The former Chicago police superintendent “consumed several large servings of rum” before getting behind the wheel and then lied about the incident, a city watchdog revealed Thursday. Eddie Johnson was fired by Mayor Lori Lightfoot on December 2, just a few weeks before he retired, culminating a turbulent three-year term …
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Similarities, differences between the 1918 and 2020 pandemics In many ways, 2020 looks like 1918, the year the great flu pandemic was triggered. As then, science cannot crush an insidious but preventable infectious disease before hundreds of thousands die from it. WASHINGTON – The country’s leading infectious disease expert warned …
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Chris Carlson / Associated Press The NFLPA released the COVID-19 data on Thursday, saying 72 positive player tests had been known as of July 10. The union data is intended to provide players with as much up-to-date information on the spread of the coronavirus as possible and includes a heatmap, …
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Although the pandemic isolation has made Colin Jost appreciate more than ever the routine of working in the 30 Rock studio of “Saturday Night Live”, the co-host of Weekend Update is still unsure if next season will be the last. Appearing remotely on Howard Stern’s Sirius XM show, Jost was …
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San Francisco (AFP) – Apple released its own news podcasts on Wednesday, a first for the iPhone maker who is stepping into an already crowded field. Apple News will now feature daily audio news summaries along with “audio stories,” pieces by partners like Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Time, Wired, and the …
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