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Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Politics
Temple settles federal claims of falsified data submissions

Temple University will pay the U.S. Department of Education $700,000 to settle claims regarding years of falsified data submitted to U.S. News & World Report. The department announced the settlement...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Politics
Families of 34 California boat fire victims grieve, advocate

The snapshots tell the story of a big man with a big, beaming grin. The McIlvain family passes around the pictures, laughing over their son Charlie's antics captured through the...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Politics
UN health chief: World can start dreaming of pandemic’s end

The U.N. health chief declared Friday that positive results from coronavirus vaccine trials mean the world “can begin to dream about the end of the pandemic,” but he said rich...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Politics
Elections shaping up to become major issue in Legislature

Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania who are still questioning without basis the validity of the Nov. 3 election are drafting a boatload of voting-related legislation, with top Democrats quickly accusing them...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Politics
Cruises keep getting canceled due to the pandemic. Here’s the latest update

Cruises in the U.S. remain canceled through 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. As cruise companies work with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to strengthen health and safety...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Politics
San Francisco Bay Area issues new stay-at-home order

The health officers in six San Francisco Bay Area regions issued a new stay-at-home order Friday as the number of virus cases surge and hospitals fill. The changes will take...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Politics
How major US stock indexes fared Friday

Stocks returned to record highs on Wall Street Friday as traders took a discouraging jobs report as a sign that Congress may finally move on delivering more aid for the...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Politics
Google AI researcher’s exit sparks ethics, bias concerns

Prominent artificial intelligence scholar Timnit Gebru helped improve Google's public image as a company that elevates Black computer scientists and questions harmful uses of AI technology. But internally, Gebru, a...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Breaking News
‘Scandalous’ first Christmas card up for sale

The first commercially printed Christmas card is up for sale, showing a merry Victorian-era scene that scandalised some who denounced it when it first appeared in 1843.

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Breaking News
House votes to decriminalise marijuana in US at federal level

The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives has approved a bill to decriminalise and tax marijuana in the US at the federal level.

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Politics
States submit vaccine orders as coronavirus death toll grows

States faced a deadline on Friday to place orders for the coronavirus vaccine as many reported record infections, hospitalizations and deaths, while hospitals were pushed to the breaking point —...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Politics
BLM gets a lesson in how ‘trained Marxism’ really works, as leader rakes in millions while chapters get nothing 

While the Black Lives Matter Global Network, led by ‘trained Marxist' Patrisse Cullors, embraced the windfall of donations following the George Floyd protests across America, local chapters say they were...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Politics
The US election may not have been ‘stolen,’ but if this had happened in any other nation, America would brand it illegitimate

The 2020 presidential election shambles will go down in history as the event that exposed the fallacy of America's democracy and made a mockery of its notion of free speech...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Politics
Nissan pulls out of Trump emissions fight with California

Nissan said Friday that it will no longer support the Trump administration in its legal fight to end California's ability to set its own auto-pollution and gas-mileage standards. The announcement...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Politics
Nissan pulls out of Trump emissions fight with California

Nissan said Friday that it will no longer support the Trump administration in its legal fight to end California's ability to set its own auto-pollution and gas-mileage standards. The announcement...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Politics
Nissan pulls out of Trump emissions fight with California

Nissan said Friday that it will no longer support the Trump administration in its legal fight to end California's ability to set its own auto-pollution and gas-mileage standards. The announcement...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Politics
EXPLAINER: 5 key takeaways from the November jobs report

Evidence was abundant in the November jobs report that the U.S. economy's tentative recovery is sputtering as coronavirus cases accelerate and federal aid runs out. Hiring slowed sharply. Hundreds of...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Politics
Former Yankees affiliate shuts down, sues Major League club

A minor league baseball team once affiliated with the New York Yankees has shut down and filed a lawsuit accusing the Yankees violating an agreement that it would never abandon...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Politics
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week

A look at false and misleading claims and videos circulating one month after the 2020 election and as COVID-19 cases surge. None of these are legit, even though they were...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Politics
VIRUS TODAY: Sagging job market, deadline for vaccine orders

Here's what's happening Friday with the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S.: THREE THINGS TO KNOW TODAY — The job market is slowing down as the fall surge in the virus...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Science & Tech
Sephora is having a month-long holiday sale on all its best beauty products

This month-long Sephora sale is kicking off with a bang—find out how to save on Nars, Fenty Beauty and more.

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Politics
Noah Cyrus calls Candace Owens a ‘nappy a** heauxz’, but is cleared, because cancel culture absolves liberals of racism

The white singer has given a half-hearted apology for a racially charged barb about the black conservative commentator, something that would end a career if their politics were reversed. Enough...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Politics
The defining Miami real estate trends of the past seven years | Opinion

This month, I will step down as chair of the Miami Master Brokers Forum after assuming the position in 2013. Through leading this elite network of our area's top residential...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Foreign Affairs
Bahrain now 2nd nation to grant Pfizer shot emergency use

The island kingdom of Bahrain said Friday it has become the second nation in the world to grant an emergency-use authorization for the coronavirus vaccine made by Pfizer and its...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Politics
House votes to decriminalize marijuana at federal level

The Democratic-controlled House on Friday approved a bill to decriminalize and tax marijuana at the federal level, reversing what supporters called a failed policy of criminalization of pot use and...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Breaking News
House votes to decriminalise marijuana in US at federal level

The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives has approved a bill to decriminalise and tax marijuana in the US at the federal level.

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Politics
In face of ‘grim’ jobs report, Biden backs more COVID-19 aid

President-elect Joe Biden is pushing ahead with his call for massive economic stimulus as the economic recovery from this spring's coronavirus lockdowns falters amid a nationwide spike in COVID-19 cases....

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Foreign Affairs
In southern Madagascar, ‘nothing to feed our children’

“It's the hunger that killed him,” the grieving mother said. In this village in Madagascar's extreme south, the 31-year-old Lasinatry lost her 3-year-old boy in June as hunger swept the...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Politics
Blackjewel seeks to liquidate assets instead of reorganizing

A bankrupt coal company is seeking permission to liquidate its assets instead of reorganizing them. A hearing in the Blackjewel coal company bankruptcy case is set for Dec. 17 in...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Breaking News
Coronavirus Ireland: six further deaths and 265 new cases

There have been six further deaths and 265 new cases of coronavirus in Ireland.

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Politics
Idaho lieutenant governor got pandemic loans for business

A high-ranking Idaho elected official who has spoken out against using federal money to help people through the economic pain caused by the pandemic received more than $300,000 from a...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Politics
Army Corps withdraws plan to charge for reservoir water

The Army Corps of Engineers reversed course on an Obama-era proposal to charge for water drawn from reservoirs the Corps manages, North Dakota's attorney general said Friday. Attorneys general from...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Politics
Army Corps withdraws plan to charge for reservoir water

The Army Corps of Engineers reversed course on an Obama-era proposal to charge for water drawn from reservoirs the Corps manages, North Dakota's attorney general said Friday. Attorneys general from...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Business
Venezuela’s Maduro seeks to tighten his grip via election

With the political opponents of President Nicolás Maduro boycotting Sunday's election for the National Assembly, his socialist party is expected to dominate the vote, giving him control of the last...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Business
Venezuela’s Maduro seeks to tighten his grip via election

With the political opponents of President Nicolás Maduro boycotting Sunday's election for the National Assembly, his socialist party is expected to dominate the vote, giving him control of the last...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Politics
George Galloway: Britain’s £1bn in “aid” to Yemen as it sells bombs to Saudi is the very definition of blood money

Does the British government's cynicism know no end? Confirming multi-million pound aid packages for war-torn Yemen while facilitating attacks by the Saudis is treachery of the highest standard. The British...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Politics
George Galloway: Britain’s £1bn in “aid” to Yemen as it sells bombs to Saudi is the very definition of blood money

Does the British government's cynicism know no end? Confirming multi-million pound aid packages for war-torn Yemen while facilitating attacks by the Saudis is treachery of the highest standard. The British...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Breaking News
Pound jumps to a two-year high despite tension over Brexit talks

Sterling jumped to a two-year high as currency traders held out hope for a deal with the EU as time ticked away for an agreement to be struck.

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Politics
Ben Simmons all in on 76ers’ new buzzword: accountability

The idea of Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid as a modern-day odd couple bunking together in a Center City condominium trash-talking during games of “FIFA 21” after playing taxing real...

Posted by The Analyst | December 4, 2020 | Politics
Arizona grassroots effort boosts Black candidates, turnout

Black voters in Arizona were barraged with text messages, phone calls and visits before the election — and they got the message. The get-out-the-vote effort in Arizona translated into record-high...