Politics

July 29, 2020
Music Review: Alanis Morissette dazzles on 9th album

Alanis Morissette, “Such Pretty Forks in the Road" (Epiphany Music) The piano is back. The voice is back. The angst is back. A genre onto herself, Alanis Morissette comes out...

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July 29, 2020
Working retail during a pandemic: Rumors flourish amid sketchy information about infections

Deemed an essential business, the Dadeland Station Target on South Dixie Highway has been fully operational since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. The store required both customers and employees...

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July 29, 2020
Court deals blow to R.J. Reynolds in tobacco payments fight

A state appeals court Wednesday said R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. is responsible for paying more than $100 million in a dispute rooted in a landmark legal settlement between Florida and...

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July 29, 2020
Fed sees dim economic outlook as virus squeezes economy

The Federal Reserve is expressing concern that the viral outbreak will act as a drag on the economy and hiring in coming months and that it plans to keep its...

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July 29, 2020
N.C. State Fair canceled in 2020 due to coronavirus

The North Carolina State Fair has been canceled for this year due to safety, financial and attendance challenges from COVID-19, State Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler announced Wednesday. The fair, which...

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July 29, 2020
Toxic MASK-ulinity? Now simply looking at women while wearing a face covering is sexist and aggressive

Feminists are claiming that masked men are “aggressively demanding eye contact” and indulging in “hard staring” under the cover of Covid-19. Really? There is no shortage of controversy surrounding face...

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July 29, 2020
On Football: NFL opt outs more prevalent than many expected

Now we know why a key topic in talks between the NFL and the players' union focused on opt outs. Already, more than two dozen players have decided not to...

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July 29, 2020
4 Big Tech CEOs getting heat from Congress on competition

Four Big Tech CEOs — Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai of Google and Tim Cook of Apple — are set to answer for their companies' practices before...

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July 29, 2020
For the NBA, it’s time to play, kneel and demand change

Miami center Bam Adebayo did not know Breonna Taylor. He never heard of the woman who worked as an emergency room technician and had designs on becoming a nurse, a...

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July 29, 2020
Editorial Roundup: Georgia

Recent editorials from Georgia newspapers: ___ July 26 The Valdosta Daily Times on delaying high school football practices: High school football practice should be delayed. Defensive tackles, cornerbacks, running backs,...

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July 29, 2020
Vaccine nationalism: Rich nations spend BILLIONS to grab first anti-coronavirus doses while poor countries are left behind (again)

The COVAX scheme that aims to ensure poorer nations will have access to a Covid-19 vaccine when it arrives is already being undermined by rich Western nations ordering hundreds of...

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July 29, 2020
Simplot phosphate mine expansion approved in eastern Idaho

U.S land managers have approved a final plan for expanding an open-pit phosphate mine in southeastern Idaho proposed by Idaho-based J.R. Simplot Company. The U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Bureau...

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July 29, 2020
Norwegian Cruise Line cancels cruises until November, one month past CDC ban

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings is canceling cruises until November. The Miami-based company announced it is canceling cruises worldwide through October 31, a full month after the ban on cruises put...

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July 29, 2020
In a world of poverty and injustice, mask-hating Facial Justice Warriors have finally found a cause worth fighting for

With limited time and passion to give to causes, it's crucial we choose ours well. So well done Facial Justice Warriors for ignoring other issues until a fight worth fighting...

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July 29, 2020
US is expected to report a record-breaking economic plunge

Having endured what was surely a record-shattering slump last quarter, the U.S. economy faces a dim outlook as a resurgent coronavirus intensifies doubts about any sustained recovery the rest of...

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July 29, 2020
The Latest: ‘Bama taking cost-cutting measures amid pandemic

The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: ___ Athletic director Greg Byrne says the University of Alabama has taken cost-cutting measures for each...

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July 29, 2020
Trump dismisses virus aid for cities, lashes out at GOP

President Donald Trump on Wednesday dismissed Democratic demands to include aid for cash-strapped cities in a new coronavirus relief package and lashed out at Republicans, saying they should “go back...

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July 29, 2020
Report: Oligarchs skirt US sanctions through shady art sales

Russian oligarchs have skirted U.S. sanctions through murky high-end art deals, according to a congressional report released Wednesday that urged lawmakers to rein in an unregulated industry favored by money...

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July 29, 2020
Traffic is down in Greater Miami. The reason may not be cause for celebration

Under normal circumstances, if a Miami-area driver were told area rush hour traffic was down about 30%, they might run out to test how fast they could take the Palmetto...

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July 29, 2020
Orange County board to sue California over school closures

Education officials in Orange County are planning to sue Gov. Gavin Newsom and state health officials over rules barring most schools from reopening classrooms when the academic year starts due...

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July 29, 2020
Missouri tourist town of Branson to require face coverings

The popular Missouri tourist town of Branson will require face coverings in most public places in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus, despite the objections of many,...

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July 29, 2020
US officials: Russia behind spread of virus disinformation

U.S. officials say Russian intelligence officers are spreading disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic through English-language websites, trying to exploit a crisis that America is struggling to contain before the presidential...

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July 29, 2020
Slithery milestone: 5,000 pythons captured in Everglades

Florida hit another new milestone this week — 5,000 Burmese pythons have been captured in the Everglades since the state started paying hunters to track them down in 2017. The...

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July 29, 2020
Project Fear’s success: If face coverings are so effective, why weren’t maskists advocating them during 2018 killer flu epidemic?

Why are excessive measures such as mandatory mask wearing being introduced now in the UK as a new ‘social norm,' when nothing of the kind was even considered before, when...

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July 29, 2020
Why is wokeness the only protected religion in America?

With a law being proposed by the Senate to withhold Covid relief funds to states that discriminate against the religious, a question needs to be asked. Why does the Church...

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July 29, 2020
4 Big Tech CEOs getting heat from Congress on competition

Four Big Tech CEOs — Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai of Google and Tim Cook of Apple — are set to answer for their companies' practices before...

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July 29, 2020
Iran launches underground ballistic missiles during exercise

Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard launched underground ballistic missiles Wednesday as part of an exercise involving a mock-up American aircraft carrier in the Strait of Hormuz, highlighting its network of subterranean...

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July 29, 2020
The disappointing reality of Portland’s ‘Naked Athena’: ‘Revolutionaries’ thought-police themselves into apologizing

When the Portland protester anointed ‘Naked Athena' told her story, the soaring narratives grafted onto her by eager journalists were laid bare as aspirational fiction. But the same could be...

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July 29, 2020
Government workers to work remotely until 2021 due to virus

Many local government employees around the Puget Sound region will work from home until 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic, officials said Tuesday. Leaders from King, Pierce and Snohomish counties,...

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July 29, 2020
Virus and grounded plane send Boeing to $2.4 billion 2Q loss

Boeing is reporting a $2.4 billion loss for the second quarter due to the grounding of its 737 Max jet and the coronavirus pandemic, which is expected to depress airline...

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July 29, 2020
A mutilation of young lives: How the radical transgender bandwagon is wrecking girls’ bodies and destroying their mental health

A new book, Irreversible Damage, reveals how teenage girls are being duped into believing they want to be male, and are pushed into taking puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and undergoing...

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July 29, 2020
Can I get a job? Wife tries it all for nursing home reunion

One hundred and 14 days. That's how long Mary Daniel went without seeing her husband after the coronavirus banned visitors from his nursing home, separating the couple for the first...

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July 29, 2020
Holocaust survivors urge Facebook to remove denial posts

Holocaust survivors around the world are lending their voices to a campaign launched Wednesday targeting Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg, urging him to take action to remove denial of the Nazi...

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July 29, 2020
Lennar chief Stuart Miller sells Star Island home for $49.5M

The chief of the country's largest homebuilder just sold his own home, on Star Island. Stuart Miller, executive chairperson of Miami-based Lennar, sold his three-story, 27,305-square-foot single-family home for $49.5...

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July 29, 2020
Miami Beach has shut down Airbnb amid COVID. Here’s where you can still book

With many hotels and motels on the brink of bankruptcy and Airbnbs heavily regulated, legal short-term rental options are running low in Miami-Dade County. The county reopened hotels and motels...

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July 29, 2020
UK judge holds hearing in Meghan’s lawsuit against newspaper

A judge in London is hearing the latest stage on Wednesday of the Duchess of Sussex's privacy-infringement lawsuit against a British newspaper, as Meghan tries to keep the names of...

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July 29, 2020
Aww, nuts: North Texas company has 42 tons to unload after American Airlines cut first class food service

Kim Peacock was once the purveyor of first-class luxury, but now her Arlington company has more than 87,000 pounds of nuts and no idea if her airline customers will ever...

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July 29, 2020
Black people still few and far between in biotech industry

SAN DIEGO – San Diego biotechs are working to erase cancer, light up nerves during surgery and scan thousands of molecules with artificial intelligence. The industry's workforce, however, is less...

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July 29, 2020
States use COVID-19 relief dollars to hold down business taxes

Governors and lawmakers in at least eight states have used millions of federal coronavirus relief dollars to protect businesses from tax increases as unemployment skyrockets. They're pushing relief dollars into...

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July 29, 2020
‘Wokefishing’ breaks the hearts of love-seeking SJWs, who tragically discover their partner isn’t as unbearably PC as they thought

Wokefishing is the act of pretending to have ultra right-on opinions in an effort to get social justice warriors into bed… because, apparently, some people want to do that. A...

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