Louisiana surgeon general who stopped state’s vaccine program named CDC’s principal deputy director

Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham, a critic of COVID-19 vaccines, has been named second-in-command at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While there has not been an official announcement about Abraham’s role, a CDC spokesperson confirmed with CBS News Atlanta that he was listed in the Atlanta-based agency’s address book as principal deputy director….

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AI can already do the work of 12% of America’s workforce, MIT researchers find

Artificial intelligence can do the work currently performed by nearly 12% of America’s workforce, according to a recent study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  The researchers, relying on a metric called the “Iceberg Index” that measures a job’s potential to be automated, conclude that AI already has the cognitive and technical capacity to handle a…

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Trump administration pauses all immigration applications from Afghans after National Guard shooting in D.C.

Federal immigration authorities said Wednesday they have paused processing requests from Afghan nationals, after a man who entered the U.S. from Afghanistan was identified as the suspect in a shooting that wounded two National Guard members in Washington, D.C. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said in a statement that the “processing of all immigration…

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Powering our appetite for protein

Proteins, whether from whey, plants or animals, are essential for building muscle. Last year, approximately 71% of consumers identified protein as the nutrient they most frequently try to eat. That’s an appetite corporate America is more than happy to feed – even though protein often doesn’t taste very good. Lee Cowan looks at how companies…

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