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First Covid-19 Vaccine Given to U.S. Public | But still no Vaccine for Aids or Cancer etc.
The first U.S. Covid-19 vaccinations outside of clinical trials began Monday, kicking off the most urgent mass immunization campaign since polio shots were rolled out in the 1950s. That mostly affected the black community. A black nurse in New York was among the first to receive the shot Monday morning, and health workers throughout the…
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Google was hit with massive outage, including YouTube, Gmail and Google Classroom
Google’s services went down for about an hour Monday in a massive outage that prevented many people from watching YouTube videos, accessing their Google Docs or sending email on Gmail. The outage also made Google Classroom temporarily unavailable, preventing many students learning remotely from accessing their classes. A little after 8 am ET, most of…
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A Black community in Louisiana fights a new chemical facility that threatens their health—and the sanctity of their long-hidden past.
ON a 90-degree day in June 2020, a few dozen people walk across a field in Louisiana’s St. James Parish on the west bank of the Mississippi River. Tall grass brushes their waistbands as they head for a plot surrounded by a chain-link fence. They block the blazing sun with umbrellas and fan themselves with…
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Detectives use DNA to solve 1999 Colorado hospital cold case murder of 23 year old Jennifer Watkins
DNA has helped crack the unsolved cold case murder of a woman found in a stairwell of a Colorado hospital 21 years ago. In November 1999, Jennifer Watkins, 23, was working as a dietary aide at Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs. She got the job two weeks before her death. Watkins disappeared before the end…
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‘The moment of truth’: The Electoral College prepares to hand Trump the loss he refuses to accept
WASHINGTON — After all the failed lawsuits, the recounts, the falsehoods and conspiracy theories, President Donald Trump will finally meet his electoral fate Monday. Across all statehouses amid a global pandemic, 538 electors are set to convene to cast their votes for either President-elect Joe Biden or Trump, reflecting the popular votes in their states. Although protests are likely at some…
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Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister, ‘Friday’ Actor and Wrestler, Dies at 62
Tommy “Tiny” Lister, who appeared in “Friday” and “The Fifth Element” and was also a professional wrestler, died Thursday, his manager Cindy Cowan confirmed. Cowan said he was found unresponsive in his apartment in Marina del Rey, Calif. after recovering from COVID-19 earlier this year. He had been working on a film and had to…
