Politics

December 26, 2020
A pandemic Christmas: Services move online, people stay home

Families that usually reunite on Christmas over a hearty, lingering meal celebrated apart Friday, services shifted online, and gift exchanges were low-key in one of the most unusual and subdued...

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December 26, 2020
Pope on COVID-19 vaccine: Needy, vulnerable must come first

Pope Francis made a Christmas Day plea for authorities to make COVID-19 vaccines available to all, insisting that the first in line should be the most vulnerable and needy, regardless...

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December 26, 2020
VIRUS TODAY: Make-or-break in California, Midwest reprieve

Here's what's happening Friday with the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S.: THREE THINGS TO KNOW TODAY — California's deadly Christmas was marked by pleas to avoid holiday gatherings outside the...

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December 26, 2020
US to require negative COVID-19 test from UK travelers

The United States will require airline passengers from Britain to get a negative COVID-19 test before their flight, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced late Thursday. The U.S....

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December 26, 2020
‘Unprecedented’ mail volume delays Christmas gifts

Some who mailed holiday presents weeks early this year found they didn't act early enough as Christmas arrived with their gifts stuck in transit. The U.S. Postal Service said on...

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December 26, 2020
No time to rest: EU nations assess Brexit trade deal with UK

The fast-track ratification of the post-Brexit trade deal between the U.K. and the European Union got underway on Christmas Day as ambassadors from the bloc's 27 nations started assessing the...

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December 25, 2020
A deepfake Queen is more truthful than the real one – how ironic!

A British broadcaster aired a technologically manipulated version of the Queen's annual Christmas speech and, while it was satire, it was honest about things the real monarchy tries to pretend...

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December 25, 2020
Never mind the nitpickers – Britain came out on top in the £660bn Brexit trade deal, winning hands down on areas that matter most

Arguments will rage over Christmas dinner about who won in the Brexit trade talks, but Brits can be happy to have taken back control of their money, migration and sovereignty....

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December 25, 2020
A ship to wreck? BoJo triumphant as Britannia leaves EU. Holes in hull are only subtle, but their consequences can be damaging

Boris Johnson's picturing the finally agreed Brexit deal as some sort of bonanza for Britain is both wrong and misleading. As the devil is always in the details... So the...

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December 25, 2020
RT presents The WOKIES: 2020’s top virtue signalers, ENTERTAINMENT edition

This year has been a bad one for most of us, but woke virtue signalers of every stripe have been having the best of times. To honor them, RT presents...

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December 25, 2020
Leave your phone on the plane? Here’s how lost and found works at Miami, Broward airports

Ever leave your jacket at an airport security checkpoint? How about your cellphone in a terminal waiting area? Leaving things behind on a plane or in an airport is more...

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December 24, 2020
Miami small businesses, live venues await passage of latest relief bill: ‘It means survival’

Help could be on the way for Miami's small businesses as part of a $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill passed by lawmakers in Washington D.C. this week. And, they say,...

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December 24, 2020
In her bizarre speech, Ursula von der Leyen casually redefined ‘sovereignty’. This is why Brexit has always been inevitable

Finally free of the European Union's ‘lunar pull', BoJo announces a no-quotas, zero-tariff trade deal days before the Brexit deadline and Britain celebrates taking back its sovereignty. But the EU...

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December 24, 2020
George Galloway: The Brexit deal is done. We are now free to build a New Britain…if we want it

The freshly-signed Brexit deal between the UK and the EU was four years in the making – but has been needed for over four decades. Now that we are free,...

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December 24, 2020
Lawsuit claims Miami homebuilder and a ‘band of thieves’ stole millions from customers

A Miami homebuilder has been sued, accused of stealing millions of dollars from his clients to finance his high-roller lifestyle of weekend gambling stints at the Hard Rock Casino, two...

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December 24, 2020
Lee Camp: Ads all tell us to kill our future. Worth discussing?

A sustainable future! Get it now before it's too late! Half-off, for a limited time! This article was originally published by ScheerPost. Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. I...

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December 24, 2020
Western belief that globalization can only move in tandem with ITS ideology is at the core of current confrontation with China

Incoming US president Joe Biden will once again attempt to rebuild the Western-led world order and embrace ‘liberal globalization' with the sole goal of preventing globalization on what's seen as...

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December 24, 2020
Caged by lockdowns & curfews, flocks of people & businesses are fleeing California

Compounded with the exorbitant real estate prices, gouging tax rates, and a prohibitive cost of living, the draconian Covid-19 restrictions have made Californication all but untenable. 2020 has brought an...

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December 24, 2020
George Clooney’s new eco-disaster movie The Midnight Sky tries to be everything but ends up being only a disaster

If George Clooney's new Netflix movie is any indication, his star is fading considerably faster than the climate is changing. Christmas season is when movie studios put out prestige films...

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December 24, 2020
If Biden seeks to put a shorter leash on Russia, he may find Putin’s bite is far worse than his bark

The SolarWinds hack, attributed to Russia, has led to declarations about the need for President-elect Biden to respond to what has been likened to “an act of war.” He needs...

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December 24, 2020
If Biden seeks to put a shorter leash on Russia, he may find Putin’s bite is far worse than his bark

The SolarWinds hack, attributed to Russia, has led to declarations about the need for President-elect Biden to respond to what has been likened to “an act of war.” He needs...

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December 24, 2020
Miami and Fort Lauderdale airports seeing holiday travel surge amid pandemic

South Florida's two main travel gateways are bracing for a surge in passengers this weekend, even as the coronavirus pandemic continues to bring more than 200,000 new individual cases a...

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December 23, 2020
US continues its long history of using death squads, this time in Afghanistan. This is nothing but horrifying

The dark story of the CIA running death squads in Afghanistan recently broken by the Intercept follows a very long pattern of US foreign policy going back to the 1960s....

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December 23, 2020
US continues its long history of using death squads, this time in Afghanistan. This is nothing but horrifying

The dark story of the CIA running death squads in Afghanistan recently broken by the Intercept follows a very long pattern of US foreign policy going back to the 1960s....

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December 23, 2020
Meet ‘Dr’ Tony Blair, warmonger turned vaccination guru and health passport promoter

Former British PM Tony Blair is calling for millions to be vaccinated with a single dose in a radical acceleration of the vax programme and also for the roll-out of...

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December 23, 2020
Meet ‘Dr’ Tony Blair, warmonger turned vaccination guru and health passport promoter

Former British PM Tony Blair is calling for millions to be vaccinated with a single dose in a radical acceleration of the vax programme and also for the roll-out of...

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December 23, 2020
The billions given away by the ex-Mrs Bezos result from dodgy business practices that kill competition, so hold the accolades

The money donated to worthy causes by MacKenzie Scott comes from Amazon profits built on its aggressive, take-no-prisoners tactics that destroy our small stores and malls and ruin enterprise. One...

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December 23, 2020
The billions given away by the ex-Mrs Bezos result from dodgy business practices that kill competition, so hold the accolades

The money donated to worthy causes by MacKenzie Scott comes from Amazon profits built on its aggressive, take-no-prisoners tactics that destroy our small stores and malls and ruin enterprise. One...

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December 23, 2020
Caitlin Johnstone: EVERYONE was wrong about Trump

Donald Trump's supporters say he drained the swamp and ended wars. His opponents say he was a Putin puppet and a reincarnation of Hitler. Both are wrong. After weeks of...

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December 23, 2020
Caitlin Johnstone: EVERYONE was wrong about Trump

Donald Trump's supporters say he drained the swamp and ended wars. His opponents say he was a Putin puppet and a reincarnation of Hitler. Both are wrong. After weeks of...

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December 23, 2020
Data giant Palantir’s murky track record raises alarming questions about secret, potentially illegal £23 million NHS deal

Palantir has won a huge contract to continue its work on the NHS Covid-19 Data Store. But the British public will have no way of knowing how the private information...

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December 23, 2020
Data giant Palantir’s murky track record raises alarming questions about secret, potentially illegal £23 million NHS deal

Palantir has won a huge contract to continue its work on the NHS Covid-19 Data Store. But the British public will have no way of knowing how the private information...

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December 23, 2020
As rival US administrations antagonize China & Russia in turn, it’s clear for Beijing & Moscow they must stick together

Donald Trump has missed his opportunity to reapproach Russia, and the Biden administration is unlikely to ramp down hostility towards China. As a result, Washington itself has outlined prospects for...

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December 23, 2020
As rival US administrations antagonize China & Russia in turn, it’s clear for Beijing & Moscow they must stick together

Donald Trump has missed his opportunity to reapproach Russia, and the Biden administration is unlikely to ramp down hostility towards China. As a result, Washington itself has outlined prospects for...

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December 23, 2020
Freedom’s now a dirty word, safety trumps liberty, & we can’t have civilised debates: 6 ways that Covid has changed us entirely

A year of living dangerously with the virus has changed our world, and the way we live, forever. And not always in a good way, especially for those who dislike...

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December 23, 2020
Freedom’s now a dirty word, safety trumps liberty, & we can’t have civilised debates: 6 ways that Covid has changed us entirely

A year of living dangerously with the virus has changed our world, and the way we live, forever. And not always in a good way, especially for those who dislike...

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December 23, 2020
A safety recall for a tire that might have been made with a hole in the inner liner

Bridgestone, the parent company of Firestone, recalled about 1,923 Firestone Destination LE3 and Bridgestone Ecopia H/L 422 Plus tires in the U.S. and Canada earlier this month after finding a...

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December 23, 2020
‘Get your ducks in a row’ for upcoming round of PPP funds

A fresh round of Paycheck Protection Program loans worth more than $284 billion will soon be available to small businesses. The funds are just a slice of the $900 pandemic...

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December 23, 2020
US charges for new Lockerbie suspect 32 years on are a dismal show of mawkish grandstanding

Attorney General William Barr's announcement of charges for the man who allegedly made the bomb that blew up Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 feels like the last desperate measure...

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December 23, 2020
US charges for new Lockerbie suspect 32 years on are a dismal show of mawkish grandstanding

Attorney General William Barr's announcement of charges for the man who allegedly made the bomb that blew up Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 feels like the last desperate measure...

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