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    In The Know

    Mom issues terrifying warning after being ‘hunted’ at Target: ‘I will never forget’

    A 31-year-old mom of two young children shared her story to Reddit's LetsNotMeet forum, where users share "true stories of creepy encounters." The post Mom issues terrifying warning after being ‘hunted’ at Target: ‘I will never forget’ appeared first on In The Know.

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    The Week

    Michigan's latest COVID-19 wave is hitting people in their 30s and 40s especially hard

    The COVID-19 pandemic has been tamed in much of the U.S., but not in Michigan. Hospitals are full or filling up across the state, and "unlike previous surges, it now is younger and middle-aged adults — not their parents and grandparents — who are taking up many of Michigan's hospital beds," The New York Times reports. "Michigan hospitals are now admitting about twice as many coronavirus patients in their 30s and 40s as they were during the fall peak, according to the Michigan Health & Hospital Association." Michigan has recorded 91,000 new COVID-19 cases over the past two weeks, more than California and Texas combined, The Associated Press reports. "Doctors, medical professionals, and public health officials point to a number of factors that explain how the situation has gotten so bad in Michigan," from the high prevalence of the more contagious and deadly B.1.1.7 variant first found in Britain, to widespread abandonment of masks and social distancing — especially in the rural, northern part of the state — after extended lockdowns. A majority of Michigan residents 65 and older are fully vaccinated, "but the vaccinations of older people do not explain rising hospitalizations among people younger than 60, including those in their 20s and 30s," or the worrisome trend of younger patients "coming in more often with serious cases of COVID-19," the Times reports. "Younger people are among those most likely to be out and about socializing and in the work force," for one thing, and they are just now getting access to the vaccine. The new influx of younger patients is taking a toll on hospital workers after a year of brief ebbs and tragic flows. "This third wave has just been very overwhelming, a lot of sick people and a lot of younger sick people," Andrew Chandler, an emergency room tech, tells the Port Huron Times Herald. "We're getting to the point where we're just so beat down," Alexandra Budnik, an intensive care nurse in Royal Oaks, tells The New York Times. "Every time we get a call or every time we hear that there's another 40-year-old that we don't have a circuit for — it's just like, you know, we can't save them all." More stories from theweek.com5 brutally funny cartoons about COVID anti-vaxxersNeighborhood surprises retiring mail carrier by filling mailboxes with presentsIndia's devastating new COVID wave

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    Reuters Videos

    Tribe fears climate change will uproot culture

    It's a tough, emotional move for Native American Chris Brunet… to pack up the only life he's known and head to higher ground.But, it's a necessary one - as his home on Isle de Jean Charles, a strip of land about 80 miles from New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico, is being threatened by the effects of climate change."This here, for me, this is my open space. This here is my open ground. This is, this is where I feel where I belong. This is where I feel at home. While over there - I know I'll be moving over there - but over there is something different."The government forced Brunet's Choctaw ancestors to flee the southeastern United States nearly two centuries ago.Now Brunet, and three dozen families from the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe are becoming federally funded climate change transplants, forced from the Isle de Jean Charles this time by rising seas and eroding lands.Just 2% of the island's mass remains - the rest has been swallowed up by the Gulf of Mexico. In 2016, the Department of Housing and Urban Development distributed $48 million for the Isle de Jean Charles residents to move off the island and onto a bulldozed 513-acre former sugar farm as part of a massive federal grant package to help areas impacted by climate change.But with the move are fears that the tribe's culture and heritage will wash away too. Brunet said he's concerned his tribe will not be able to replicate its way of life, based on fishing and crabbing, in the new settlement. "For us, what makes it extra sensitive with this relocation that's taking place is that we're moving from a place that was home ground - or that is home ground - and that it is a great sense of belonging." Now, the only places he says he belongs, may soon become a memory of the past due, in part, to the effects of climate change.

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    Yahoo Celebrity

    Madonna, 62, kisses boyfriend, 27, in birthday selfies: 'Let's get unconscious'

    Madonna has been dating the dancer for about two years.

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    Quartz

    The world is starting to grasp the true toll of India’s Covid-19 crisis

    Countries rush to send oxygen, medical equipment, and treatments as the world sees the true toll of Covid-19 in India.

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    INSIDER

    A Virginia woman was fired from her job after she was caught on video telling a Black neighbor she's 'not the right color'

    The woman worked at Chesterfield Food Bank in Virginia and was terminated from her job, according to local news.

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