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Prepare for a year filled with awe-inspiring reasons to look up at the night sky. There will be full moons, meteor showers, eclipses and planets visible in the morning and evening skies across the world in 2021. Meteor showers The Quadrantid meteor shower on January 3 kicked off the first of 12 meteor showers across
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — A drive through downtown St. Louis reveals dozens of “for lease” signs on empty storefronts and office buildings, as companies both grapple and adapt amid the COVID-19 pandemic. With many companies allowing employees to continue working from home, some are faced with difficult decisions
Continue ReadingVice President Mike Pence enters the US Capitol on Wednesday for a date with history. He has told President Donald Trump, the boss he’s served obsequiously for four years, that he cannot submit to demands he overthrow the results of the election. Trump denied it. But Pence formalized his views in a letter to lawmakers
Continue ReadingThe discovery of important new coronavirus variants in the UK and South Africa began with a bet of a bottle of wine. In mid-November, Tulio de Oliveira, who leads a genetics lab in South Africa, began receiving anxious phone calls from physicians in the Eastern Cape province who were seeing an explosive growth in Covid-19
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(CNN Español) — República Dominicana está entrando en una segunda ola de contagios de covid-19, advirtieron gremios médicos este lunes. El presidente del Colegio Médico Dominicano, Waldo Ariel Suero, y el secretario general del Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de Enfermería (Sinatrae), Julio César García Cruceta aseguran que el aumento se debe a las festividades navideñas.
Continue Reading Londres (CNN) — Varias naciones de Europa han comenzado 2021 de manera familiar, confinando a los residentes y luchando por frenar los casos de covid-19. Las restricciones más estrictas se producen cuando una nueva variante del virus causa alarma entre los gobiernos de todo el continente. El primer ministro británico, Boris Johnson, anunció el lunes
Continue Reading (CNN) — Los días de entrar a un aeropuerto, mostrar un pasaporte y luego tomar un vuelo a donde uno quiera son, por ahora, un recuerdo lejano. La pandemia de covid-19 ha transformado el panorama de los viajes, potencialmente para las próximas décadas, y la lista de los pasaportes poderosos en 2021. Los países de
Continue ReadingMain Street is emerging as a clear winner following the Senate runoffs in Georgia. The outlook is far murkier, on the other hand, for Wall Street. If Jon Ossoff holds onto his lead in Georgia, the Democrats will have flipped the Senate. That would give Democrats control of the White House and Congress for the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LINCOLN, Nebraska (Lincoln Journal Star) — When Gerayne Yelkin was offered the opportunity to care for a 15-month-old quadriplegic and ventilator-dependent toddler, she wasn’t sure if she was prepared for the task ahead. But after various training, Yelkin ultimately decided to take on Josie Moore as a patient,
Continue ReadingCongressional Republicans are preparing a futile attempt Wednesday on President Donald Trump’s behalf to overturn the results of the November election by objecting to Electoral College votes cast by at least three states for President-elect Joe Biden. The push is destined to fail, with Democrats and a significant number of Republicans planning to vote down
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Governor Gavin Newsom is hosting “a virtual conversation with California families experiencing economic hardship” because of the coronavirus pandemic. You can watch below: TODAY: Governor @GavinNewsom will host a virtual conversation with California families experiencing economic hardship due to #COVID19.📹 Watch live at 10 am.https://t.co/aP9Pttx0rn— Governor Gavin Newsom (@CAgovernor) January 6, 2021
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MADISON, Wisconsin (Wisconsin State Journal) — A 70-ton boulder seen by some students on UW-Madison’s campus as a racist symbol is another step closer to being removed from Observatory Hill. Chamberlin Rock, named after geologist and former university president Thomas Crowder Chamberlin, was referred to at least once
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With one Senate seat secured for Democrats in Georgia and the other Senate race yet to be called, it is already clear that there is a lesson to be learned from the runoffs. It’s not just that President Donald Trump has largely undermined and ruined the Republican Party. It is also that progressive grassroots leaders
Continue ReadingThe “blue wave” that many expected in November appears to have crested two months later. Now, investors are trying to figure out how to best position their portfolios given the increased likelihood that Democrats will win control of the Senate following Tuesday’s run-off elections in Georgia. The Nasdaq was down slightly Wednesday morning after Raphael
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KENBRIDGE, Virginia (Martinsville Bulletin ) — Kitty Sue Hooker loved to read the newspaper each day, her caretaker, Carol Belcher said, and the first thing she would turn to was the obituary section. “She always wondered what they died from, so she wanted it in there what
Continue ReadingRoku is reportedly in talks to buy the rights to content from Quibi, the short-form video company that shut down after just a few months. While it may seem surprising that leader Roku would make a deal with failed Quibi, the move would fit nicely into Roku’s content-acquisition binge in a hypercompetitive space. The Wall
Continue Reading(CNN) — President-elect Joe Biden has decided to nominate Judge Merrick Garland as attorney general, people familiar with the matter tell CNN, a long-awaited decision that was moved toward completion Wednesday as it became apparent that Democrats were on the brink of winning control of the Senate. The announcement of the attorney general, along with
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We’ve spent some time in the past few months talking about The Weeknd’s face. The singer has made appearances recently at awards shows and in music videos with what appeared to be a bruised, bloodied and bandaged face. Now he’s freaked some of his followers out with yet another new look. The Grammy winner posted
Continue ReadingSome 86% of people with mild cases of Covid-19 lose their sense of smell and taste but recover it within six months, according to a new study of over 2,500 patients from 18 European hospitals. A case of Covid-19 was considered mild if there was no evidence of viral pneumonia or loss of oxygen and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, AL (WALA) — Two thieves are still on the run after ambushing a Brinks security truck driver, holding him at gunpoint, and raiding his armored vehicle just before 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Mobile police say he was parked at a pump at the Chevron gas station on
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