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MORE Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaking with attendees at the 2019 Iowa Federation of Labor Convention hosted by the AFL-CIO at the Prairie Meadows Hotel in Altoona, Iowa. Photo by Gage Skidmore (CC BY 2.0) Joe Biden announced his picks to lead transportation, climate, energy and environmental policy this week and it’s making progressives pretty happy. But what will they be able to get done in a closely divided Congress? Josh Barro talks with panelists ...

ThyBlackMan.com) Convinced that President Donald Trump lost his bid for reelection, the media suddenly became less hysterical. Just like that, the media, at least to some degree, rediscovered concepts such as fairness and perspective, AWOL the last four years. Two weeks after the election, New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Nicholas Kristof haltingly, grudgingly and reluctantly, admitted that yes, Donald Trump was right. Banning in-person school education to fight COVID-19 was and...

comments Earlier this month, San Francisco implemented a new stay-at-home order banning city-dwellers from seeing another person outside of their households. While the act of dating wasnt explicitly mentioned in the order, many took this opportunity to assume that dating was canceled. Nearly a week later, the city quietly updated its order stating that people were allowed to meet with one other person outside ones household. Two people could take a walk, hang out at the park, or — according ...

Scientific American With the festive season ahead, Nature examines what is known about the risks of COVID spread and how researchers will spend their time off Print Airline Passengers are seen at Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport on Thanksgiving as travelers are ignoring CDC warnings to avoid holiday travel while COVID-19 cases are surging across the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic on November 25, 2020 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Credit: Alamy Advertisement As worldwide coron...

What Happens If Outdoor Dining Pauses in New York? Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images COVID-19 numbers are surging, and beginning tomorrow, Los Angeles County will shut down outdoor dining for at least three weeks. Indoor dining was already closed, and outdoor dining was only allowed at 50 percent capacity, but officials were clear about what would end in-person dining in California’s most populous county: if the average number of daily new cases hit 4,000 over a five-day perio...

Foss: It’s cold, but you can still go outside | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 But it hasn’t really changed how I spend my weekends.  On Saturday morning, I took my son to a playground. In the afternoon, I brought him down to Empire State Plaza to walk around and look at the Christmas tree.  On Sunday morning, I went jogging while my son played in the backyard under my husband’s supervision. In the afternoon, we drove out to my son’s music teacher’s house for a small winter part...

. If anything is spreading as virally as the pandemic, it’s pandemic shaming: the idea that we can or should chide friends, relatives, acquaintances or even strangers into complying with mask wearing, social distancing and other actions to stem the pandemic. Photos of crowded airports or coronavirus testing lines over the Thanksgiving holiday even generated a trending hashtag: #covidiots.  But as our current political tilt-a-whirl should illustrate, shame is not the powerful tool it once was...

Rice University Mel Xiao, a Rice University senior who helps investigate and adjudicate COVID-19 rule violations by other students, doesn’t mind if she’s viewed by her peers as “big brother” on campus. Xiao is one of 11 students at Rice who served as a judge on the COVID Community Court, or CCC, a student-led judiciary that looks into reports of students neglecting to wear masks or socially distance, or who are hosting visitors in their dorm rooms, which are violations of the university...

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Vaccines coming soon but COVID relief bill still stalled The first vaccine to protect against COVID-19 could be approved in the U.S. within days, but legislation to help fund its distribution remains mired in Congress. And President-elect Joe Biden has tapped California Attorney General Xavier Becerra as his secretary of Health and Human Services. The choice of Becerra, who served 12 terms in the House of Representatives, is being criticized by Republicans for hi...

Convinced that President Donald Trump lost his bid for reelection, the media suddenly became less hysterical. Just like that, the media, at least to some