose'

  23-08-2023 22:00
  The rankings of Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Best Places to Work Awards finalists will be unveiled at an evening event Aug. 31.
  
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• Who is Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin?

  23-08-2023 21:49 via cbsnews.com
  
  (CNN) — The fate of Wagner private mercenary group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin was unclear on Wednesday evening, after his name was listed among passengers of a plane that crashed north of Moscow.Once a shadowy figure, Prigozhin was thrust into the spotlight through his group's close involvement in Russia's invasion of Ukraine, securing rare victories for the Kremlin.Prigozhin led an armed insurrection against Russian President Vladimir Putin two months ago to the day on June 23, after
  
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• When can I get a Covid booster? Here's what to know about fall vaccines

  23-08-2023 21:33
  This fall marks the first time that vaccines will be available to fight the triple threat of Covid-19, flu, and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.
  Michael Greenberg, medical head of vaccines in North America at Sanofi, says last fall's "tripledemic," when kids with RSV filled pediatric hospital units as the flu and coronavirus circulated in lockstep, is still fresh on people's minds."What we saw this past year was that RSV doesn't happen in a vacuum," Greenberg said. "Easily the worst [RSV&hel
  
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• Giuliani surrenders on Georgia 2020 election meddling charges; Bond set at $150,000

  23-08-2023 21:18 via cbsnews.com
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Rudy Giuliani surrendered to authorities in Georgia on Wednesday on charges alleging he acted as former President Donald Trump's chief co-conspirator in a plot to subvert the 2020 election.The former New York City mayor, celebrated as "America's mayor" for his leadership after 9/11, is charged with Trump and 17 other people under Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. His bond has been set at $150,000, second only to Trump's $200,000Jail records showed
  
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• Oklahoma third-grade teacher arrested for allegedly being drunk at work

  23-08-2023 21:03 via cbsnews.com
  
  PERKINS, Oklahoma (KOCO) -- A teacher in Payne County left school property in handcuffs on Thursday for allegedly being under the influence of alcohol.The Perkins Police Department said school officials started having suspicions of Kimberly Coates' behavior in the afternoon. Coates is a third-grade teacher at Perkins-Tryon Intermediate School.Police said the superintendent of the Perkins-Tryon Public School District asked the school resource officer to make Coates take a breathalyzer test. She w
  
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• Funding for e-commerce startups remains strong. SmartCommerce is the latest winner.

  23-08-2023 20:47
  New York-based growth equity firm Argentum Group led the round.
  
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• Prigozhin, mercenary boss who staged Russian mutiny, was allegedly in fatal plane crash

  23-08-2023 20:09 via cbsnews.com
  
  (CNN) — Yevgeny Prigozhin, the chief of Russian mercenary group Wagner, was listed among passengers on board a plane that crashed north of Moscow, according to Russian state media.The official Russian news agency TASS said the Federal Air Transport Agency has launched an investigation into the crash of an Embraer aircraft, which occurred in the Tver region north-east of Moscow on Wednesday.Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was listed among passengers on board a plane that crashed north o
  
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• Giuliani on way to surrender in Georgia as additional figures in 2020 plot are booked

  23-08-2023 17:27 via cbsnews.com
  
  (CNN) — Additional figures in the alleged scheme to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia were in the process of turning themselves in on Wednesday morning, and Rudy Giuliani is on his way to surrender.In remarks ahead of his travel to the Peach State, Giuliani told CNN he is headed to Fulton County Jail in Atlanta to "comply with the law." Giuliani's team is scheduled to meet with the district attorney's office Wednesday afternoon to negotiate bond. Once that's in place, Giul
  
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• Starbucks' Pumpkin Spice Latte is back, and it's celebrating its 20th anniversary

  23-08-2023 16:49 via cbsnews.com
  
  New York (CNN) — The Pumpkin Spice Latte is coming back, again.Starbucks said Wednesday that the signature drink would return to the fall menu on Thursday, marking its 20th anniversary.The perennial Starbucks favorite has become a reliable hit, making it an autumn(ish) mainstay that has given the coffee chain a seasonal sales boost during this time of year, over the past two decades.In 2020, Starbucks said the pumpkin drinks were the "catalyst" for a record-breaking quarterly performa
  
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• India becomes the fourth country ever to land a spacecraft on the moon

  23-08-2023 16:21 via cbsnews.com
  
  (CNN) — India has landed its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the moon, becoming only the fourth nation ever to accomplish such a feat.The mission could cement India's status as a global superpower in space. Previously, only the United States, China, and the former Soviet Union have completed soft landings on the lunar surface.Chandrayaan-3's landing site is also closer to the moon's south pole than any other spacecraft in history has ventured. The south pole region is considered an area o
  
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• Experts: May be time to break out the Covid masks again

  23-08-2023 16:05 via cbsnews.com
  
  (CNN) — If you're at high risk of serious illness or death from Covid-19, it's time to dust off those N95 masks and place them snugly over your nose and mouth to protect yourself from a recent uptick of the virus, according to a growing number of experts.That advice should go all the way up to 80-year-old President Joe Biden, said Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a cardiologist."Octogenarians comprise the highest-risk group for complications following Covid infection," Reiner said."At least until
  
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• Cobb school district banning some books after firing a teacher

  23-08-2023 14:29 via cbsnews.com
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's second-largest school district says that it has removed two books from 20 school libraries, saying the books had "highly inappropriate, sexually explicit content."The announcement, sent in an electronic message to parents in some Cobb County schools on Monday, comes days after the Republican-majority school board voted 4-3 along party lines to fire a teacher for reading a book about gender identity to fifth-grade students.Although not new, book removals have surged
  
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• Sources: Giuliani to negotiate bond and surrender in Fulton County Wednesday

  23-08-2023 14:10 via cbsnews.com
  
  (CNN) — Rudy Giuliani and several other Trump co-defendants in the Georgia election subversion case are expected to surrender to Fulton County jail on Wednesday, multiple sources tell CNN.Sources told CNN that Giuliani wants to get it all done before former President Donald Trump comes to Georgia.Two defendants surrendered overnight, but as of Wednesday morning, only four of the former president's 18 co-defendants have been booked.Former New York City Mayor and former personal lawyer
  
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