DENVER – The Downtown Denver Partnership launched a massive downtown sale this weekend in an effort to attract more buyers to an area hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. “It’s really hard to gather people in a safe way right now,” said DDP senior manager Emily Tucker. “And this is …
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The record high reached by Wall Street last week may come as welcome news for US President Donald Trump. But the booming stock markets will not offer much comfort to the many millions of people who have lost their jobs and livelihoods as the coronavirus pandemic pushed the economies around …
Read More »DC FanDome: Watch The Batman, Wonder Woman 1984, Justice League Snyder Cut and more unveiled
DC FanDome will include a teaser for director Zack Snyder’s much-buzzed-over Snyder Cut from the 2017 film Justice League. Warner Bros. DC FanDome’sfirst half has come and gone, revealing some spectacular new footage, including from The Batman, Wonder Woman 1984 and The Justice League Snyder Cut. The second part of …
Read More »11-year-old scores Viral Rap Hit but Trips over Gaza politics
JERUSALEM – When the 11-year-old schoolboy from Gaza posted a video of himself raping the lyrics of one of his favorite artists, he never expected it would make him famous or get him in trouble. It did both. Abdel Rahman al-Shantti’s video rapping for his school in Gaza City in …
Read More »Chinese biotech company: COVID-19 vaccine effective in treating multiple strains of virus
FIL – This Thursday, Jan. 23. 2020 from file photo, a patient receives a flu vaccine in Mesquite, Texas. (AP Photo / LM Otero) TO NewsroomUPDATED 11:45 AM PT – Saturday 22 August 2020 A biotech company in China has claimed that its new vaccine for coronavirus is effective in …
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