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[ad_1] Advisers to Joseph R. Biden Jr. accelerated his transition planning on Friday, as the election results showed him with an advantage in battlefield states that could hand him the presidency, with the first top officials of a potential Biden’s White House possibly named as soon as next. week. In …

[ad_1] (FILES) In this file photo taken on Oct. 8, 2020, a medical worker takes a sample from a student’s nasal swab for COVID-19 testing at Brooklyn Health Medical’s urgent care pop-up testing site. Alliance as infection rates rise in New York City. The United States surpassed the nine million …

[ad_1] Are you ready to play basketball? He left for a minute … seriously. Just over two months after the confetti fell into an empty arena to celebrate the Lakers championship, the NBA will return to the court. On Thursday, the NBA players union tentatively approved a start date for …

[ad_1] The National Basketball Players Association voted on Thursday (Friday Manila time) to support the idea of ​​starting the next season on December 22, the date the league has been targeting in its conversations about how and when to get teams back. on the court for a planned 72-game season. …

[ad_1] Brad Parscale, the former manager of President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, is writing a book and could secure a multi-million dollar deal on his own. Parscale worked on the president’s successful campaign in 2016 and is close to him and several members of the Trump family, including Jared Kushner. …

[ad_1] An opposition senator on Friday called on the Philippine National Police to launch a full investigation into the “summary execution” of a man who was brutally shot and killed inside a government hospital in the city of Angono just hours after surviving just to gunshot wounds to the head. …

[ad_1] President Duterte called the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) “mukhang pera” (hungry for money) when the humanitarian group, which has been helping the administration respond to the pandemic, stopped testing for coronavirus and then resumed after that the government partially paid what it owed. Senator Richard Gordon, president of the …

[ad_1] (CNN) – Russian lawmakers introduced a bill that could grant former presidents lifelong immunity from criminal prosecution beyond their terms, state news agency TASS reported Thursday. Such a bill would give current President Vladimir Putin protection from prosecution if and when he decides to leave office. Under current Russian …

[ad_1] TRIPOLI: The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) and the World Health Organization (WHO) expressed concern on Thursday (Friday in Manila) about the serious shortage of vaccines for children in Libya. “UNICEF and the WHO are extremely concerned about the severe shortage of critical vaccines in Libya that threaten the …

[ad_1] Such a bill would give current President Vladimir Putin protection from prosecution if and when he decides to leave office. Under current Russian law, presidents cannot be prosecuted for crimes committed while in office. The proposed change seeks to extend immunity beyond his terms of office to apply to …