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Police Protests HELPED Him Win...
Police Protests HELPED Him Win
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Putin Says He’s Not Ready to Recognize Biden as U.S. President
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Initial Data Shows Covid-19 Vaccine Is More than 90% Effective
In a press release (and not a paper in a peer-reviewed journal) based on a preliminary outside review of data from its phase 3 trial, Pfizer says its Covid-19 vaccine was more than 90% effective in preventing the disease.
The company said that the analysis found that the vaccine was more than 90 percent effective in preventing the disease among trial volunteers who had no evidence of prior coronavirus infection. If the results hold up, that level of protection would put it on par with highly...
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World is running out of time on climate, experts warn
In the wake of Covid, leading figures call for bold green measures to boost the global economy
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Will a Latino gay man replace Kamala Harris in the Senate?
With Joe Biden’s presidential election victory over Donald Trump, the next race has started – and the speculation by political insiders and pundits is just as fierce. Who will fill [
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Mitchell Swepson stars again after Matt Renshaw breaks century drought
Jimmy Peirson raced to a maiden first-class hundred before South Australia suffered another horrid first innings
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5 states OK measures eradicating racist language, symbols
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Alabama voters reversed themselves from a few years ago and removed racist vestiges of segregation from the state constitution that courts long ago ruled unconstitutional. Rhode Island did a similar a U-turn to eradicate the word “plantations” from the state’s official name.
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Anonymous Obama Gets Some Ice Cream
Barack Obama’s A Promised Land comes out today and The Root’s Michael Harriot has a brief interview with Obama. The rest of the interview is meatier, but I like Harriott’s last question:
Q: You are a former president and you are unquestionably the predominant role model for a generation of Black people, both of which come with a certain amount of public scrutiny. But for one day, you get to be an anonymous, everyday American who can go anywhere you want and do anything. Describe that day.
A:...
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No Evidence of Voter Fraud Reported by Election Officials Nationwide
The headline and first few paragraphs of today’s front-page story in the NY Times say it all: The Times Called Officials in Every State: No Evidence of Voter Fraud.
Election officials in dozens of states representing both political parties said that there was no evidence that fraud or other irregularities played a role in the outcome of the presidential race, amounting to a forceful rebuke of President Trump’s portrait of a fraudulent election.
Over the last several days, the president,...
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Microsoft Sets Sights on Sony’s Home Turf in Game Console Clash
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Biden’s Plans for Halting the Unchecked Spread of Covid-19 in the US
This morning, the transition team for President-elect Joe Biden announced the members of his Covid-19 task force.
The list includes Rick Bright, the former head of the vaccine-development agency BARDA ousted by the Trump administration in April; Atul Gawande, the surgeon, writer, and recently departed CEO of Haven, the joint JP Morgan Chase-Berkshire Hathaway-Amazon health care venture; and Luciana Borio, a former Food and Drug Administration official and biodefense specialist.
Biden has cast...
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Big Tech BIG Problem?
Big Tech BIG Problem?
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