Sign up for the Guardians First Thing newsletter If Barack Obama does not take a position in Biden’s cabinet, the president-elect will offer it – because he fears that if he does, Michelle Obama will leave him. The 44th president made the remarks during a CBS Sunday morning visit, two …
Read More »The Nobel UN food agency has warned that 2021 will be even worse than 2020
UNITED NATIONS (AP) – The head of the World Food Program says the Nobel Peace Prize has given the UN agency a spotlight and a megaphone to warn world leaders that next year is going to be worse than this year, and without billions of dollars There will be a …
Read More »Muslim activist says American Airlines was wrongly led out after being arrested US News
A Muslim woman arrested on an American Airlines flight Saturday before leaving New Jersey said she was wrongly left alone following an argument with a white man traveling in first class. Amani al-Khatahbeh, an activist and blogger, described the controversy in a Twitter thread about an hour before his apparent …
Read More »Wearing a mask can help you catch the virus
NEW YORK (AP) – U.S. health officials are taking a new step to encourage Americans to wear masks: they’re emphasizing recent research that protects the person who wears a mask. First, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises people to wear masks because of the evidence that it prevents …
Read More »Is Georgia’s Next Ballet ‘Audit’ a Count?
Atlanta (AP) – Georgia says it will call – as many as the nine million ballots cast in its closest presidential election in November, but is this a count? An “audit”? And why are they doing it? All of this is a bit confusing, but election experts say what has …
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