Month: January 2021

President-elect Joe Biden plans to use FEMA and the National Guard to build coronavirus vaccine clinics across the United States, according to new details of his Covid-19 vaccination plan released by his transition team on Friday. The Biden administration will also “quickly jumpstart” efforts to make the vaccines available at local pharmacies across the U.S.,
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On Friday afternoon, as the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors met behind closed doors to discuss new, stricter shutdown orders; as Mayor Eric Garcetti and California Governor Governor Gavin Newsom appeared together to try and jumpstart the region’s lagging vaccination efforts; one key reason for the urgency of those efforts became clear. Earlier in the
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Sheer Mag has shared a new song called “Crushed Velvet.” The song appears on the soundtrack for Hulu’s forthcoming original film The Ultimate Playlist of Noise, which is out tomorrow (January 15). Check out “Crushed Velvet” below. Sheer Mag’s last LP was 2019’s A Distant Call. Later that year Vermont Senator—and then presidential candidate—Bernie Sanders
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When people think of detective duos, none is as quintessential as Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. Since Sherlock Holmes, many mystery writers have played off the dynamic with their detective duos in fascinating ways. The most recent iteration is Stuart Turton’s newest The Devil and The Dark Water (2020). There will be spoilers ahead. The
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After years dealing with microaggressions working in corporate spaces as a content writer, Escher Walcott took the plunge in 2017 into a freelance career, free from discriminatory judgement in the office that left here feeling anxious and insecure. ‘Your hair looks like pubes’: The microaggressions that have shaped my life as a black woman “You
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Employees store coffins, some marked with “infection risk” as others have “corona” scrawled in chalk, in the mourning hall of the crematorium in Meissen, eastern Germany, on January 13, 2021, amid the new coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. cremation. Jens Schlueter | AFP | Getty Images The World Health Organization said Friday that coronavirus vaccines aren’t “silver
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CBS News on Friday unveiled a series of changes to its lineup of assignments for correspondents in Washington, D.C. Nancy Cordes, who has covered Capitol Hill for 12 years, moves to chief White House correspondent. Ed O’Keefe, political correspondent since 2018, will become senior White House and political correspondent. Weijia Jiang will be senior White
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