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Can people in dangerous situations still rely on Twitter for crucial updates and safety information?

Australia's government, which announced earlier this month that it would be moving refugees off of Nauru, confirmed to media that it will pay $350 million annually to keep the Nauru facility open.

Join us Saturday, April 9 as we return to Walk for Lyme San Diego. Bay Area Lyme Foundation and San Diego Lyme Alliance are reviving the annual 5K walk for Lyme and tick-borne disease awareness. Bring the family for this free event with t-shirts, live music, booths, tick bite prevention, Lyme education and giveaways as you walk along beautiful Mission Bay. Location: De Anza Cove, Mission Bay: 3000 N. Mission Bay Drive, San Diego 92109. Time: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. We’re looking forward to jump-starting the local Lyme community! Contact info@bayarealyme.org with questions Bay Area Lyme Foundation is a national, 501c3 non-profit organization based in Silicon Valley and collaborates with world-class scientists and institutions to accelerate medical breakthroughs for Lyme disease. It is also dedicated to providing reliable, fact-based information so that prevention and the importance of early treatment are common knowledge. A pivotal donation from The LaureL STEM Fund covers overhead costs and allows for 100% of all donor contributions to Bay Area Lyme Foundation to go directly to research and prevention programs. Lyme disease is one of the most common vector-borne infectious diseases in the world. It is found in 65 countries and throughout the United States, with over 476,000 new cases each year in the US alone. And yet, Lyme research is significantly underfunded relative to other comparable diseases. Our goal is to fill that void and accelerate the pace of new drug and diagnostic development in order to alleviate the suffering. View this event on Facebook

Medicare and Medicaid are mandatory spending programs and that keeps them relatively safe in the early days of the shutdown, but 42% of the Department of Health's staff will be furloughed.

A U.S. judge says the reversal shows "why individuals aspiring for public office and those achieving that objective" shouldn't call for a specific verdict in criminal cases.

Isaac Herzog's visit to Capitol Hill came after the House passed a GOP-led resolution reaffirming support for Israel in the wake of incendiary comments made and then walked back by a leading Democrat.

Such attacks have happened elsewhere in Washington state. They're more common now because of the shrinking availability of dense forests that allow the owls to be more secluded, an expert says.

TikToker Alex Parra (@Alex1leg) plans to compete in this weekend's San Francisco Marathon on crutches to raise awareness for athletes with disabilities.

San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria announced several plans this week to fix the city's streets and roads.

Journalist Mark Follman says that understanding the psychology of shooters and intervening where appropriate can help prevent massacres from happening. His new book is Trigger Points.