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Reports: NBC Editor Broke Quarantine to Get Takeout

Reports: NBC Editor Broke Quarantine to Get Takeout

(Newser) - The voluntary isolation that Nancy Snyderman and her crew members agreed to is now mandatory—and it might be because she apparently needed to make a food run last week. NBC's chief medical editor and her team were working closely with cameraman Ashoka Mukpo in Liberia when he contracted... More  »

 
Kim Jong Un Is Backā€”but Why the Cane?

Kim Jong Un Is Back—but Why the Cane?

(Newser) - Let one line of speculation end and another begin: After not being seen in public for 40 days, Kim Jong Un is back . But he appeared in images released by state media with a cane in hand, leading to a fresh mystery: Why? As far as North Korea's leaders... More  »

 
Broccoli Chemical Could Help Fight Autism Symptoms

Broccoli Chemical Could Help Fight Autism Symptoms

(Newser) - A chemical found in veggies like broccoli may help cut down on symptoms in people with autism, a study finds. With the help of parents and caregivers, researchers assigned autism "scores" to 44 males with the disorder, ages 13 to 27; higher numbers on two different scales were linked... More  »

 
Woman Doesn't Know She's Pregnant, Births Rare Twins

Woman Doesn't Know She's Pregnant, Births Rare Twins

(Newser) - Twins are rare, occurring in roughly 2% of all pregnancies. Of those, monoamniotic twins —in which the babies share both a placenta and amniotic sac—are even more uncommon, happening in fewer than 1% of all instances of twins. But what makes an Iowa woman's pregnancy absolutely singular... More  »

 
Spy Plane Ending Its 2 Secretive Years in Space

Spy Plane Ending Its 2 Secretive Years in Space

(Newser) - Some 673 days after it was launched into space for a secret mission , the Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane is set to return to Earth today—and there's still no word on what it was doing up there. Some rumors say that the robotic mini-space shuttle was... More  »

 
Parrot Missing 4 Years Returns Speaking Spanish

Parrot Missing 4 Years Returns Speaking Spanish

(Newser) - A British man in Torrance, Calif., isn't quite sure where his parrot Nigel was for the last four years—but he's pretty sure a Spanish-speaking man called Larry was involved. Owner Darren Chick was reunited with the African gray last week after it was found in a backyard... More  »

 
Chainsaws Meet Bamboo in Hong Kong Protests

Chainsaws Meet Bamboo in Hong Kong Protests

(Newser) - Hong Kong police cleared more barricades today from pro-democracy protest zones that have choked off traffic in key business districts for more than two weeks, signaling authorities' growing impatience with the student-led activist movement. Appearing to use a strategy of gradually chipping away at the three main protest zones, hundreds... More  »

 
Dallas Nurse With Ebola 'Conscientious and Careful'

Dallas Nurse With Ebola 'Conscientious and Careful'

(Newser) - Colleagues describe Nina Pham, the nurse who contracted Ebola while caring for Thomas Duncan, as not just compassionate, but extremely careful, which makes it more of a mystery how she became infected. A friend and fellow nurse tells the New York Times that Pham is very committed to her profession... More  »

 
Aussie PM Threatens to 'Shirtfront' Putin

Aussie PM Threatens to 'Shirtfront' Putin

(Newser) - If Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott walks it like he talks it, next month's G20 summit in Brisbane could be a more feisty affair than usual: Vladimir Putin will be in attendance, and Abbott says he plans to "shirtfront" the Russian leader over the downing of Malaysia Airlines... More  »

 

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