[aggregation-styles] Newsweek The 2021 Nostradamus predictions are morbid, terrifying and exhausting, especially after such an unpredictable year. And it seems the predictions end with uncertain death: another prediction that the world will end as we know it. The website yearly-horoscope.org recently decoded the prophecies of Nostradamus, a 16th century French...
Chinese Journalist Who Documented Wuhan Coronavirus Outbreak Jailed for 4 Years
[aggregation-styles] CNN Hong Kong (CNN) An independent Chinese journalist who reported from Wuhan at the height of the initial coronavirus outbreak has been jailed for four years by a Shanghai court, her lawyer said Monday. Zhang Zhan, 37, was found guilty of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble," according to one...
COVID-19 Is Deadlier for People With Autism, Down Syndrome. Now Families Are Pushing Hard for Vaccines.
[aggregation-styles] The Wall Street Journal A higher Covid-19 death rate among people with autism, Down syndrome and other intellectual development disorders has sparked a lobbying effort by family members and caregivers to persuade states to give priority to the group in vaccine rollouts. People with such disorders, who account for...
Facebook Declared War on Apple, and It Just May Signal the End of Facebook
[aggregation-styles] Inc. Facebook is starting to look desperate. Over the past weeks, the world's largest social network has taken out several full-page ads in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. The ads attacked Apple's new privacy changes, which Facebook claims will severely hurt small...
The New China Scare
[aggregation-styles] Foreign Exchange In February 1947, U.S. President Harry Truman huddled with his most senior foreign policy advisers, George Marshall and Dean Acheson, and a handful of congressional leaders. The topic was the administration’s plan to aid the Greek government in its fight against a communist insurgency. Marshall and Acheson...
USA Today Exclusive: As Trump Leaves Office, 50% of Americans Say He’ll Be Seen as ‘Failed’ President
[aggregation-styles] USA Today President Donald Trump leaves the White House next month with the country more sharply divided than when he moved in and amid caustic assessments of his record in office, a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds. Fifty percent of Americans now predict history will judge him as...
Locked-Down California Runs Out of Reasons for Surprising Surge
[aggregation-styles] Politico OAKLAND, Calif. — California has had some of the toughest restrictions in the country to combat the coronavirus, from a complete ban on restaurant dining to travel quarantines and indoor gym closures. It hasn't been enough. America's most populous state has become one of the nation's worst epicenters...
Tech Firms and Titans Leave California for Texas. Does It Matter?
[aggregation-styles] KQED The recent news that Oracle, the second largest software maker in the world, plans to move its corporate headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin has resurrected familiar headlines suggesting that California is finally going to pay for its so-called hostility to business. Coming on the heels of the...
Here’s How Quickly Tesla has Turned Modest Investors into Millionaires
[aggregation-styles] Market Watch A decade later and a $5,800 flyer in an upstart electric-car company would have turned a savvy or lucky investor into a millionaire. Or, in Brandon Smith’s case, an initial investment of $10,000 in 2017 along with some small additional purchases along the way did the trick....
How Much Will Local School Districts Get If Trump Signs COVID-19 Relief Bill?
[aggregation-styles] EdSource Assuming President Trump signs the legislation, California will receive $6.8 billion of the $54.9 billion that Congress approved Dec. 21 in Covid-19 relief funding for K-12 schools. This database shows the distribution of the 90 percent of funding that will be distributed based on how much a school...