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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), gonorrhea is the second most common STI in the United States. In 2018 there were 1.6 million infections, with half of the infections in people ages 15 to 24. When gonorrhea is left untreated it can develop into a body-wide infection called disseminated gonococcal infection (DGI). One of the symptoms of DGI is a rash. This article will cover how gonorrhea can spread throughout the body causing a rash and other symptoms....

In fact, the new world order in computer chips has been around for a while. Large joint ventures between bitter rivals in semiconductors have existed since 1987. But both the AMD deal and, on the same day, IBM’s announced $1 billion alliance with Toshiba and Siemens to design and build powerful new memory chips (use to store data in computers) made it clear that huge crossborder strategic tie-ups are no passing fancy....

Strange but true: Clinton has become a foreign-policy president. The man who was once dismissed by some as a bungler is now convinced that foreign policy will, at the very least, not hurt his chances in November’s election. Though the Middle East remains a thicket which can scratch the reputation of any president, Clinton’s team can point to a set of foreign-policy successes, like last week’s important trip to Korea, Japan and Russia....

Washington has two headline names, of course, with former No. 1 picks Bryce Harper and Stephen Strasburg, but neither is a huge reason for the club’s success in 2014. Harper is seventh among Nationals position players in wins above replacement, by baseball-reference.com’s calculation of the stat, while Strasburg has the starting rotation’s second-highest earned run average, at 3.46. Strasburg, Doug Fister, Gio Gonzalez, Tanner Roark, and All-Star Jordan Zimmermann comprise one of only two rotations in baseball with five pitchers who have made 20 or more starts with an ERA of 4....

Having downplayed expectations in advance, astronomers were delighted and amazed at the show Shoemaker-Levy put on. The fragments did smack into Jupiter’s far side, as predicted, but the rapidly rotating planet quickly spun the resulting fireballs into view. The pyrotechnics were so bright that even little telescopes dug out of dusty attics for the occasion caught a glimpse of them. Amateur sky watchers could even spy the prominent black scars the impacts left above Jupiter’s clouds – fried gobs of particles left over after a fragment got incinerated....

But lately, Montz has been using a Web site called McAfee.com; it’s so helpful in maintaining his PC that he can even forgive it for making his life easier. He once bought three separate computer programs that together cost roughly $50 to ensure that his system was up to date, inoculated against viruses and protected against crashes. Now he gets all those services through the Web site for an annual fee of $29....

The latest gauntlet has fallen on the head of 49ers pass rusher, Aldon Smith. Smith was hit with a major nine-game suspension on Friday, the punishment coming after an arrest on charges of illegal weapons possession and drunk driving. “Our organization has known the decision would come and we have prepared for it,” said 49ers general manager, Trent Baalke. “Aldon has taken responsibility for his actions and has continued to show growth personally and professionally....

For the people wanting to debate specs or own something visually noteworthy, the Pixel 6 will be coming in fall 2021. Even after the new flagship smartphone from Google arrives, I think a lot of people will still be attracted to what the Pixel 5a has to offer. While it’s a very modest spec bump over previous Pixel phones, it is better. It’s price might be the most compelling element of it, however, and makes it a tremendous value....

While the former relief pitcher calls Pete Rose “one of the greatest players to ever play the game,” he does not think baseball’s hit king should join him in Cooperstown. MORE: Closers with the best entrance music | Pete Rose ’elated’ to meet with Manfred | Gossage: Today’s pitchers are babied “I don’t think he’ll ever get in, nor should he get in,” Gossage told Perform Media on Friday. “There is more to the story than Pete’s gambling and the extent of it....

Casey told MSNBC host Ali Velshi on his TV show Saturday that the Democratic Party must “protect voter rights to preserve the democracy” or sit back and watch as GOP lawmakers on the federal and state level pass hundreds of voter suppression bills aimed toward minorities. His remarks come after the Supreme Court upheld two Republican-backed voting restrictions in the state of Arizona on Thursday. Casey said he’s concerned that GOP legislators in Pennsylvania are trying to mimic Arizona’s creation of more hurdles for voters using the guise of “phantom voter fraud” prevention....

Robert Regan, who is running for the state legislature as a Republican, said he was hurt after his daughter Stephanie posted telling people not to support him, but also pleased she was confident enough to voice her views against him publicly. Stephanie, in a tweet which has been liked more than 180,000 times at time of writing, wrote on June 23: “if you’re in michigan and 18+ pls for the love of god do not vote for my dad for state rep....

Soldano made his comments during a Monday interview with April Moss on the right-leaning media outlet Real America’s Voice. In the interview, Soldano mentioned that one of his mentors who was adopted later found out that they had been conceived when his mother was gang-raped in a subway station by “five guys.” “It kind of like tore out his heart when he found that out, but then he started to really appreciate and understand what his birth mother went through,” Soldano said....

Martin Hyde, who is running in Florida’s 16th Congressional District, was pulled over by a police officer in Sarasota, Florida on Valentine’s Day. Hyde, according to responding officer Julie Beskin, was clocked going 57 in a 40 mph zone and was also spotted texting while driving, according to SNN. The body camera footage showed Hyde threatening the officer’s job during the stop. At the beginning of the video, Beskin is seen approaching Hyde’s vehicle and then tells him he’s being recorded and why he was pulled over....

Malliotakis defeated incumbent Democrat Max Rose in last year’s election for New York’s 11th congressional district and returned one of the few “red areas” of New York City back into Republican Party hands after Rose’s single term. Malliotakis echoed her campaign criticisms against the so-called Radical Left and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi by saying Washington Democrats encouraged and potentially funded the Texas Democrats’ departure from the state. On Saturday, it was announced that three of those Texas Democrats, who were fully vaccinated, tested positive for COVID while in Washington, D....

While GOP lawmakers say this $928 billion plan delivers on “core infrastructure investments” that Biden has focused on, there is still some disagreement on dollar amounts and the definition of infrastructure. One area of agreement is on boosting broadband. However, while Biden is seeking $100 billion, the latest Republican plan raises their initial offer to a one-time $65 billion increase in broadband investments. “It’s a serious effort to try to reach a bipartisan agreement,” West Virginia Senator and lead GOP negotiator Shelley Moore Capito told the Associated Press....

Mark Kelly, a retired astronaut and former U.S. Navy captain, is leading McSally by double digits in three recent polls. In the new ad, McSally tells Arizona voters “you deserve the truth,” but in the middle of the 30-second clip, an image of her Democratic challenger’s brother Scott Kelly, who is also an astronaut, flashes across the screen with the words: “Mark Kelly: Lying about pre-existing conditions.” The Tucson Sentinel first reported that Scott Kelly’s image had been used....

Mark Pukita, an IT executive, made the remarks during a candidates’ forum at the North Columbus Baptist Church in Columbus, Ohio and challenged frontrunner Josh Mandel to reveal his vaccine status. Mandel, who is a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives as well as a former state treasurer, had previously refused to say whether he had received the vaccination or not. The forum’s moderator asked the candidates: “For the record, please share your views on this situation, and where you stand on government vaccinations and medical freedom....

The senator also compared the federal government’s response to the protesters with that of President Abraham Lincoln’s response to the Confederacy. “These insurrectionists in the streets of Portland are little different from the insurrectionists who seceded from the Union in 1861 in South Carolina and tried to take over Fort Sumter,” Cotton said. “Just like President Lincoln wouldn’t stand for that, the federal government today cannot stand for the vandalism, the firebombing or any attacks on federal property....

A staunch conservative who’s part of a group of Republican lawmakers who often refuse to don a mask—and have even ridiculed the practice—Gohmert tested positive Wednesday morning just before a scheduled flight with President Donald Trump, Politico reported. Gohmert attended a public hearing with Attorney General William Barr, lawmakers and reporters on Tuesday, where he and Barr were spotted without masks outside the room. Although the attitudes of Paul and Lee appeared unchanged, Senator Tom Cotton was spotted donning a cloth mask....

The Loveland, Colorado Republican caught himself at the tail of end of his “step on the neck” remark, noting in real-time that he was not referencing the May 25 death of George Floyd. Two autopsies revealed Floyd died of “mechanical asphyxia,” after several Minneapolis police officers applied pressure to the victim’s neck and back, with at least one of the officers using his knee. “Why is it wrong for private enterprise to come back and try to collect those debts, but at the same time this bill lets local governments and state governments step in and step on the neck— and, well—I don’t want to lean on other events that are going on outside right now,” the GOP lawmaker said at the time, catching his own comment....