Black love matters! That is the message that Makeita Wilson and her fiancé Shancton Thompson told the world when they shared their wedding vows on Saturday at the mural Black Lives Matter painted on Fulton Street in Brooklyn. “I was lying in bed and had the craziest thought to get …
Read More »More than 1/3 of new cases in LA are among people under 30 – Deadline
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health on Saturday confirmed 48 new deaths and 1,644 new cases of COVID-19. Younger residents continued to make up the majority of positive new cases. Of the new cases reported on Saturday, 71 percent were people under the age of 50. Residents between …
Read More »Saturday’s coronavirus updates: Paxton fourth-grader tests positive; Husband of Douglas, Iroquois wife among 17 dead; UI massmail: ‘We know how fast things can change’ | Coronavirus
A fourth-grader at Paxton’s Clara Peterson Elementary has tested positive for COVID-19, Superintendent Cliff McClure informed families and staff in a letter. “We are coordinating our efforts with the Ford County Health Department to immediately identify and monitor individuals who have recently had contact with the positive individual COVID-19 to …
Read More »India’s virus caseload tops 3 million as disease moves south
NEW DELHI (AP) – India’s coronavirus caseload peaks at 3 million on Sunday, with the country leading the world in new infections as the disease marches through impoverished rural areas in the north and the richer but older populations of the south . Health authorities reported 10,339 new cases and …
Read More »How COVID-19 accelerates the shift away from fossil fuels
Creative destruction “is the essential fact about capitalism,” wrote the great Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1942. New technologies and processes continuously revolutionize the economic structure from within, “destroy the old continuously, and emerge incessantly a new one.” Change happens faster and more creatively in times of economic crisis. Accelerate …
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