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Will deer-tick virus be the next big epidemic? A new study raises troubling questions

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It sounds like the premise of an unoriginal horror film: Human beings meddle with the environment to satisfy their own greed, and accidentally unleash a scourge of disgusting bloodsucking arachnids. Those bugs, once benign, now carry a rare and frequently fatal virus....

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900,000 Pennsylvanians could face eviction this fall if government fails to act

During a protest organized by Make the Road Pennsylvania outside the Berks County Services Building in Reading, PA Tuesday afternoon September 1, 2020 to call for Gov. Wolf and the State Legislature to extend the eviction moratorium in Pennsylvania indefinitely. The group is concerned about the risk of eviction to people affected by the economic downturn resulting from the ongoing COVID-19 / Coronavirus pandemic....

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A Pennsylvania fair held a transphobic dunk tank event mocking the state’s secretary of health

Rachel Levine, MD, Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Many Pennsylvanians are outraged after learning that a man seemingly impersonating Dr. Rachel Levine — the state’s Secretary of Health and one of the few openly transgender government officials in the United States — participated in a transphobic dunk tank event at the Fireman’s Relief Carnival in the Bloomsburg Fair in eastern Pennsylvania on Saturday....

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Everbody hates Rick Santorum

Published: Salon (April 9, 2015) How the former GOP heavyweight became a political irrelevancy 2016 is heating up. Indiana's anti-gay law dominates the headlines. And nobody is paying attention to poor ol' Rick As Americans brace themselves for Rand Paul’s...

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