[ABC NEWS] Some customers waited in line for up to three hours to buy their masa (tamale dough) at Amapola Deli and Market.While scrolling through Neiman Marcus’ website, shoppers can find luxury apparel, designer handbags, and tamales? Yes, you read that right. The department store is selling 72 handmade tamales for […]
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[Business Insider, AP] The CDC unveiled an interactive vaccine-tracking map on Thursday. The map shows how many vaccine doses each state has been allocated and how many shots each has administered so far. The totals tell a grim story: The US fell far short of its goal to vaccinate 20 […]
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[The Canadian Press, Post Media] Some bank notes made between 1935 and 1986 will lose the government’s legal tender status Spend ‘em while they’re still worth something. Canadians still holding on to old paper money have until midnight tonight to spend it, as stores will stop accepting certain denominations after […]
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(CNN) United States President Donald Trump received unconfirmed information earlier this month that China sought to pay non-state actors to attack American forces in Afghanistan, a senior administration official told CNN. The intelligence, which will be declassified by the Trump administration, was provided to the President in his daily brief on December […]
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[CNN] Ticketmaster entered into a plea agreement with federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York and will pay $10 million in fines to resolve charges that it accessed the computer systems of a competitor without authorization. “Ticketmaster employees repeatedly — and illegally — accessed a competitor’s computers without authorization using stolen […]
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[USA TODAY] WASHINGTON – The majority of the cadets involved in the worst academic cheating scandal at West Point in 45 years are athletes, including 24 members of the football team that is scheduled to play in a bowl game on Thursday, according to West Point officials. In all, 55 of the […]
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[CNBC] CDC officials said Wednesday that the new strain of Covid-19 that was discovered in the U.K. could further stress hospitals that are already overwhelmed with coronavirus patients. The CDC’s Dr. Henry Walke said the new variant appears to spread “more easily and quickly than other strains,” but it does […]
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[New York Post] A male nurse in Indonesia has been suspended after admitting that he stripped off his personal protective equipment to have sex in a toilet with a man infected with COVID-19, according to reports. “It is true that there has been a suspected incident of a same-sex relationship […]
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[CNBC, REUTERS] The Trump administration will begin sending stimulus payments of up to $600 to millions of Americans as early as Tuesday evening. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the government would begin the process of mailing out paper checks on Wednesday for individuals without government-registered bank accounts. The deposits start […]
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[CNBC] Colorado health officials identified the first Covid-19 case caused by a contagious UK variant. The new strain could be as much as 70% more transmissible. The individual is a male in his 20s who is currently in isolation in Elbert County, Colorado. U.S. coronavirus vaccine czar, Moncef Slaoui, said earlier in […]
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