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The US COVID-19 outbreak is worse than it’s ever been
Dec 06, 2020 16:59Nothing about the current COVID-19 explosion should come as a surprise. As the virus spread throughout summer and fall, experts repeatedly warned winter would be worse.
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Google illegally surveilled, interrogated, and fired workers who tried to organize, NLRB says
Dec 06, 2020 16:55Google repeatedly violated U.S. labor law when it spied on, probed, and terminated employees engaged in worker organizing in 2019, according to a complaint filed by the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday, December 2nd.
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268,000 Americans died and Scott Atlas shrugged: Trump's "most dangerous" COVID adviser quits
Dec 06, 2020 16:48Atlas had no prior experience in public health but grabbed Trump's attention during his flame-throwing appearances on Fox News and joined the Trump administration as an adviser in August.
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87 million Americans could lose paid leave without urgent action from Congress
Dec 06, 2020 06:12Without legislative action from a divided lame-duck Congress before the end of the year, nearly 90 million public and private-sector workers in the U.S. could soon lose federal paid sick and family leave benefits that have helped prevent tens of thousands of coronavirus infections.
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France’s new security law may have just sparked a “George Floyd” moment
Dec 05, 2020 06:23“Sparked by a new bill that would make publishing photos of police illegal and a viral video soon after that shows French police brutally beating a black man, it appears that France may be headed for its own “George Floyd” moment”, says Alan Macleod, writer.
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While the rich cheer Wall Street records, Americans are draining 401(k)s
Dec 05, 2020 06:18Tens of millions of Americans are paying precious little attention to the chirpy tale of Wall Street’s ticker. The simple reason: They own no stocks at all.
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Glimpses of Epic of the 8-Year Holy Defense (85)
Dec 04, 2020 19:31If you remember, we discussed the admission of the Western and Arab media and regimes on their all-out support for the Iraqi dictator Saddam during the 8-year war he had imposed on the Islamic Republic of Iran upon the order of his masters in Washington and then Moscow. Stay tuned for more.
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Trump lawyer: ex-election security chief Krebs should be 'taken out and shot'
Dec 04, 2020 19:22A former head of US election security who said Donald Trump’s defeat by Joe Biden was not subject to voter fraud should be “taken out at dawn and shot”, a Trump campaign lawyer said.
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The virus won’t stop evolving when the vaccine arrives
Dec 04, 2020 06:03The coronavirus is not a shape shifter like the flu virus, but it could become vaccine resistant over time. That prompts researchers to urge vigilance.
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US hospitals brace for COVID-19 surge
Dec 03, 2020 16:32US Hospitals are facing rising pressure from a surge of coronavirus cases that is threatening to overwhelm their capacity, as the country braces for further escalation following Thanksgiving.