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Japan Approves Pfizer Shot; Auckland Locked Down: Virus Update Bloomberg 2/14/2021 The pace of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. continued to ease as the country’s week-to-week average fell to its lowest in almost four months. The White House issued its strongest criticism yet of the World Health Organization’s handling of the investigation into the origins of the virus and China’s involvement in the probe’s findings. New Zealand imposed a three-day lockdown on Auckland with the di...

Japan Approves Pfizer Shot; Auckland Locked Down: Virus Update Bloomberg 2/14/2021 (Bloomberg) -- The pace of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. continued to ease as the country’s week-to-week average fell to its lowest in almost four months. The White House issued its strongest criticism yet of the World Health Organization’s handling of the investigation into the origins of the virus and China’s involvement in the probe’s findings. New Zealand imposed a three-day lockdown on Auck...

That big strike. i want to tell you something that just broke within the last half an hour. for the past week, congress has been trying to -- a conference committee in congress has been trying to work out a deal to avert another government shutdown. the deadline to come up with a bill to avert a shutdown which would have to be passed by both chambers of congress and signed by the president, that deadline is this friday or another shutdown starts. well, just tonight, just within the last 25 minut...

Bill to avert a shutdown, which would have to be pass by both chambers of congress, that deadline is this friday or another shutdown starts. well, just tonight, just within the last 25 minutes, that conference committee, that group of bipartisan legislators who have been trying to find a deal to overt the shutdown have announced they got a deal. they say they have reached a quote agreement in principle about funding the government. now we have no idea what that agreement is. we have no details a...