Americans looking to get a jump-start on their holiday shopping Thursday have fewer options than before the pandemic, with more retailers now closing their doors on Thanksgiving Day. The practice by major retail chains of launching in-store Black Friday sales on Thanksgiving came to an abrupt end in 2020, when COVID-19 …
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22 November
Sinbad’s “dead” limbs are “coming alive” 2 years after stroke
It’s been two years since comedian and actor Sinbad had a debilitating stroke that left him hooked up to a ventilator and in a medically induced coma. While his family said that his particular situation only had a roughly 30% survival rate, today, the 66-year-old is recovering. “His progress is …
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18 November
2 Native Hawaiian men found guilty of hate crime in 2014 beating of White man
A jury on Thursday found two Native Hawaiian men guilty of a hate crime for the 2014 beating of a White man who was fixing up a house he purchased in their remote Maui neighborhood. U.S. District Judge J. Michael Seabright ordered Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi and Levi Aki Jr. detained pending …
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16 November
FDA approves lab
For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration is giving the green light to meat grown in a laboratory. The agency said in a notice on Wednesday that a “cultivated chicken” product made by Upside Foods is safe to eat. The FDA “evaluated the information submitted to the agency …
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14 November
UVA shooting: 3 football players killed, 2 students wounded and suspect in custody
Charlottesville, Virginia — A University of Virginia student is suspected of killing three of the school’s football players in a shooting Sunday night, the school’s president said Monday. The suspect, identified by authorities as student Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., was in custody, authorities announced Monday. The deceased victims were identified as …
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13 November
“Van Gogh in America”: How the Dutch artist entranced a nation
When Americans were introduced to 21 works of Vincent Van Gogh at the first major U.S. showcase for modern art, the famed New York Armory Show of 1913, the response was anything but love at first sight. It wasn’t until 1922 that the Detroit Institute of Arts, or DIA, became …
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10 November
Verified Twitter accounts impersonating LeBron James, George W. Bush and others send out fake tweets
Several Twitter users have already begun exploiting the revamped Twitter Blue by receiving the blue check mark and pretending to be celebrities and politicians. Twitter Blue, which now costs $8 a month, is stirring confusion about which of the platforms’ accounts are real. A verified Twitter account that had Los Angeles …
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6 November
Transcript: New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu on “Face the Nation,” Nov. 6, 2022
The following is a transcript of an interview with New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu that aired Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022, on “Face the Nation.” MARGARET BRENNAN: And we go now to New Fields, New Hampshire and that state’s Republican governor, Chris Sununu, who is up for re-election on Tuesday. Welcome …
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4 November
Twitter layoffs begin a week after Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover
Twitter employees on Friday braced for widespread layoffs as part of new owner Elon Musk’s broad overhaul of the social platform. In a letter to employees obtained by multiple media outlets, the company said that workers would find out by 9 a.m. Pacific Standard Time if they had been laid …
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1 November
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Former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid was sentenced on Tuesday to three years in prison for driving drunk, speeding and hitting two parked cars last year, leaving a 5-year-old girl with a serious brain injury. Reid pleaded guilty in September to driving while intoxicated causing serious bodily injury. …
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