PROVIDENCE, RI (AP) – Vilified, threatened with violence and in some cases plagued by outbreaks, dozens of state and local public health officials in the US have been fired as fired in the outbreak of coronavirus, a testament to how political flammable masks, lockdowns and data on infection have become. …
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Crunch, rip, freeze or decay – how will the Universe end?
The Universe is expanding – for now.Credit: NASA / ESA The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) Katie Mack Scribner (2020) Scientists know how the world will end. The sun will run on fuel and enter its red-giant phase. The last burst of glory will expand and displace the nearest planets, …
Read More »Old Dominion reports sports outages due to virus
Old Dominion announced Monday that it is postponing all bankruptcy sports, including football, due to the coronavirus pandemic. ODU is the first Conference USA team to announce that it will not be playing this fall. “We conclude that the season – including travel and competition – posed too great a …
Read More »NBCUniversal: Channing Dungey and Others in Running for Top Job
Rarely has a loud opening on TV exec lane been announced quite loudly. When NBCUniversal last week triggered a massive reorganization of its television company, the company made it clear that one key position in the new structure was yet to be completed – a new main entertainment program that …
Read More »Facebook, Microsoft sues Apple’s App Store over EU antitrust radar
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Facebook and Microsoft’s grievances over how their gaming apps appear in Apple’s App Store may feed into an EU investigation into the iPhone maker’s company, as EU anti-trust regulators sat that such concerns are on their radar. The European Commission opened four probes …
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