Senate Judiciary Democrats, facing criticism from the left that they have not done more to question the legitimacy of the Supreme Court confirmation proceedings for Amy Coney Barrett, plan to take the extraordinary step of boycotting a key committee vote on Thursday. Republicans said they can still hold the committee vote Thursday and advance the…… MORE
Former President Barack Obama delivered a blistering account of his successor’s first four years in office on Wednesday in Philadelphia, arguing that President Donald Trump has proved he is “incapable of taking the job seriously” and has shown no interest in “helping anybody but himself and his friends.” The event is Obama’s first stump speech…… MORE
Ora Smith was born the same year that a deadly infection overtook the country and turned life upside down. The 102-year-old was born in 1918, when a deadly strain of influenza plagued the US and led to over 675,000 deaths in the country. So when one of the most pivotal elections of her lifetime fell…… MORE
A mass grave was found this week in the cemetery where archeologists have been searching for victims of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, an Oklahoma state archaeologist announced Wednesday. The outlines of at least 10 coffins were found at the Oaklawn Cemetery in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and state archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck said she has a “high…… MORE
An Indiana school superintendent has apologized after a Black student was simply listed as “Black Guy” in a high school yearbook. Laura Hammack, superintendent of Brown County Schools in the town of Nashville, Indiana, posted a video to Facebook on Monday afternoon addressing the incident. “(The 2020 Brown County High School yearbook) has a truly…… MORE
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its definition of a close contact with a Covid-19 patient to include multiple, brief exposures, after a Vermont prison worker appears to have been infected that way, CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said Wednesday. The new definition includes exposures adding up to a total of…… MORE
A volunteer in Brazil’s trial of AstraZeneca’s experimental coronavirus vaccine has died, the Brazilian health agency Anvisa announced on Wednesday. Yet the trial is set to continue. Anvisa said that it was notified of the death on Monday but the International Evaluation and Security Committee overseeing the trial recommended that it continue. It was not…… MORE
Delivery is soaring in popularity as people order in instead of going to restaurants in the pandemic. That’s not entirely good news for Chipotle. The company said on Wednesday that while delivery helped send its revenue up 14% in the quarter ended Sept. 30, the costs associated with that hurt its profit. Shares of the…… MORE
Much like its content, Quibi didn’t last very long. Quibi, the app that staked its future on short videos, is shutting down just six months after it launched, the company announced Wednesday. “We started with the idea to create the next generation of storytelling and because of you, we were able to create and deliver…… MORE
New images taken by the OSIRIS-REx mission show the historic first touchdown of a NASA spacecraft on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. The spacecraft collected a sample that will be returned to Earth in 2023. In the images, which were stitched together to show the spacecraft touching down, the spacecraft’s robotic arm appeared to crush some…… MORE
Q: People who do this at least 10-times a month say they experience withdrawal symptoms if their routine is stopped… A: Tanning
Q: If this is something you like to do regularly, it could tack on an extra 18-months to your life… A: Read books
Q: More people have been doing this in the kitchen due to the pandemic… A: Canning fruits and veggies