Politics

December 18, 2020
Idaho to pay over $26K in lawyer fees over election lawsuit

Idaho will pay more than $26,000 in lawyer fees to a former congressional candidate who successfully sued to extend a deadline to apply for primary election absentee ballots. The state...

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December 18, 2020
Idaho to pay over $26K in lawyer fees over election lawsuit

Idaho will pay more than $26,000 in lawyer fees to a former congressional candidate who successfully sued to extend a deadline to apply for primary election absentee ballots. The state...

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December 18, 2020
Google’s antitrust case won’t go to trial until Sept. 2023

The U.S. government's attempt to prove Google has been using its dominance of online search to stifle competition and innovation at the expense of consumers and advertisers won't go to...

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December 18, 2020
Google’s antitrust case won’t go to trial until Sept. 2023

The U.S. government's attempt to prove Google has been using its dominance of online search to stifle competition and innovation at the expense of consumers and advertisers won't go to...

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December 18, 2020
Google’s antitrust case won’t go to trial until Sept. 2023

The U.S. government's attempt to prove Google has been using its dominance of online search to stifle competition and innovation at the expense of consumers and advertisers won't go to...

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December 18, 2020
Bowman eager to set Blackhawks back on championship course

Stan Bowman has a new job title and the same goal to set the Chicago Blackhawks back on a championship course. He insists no one is hungrier than he is...

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December 18, 2020
Bowman eager to set Blackhawks back on championship course

Stan Bowman has a new job title and the same goal to set the Chicago Blackhawks back on a championship course. He insists no one is hungrier than he is...

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December 18, 2020
Bowman eager to set Blackhawks back on championship course

Stan Bowman has a new job title and the same goal to set the Chicago Blackhawks back on a championship course. He insists no one is hungrier than he is...

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December 18, 2020
Caitlin Johnstone: Secret, invisible evidence of Russian hacking is not actually evidence

We've landed in a world where diplomacy, sanctions, even war can be decided by mere claims, and evidence is optional. Yet those proudly displaying the badge of 'public trust' are...

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December 18, 2020
Caitlin Johnstone: Secret, invisible evidence of Russian hacking is not actually evidence

We've landed in a world where diplomacy, sanctions, even war can be decided by mere claims, and evidence is optional. Yet those proudly displaying the badge of 'public trust' are...

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December 18, 2020
WHO: Vaccine program gets access to nearly 2 billion doses

The World Health Organization program to help get COVID-19 vaccines to all countries in need has access to nearly 2 billion doses of “promising” vaccine candidates, officials said Friday. None...

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December 18, 2020
WHO: Vaccine program gets access to nearly 2 billion doses

The World Health Organization program to help get COVID-19 vaccines to all countries in need has access to nearly 2 billion doses of “promising” vaccine candidates, officials said Friday. None...

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December 18, 2020
Colorado reports 40K people filed for jobless benefits

Colorado reported unemployment filings have ticked up during the latest surge of the coronavirus pandemic, rising by more than 11% in the last week, officials said. The Colorado Department of...

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December 18, 2020
Audit: Inadequate control to prevent state unemployment scam

The state Employment Security Department did not have adequate controls to prevent a slew of illegal unemployment insurance claims last spring that grew into the largest fraud in state history,...

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December 18, 2020
Damage from border wall: blown-up mountains, toppled cactus

Work crews ignite dynamite blasts in the remote and rugged southeast corner of Arizona, forever reshaping the landscape as they pulverize mountaintops in a rush to build more of President...

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December 18, 2020
Damage from border wall: blown-up mountains, toppled cactus

Work crews ignite dynamite blasts in the remote and rugged southeast corner of Arizona, forever reshaping the landscape as they pulverize mountaintops in a rush to build more of President...

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December 18, 2020
Walgreens rolls out COVID-19 shot at Florida nursing homes

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Walgreens' chief medical officer are announcing that Florida nursing homes are among the first in the country where residents will be vaccinated against COVID-19 through...

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December 18, 2020
Walgreens rolls out COVID-19 shot at Florida nursing homes

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Walgreens' chief medical officer are announcing that Florida nursing homes are among the first in the country where residents will be vaccinated against COVID-19 through...

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December 18, 2020
I just beat Cyberpunk 2077. The most anticipated game of 2020 is a skin-deep, broken marvel

Cyberpunk 2077 is confusing. It's an experience that wildly fluctuates. At times, being utterly amazing and, at others, a complete wreck. It perhaps isn't an understatement to call it early...

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December 18, 2020
NBA approves sale of Jazz to Utah technology entrepreneur

The NBA's Board of Governors unanimously approved the sale Friday of the Utah Jazz to a group led by technology entrepreneur Ryan Smith, ending the Miller family's 35-year run as...

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December 18, 2020
The EU’s investment deal with Beijing punctures America’s dream of a ‘transatlantic alliance’ against China

The conventional wisdom in Washington that President Biden would find it easier to co-opt Europe into an anti-China agenda has been exposed as misplaced and naive. The EU is pragmatic,...

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December 18, 2020
New York Times: ‘Caliphate’ podcast didn’t meet standards

After an internal investigation, The New York Times said Friday it was wrong to trust a Canadian man whose account of Islamic State atrocities was a central part of its...

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December 18, 2020
Senior-level hires and promotions in Miami-Dade, Broward for the week of Dec. 21, 2020

ACCOUNTING Stewart Liebling has been named a principal in the entrepreneurial services department at Kaufman Rossin, where he started his career in 1983. For the past 32 years, he ran...

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December 18, 2020
Virus outlier Sweden adopts more restrictions as cases rise

Sweden is tightening nationwide coronavirus restrictions by requiring many people to work from home and reducing the number who can gather in restaurants, shops and gyms starting next week, but...

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December 18, 2020
New leaders seek to revitalize Carbondale community center

Once a hub of activity in Carbondale's northeast neighborhood, the 12,000-square-foot Eurma C. Hayes Center now stands mostly vacant and in disrepair. Now, a newly appointed board and executive director...

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December 18, 2020
New events halted at Aloha Stadium over virus, budget issues

Aloha Stadium officials said they aren't scheduling new events because of coronavirus restrictions and budget issues. The Aloha Stadium Authority announced Thursday that it also has reduced day-to-day operations at...

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December 18, 2020
Vaccines are finally here. But could they affect holiday shipping?

The U.S. Postal Service doesn't normally deliver on Sundays. But if you've seen your regular mail person zipping through the neighborhood on the weekend lately, it's not a dream. As...

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December 18, 2020
Tour $23 million Lake County ranch owned by lawyer David Boies

The Lower Lake, California, home of David Boies, who represents accusers of Jeffrey Epstein, could be sold for the most expensive price in Lake County history. … Click to Continue...

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December 18, 2020
Leaked files show how UK govt spent millions exploiting Syrian women in cynical PR offensive to attract support for regime change

A swath of leaked documents reveals the extent to which the British government went in an effort to paint the Syrian opposition in a flattering light. They also confirm women...

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December 18, 2020
Health care company buys Naples Daily News building

A healthcare company has purchased the Naples Daily News building in Southwest Florida. The newspaper reported Friday that the property fetched a price of $27,985,000. The newspaper property was listed...

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December 18, 2020
Demand is low for COVID-19 antibody drugs but shortages loom

U.S. health officials are seeing an astonishing lack of demand for COVID-19 medicines that may help keep infected people out of the hospital, drugs they rushed out to states over...

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December 18, 2020
Alabama jobless rate drops to 4.4%, still above 2019 level

Alabama's unemployment rate dropped to 4.4% in November, a big improvement from earlier in the year when it nearly hit 13% but still above last year's level, the state said...

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December 18, 2020
Illegal winery busted at Alabama town’s sewage plant

Sheriff's officials say they've busted an illegal winery that was operating at a municipal sewage plant in a small north Alabama town. The DeKalb County Sheriff's Office said in a...

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December 18, 2020
Helen Keller was blind, deaf and mute, so to suggest she had ‘white privilege’ is racism at its very worst

Black disabled rights activist Anita Cameron has dismissed legendary campaigner Helen Keller as “just another privileged white person.” It's yet another example of how some people have no idea what...

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December 18, 2020
Sound Transit program to suspend fare enforcement citations

Sound Transit employees in 2021 will check with light rail and Sounder commuter train passengers to see if they've paid their fare, but they won't penalize those who don't. Fare...

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December 18, 2020
With Trump silent, reprisals for hacks may fall to Biden

All fingers are pointing to Russia as the source of the worst-ever hack of U.S. government agencies. But President Donald Trump, long wary of blaming Moscow for cyberattacks, has been...

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December 18, 2020
NBC’s Holt adds empathetic commentaries to news anchor role

During this brutal news year, Lester Holt has concluded that telling stories isn't enough. The “NBC Nightly News” anchor frequently ends his broadcasts now with commentaries, an unusual departure for...

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December 18, 2020
AP ROAD TRIP: Amid American rancor, a dash of Utah Nice

In one of the most corrosive presidential campaigns in recent American history, amid the political denunciations and slanders of an excruciating year, Utah's top candidates for governor made a television...

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December 18, 2020
Bartell Drugs settles over filling invalid prescriptions

The U.S. Department of Justice says it and Bartell Drugs have resolved allegations that the pharmacy chain filled invalid prescriptions between July 2016 and August 2020 in violation of the...

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December 18, 2020
5 quick questions with Grove Bay Hospitality’s CEO

Perhaps there's no industry that has been more directly impacted as a result of the pandemic than hospitality. From hotels to restaurants, not only have owner/operators had to worry about...

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