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Trump using military funding as leverage in fight with tech giants (CNN) President Donald Trump's threat Tuesday to veto an annual defense bill unless Congress removes legal protections for social media companies drew swift, sharp bipartisan pushback from lawmakers who charged Trump was using leverage over the ...
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College football odds, picks for Week 14 in ACC: Clemson dominates again as teams jockey for bowl positions When it was announced that postseason eligibility rules would be waived for the 2020 season, it removed some of the stresses around these final weeks for teams fighting to make a bowl game. A program's entire December calendar no longer hinges ...
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Mark Kelly to Be Sworn In, Narrowing GOP's Senate Majority WASHINGTON — Senator Mark Kelly is no stranger to lonely missions. As a former astronaut, he traveled millions of miles in space piloting shuttles to the International Space Station on four different missions, one of them just months after an assassination ...
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Lend a Hand? Ohio State (and Others) Need Help From an Unexpected Source COLUMBUS, Ohio — From his perch in the athletic director's suite at Ohio Stadium, Gene Smith can hear the sounds and see the sights of the 2020 college football season: the roar of artificial crowd noise booming through an empty venue. Minutes before the ...
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Afghan and Taliban Negotiators Agree on Peace Talks' Procedures Afghan government and Taliban negotiators in Qatar have agreed to the principles and procedures that will guide the ongoing peace negotiations between them, Taliban and Afghan officials announced on Wednesday, an important move that could pave the ...
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Maine just elected the nation's youngest House speaker (CNN) The oldest state in the nation now has the nation's youngest House speaker in modern history. At 28, Ryan Fecteau is also the first openly gay person in the Maine Legislature's most powerful role, according to Maine's House Clerk and the National ...
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49ers TE George Kittle planning to return 'sooner than later' from broken foot A month after suffering a broken bone in his foot, San Francisco 49ers star tight end George Kittle believes he's close to returning. "They said eight weeks; I said six," said Kittle said Tuesday, via Matt Maiocco of NBC Sports Bay Area. "And I'm excited.
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Inbox: That's why the Packers pegged him the way they did Jesus from El Paso, TX. Good morning. All I want for Christmas this year is a WYMM segment for every play of every game this season. I promise I've been a good boy. Thanks in advance, Mr. Spofford. I've never had Jesus ask me for a Christmas gift before.
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Politicians urge people to buy Australian wine in defiance of China (CNN) — Politicians from various Western countries have asked consumers to buy Australian wine in order to fight back against China's punitive tariffs on the beverage. China is the most important export market for Australian wine, and winemakers are ...
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Salesforce's Mega Bid For Slack Comes As CIOs Rethink Tech Needs For The Future Of Work Much of the coverage of Salesforce's decision to bid for Slack in a transaction valued at $27.7 billion has focused on the intense rivalry with Microsoft, whose Teams collaboration software offering has been outpacing Slack's growth during the pandemic.
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Inside Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888: New Chipset Boosts 5G, Camera Looking at the 888's flagship features, Qualcomm continues with some of the themes it showed in previous years, but drops a few as well. Sascha Segan. By Sascha Segan. December 2, 2020. facebook · twitter · flipboard. social share. Flipboard · Pinterest.
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Putin Orders 'Large-Scale' COVID-19 Vaccination in Russia MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered the start of a "large-scale" COVID-19 vaccination by late next week, with doctors and teachers to be the first in line to receive the Sputnik V shots, which have yet to complete ...
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'Particularly dangerous' wildfire threat to unfold in Southern California with 70 mph Santa Ana winds Extremely powerful winds and parched vegetation will create a "particularly dangerous" fire weather situation for more than 11 million people in Southern California starting late Wednesday, the National Weather Service is warning. Support our journalism.
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Pfizer, BioNTech nab COVID-19 vaccine authorization from UK for first-ever marketed mRNA shot Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine has been authorized in the U.K. for emergency use, making it the first mRNA shot allowed for widespread use. (nevodka/iStock/Getty Images Plus/Getty Images). Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Print.
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UN Calls on Humanity to End 'War on Nature,' Go Carbon-Free By SETH BORENSTEIN and FRANK JORDANS, Associated Press. As an extreme year for hurricanes, wildfires and heat waves comes to an end, the head of the United Nations challenged world leaders to make 2021 the year that humanity ends its "war on ...
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Taylor Swift Debuts Her First Re-Recorded Song in Ryan Reynolds's New Match Ad After much anticipation and speculation over what Taylor Swift's re-recordings of her musical catalog might sound like, fans finally got their first taste thanks to a Match ad. The pop star lent this reimagining of her classic hit "Love Story" to the new marketing ...
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Joe Manchin responds to criticism from AOC: 'Not one' Dem senator supports defunding police Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., responded to criticism from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Wednesday, saying not one Democrat in the Senate supports defunding the police. Manchin, a moderate, and the "Democratic socialist" Squad member traded ...
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iPhone users downloaded Zoom and Among Us more than any other apps this year These were Apple's most popular games and apps of 2020. Spotify and TikTok dropped their year-end lists, as well. Apple presents the App Store Best of 2020 winners, including Zoom, TikTok, Among Us and Disney+. MarketWatch photo illustration/ ...
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Michigan State basketball gets elusive win at Duke, shows it can play with anyone Tom Izzo wished there could have been people there to see his first win at Duke. The Cameron Crazies. Michigan State fans. Heck, he even lamented the missing media. But ... "I know one thing," Izzo said Tuesday night from Durham, North Carolina, "I'm not ...
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Walmart+ takes on Prime by dropping $35 minimum on Walmart.com purchases Walmart+, the retailer's lower cost alternative to Amazon Prime offering same-day delivery of groceries and other items, is making its service more appealing with today's launch of a new perk. The company says that starting on Friday, December 4, it will ...
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Alexis Sharkey death investigation | Here's what we know HOUSTON — Alexis Sharkey is a name that has garnered national attention after the 26-year-old social media influencer was found dead along a roadside over the weekend in west Houston. Homicide Det. Ricardo Rivera, who's been handling the case, said ...
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New DOT rule paves the way for airlines to ban emotional support animals on flights The Department of Transportation announced Wednesday it will revise rules around flying with emotional support animals and will no longer consider them to be service animals, which are required by law to be allowed to fly with passengers on commercial ...
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US crude stockpiles dip slightly, fuel inventories rise: EIA (Reuters) - U.S. crude stocks fell while gasoline and distillate inventories rose, the Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday. Crude inventories fell by 679,000 barrels in the week to November 27 to 488 million barrels, compared with analysts' ...
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WHO tightens guidelines on mask-wearing in COVID-19 areas GENEVA (Reuters) - People living in areas with where COVID-19 is spreading should always wear masks in shops, workplaces and schools that lack adequate ventilation, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. If they cannot maintain ...
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Don't Travel To Mexico, Says CDC. (Yet Infection Rates Are Higher In Most Of The US) Thinking of getting away to Cancun or Cabo? The CDC is not mincing words. "Travelers should avoid all travel to Mexico," according to its latest guidance, which places Mexico in the Level 4 risk category, highest risk level for COVID-19. Mind you, most ...
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White House Coronavirus Task Force Tells Public Health Officials To Bypass State Leaders In Dire Warning The White House coronavirus task force warned states this week that Covid-19 risk nationwide is "at a historic high" and urged public health officials to appeal to the public directly in the absence of adequate state and local policies, escalating their rhetoric ...
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'Dear Santa' documentary chronicles Operation Santa to tearjerking effect Grab the tissues! A tear-jerking documentary arrives Friday with holiday spirit. "Dear Santa" chronicles Operation Santa, a 100-year-old program by the United States Postal Service, which fields hundreds of thousands of letters to the North Pole each year.
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Panel: 1st vaccines to health care workers, nursing homes Health care workers and nursing home residents should be at the front of the line when the first coronavirus vaccine shots become available, an influential government advisory panel said Tuesday. The panel voted 13-1 to recommend those groups get priority ...
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Unemployment agency details fraud slowing claims; one house made 102 claims Unemployment Insurance Agency employees came forward with concerns when the agency sidelined some security measures to increase the speed at which unemployment claims were processed, according to testimony at a Wednesday Michigan legislative ...
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Lady Gaga and Oreo team up to 'spread musical messages of kindness' with limited-edition cookies (CNN) Lady Gaga has a sweet treat in store for her little (cookie) monsters. The pop star partnered with Oreo to release a line of cookies inspired by her feel-good dance album "Chromatica." Taking design cues from the 16-track album, the vanilla-flavored ...
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Here's What's In The Police Reform Law Proposed For Massachusetts A police reform bill that would make some of the biggest changes in years to law enforcement oversight and rules in the state is now on Gov. Charlie Baker's desk. Legislators approved the bill Tuesday, after a group of six lawmakers who spent the last four ...
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US women's national soccer team settles inequity claim LOS ANGELES - U.S. women's national team players and the U.S. Soccer Federation settled their long-running lawsuit over inequitable working conditions with the men's team while leaving their dispute over unequal pay for additional litigation. Fox Bet.
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UN agency removes cannabis from strictest drug category he United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs has voted to remove cannabis and cannabis resin from a category of the world's most dangerous drugs, which could impact the global medical marijuana industry. ByThe Associated Press. December 2, 2020 ...
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Singapore becomes first country to approve lab-grown meat London (CNN Business) Singapore has granted San Francisco start-up Eat Just Inc. regulatory approval to sell its laboratory-grown chicken in the city-state -- the world's first government to allow the sale of cultured meat. The product, created from cultured ...
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NOWLAN: The struggle for new leadership in Illinois, and what to do with it Politically, Illinois House Speaker and state Democratic Party Chairman Mike Madigan is a dead man walking. The recent ComEd admissions of a decade of bribery killed him. So the struggle for new leadership is underway, mostly behind the scenes for the ...
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Florida surpasses 1 million coronavirus infections with promises of vaccine distribution this month ORLANDO, Fla. – Florida surpassed the 1 million coronavirus infections mark on the first day of December, which could also be the month virus vaccine distribution becomes a reality. Gov. Ron DeSantis provided his first coronavirus-related public update in ...
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Elon Musk boldly says he'll put people on Mars by 2026 Elon Musk said Tuesday he's highly confident SpaceX could land humans on Mars in six years. "If we get lucky, maybe four years," he said Tuesday. Musk has long emphasized that he founded SpaceX primarily to help humanity become a multiplanetary ...
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Tragedy at Fresno's Christmas Tree Lane: Family vehicle struck by train, child killed A child was killed after a train struck a vehicle the family was in while waiting to drive through Christmas Tree Lane, according to multiple Fresno media outlets. The incident happened around 5:40 p.m. Tuesday at Shields and Maroa avenues in the Old Fig ...
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Here's where you can cut down your own Christmas tree in Orlando area ORLANDO, Fla. – It's the most wonderful time of the year! Time to deck the halls, hang the mistletoe and decorate that tree. Getting a Christmas tree can be a magical time for families, but few in Central Florida, for obvious reasons, actually cut down their own ...
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SF mayor dined at French Laundry 1 day after Newsom's dinner at famed Napa Valley restaurant San Francisco Mayor London Breed dined at a posh Napa Valley restaurant the day after California's governor was there. San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo went to his parents' house for Thanksgiving. And a Los Angeles County supervisor dined outdoors just ...
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2 former heavyweight champs want to fight Mike Tyson following comeback vs. Roy Jones Jr. Time to fire up the wayback machine. Following Mike Tyson's successful return to the ring on Saturday, a pair of former champions are clamoring for another shot at the former heavyweight world champion. Buster Douglas, whose knockout of Tyson three ...
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A Few Widely Scattered Showers Possible This Afternoon BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - Partly to mostly cloudy skies expected this afternoon with clouds becoming more prevalent as the afternoon progresses and upper level energy moves into the region. As the upper level energy moves in, we will have a chance for a ...
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German city grieves after 5 killed in pedestrian zone attack BERLIN — Residents of Trier placed flowers and lit candles at the base of the southwestern German city's landmark Roman gate Wednesday in tribute to the five people who were killed and more than a dozen others injured when a man sped an SUV through ...
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UK authorizes Pfizer coronavirus vaccine for emergency use British officials authorized a COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use on Wednesday, greenlighting the world's first shot against the virus that's backed by rigorous science and taking a major step toward eventually ending the pandemic. The go-ahead for the ...
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No. 7 Kansas overcomes offensive woes, beats No. 20 Kentucky Wilson scored 21 of his career-high 23 points in the second half, made the first two 3-pointers of his career during the key stretch and posted his first double-double to help No. 7 Kansas get past No. 20 Kentucky 65-62 in the Champions Classic. "My team ...
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Local communities know coastal protection best, SMU prof says, as Canada signs onto international plan The multi-nation Ocean Panel's commitment to an action plan to protect and manage oceans is commendable but countries ought to look to their own backyard first, a Saint Mary's University professor says. "It is a very good thing that attention is being paid to ...
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Boeing 737 MAX returns to skies with media on board DALLAS (Reuters) - Boeing Co's 737 MAX took off on Wednesday on its first public appearance with media onboard since being grounded over fatal crashes, as one of its biggest customers, American Airlines, seeks to prove it is safe for passengers.
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A More Accessible and Sustainable World: A Disability-inclusive Response to COVID-19 Facing the COVID-19 pandemic, the more than 1 billion people worldwide living with disabilities are experiencing greater difficulty accessing vital services and opportunities in education and employment. Without a disability-informed approach to recovery, ...
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Verizon customers can get up to 12 months of discovery+ on us What you need to know: discovery+ U.S. launch will feature the largest-ever content library for a new streaming service: more than 55,000 episodes from Discovery's iconic brands, the BBC's Natural History collection, A&E Networks, Group Nine and more.
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Israel transfers $1B to cash-strapped Palestinian Authority JERUSALEM -- Israel transferred over $1 billion in taxes and customs duties it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday after a six-month hiatus in which the Palestinians had severed ties with Israel over its plans to annex parts of the ...
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