11-24-2020
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Andrew Cuomo Praises New Yorkers and Threatens Ben Stiller During His Emmys Speech
New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s daily coronavirus press conference was the hottest show on TV this spring until his summer hiatus, and the International Emmys agreed: The governor (and his slides) (and his fitted shirts) was the recipient of its annual Founders Award, which cited his “effective use of television during the pandemic.”
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11-23-2020
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Pope Francis hosts NBA players to talk social justice
In an unprecedented meeting, a delegation of five NBA players and several officials from the National Basketball Players Association met with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Monday morning for a private audience to discuss their work on social justice issues.
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11-20-2020
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Entertainment Industry Workers Exempt From California Governor Gavin Newsom’s New Stay-At-Home Order
In light of an unprecedented rapid rise in COVID-19 cases across California, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced a limited stay-at-home order. The order requires “generally that non-essential work, movement and gatherings stop between 10 PM and 5 AM in counties in the purple tier.”
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11-19-2020
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Op-Ed: How Biden can stop ‘truth decay’ and restore the public’s faith in facts
President-elect Joe Biden has been clear about his agenda: control the pandemic, recover economic stability, advance racial equality and confront climate change. To accomplish any of these, however, another pressing issue will have to be tackled. The Biden administration must begin rebuilding Americans’ trust in their government and public institutions.
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11-18-2020
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More votes than voters in many Detroit precincts: newspaper
Numerous voting machines in heavily Democratic Detroit showed a greater number of ballots than poll workers records said were cast in the Nov. 8 presidential election, the Detroit News reported on Tuesday.
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11-17-2020
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Governors ratchet up restrictions ahead of Thanksgiving
From California to Pennsylvania, governors and mayors across the U.S. are ratcheting up COVID-19 restrictions amid the record-shattering resurgence of the virus that is all but certain to get worse because of holiday travel and family gatherings over Thanksgiving.
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11-16-2020
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Republicans press Democratic caricatures in Georgia races
Socialists. Radical extremists. Marxists. Those over-the-top caricatures of Democrats make up Republicans’ opening arguments as they try to protect Georgia’s two U.S. senators who face strong challenges in Jan. 5 runoffs that’ll determine which party controls the chamber at the start.
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11-13-2020
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The 15-Minute City—No Cars Required—Is Urban Planning’s New Utopia
The Minimes barracks in Paris don’t look like the future of cities. A staid brick-and-limestone complex established in 1925 along a backstreet in the Marais district, it’s the sort of structure you pass without a second glance in a place as photogenic as Paris.
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