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Month: January 2021

Amid a devastating Covid-19 surge, Los Angeles County ambulance crews told not to transport patients with little chance of survival

Los Angeles County has been fighting a brutal battle against Covid-19 for weeks now. New infections have soared with about one in five residents who get tested for Covid-19 receiving positive results. In a little more than a month, the county doubled its number of infections, climbing from about 400,000 cases on November 30 to

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Alibaba is shutting down its music streaming app

Alibaba is shutting down its music streaming app next month, signaling an end to the Chinese tech firm’s big music ambitions. The company announced Tuesday that Xiami Music will end February 5 “because of adjustments in business development.” The news comes as the company co-founded by Jack Ma faces pressure from regulators on several fronts.

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Jeff Bezos, Jamie Dimon and Warren Buffett tried to solve health care. 3 years later, their company has shut down

Haven, an ambitious health care company formed just three years ago as a partnership between Amazon, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase, is shutting down. “Haven will end its operations at the end of February,” said Haven spokesperson Brooke Thurston in an email to CNN Business. The news was first reported by CNBC. The

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Wisconsin pharmacist who left vials out believed vaccine could harm people and change their DNA, police say

The Wisconsin pharmacist arrested last week after allegedly removing vials of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine from cold storage is a conspiracy theorist who believes the vaccine could harm people, police say. Pharmacist Steven Brandenburg, 46, is accused of intentionally leaving out 57 vials, prompting hospital officials to sequester most of the doses because they thought

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How to remotivate kids for more distance learning

Motivating kids to do schoolwork was hard enough in pre-pandemic times. No matter how skilled the teacher, and how clever the lesson plans, most kids would find at least some academic work utter drudgery. Many families are experiencing this drudgery compounded by distance learning compounded by two-plus weeks of sweet, winter break freedom during which

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Mediterranean diet named best diet for 2021

The gold medal for best 2021 diet went to the Mediterranean diet for the fourth year in a row, according to rankings announced Monday by U.S. News & World Report. Tied for silver was the DASH diet, which stands for dietary approaches to stop hypertension, and the Flexitarian diet, which encourages being a vegetarian most

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More than 170 business leaders sign letter urging Congress to accept Biden’s win

More than 170 prominent business leaders signed a letter urging Congress to accept the Electoral College results that declared Joe Biden as the next President of the United States. “This presidential election has been decided and it is time for the country to move forward,” the letter reads. “President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have won

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How to remotivate kids for more distant learning

Motivating kids to do schoolwork was hard enough in pre-pandemic times. No matter how skilled the teacher, and how clever the lesson plans, most kids would find at least some academic work utter drudgery. Many families are experiencing this drudgery compounded by distance learning compounded by two-plus weeks of sweet, winter break freedom during which

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Hunting for ‘Disease X’

Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo — Showing early symptoms of hemorrhagic fever, the patient sits quietly on her bed, wrangling two toddlers desperate to flee the cell-like hospital room in Ingende, a remote town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). They are waiting for the results of a test for Ebola. The

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UK says its aircraft carrier strike group is ready to deploy. China’s already watching

Britain is officially an aircraft carrier power again. The Royal Navy announced on Monday that the UK’s Carrier Strike Group, centered on Britain’s largest ever warship, the HMS Queen Elizabeth, had achieved initial operating capability. The designation means the 65,000-ton carrier, its air assets including F-35 stealth fighter jets and helicopters, as well as its

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Federal judge hints at possible discipline against lawyer after another GOP election lawsuit is tossed

A federal judge in Washington, DC, suggested on Monday that lawyers representing the Wisconsin Voters Alliance and other groups, which have backed efforts in several courts in line with President Donald Trump seeking to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s win, could face professional discipline. The group had asked the DC District Court to block the Electoral

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India embarks on one of the world’s most ambitious vaccine rollouts after emergency use approval

India is embarking on one of the world’s most ambitious mass immunization programs ever undertaken, after regulators approved the country’s first two Covid-19 vaccines for restricted emergency use. Indian drug regulators on Sunday gave the go ahead for two coronavirus vaccines, one developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, and the other conceived locally by Bharat

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Kelly Loeffler says she will object to the certification of Biden’s Electoral College win

Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler of Georgia will oppose the certification of the Electoral College results on Wednesday, she said in a statement released Monday evening. “On January 6th, I will vote to give President Trump and the American people the fair hearing they deserve and support the objection to the Electoral College certification process,” Loeffler

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House Republicans rush to Trump’s defense over Georgia call as Democrats prep censure resolution

Many conservative House Republicans defended President Donald Trump in the aftermath of his phone call demanding Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger “find” the votes needed for him to win the elections in his state — as Democrats drafted a resolution seeking to censure Trump over the matter. After House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy downplayed

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Biden campaigns in Georgia ahead of runoff elections

President-elect Joe Biden traveled to Atlanta on Monday to campaign on behalf of two Democrats looking to flip control of the US Senate in Tuesday’s runoff elections. “They’re talented, they’re principled, they’re qualified, they’re decent, they’re honorable, they mean what they say,” Biden said of Democrats Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock. Ossoff and Warnock

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Dow tumbles on first trading day of 2021

It was a rocky first trading day of the year for Wall Street as stocks fell sharply and investors grew worried about the the pandemic and the economic recovery in 2021. Investors took profits off the market’s record highs set last week, and they took a more cautious position ahead of the high-stakes runoff election

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People dump unwanted holiday dogs at shelter

Click here for updates on this story     ELK GROVE, California (KOVR) — It’s a common story about how it was the cutest puppy for Christmas – until it didn’t become house-trained, it started chewing everything in sight or it wasn’t going to stay quite as small as originally thought. And some just decided their pet

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Bar is vandalized with graffiti after opening against order on New Year’s Eve

Click here for updates on this story     MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Alibi Drinkery, the Lakeville bar that’s repeatedly defied Gov. Tim Walz’s executive order, most recently on New Year’s Eve, was vandalized overnight, covered in graffiti. Images taken Sunday show the bar’s windows and walls marked with spray-painted messages against the bar, President Donald Trump and

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Trump awards Medal of Freedom to GOP Rep. Devin Nunes

President Donald Trump awarded the Medal of Freedom to one of his most vocal political allies who defended him throughout his impeachment, California Rep. Devin Nunes, on Monday. Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee who worked closely with the President to undermine the Justice Department’s Russia investigation, was awarded the medal at

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