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China and EU Leaders Strike Investment Deal, but Political Hurdles Await Chinese and European Union leaders agreed on Wednesday to make it significantly easier for companies to operate on each other's territory, but the landmark pact faces political opposition in Europe and in Washington that could ultimately kill it.
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Travel to the UK during Covid-19: What you need to know before you go (CNN) — If you're planning a trip to the UK, here's what you'll need to know and expect if you want to visit during the global coronavirus pandemic. The basics. The UK has seen one of the highest number of deaths from Covid-19 in the world. Despite being ...
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Indonesia bans hardline Islamic Defender's Front group JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia has banned the controversial and politically influential hardline group the Islamic Defender's Front, the chief security minister announced on Wednesday. FILE PHOTO: People gather for the homecoming of Rizieq Shihab, the ...
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Sanders, Oklahoma State beat Miami 37-34 in Cheez-It Bowl ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Oklahoma State went to the air early and often to finish its season on a high note. Spencer Sanders threw for 305 yards and four touchdowns, and the Cowboys held off No. 18 Miami for a 37-34 victory in the Cheez-It Bowl on Tuesday.
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A Black jazz musician's 14-year-old son was falsely accused of stealing an iPhone. Prosecutors are investigating (CNN) Prosecutors in New York City are investigating an incident in which a jazz musician said his 14-year-old son was attacked by a woman who falsely accused him of taking her iPhone. Trumpeter Keyon Harrold posted a video taken with his phone that ...
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PJ Fleck drawing interest as a potential NFL coach Fleck is a former NFL wide receiver and has also has some NFL coaching experience with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He's best known for being the hyper-kinetic coach of the Western Michigan Broncos and now at Minnesota. His teams reflect his positive ...
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New Year's Eve celebrations will be just as strange as the rest of 2020, thanks to COVID-19 NEW YORK (AP) — If ever a year's end seemed like cause for celebration, 2020 might be it. Yet the coronavirus scourge that dominated the year is also looming over New Year's festivities and forcing officials worldwide to tone them down. From New York's ...
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WHO, marking year since COVID-19 began, urges fair vaccine distribution to all GENEVA (Reuters) - The head of the World Health Organization, marking a year since the first cases of the novel coronavirus were reported by China, urged countries on Wednesday to ensure that vaccines are made available to people at risk everywhere, ...
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Let's Talk About Bridgerton's Finale Reveal of You-Know-Who Obviously loads of spoilers ahead. Gossip Girl waited for six seasons before confirming the identity of its actual Gossip Girl. But Bridgerton couldn't last more than one before spilling the beans about who Lady Whistledown is. Which kind of makes sense.
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Another Arrest, and Jail Time, Due to a Bad Facial Recognition Match A New Jersey man was accused of shoplifting and trying to hit an officer with a car. He is the third known Black man to be wrongfully arrested based on face recognition.
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'We are getting crushed.' What's behind the alarming rise in California's Covid-19 cases Since the Thanksgiving holiday, California has faced a surge of Covid-19 infections unparalleled across the United States, leading to continued daily record highs in hospitalizations and deaths. Bed capacity in intensive care units has plunged to nearly zero ...
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Feds decline charges against officers in fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says it will not bring federal criminal charges against two Cleveland police officers in the 2014 killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, saying video of the shooting was of too poor a quality for prosecutors to ...
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Chinese Court Sentences 10 Hong Kong Democracy Activists To Prison Terms A court on China's mainland sentenced 10 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists to up to three years in prison Wednesday. In the closely watched case, the activists tried this summer to flee to Taiwan via speedboat — but they were intercepted at sea and ...
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Uganda Opposition Leader Bobi Wine Arrested Days Before Vote Ugandan authorities arrested opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi and his campaign team just two weeks before elections, the pop star-turned-politician said on Twitter. The presidential candidate, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has been arrested several ...
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Do US Firefighter Medics Get Early COVID-19 Vaccines? Depends on the State (Reuters) - U.S. emergency medical personnel are getting quick access to COVID-19 vaccines in some parts of the United States while fire chiefs in other areas forecast a delay of weeks or months, highlighting the chaotic nature of a rollout that relies on states ...
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Germany set for longer lockdown as death figures spike German officials are making clear they won't be able to relax lockdown restrictions in early January as the country recorded more than 1,000 deaths in a day for the first time. By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press. December 30, 2020, 4:22 AM. • 3 min read.
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CT Weather: Ice, Rain Forecast For New Year's Day CONNECTICUT — There is growing confidence that New Year's Day may feature some ice for Connecticut as a strong storm is expected to bring precipitation Friday afternoon through Saturday morning. A hazardous weather outlook has been issued already ...
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Tyrese Gibson and wife Samantha are divorcing (CNN) Actor and singer Tyrese Gibson has announced that he and his wife Samantha have split after four years. Gibson shared the news on his verified Instagram account Tuesday. In a caption on a photo showing Gibson kissing his wife on the cheek he ...
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Norway Tragedy: Landslide Rips Village Apart A major landslide tore through the small Norwegian village Ask in the early hours of the morning on December 30. A road and at least 14 properties were destroyed by the landslide reported to be more than 2,000 feet long. Many hundreds of local people ...
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Pompeo Weighs Plan to Place Cuba on US Terrorism Sponsor List State Department officials have drawn up a proposal to designate Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, a final-hour foreign policy move that would complicate plans by the incoming Biden administration to relax increased American pressure on Havana.
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Abrams, Perry on Harry and Meghan's 1st Spotify podcast The Duke and Duchess of Sussex released a Spotify podcast special on Tuesday, and some of their first guests were notable Georgians. Stacey Abrams and Tyler Perry, as well as former part-time resident Elton John, were invited to record their thoughts on ...
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COVID-19 relief package seen as 'down payment' on what's needed WASHINGTON — A collective sigh of relief could be heard in Washington and across the nation on news President Donald Trump on Dec. 27 signed the $2.3-trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, which included $900 billion earmarked for COVID-19 ...
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Africa's Virus Capital Risks Becoming Vaccine Laggard South Africa, which has Africa's worst recorded coronavirus outbreak, may have to wait months to receive its first vaccines even as other countries race to roll out the shots. The government only expects vaccines that it paid a deposit to secure from the World ...
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Australian yachtsman rescued after spending hours clinging to a beacon in the ocean David Simpson, 64, was thrown from his boat when a strong wave hit the vessel near Caloundra, on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, CNN affiliate 9News reported. He watched as his boat -- with his dog on board -- floated away, and then managed to swim ...
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UK and EU launch formal ratification of post-Brexit trade deal. But how will the stock markets react on Monday? U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Union leaders formally signed on Wednesday the trade treaty they concluded last week after 10 months of tough negotiations, which the House of Commons is due to ratify later in the day. The European ...
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Boeing jet returns to US skies American Airlines flew a Boeing 737 Max with paying passengers from Miami to New York on Tuesday, the plane's first commercial flight in U.S. skies since it was grounded after two deadly crashes. Flight 718 carried 87 passengers on the 172-seat plane, ...
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Disney+ & Soul Beats HBO Max & Wonder Woman For Xmas Subscribers Disney+ has reported a much more significant subscriber increase than HBO Max did following the release of Soul and Wonder Woman 1984 on Christmas Day. Both movies were released on streaming after initially being set for traditional theatrical releases.
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2020: The year blockbusters came to our living room Streamers took over in 2020. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Disney+, Apple TV+, Peacock and many others launched and expanded in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Be in the know the moment news happens ...
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'Cobra Kai': Johnny's complex now, and ain't that a kick in the head Some of our favorite movie characters from the 1980s and early 1990s have resurfaced in the 21st century, from the return of Matthew Broderick's Ferris Bueller in an ad for Honda to Bruce Willis reprising John McClain from "Die Hard" for Advance Auto Parts ...
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Howard Rubenstein, press agent to the stars, dies at 88 Howard Rubenstein, a legendary figure in public relations who represented the power players of New York, died Tuesday in his Manhattan home. He was 88. His lengthy list of clients included real estate firms, celebrities, politicians, corporations and cultural ...
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Patriots Report Card: Overmatched Pats have no answers for Bills Monday night's nasty loss to Buffalo ensured New England will finish with a losing record for the first time since 2000, Bill Belichick's first year in Foxboro. Phil Perry has another round of rough grades for the 6-9 Patriots.
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Biden, Harris to visit Georgia to boost Senate candidates AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - The president-elect and vice president-elect will pay visits to the Peach State next week to campaign for the Democratic ticket in the Senate runoffs. On Sunday, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will travel to Savannah to ...
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Louisville to open 'mass' Covid-19 vaccination site at Broadbent Arena Facing challenges brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, Mayor Greg Fischer and Dr. SarahBeth Hartlage, interim medical director of Louisville Metro Public Health and Wellness, discussed Louisville's vaccine distribution strategy and its importance in the ...
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Croatia earthquake: Seven dead as rescuers search rubble for survivors At least seven people are known to have died in a magnitude 6.4 earthquake that struck central Croatia on Tuesday. Rescue teams spent the night scouring the rubble of damaged buildings in the search for survivors. A 12-year-old girl was killed in Petrinja, ...
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Trump pardon of Blackwater Iraq contractors violates international law, UN says The four contractors, who worked for the private security firm Blackwater owned by the brother of Trump's education secretary, were included in a wave of pre-Christmas pardons announced by the White House. Written By: Reuters | Dec 30th 2020 - 7am.
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Vice President-elect Harris, husband receive COVID-19 vaccine WASHINGTON — Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, received the COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday in Washington D.C.. They both received the first dose of the Moderna Inc, vaccine at the United Medical Center in southeast ...
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Apple removes Vybe Together app used to arrange parties during Covid Apple has pulled an American app that encouraged users to meet at secret underground gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic. The Vybe Together app, which promoted private parties, has been removed from the Apple App Store, had its account on ...
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Florida reports highest infection rate yet, more than 11800 new COVID-19 cases "The reported positivity rate is 22.75 percent, which should be interpreted with caution due to reduced hours and closures at doctor's offices, public testing sites, and laboratories for the holidays," the DOH said in a statement.
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Gay nurse arrested after having sex with COVID-19 patient in hospital toilet "It is true that there has been a suspected incident of a same-sex relationship between a health worker and a COVID-19 patient at the Wisma Atlet Emergency Hospital," the Indonesian National Nurses Association said in a statement. "Our response…is that the ...
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One year since coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, Americans there look home WUHAN, China — Benjamin Wilson, a Louisiana native who lives in the Chinese city where the Covid-19 virus was first identified a year ago, is watching the unfolding crisis back home with disappointment. "I would be very afraid if I were living in the States," ...
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Thank you from the Red Cross To the Editor: As one of the longest and most challenging years of our lives draws to a close – with the promise of a vaccine offset by the gravity of staggering infection rates and devastating loss of loved ones – I would like to take a moment to reflect on the ...
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COVID-19 impact tops Top 10 high school sports stories of 2020 This much is true: 2020 is a year that won't soon be forgotten. While most of those memories won't be fond ones, there were plenty of accomplishments that occurred on the local high school sports scene that will be treasured forever. Here's a look back at the ...
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Applebee's at Annapolis mall closes permanently As we reported back in September, the Applebee's at the Annapolis mall has closed and all signage has been removed from the building. In late October, the parent company of the chain, Dine Brands Global, Inc., said they planned to close more than 100 ...
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Nearly 31000 COVID-19 recoveries and almost 300 deaths in eastern Idaho; vaccine continues to be administered IDAHO FALLS — Although COVID-19 numbers continue to increase locally and statewide, the number of Idahoans receiving the COVID-19 vaccine is also on the rise. Eastern Idaho Public Health reported 60 new cases of COVID-19 Monday, bringing the total ...
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'Putin isn't hysterical' The Kremlin's spokesman comments on the fraud charges against Navalny Kommersant FM: The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against Alexey Navalny. The politician [Navalny] reacted with the phrase: "Putin seems to be simply hysterical." What can the Kremlin say to this? Dmitry Peskov: You know, Putin isn't ...
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'All aspects being looked into': CBI responds to Subramanian Swamy in Sushant Singh Rajput death case New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday responded to Bharatiya Janata Party MP leader Subramanian Swamy in connection with the probe into late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death case. SHOW FULL STORY.
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Manchester United 1 Wolves 0 - Player ratings Denied a clean sheet as Rashford's strike took a hefty deflection off Saiss. Nothing the Portuguese could do about that, having earlier made sharp saves to keep out both Fernandes and Pogba. 7 ...
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