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The majority of voters disapprove of the job performance of President Biden, Hiker oldest to track Appalachian Trail, Fossil of early hominid child found, Wealthiest 10% in the U.S. own 89% of stocks and mutual funds, PETA calls on Dr. Fauci to resign.
With exactly one year to go before the 2022 midterm elections, the majority of voters disapprove of the job performance of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll: 59% disapprove of President Joe Biden’s job performance, and 64% don’t want him to run for reelection. Only 37.8% approve of his performance, a new low.
A majority of 51.2% disapprove of Vice President Kamala Harris’ job performance.
CNN poll: A majority of 52% disapprove of the way Biden is handling job as president, with only 15% strongly approving of his job performance, down from 34% in April, CNN reported. The majority of 72% say he isn’t attentive to the right issues, with 51% choosing the economy as their top concern.
M.J. “Sunny” Eberhart, an 83-year-old from Alabama who took up walking when he retired as an optometrist over 25 years ago, set a record on Sunday as the oldest hiker to complete the Appalachian trail, NPR reported. He was joined for the finish by former record-holder Dale “Greybeard” Sanders, who completed the hike at age 82 in 2017.
Eberhart previously walked 4400 miles from the Florida Keys to northern Québec and later hiked from Newfoundland to Florida and walked from Chicago to California on Route 66.
The fossil remains of a partial skull and teeth of an early Homo naledi child who died almost 250,000 years ago, between the age of 4 to 6, were discovered in a cave in South Africa. Homo naledi is a species of archaic human found in the Rising Star Cave, Cradle of Humankind, 30 miles northwest of Johannesburg, and dates to the Middle Pleistocene era 335,000–236,000 years ago, NBC reported.
“Homo naledi remains one of the most enigmatic ancient human relatives ever discovered,” Professor Guy Berger of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, who led the team, said in an announcement. “It is clearly a primitive species, existing at a time when previously we thought only modern humans were in Africa.”
It appears that the wealthiest Americans have a grip on the means to wealth, The Street reported. A recent report released by the Federal Reserve revealed that the richest 10% in the United States hold 45% of America’s real estate, 85% of private businesses, 54% of pension entitlements, 34% of consumer durable goods, as well as own 89% of stocks and mutual shares. Further, 54% of stocks and mutual fund shares are owned by the wealthiest 1%.
The wealthy are getting richer as the S&P 500 registered a total return of 20.4% in 2021 to date, 19.72% annualized for the past three years, and 30.27% over the last year, 18.15% annualized for the past five years and 16.14% annualized for the past ten years.
A freedom of information act request led to the accidental discovery that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded lab experiments that tortured and killed beagle puppies. Now, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is calling for the resignation of Doctor Anthony Fauci, BGR reports.
“The commissioned tests involved injecting and force-feeding the puppies an experimental drug for several weeks, before killing and dissecting them,” a group of Congressman wrote in a letter to Dr. Fauci.
“Our position is clear,” PETA wrote in a tweet. “ALL those in leadership at NIH, including Fauci, should resign.”
