He found resistance to antibiotics spreading among bacteria and was hailed for his discoveries, though a Nobel Prize eluded him. (Not that he wanted one.)

Hamilton College knew that one of its students was in deep distress before he killed himself. His parents believe they should have been told.

Driver’s education first began in the United Kingdom as a business in 1909. Twenty-five years later, the first high school driver’s ed course was opened in the United States. It offered students lessons in driving skills as well as hands-on training. Since that time, such programs have been plagued, particularly in America, with unscrupulous instructors, […]
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History rewrites the past. It doesn’t just record what happened—it changes it. With a sweep of the pen, it labels whole nations of people as monsters and villains. It reduces soldiers on the other side to nothing more than mindless cogs in an evil machine. But every army was made up of people. The soldiers […]
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Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation into the 2016 election is now seemingly running on fumes.
Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway says what she thinks the point of the still ongoing probe is now, and she says it has nothing to do with Russian collusion.

.@MZHemingway: "I think there's a lot about the Mueller probe that is interested in sort of saving face for the FBI, and it's been difficult to do that…

For the ninth time, the virus has hit the Democratic Republic of Congo. Officials may deploy a vaccine created too late to stop the epidemic in West Africa in 2014.

Tommy Vietor is not happy that an ambush of U.S. military personnel in the West African country of Niger is not getting the same scandal treatment that the attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Lybia received.

How can you call Benghazi a scandal but not this? https://t.co/dNQ1oVxbrf
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) May 11, 2018

Yes, both left four Americans dead, but there were very different circumstances…

Prior to the discovery of antibiotics, severe bacterial infections were one of the major causes of human deaths throughout the developed world. We all have probably used antibiotics at some point in our lives to treat an infection. Before the discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming, people died from otherwise small scrapes and cuts through […]
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Another week has gone by, and now it’s time to take a look at some of the news stories that were met with fits of laughter or incredulous raised eyebrows. Right here, you can catch up on the more pressing matters of the day. This week’s list features humans pushing the envelope and doing things […]
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A Catholic Priest by the name of Father Goyo took to Twitter to share a remarkable story of a young couple who wanted to get married. The catch? The young bride had cancer and not much time to live.
Father Goyo shares what happened when the groom approached him about doing the wedding.
Have tissues handy. You’re going to need them.

(THREAD) 1. MEET Estela and Nicolas. Today they got married…

The pay cut for Dr. Robert Redfield, the newly appointed agency chief, came about after senators and the public questioned why his salary was much higher than his predecessors’.

We human beings have managed some amazing accomplishments: skyscrapers, space travel, deep-sea diving, and Dilbert comics, among other things. Yet as clever as we are, we still have much to learn from our fellow earthlings. Plants and animals demonstrate amazing feats of engineering all the time. Biomimicry is the act of modeling structures, materials, and […]
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As Twitchy told you yesterday, Chris Cillizza suggested that Hillary Clinton could really “shake up the New York AG race”:

Here's a name that would shake up the New York AG race: Hillary Clinton
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) May 8, 2018

Cillizza was rightly raked over the coals for that hot take, but today, he’s back at it. He’s just gotta milk that mess for all it’s worth:

I think the universe just blew up pic…

Breast-feeding in infancy has no discernible effect on cognitive function by the time children have reached later adolescence.

Wow. Beto O’Rourke must be getting nervous about his prospects against Ted Cruz. Time for him to pull out the big guns:

Actress Sarah Jessica Parker steps out for Beto O'Rourke https://t.co/AcEAGWdUea via @elpasotimes
— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) May 9, 2018

More from the El Paso Times:
The actress, famous for her role as Carrie Bradshaw in “Sex and the City,” was photographed sporting an O’Rourke campaign button at a film festival in New York…

As we told you Wednesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was en route back to the U.S. with three people who had been held in North Korea. The men who were freed and are on the way home have released this statement:

Statement from the freed Americans, via the State Department: pic.twitter.com/XFxXF3GWGO
— Michael Del Moro (@MikeDelMoro) May 9, 2018

Great news!

This is wonderful news. We’re very happy for them and their families…

Chemistry surrounds us every day. From cooking our food to driving our cars to our very own bodily metabolism, we cannot escape the constant rearrangement of atoms and exchange of energy that is chemistry. Though this constant shifting of atoms forms a nearly unnoticeable background in our daily lives, there are some reactions that have […]
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There’s no room for stories of evil monsters, ghostly ships, or oracles and their priestesses in the cold light of the rational 21st century. The ancient myths and legends that have come down to us are seen as no more than the creation of someone’s overworked imagination. However, many of these seemingly impossible tales do […]
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The agency is seeking permanent injunctions against companies in Florida and California that are marketing unregulated uses of stem cells.

The world of science fiction is almost never missing artificial intelligence (AI). However, the rate at which it is being developed and is learning things by itself sometimes raises the question of whether AI is science fiction or something that has already entered our society (and we haven’t even realized it yet). AI has the […]
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Debra Messing accidentally attacked a Sarah Huckabee Sanders parody account in an unhinged rant in response to the real White House press secretary calling out hypocrite Dems for refusing to support the president’s nominee to head the CIA, Gina Haspel.
Messing directed her anger at @SHSPRESSSEC, a parody account with only 337 followers:

No, you see @SHSPRESSSEC I support women, but not UNETHICAL, MORALLY QUESTIONABLE women…

Not every fantastic creature comes from fairy tales. Some of the strangest are ones that, 2,000 years ago, explorers insisted were real. When the first natural scientists were trying to catalog every tribe and creature that existed on this Earth, they wrote down some strange things. If you traveled far enough away from civilization, they […]
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The W.H.O. endorses adding a “synergist” chemical to bed nets infused with older pesticides because the combination more effectively kills and repels mosquitoes.

In a now-viral tweet, Twitter user “Channnn” posted photos of a white guy “with a confederate flag tattoo, wearing a confederate flag t-shirt, with confederate flag car stickers,” stop to help her father change a tire. Check it out:

So my dads tire blew up on the freeway and this dude, with a confederate flag tattoo, wearing a confederate flag t-shirt, with confederate flag car stickers, stopped and changed our tire…

It’s the biggest health crisis you’ve never heard of. Doctors, philanthropists and companies are trying to solve it.

A major overhaul to safeguard the country’s produce is not yet in place, confounding attempts to shut down virulent strains or prevent them altogether.

While South Africa undoubtedly has a long, rich, and intriguing history, it also has an equally rich collection of UFO and alien encounters that rival almost anywhere in the world. Furthermore, these sightings have seemingly been increasing steadily since the early 1970s. While some are more credible than others, much like anywhere else in the […]
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There was a report out over the weekend that alleged the White House hired an Israeli company last year to compile dirt — a dossier, if you will — on former Obama staffers involved in the Iran deal

Revealed: Trump team hired spy firm for ‘dirty ops’ on Iran arms deal https://t.co/2rYVQG8vET – @JulianBorger & Mark Townsend report …
— Martin Pengelly (@MartinPengelly) May 5, 2018

According to The Guardian, the targets of intel were former Obama staffers Ben Rhodes and Colin Kahl:
People in the Trump camp contacted private investigators in May last year to “get dirt” on Ben Rhodes, who had been one of Barack Obama’s top national security advisers, and Colin Kahl, deputy assistant to Obama, as part of an elaborate attempt to discredit the deal…

The screenwriter discussed her latest film, which stars Charlize Theron and is drawing complaints from survivors of postpartum depression.

When you’re cursed with a humiliating name, it can feel like there’s no way to outlive it—like you could change the course of history and still only be remembered as the guy whose parents named him “Dick Small.” It’s a pain known too well by every little boy named Willie and every substitute teacher who’s […]
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