University of Virginia researchers reveal how E. coli knows how to cause the worst infections possible
By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews A pair of School of Medicine scientists have revealed how E. coli seeks out the most oxygen-free crevices of your colon to cause the worst infection possible. The discovery More...
NY Times issues major retraction in hit piece on EPA’s Scott Pruitt, his daughter
The New York Times published a “major correction” in a recent article attacking EPA head Scott Pruitt, particularly details surrounding his daughter’s admission to UVA Law. Their assertion implied More...
Fatherless, broken homes linked to ‘nearly every shooting’
As the country heals from the mass shooting in a Florida school leaving 17 dead, gun control activists have controlled the narrative, calling for immediate action and a full-scale assault on the National Rife Association More...
University of Virginia ‘cops and robbers’ frat party shutdown for making ‘a joke of systems that kill and brutalize marginalized communities’
A University of Virginia student group attacked and shut down a “cops and robbers”-themed party at a campus fraternity, claiming the party made “a joke of systems that kill and brutalize marginalized communities” More...
Loretta Lynch posts fearmongering video, rights are being ‘trampled on’ calls for marches
The Obama administration’s former Attorney General Loretta Lynch has made a video to call for more marching, blood and death on the streets – a video that was later posted on the Facebook page of Senate Democrats More...
Avoiding Company Divorce and Failure
Marriage is a union which both parties enter with a long term view of “happily ever after.” However, unlike fairy tales, a 2010 report by the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia said More...
TRANSCRIPT: Tim Kaine tells voters to reject Donald Trump’s bigotry, racial discrimination
At a voter registration event in Tallahassee, Florida on August 26, Tim Kaine discussed why it is more important than ever that we reject Donald Trump’s campaign built on prejudice and paranoia. Kaine told the More...
Pro-life movement growing with pagans and Secular Pro-Life members
While the pro-life movement has been and is mostly dominated by conservative Christians, a young diverse group of the nonreligious, humanists and even pagan voices are joining the protest against abortion on demand. Annual More...
Neuroscience study confirms ‘speaking in tongues’ changes brain activity, blood flow
While critics may mock, many Christians assert the validity of speaking in tongues and now they have a neuroscience study to back them up. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania took brain images of five More...
ADF counters Freedom From Religion group’s attack on college Chaplains
Alliance Defending Freedom sent letters to six public universities after they received complaints from Freedom From Religion Foundation wrongly stating that having basketball team chaplains is unconstitutional.“Public More...
UVA Frat sues Rolling Stone over bogus rape story by Sabrina Rubin Erdely
The University of Virginia fraternity at the center of Rolling Stone’s retracted article “A Rape on Campus” said on Monday it planned to sue the magazine for what it called “reckless” More...
Freedom From Religion group targets NCAA basketball teams for having chaplain
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has sent letters to five more public universities that employ religious leaders for their basketball teams. The teams on the radar screen: Louisville, Wichita State, Maryland, More...
Martese Johnson arrest leads to UVA student protests, more racism questions
Up to 1,000 students gathered at the University of Virginia on Wednesday night to rally against the “animalistic, insensitive, and brute handling” of Martese Johnson, a black undergrad who sustained More...
Rush Limbaugh attacks Obama on ‘wrong’ sexual assault, rape data
President Obama spoke briefly during the Grammy Awards with a PSA style message to raise awareness of violence against women, mentioning stats which talking head Rush Limbaugh claims is bogus. Limbaugh on air: “Now, More...
Police linking dead body found to missing Virginia student, Hannah Graham
While the official word has not come from authorities, the human remains found by a sheriff’s deputy on an abandoned property in Albemarle County, Virginia is likely the missing University of Virginia student More...
Jesse Matthew identified as ‘Person of Interest’ in Hannah Graham case
As the family cries out for Hannah Graham’s safe return, police have identified the Person of Interest in the cast, naming Jesse Matthew. “I believe Jesse Matthew was the last person she was seen with before More...
Entamoeba histolytica: New research shows amoeba kills cells by ‘biting’
Research published yesterday in the journal Nature show how the parasitic amoeba, Entamoeba histolytica kills human cells–by amoebic trogocytosis. According to the paper, researchers say that the amoebae More...
UNC Chapel Hill tops new Kiplinger ‘Best Values in Public College’ list, 6 schools from Florida make list
Beginning in 1998 the Kiplinger’s Personal Finance has released an annual Top 100 Best Values in Public Colleges report and once again the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill tops the list. UNC Chapel More...
Johnny Calderon, Gerald Allen, two Virginia teens get a beating when they attempt to rob college students
Two suspected robbers fled the scene of their own crime looking like the victims of a brutal attack after their victims fought back. Johnny Calderon Jr., age 19, and Gerald Allen, age 18, attempted to rob two University More...
University of Virginia reports hand, foot and mouth disease outbreak
An outbreak of the viral disease, hand, foot and mouth disease has affeted a couple dozen students on the Charlottesville, Virginia campus, according to a report today in the Cavalier Daily. Dome, Rotunda (University More...