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From Mayor Pete to Secretary Buttigieg: Appearances hint at expansive role for next transportation chief In the days before his 86-to-13 Senate confirmation Tuesday to become transportation secretary, Buttigieg has taken the new administration's broader message to people who might miss it. In the process, he's seeking to ...
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Mike DeBord set to join Les Miles' Kansas staff as offensive coordinator, sources say DeBord, who turns 65 on Sunday, spent this past season as an offensive analyst on Jim Harbaugh's staff at Michigan. He was expected by some to retire after the 2020 season, sources told ESPN's Adam Rittenberg, but instead will reunite with Miles at Kansas.
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Sabres game at Islanders postponed due to NHL COVID-19 protocol The game between the Buffalo Sabres and New York Islanders scheduled for Tuesday at Nassau Coliseum has been postponed. The Sabres practiced in Buffalo on Monday and were scheduled to travel to Long Island on Tuesday after altering their plans ...
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2 FBI Agents Killed in Shooting in Florida MIAMI — The sun had not come up yet on Tuesday when a group of F.B.I. agents assigned to investigate criminals who prey on children online approached the Water Terrace apartments in Sunrise, Fla., to execute a warrant, a routine part of the job that is ...
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How Fast Will Biden Need To Move On Climate? Really, Really Fast Biden has set a goal of making the U.S. carbon neutral by 2050, which will require steeper emissions cuts than the U.S. has ever achieved. To reach it, coal power would have to wane into a footnote, replaced by renewables like solar and wind. Most cars would ...
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Biden and Drug Makers Look to Speed Coronavirus Vaccine Deliveries Moderna will ask federal regulators to increase the amount of coronavirus vaccine it can put in each vial by as much as 50 percent, potentially bolstering availability quickly.
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People Died at the Capitol. Can Rioters Be Held Accountable? Federal law provides a way to charge people in cases of deaths that they did not directly cause. But it is a limited provision that has raised questions about complicity and fairness.
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SpaceX Mars rocket prototype explodes on landing, again Austin, Texas (CNN Business) Starship SN9, SpaceX's early prototype for a rocket the company hopes will carry the first humans to Mars, launched a high-altitude test flight Tuesday that saw the vehicle travel a few miles up in the air, hover for a moment, and ...
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Angels suspend Mickey Callaway after behavior allegations Callaway joined the Angels in October 2019, three weeks after he was fired by the Mets following two years in charge. Before that, the former major league pitcher spent five seasons as the Cleveland Indians' pitching coach.
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NFL Notes: Quarterback carousel already turning The time between the conference championships and the Super Bowl is generally quiet, with photo ops of departing planes representing the highlight of the weekend. This past weekend was a little different as the Matthew Stafford-Jared Goff trade kicked off ...
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The Virus Variant Spreading in Britain May Make Vaccines Less Effective, Study Shows Its spread appears to occur because of its improved ability to infect people. Experiments in test tubes suggest that some of its mutations allow the B.1.1.7 variant to hold on to cells more tightly than other coronaviruses.
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Firings of officers after students pulled from car reversed The firings of two Atlanta police officers over an incident in which two college students were pulled from a car in traffic during a protest against police brutality have been overturned. By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press. February 2, 2021, 10:09 AM.
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For Britain's Art Dealers, Post-Brexit Trade Isn't So Free Hirst's business is still based in London, and he said he was concerned that the combination of Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic would put an end to his specialist trade. Britain left the European Union in January ...
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Silentó, Rapper Behind Viral 2015 Hit, Is Charged With Murder The rapper, whose real name is Ricky Hawk, caused a sensation with "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)." The police said he fatally shot a cousin outside Atlanta last month.
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Moscow court orders Kremlin foe Navalny to prison MOSCOW — A Moscow court on Tuesday ordered Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to prison for more than 2 1/2 years, finding that he violated the terms of his probation while recuperating in Germany from nerve-agent poisoning. The ruling ignited ...
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North Carolina discontinues license plates with Confederate battle flag The state of North Carolina is no longer offering residents the option to obtain a specialty license plate that has the Confederate flag. (CNN) North ...
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Embiid Named Eastern Conference Player of the Month In his fifth NBA season, it's Embiid's second career Player of the Month selection. Embiid joins Hall of Famers Allen Iverson (four times), Charles Barkley (twice), Moses Malone (twice) and Julius Erving (three times) as the only 76ers players to win the award ...
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Face Masks Now Required In National Parks After Biden Executive Order Topline. The National Parks Service now requires employees and visitors to wear face masks indoors—and outdoors when physical distancing isn't possible—the agency announced Tuesday, reversing the previously relaxed approach to mask wearing at ...
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SpaceX Flight Gives St. Jude Hospital a Cosmic Funding Boost NEW YORK (AP) — SpaceX's first all-civilian space flight set for late this year will provide an out-of-this-world fundraising opportunity for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, which says it expects to generate $200 million for cancer research and other ...
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Falcons 2021 Mock Draft: Offseason 2.0 Edition As the Falcons new coaching staff continues to take shape, it's time for another 2021 mock draft. Which QBs will be available at 4, and will Atlanta select one? Does the team prioritize offense or defense on Day 2?
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Grant Jackson, winning pitcher in '79 WS Game 7, dies at 78 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Grant Jackson, the winning pitcher in Game 7 of the 1979 World Series for the "We Are Family" Pittsburgh Pirates and a reliable left-hander for 18 seasons in the majors, died Tuesday from COVID-19 complications. He was 78.
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Gov. Mike DeWine says getting vaccine to minority communities is work in progress, but here's what he's trying COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Gov. Mike DeWine said in his Tuesday coronavirus briefing that the state is aiming to provide more equitable access to the COVID-19 vaccine for racial minorities, but noted that "it is a work in progress, and we have more to do." "We've ...
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Pentagon Fires Trump Appointees—Like Lewandowski, Gingrich—From Advisory Board Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is purging all of the Pentagon's advisory boards, he announced this week, firing dozens of unpaid advisors and derailing former President Donald Trump's controversial attempts late last year to give board seats to his political ...
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Three people are dead after an argument over snow shoveling leads to murder-suicide At around 9 a.m. Monday, the shooter, Jeffrey Spaide, got into an argument with James and Lisa Goy, who lived across the street, while shoveling snow from his driveway, a release from the Luzerne County District Attorney's Office said.
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Rochester Police Officers, Who Pepper-Sprayed Girl, Are Suspended STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: In Rochester, N.Y., one police officer is suspended and two others are on administrative leave after they handcuffed and pepper sprayed a 9-year-old girl. Body cam footage ...
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Do I Have to Pay Taxes on Gains From Stocks? If you enjoyed stock market success in 2020, you might owe the IRS. Here's our quick, easy guide to paying taxes on your stock gains. by: Charles Lewis Sizemore, CFA. February 2, 2021. A man demanding money. Getty Images. 2020, for all of its chaos and ...
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House Dems make case for conviction; Donald Trump denies charges WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump endangered the lives of all members of Congress when he aimed a mob of supporters "like a loaded cannon" at the U.S. Capitol, House Democrats said Tuesday in making their most detailed case yet for why the former ...
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Australians in lockdown are driven from their homes by a wildfire. MELBOURNE, Australia — Just days after residents of Perth, Australia's fourth-largest city, were ordered to stay in because of the coronavirus, some were forced to flee their homes on Tuesday as a ferocious wildfire bore down on the city's outskirts. The blaze ...
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Investigators try to put together timeline of soldier, veteran before Fort Bragg murders Federal investigators are trying to determine where a Fort Bragg soldier and a veteran were before they were killed. The FBI and U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command want to know if anyone saw Master Sgt. William J. LaVigne II, 37, or Timothy J. Dumas ...
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9-0 again: Southampton slumps to record-tying loss to Man U Fifteen months later, it happened again to Southampton. Ralph Hasenhuttl's team has another 9-0 loss to get over after Manchester United cleaned up at Old Trafford to tie the biggest margin of victory since the Premier League began in 1992. There have ...
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Design for Amazon 'Helix' HQ in Virginia Looks Like the Poop Emoji Does Amazon's new building look like an ice cream swirl? Or what about a poop emoji? The internet certainly has opinions on the design for the company's new office building in Arlington, Virginia, where Amazon ...
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1 Year, 500000 Cases Of COVID-19 In Mass. Half a million cases of the virus in a state with less than 7 million residents. And most of those cases came during the second surge, which entered with the fall season. On Sept. 22, the first day of fall, there were 126,869 confirmed cases in Massachusetts.
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Confusion over Newsom's choice of Blue Shield, Kaiser to lead vaccination push California Gov. Gavin Newsom, struggling to salvage a once-bright political future dimmed by his mishandling of the covid crisis, tapped not-for-profit insurer Blue Shield of California last week to allocate the state's covid vaccine. The company has thus far said ...
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Comcast to Double Speeds for Its $10 Low-Income Broadband Plan Comcast is doubling the speed for its Internet Essentials package—a $9.95-a-month plan—after a former employee claimed the program's speed promises were a sham. The download speed is going up from ...
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Japan plans to extend its state of emergency as Covid-19 cases rise and Olympics loom The move comes as questions persist over the country's readiness to host the Olympics, which are scheduled to be held in Tokyo this summer from July 23 to August 8. Eleven of Japan's 47 prefectures are ...
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Murder charges: 11-year-old boy identified shooter of St. Paul triple murder before his death An 11-year-old boy shot five times alongside his mother and teenage sister implicated the man who did it before dying at the hospital, according to murder charges. TeKeith Svyone Jones, 26, was charged in Ramsey County District Court on Tuesday with ...
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Airstream is adding office space to its trailers so you can work from wherever The new Airstream Flying Cloud 30FB offers a literal corner office. Even in a 30-foot-long trailer, space is tight, so it isn't exactly a roomy workspace. Converted from what was originally sleeping space in the trailer, it has a desk and an office chair that slides ...
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Alphabet posts record profits for second straight quarter despite pandemic Revenue after removing traffic-acquisition costs improved to $46.43 billion from $46.08 billion in the year-ago period. Advertisement. Analysts surveyed by FactSet had estimated net income of $10.92 billion ...
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Nike's new GO FlyEase sneakers let you slip on your shoes 'hands free' The sneaker features a hinge and a "tensioner" so the wearer can easily slip the shoe on and off. According to a demonstration of the shoes, you simply slide your feet in and push down with your heel to secure the shoe on to your foot.
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GOP's McConnell blasts 'loony lies' by Ga. Rep. Greene WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell denounced newly elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday, calling the far-right Georgia Republican's embrace of conspiracy theories and "loony lies" a "cancer for the Republican ...
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Hit by pandemic, oil giants Exxon, BP post huge 2020 losses DALLAS (AP) — Oil giants Exxon and BP reported staggering losses for 2020 on Tuesday as the pandemic crushed energy demand and undercut oil prices. Exxon Mobil Corp. reported the largest losses in its history — nearly $20.1 billion for the fourth ...
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Studies suggest only 1 vaccine dose may be needed if you already had COVID STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A pair of studies suggest that people who previously had COVID-19 had high antibody levels after receiving just one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, the New York Times reported. In one study posted online Monday, which has not ...
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Forty more dead from COVID-19 in Wisconsin; 123 newly hospitalized Wisconsin Department of Health Services New confirmed COVID-19 cases by date confirmed, and 7-day average as of Feb. 2, 2021. MADISON (WKOW) ...
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Coronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on Tuesday Saskatchewan, New Brunswick report variant cases, Canada signs deal to manufacture vaccine domestically. The Associated Press · Posted: Feb 02, 2021 4:56 PM ET | Last Updated: 1 hour ago ...
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Gov. Tom Wolf calls for personal income tax increase, cut for PA lower wage workers. What would change The announcement comes in advance of Wolf's full budget proposal to be released Wednesday and sets up a fight with the Republican-controlled state Legislature over his plan. "It is possible ...
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Apple tests new way to unlock an iPhone without removing a face mask Some iPhone users will soon be able to unlock their smartphones without needing to remove their face masks in public. There's just one catch: it requires an additional Apple device. Apple is testing new iOS software that will allow people to unlock their ...
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What is The Weeknd's net worth? Fox News Headlines 24/7 sports reporter Michael 'Gunz' Gunzelman explains the pressure being put on popular brands by social media and previews the Super Bowl matchup between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Kansas City Chiefs.
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Washington COVID-19 hotline helps seniors book vaccine appointments "We've got a group of people that are older, and we're expecting them to use the internet, basically, blindly," said Jamie Evans, of Everett, who has been trying to help her 95-year-old grandmother, Laura Schirmann, find a vaccine appointment.
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Ex-ECB's Draghi positioned to lead Italy after politics fail ROME (AP) — The president of Italy has summoned former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi to a Wednesday meeting after announcing he wants the quick formation of a non-political government to lead Italy during the coronavirus pandemic.
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2 suspects in fire that killed family of immigrants in Green Valley Ranch to face charges as adults DENVER (KDVR) — Two 16-year-olds are facing adult charges for allegedly murdering five people and burning down the home they lived in in Green Valley Ranch last summer. The fire began just before 3 a.m. at 5312 N. Truckee St. on Aug. 5. An infant ...
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