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The new Amazon Echo Dot For Kids is that little green thing on the bedside table.

Amazon has announced new kid-friendly features and parental controls for the Echo home assistant. What do AI experts think about encouraging kids to spend more time with Alexa?

Olowan Magarang, 61, lost his home, business and mushroom farm during the ISIS siege in Marawi, Philippines. He said he worked as a medical technician in the Middle East, where he saved enough money to return to the city to build a house and business. "Now, it is all gone," he says.

The Philippines' Marawi City Remains Wrecked Nearly 2 Years After ISIS War

The city has a rich heritage of buildings and mosques. Today, the battle scars are as prominent as ever and residents displaced by the conflict complain about the sluggish reconstruction.

Erica Ollmann Saphire, a professor and researcher at the La Jolla Institute, in a screenshot from a Zoom interview on April 10, 2020.

La Jolla Institute Leading Global Hunt For Antibodies To Coronavirus

There’s a new international effort to find a coronavirus treatment and it’s headquartered in San Diego. Researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology are leading a global hunt for antibodies.

Stoppers are placed on filled vials of the experimental drug remdesivir at a Gilead Sciences factory in this undated photo.

FDA Approves First COVID-19 Drug: Antiviral Remdesivir

Gilead Sciences Inc., said Thursday that Remdesivir is approved for people at least 12 years old who need hospitalization for their coronavirus infection. A large U.S. study found it cut the time to recovery by five days — from 15 days to 10 on average.

A robot shuffles small cartridges carrying disease models to various equipment to test them against an expansive library of drug compounds at the California Institute for Biomedical Research, Calibr, at The Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, Feb. 15, 2019.

Biomedical Nonprofit In San Diego Using Robots To Speed Drug Discovery

Inside a biomedical lab in San Diego, robots are working around the clock to discover medicines to potentially treat diseases like cancer and brain disorders.

Ramapo police officers escort Grafton Thomas from Ramapo Town Hall to a police vehicle on Sunday. Thomas is accused of stabbing multiple people as they gathered to celebrate Hanukkah at a rabbi's home in the Orthodox Jewish community north of New York.

Gov. Cuomo Calls New York Hanukkah Attack 'Act Of Domestic Terrorism'

A man stabbed people celebrating Hanukkah at the home of a rabbi in Rockland County, a New York City suburb, on Saturday night. The incident comes amid a surge of anti-Semitic violence in the region.

Kids These Days ... Are Reading Nietzsche In The 'Burbs'

It's easy to make fun of disgruntled teenagers, but in his funny new Nietzsche and the Burbs, author Lars Iyer depicts them accurately and with real sensitivity, never mocking or condescending.

U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He in the Oval Office at the White House October 11, 2019 in Washington, DC. President Trump announced a 'phase one' partial trade deal with China.

Trump Announces Phase One Of Trade Deal With China

As part of the deal, the next round of 30% tariffs will not be imposed. More agriculture trade between the two countries is expected.

SD Rep's playwright-in-residence Herbert Siguenza debuts a new monthly online show tonight called "Vamos!"

SD Rep Debuts 'Vamos!' Monday Night

Herbert Siguenza hosts online show that highlights a different Latin American country each month

Kai worries he could give COVID-19 to his 2-year-old sister, Alaina. She was born with a heart condition, Down syndrome and a fragile immune system.

How Schools Can Help Kids Heal After A Year Of 'Crisis And Uncertainty'

The pandemic has been stressful for millions of children. If that stress isn't buffered by caring adults, it can have lifelong consequences. There's a lot schools can do to keep that from happening.

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