Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman won the prize for discoveries that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. Source Views: 0
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Nobel Prize In Medicine Awarded To 2 Scientists For Enabling Development Of mRNA Vaccines
California Awarded $100 Million From Fed To Plant Trees To Combat Extreme Heat
California Awarded $100 Million From Fed To Plant Trees To Combat Extreme Heat Authored by Carol Cassis via The Epoch Times, Officials announced last week that California will share in over $1 billion of federal funding allocated to all 50 states to help plant trees in an effort to cool rising temperatures and fight climate […]
Black Man Awarded Over $2M for Failing “Biased” Teacher Exam, Part of $1.8B Settlement
Herman Grim, 64, of Queens, on July 5 was awarded the biggest judgment to date — a jaw-dropping $2,055,383. Source Views: 0
Biden Awarded Honorary Doctorate For Work As Honorary President
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Joe Biden was recently awarded an honorary doctorate degree from Howard University, a rare honor bestowed upon him just three years after he became Honorary President. Source Views: 0
China’s Xi Awarded 3rd Term As President, Extending Rule
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has been awarded a third five-year term as president, adding to signs he might stay in power for life. Source Views: 0
Greek hero who saved 80 Afghans from the sea awarded by Greek Government last night
Michalis Protopsaltis does not see himself as a hero. When the news of the shipwreck came through, he did, he says, what any man in his position would do. The construction company owner dispatched a crane to the Kythira clifftop Source Views: 0
Ghasemi finally awarded his 2012 Olympic gold medal
TEHRAN – Iranian freestyle wrestler Komeil Ghasemi received Olympic gold for London 2012 Olympic Games after 10 years. Ghasemi and Russia’s Bilyal Makhov won the bronze medals at the 2012 Olympics in men’s freestyle wrestling in the under-120 kg category. The gold and silver medals at that time went to Uzbekistan’s Artur Taymazov and Georgia’s […]
Lawyers Awarded Over $70 Million Fees in Deadly Florida Condo Collapse
Lawyers who secured a $1.1 billion settlement in the deadly collapse last year of a beachfront Florida condominium building were awarded more than $70 million in fees Monday by a judge. The total was less than the approximately $100 million attorneys with the 17 law firms had requested, but there were no guarantees initially they […]
Kobe Bryant’s Widow Awarded $16M Over Leaked Crash Photos; Uvalde School District Police Chief Fired | NTD Good Morning
Kobe Bryant’s widow was awarded $16-Million dollars by a jury on Wednesday. The lawsuit was over leaked photos of the helicopter crash site where her husband and daughter died. Uvalde school board votes unanimously to fire police chief Pete Arredondo. The embattled police chief didn’t show up at Wednesday’s meeting. President Biden announced his student […]
Pioneer Embryologist Kypros Nicolaides awarded Greece’s Order of the Phoenix
Greek Cypriot embryologist pioneer Kypros Nicolaides was awarded Greece’s Gold Medal of the Order of the Phoenix by Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias on behalf of the President of the Hellenic Republic, announced the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Nicolaides, who is Professor in Fetal Medicine at King’s College London, received the special honour during a special… […]
Man Awarded Honorary Doctorate After Posting Wordle Score Where He Got It In 3 Guesses
INNSMOUTH, MA—Local man Jordan Smith was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from a local university after he posted his Wordle score to social media. Representatives from the college quickly contacted him and offered him the Ph.D. when they saw that he got the answer in just three guesses. “Look at this guy — he got […]
Andy Manatos Awarded for His Passionate Advocacy of Hellenism
Andy Manatos speaks at the event earlier in December. Credit: GANP/Dimitrios Panagos Hellenic Public Radio – COSMOS FM presented its prestigious Phidippides Award for Passionate Advocacy of Hellenism to Andy Manatos at their 26th annual Gala in New York City on December 2. Previous recipients of this award have included: His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, Senator […]
$1.5 M Awarded to Westminster to Finish Civil Rights Park
A $1.5 million check was given to the City of Westminster, California, Oct. 19 by state Sen. Tom Umberg (D-Santa Ana) Oct. 19 that will allow for the completion of the Mendez Freedom Trail in honor of a 1940’s civil rights case that desegregated California public schools. In the 1940s, Gonzalo and Felicitas Mendez attempted […]
Nobel Peace Prize Is Awarded To Journalists Maria Ressa, Dmitry Muratov
OSLO (AP) — The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia. They were citing for their fight for freedom of expression. Advertisement The winners were announced Friday by Berit Reiss-Andersen, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. “Free, independent and fact-based journalism serves to […]
U.S. Congressman Gus Bilirakis Awarded Honorary Doctorate in Greece
US Representative Gus Bilirakis stated it was a “Tremendous honor to receive the honorary doctorate” at the ceremony on Tuesday. Credit: Nikos Apostolopoulos/ University of West Attica The University of West Attica, one of Athens’ premiere educational institutions, offered an honorary doctorate to Greek-American Congressman Gus Bilirakis at a ceremony in the Greek capital on […]
Flashback 1923: Hitler Awarded 6 Million Marks In Libel Suit Against Newspaper That Claimed He Was Financed By Jews
Today many ill-informed “truthers” swear that there is “overwhelming” proof that Adolf Hitler was “financed by the Jews” — but what they do not know is that the first newspaper to make this public accusation against Hitler was the communist newspaper Berlin Vorwaerts (Forward) — which Hitler successfully sued for libel, as reported by the […]
Simone Biles Awarded Non-Participation Trophy
TOKYO—Members of the International Olympic Committee voted Thursday to award Simone Biles the first-ever Olympic Non-Participation Trophy for her decision to pull out of this week’s gymnastics competition. “It takes a great deal of courage and dedication to participate in the Olympics,” a spokesman for the IOC said. “However, it takes even MORE courage and MORE […]
Teen who recorded George Floyd’s murder awarded Pulitzer special citation
Darnella Frazier was one of the bystanders who recorded then-police officer Derek Chauvin pinning George Floyd to the ground with a knee on his neck. | Minneapolis Police Department via AP, File Darnella Frazier, the teenager who recorded George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis last year, received a Pulitzer Prize special citation on Friday for her […]
Fossil fuel companies in UK awarded £150 million of public money ‘to find new ways to extract oil, coal and gas’
The UK government gave over £150 million in tax breaks to fossil fuel companies in the space of three years, new research has found. A new paper out today reveals that tax credits for fossil fuel extractive companies to conduct research and development (R&D) increased by around £20 million year on year between 2014 and […]
Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul awarded 2020 Vaclav Havel prize
The Council of Europe has awarded its 2020 Václav Havel Human Rights prize to Loujain al-Hathloul. The Saudi activist pushed to end a ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia, but was arrested in 2018 and sentenced to almost six years in prison last December under a broad counterterrorism law. Her sister Lina al-Hathloul accepted […]