Politics

December 19, 2020
The Pentagon spends millions helping Hollywood movies that portray the US military favorably. But now it’s into Xmas ROM-COMS?

Love boats, Oedipus complexes, and pants suits on a desert island – a pair of new schmaltzy films, courtesy of the US Department of Defense, are the Christmas present we...

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December 19, 2020
EXPLAINER: Iran, despite sanctions, has routes to vaccines

Although Iran faces crushing U.S. sanctions, there are still ways for Tehran to obtain coronavirus vaccines as the country suffers the Mideast's worst outbreak of the pandemic. After earlier downplaying...

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December 19, 2020
India’s virus cases cross 10 million as new infections dip

India's confirmed coronavirus cases have crossed 10 million with new infections dipping to their lowest levels in three months, as the country prepares for a massive COVID-19 vaccination in the...

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December 19, 2020
Ice dancers training in West Palm eye Beijing Olympics

A skating duo — her from Boca Raton, him from Kazakhstan — hope to ice dance their way into the next Winter Olympics. And their path to competition runs through...

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December 19, 2020
Ice dancers training in West Palm eye Beijing Olympics

A skating duo — her from Boca Raton, him from Kazakhstan — hope to ice dance their way into the next Winter Olympics. And their path to competition runs through...

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December 19, 2020
Ice dancers training in West Palm eye Beijing Olympics

A skating duo — her from Boca Raton, him from Kazakhstan — hope to ice dance their way into the next Winter Olympics. And their path to competition runs through...

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December 19, 2020
Woke review of the Queen’s paintings shames true heroes of Xmas favourite ‘Zulu’ by insulting their bravery as ‘colonial violence’

A painting of a famous battle scene owned by the Queen and retold in the film ‘Zulu' has been relabelled. A Black Lives Matter-inspired review has shamefully decried the bravery...

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December 19, 2020
Woke review of the Queen’s paintings shames true heroes of Xmas favourite ‘Zulu’ by insulting their bravery as ‘colonial violence’

A painting of a famous battle scene owned by the Queen and retold in the film ‘Zulu' has been relabelled. A Black Lives Matter-inspired review has shamefully decried the bravery...

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December 19, 2020
Woke review of the Queen’s paintings shames true heroes of Xmas favourite ‘Zulu’ by insulting their bravery as ‘colonial violence’

A painting of a famous battle scene owned by the Queen and retold in the film ‘Zulu' has been relabelled. A Black Lives Matter-inspired review has shamefully decried the bravery...

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December 19, 2020
Friday Sports in Brief

NHL The National Hockey League and players reached a tentative deal Friday to hold a 56-game season in 2021 beginning Jan. 13, pending the approval of each side's executive board...

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December 19, 2020
The Latest: China to begin vaccinating front-line workers

BEIJING — China says it will soon begin coronavirus inoculations for workers in health care, transport and border control. The vice minister of the National Health Commission says the government...

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December 19, 2020
The Latest: China to begin vaccinating front-line workers

BEIJING — China says it will soon begin coronavirus inoculations for workers in health care, transport and border control. The vice minister of the National Health Commission says the government...

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December 19, 2020
Congress averts shutdown; fight continues over pandemic aid

Congress passed a two-day stopgap spending bill Friday night, averting a partial government shutdown and buying yet more time for frustratingly slow endgame negotiations on an almost $1 trillion COVID-19...

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December 19, 2020
Congress averts shutdown; fight continues over pandemic aid

Congress passed a two-day stopgap spending bill Friday night, averting a partial government shutdown and buying yet more time for frustratingly slow endgame negotiations on an almost $1 trillion COVID-19...

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December 19, 2020
Congress averts shutdown; fight continues over pandemic aid

Congress passed a two-day stopgap spending bill Friday night, averting a partial government shutdown and buying yet more time for frustratingly slow endgame negotiations on an almost $1 trillion COVID-19...

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December 19, 2020
Congress averts shutdown; fight continues over pandemic aid

Congress passed a two-day stopgap spending bill Friday night, averting a partial government shutdown and buying yet more time for frustratingly slow endgame negotiations on an almost $1 trillion COVID-19...

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December 19, 2020
NC coffee company works to keep women front and center

Blake Boyd and Margaret Gibbs, the business partners and women behind Incite Coffee, are relative newcomers to the industry. But it didn't take them long to realize how infrequently women...

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December 19, 2020
Historically segregated Black school gets honored in SC

In the heart of a West Columbia community lies a hidden treasure whose beginnings were birthed out of the dark history of segregation in the South, but its foundation is...

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December 19, 2020
Air Force veteran opens business that offers wellness haven

When Nicole Houser retired from the U.S. Air Force after more than 20 years of service, she wasn't sure what the next chapter in her life would bring. She'd always...

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December 19, 2020
Irving leads rout of Celtics in return to Boston Garden

Kyrie Irving circled the Boston Garden parquet floor performing an apparent spiritual ritual by waving a burning substance in his hands before tipoff, then proceeded to torch his former team....

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December 19, 2020
Hacked networks will need to be burned ‘down to the ground’

It's going to take months to kick elite hackers widely believed to be Russian out of the U.S. government networks they have been quietly rifling through since as far back...

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December 19, 2020
California’s economy is fast losing momentum; 327,000 job seekers give up

Hundreds of thousands of Californians dropped out of the workforce in November as businesses sharply curtailed the pace of hiring — trends that economists suggest are growing ever more dire....

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December 19, 2020
US clears Moderna vaccine for COVID-19, 2nd shot in arsenal

The U.S. added a second COVID-19 vaccine to its arsenal Friday, boosting efforts to beat back an outbreak so dire that the nation is regularly recording more than 3,000 deaths...

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December 19, 2020
Senate investigators fault FAA over Boeing jet, safety

Boeing improperly influenced a test designed to see how quickly pilots could respond to malfunctions on the Boeing 737 Max, and Federal Aviation Administration officials may have obstructed a review...

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December 19, 2020
Asia Today: Sydney beach suburbs in lockdown as cases rise

Sydney's northern beaches will enter a lockdown similar to the one imposed during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March as a cluster of cases in the area increased...

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December 19, 2020
VIRUS TODAY: 2nd vaccine approved; Pence receives shot on TV

Here's what's happening Friday with the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S.: THREE THINGS TO KNOW TODAY — The U.S. added a second COVID-19 vaccine to its arsenal, boosting efforts to...

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December 19, 2020
Florida launches investigation into hacking of its servers

Florida officials acknowledged Friday that state servers appear to have been compromised by overseas hackers who gained entry by imbedding malicious code into networking software from a Texas-based software company,...

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December 18, 2020
Some San Diego restaurants reopen despite legal uncertainty

Eggs, waffles and burritos flew out of the kitchen Friday at The Old Townhouse, a 45-year-old institution in San Diego's Ocean Beach neighborhood that immediately resumed indoor dining when a...

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December 18, 2020
Hacked networks will need to be burned ‘down to the ground’

It's going to take months to kick elite hackers widely believed to be Russian out of the U.S. government networks they have been quietly rifling through since as far back...

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December 18, 2020
Four last-minute Trump administration rules that could impact autos, climate and labor

With President Donald Trump's final days in the Oval Office fast approaching, his administration is racing to enact sweeping changes to federal policy on the environment, labor, technology and more,...

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December 18, 2020
Four last-minute Trump administration rules that could impact autos, climate and labor

With President Donald Trump's final days in the Oval Office fast approaching, his administration is racing to enact sweeping changes to federal policy on the environment, labor, technology and more,...

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December 18, 2020
Top-ranked Jin Young Ko takes lead in LPGA Tour finale

Top-ranked Jin Young Ko took the lead into the weekend in the LPGA Tour's CME Group Tour Championship, putting herself in position to win the season money title in only...

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December 18, 2020
Top-ranked Jin Young Ko takes lead in LPGA Tour finale

Top-ranked Jin Young Ko took the lead into the weekend in the LPGA Tour's CME Group Tour Championship, putting herself in position to win the season money title in only...

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December 18, 2020
Idaho unemployment rate falls as job seekers stop trying

Idaho's unemployment rate dropped to 4.8%, mainly because many people stopped looking for work and were no longer being counted, state officials said Friday. The Idaho Department of Labor said...

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December 18, 2020
Yellen sets out to build treasury team with Obama alumni

Janet Yellen is focusing on several Obama-administration alumni for key posts in the U.S. Treasury, according to people familiar with the matter, as critical decisions loom on everything from debt...

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December 18, 2020
How major US stock indexes fared Friday

Stocks fell Friday, snapping a three-day winning streak for the S&P 500 a day after it and other major indexes returned to record heights. The selling came as the wait...

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December 18, 2020
How major US stock indexes fared Friday

Stocks fell Friday, snapping a three-day winning streak for the S&P 500 a day after it and other major indexes returned to record heights. The selling came as the wait...

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December 18, 2020
United: CDC looks into death of man on flight from Florida

United Airlines has given information about other passengers to federal health officials after a man who possibly had coronavirus-like symptoms died shortly after being on a flight, the airline said...

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December 18, 2020
United: CDC looks into death of man on flight from Florida

United Airlines has given information about other passengers to federal health officials after a man who possibly had coronavirus-like symptoms died shortly after being on a flight, the airline said...

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December 18, 2020
Visit by COVID-infected official closes Washington Monument

The Trump administration abruptly closed the Washington Monument over exposure concerns from a recent visit by Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, who tested positive this week for the coronavirus. Interior spokesman...

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