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The new Covid-19 versions are poised to drive a winter surge.
Two new variants of coronavirus, called BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, have become dominant in the US and could be fuelling an outbreak, the CDC said on Friday. The two subvariants appeared to help them escape the immunity created by vaccines and past infections, a recipe for reinfections and breakthrough infections, particularly for people who haven’t…
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Pieper Lewis, the teen who killed her rapist, escaped from custody.
Pieper Lewis, a 17-year-old US woman who escaped from a residential corrections facility after she stabbed a man she said raped her and was sentenced to probation, has escaped from the facility, according to Iowa’s Fifth Judicial District Department of Corrections. Lewis, who was sentenced to five years of deferred sentence, served an additional 200…