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House passes $1.9 trillion COVID relief package
The House approved President Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID relief package on a 219-212 vote early Saturday morning, sending it to the Senate for a possible rewrite before it gets to Biden's desk.The big picture: The vote was a critical first…
Conservation Experts Fear That a New Amusement Park in Cambodia Could Endanger the Ancient Temple of Angkor Wat
Plans to build a new amusement park and resort near Cambodia’s most famous historic site, the Angkor Archaeological Park, have worried conservation experts. In November, the Cambodian government granted NagaCorp, a Hong Kong-based company that runs the NagaWorld hotel and casino in…
The Indoor-Dining Debate Isn’t a Debate at All
Last Friday, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that New York City restaurants would be allowed to resume partial-capacity indoor dining on Valentine’s Day—in a non-pandemic year, one of the hospitality industry’s busiest nights. The following Monday, at his daily media briefing,…
Trust in science helps New Zealand avoid COVID-19 lockdown again
New Zealand has avoided locking down for a second time over COVID-19 community cases because of a swift, science-led response.Why it matters: The Health Ministry said in an email to Axios Friday there's "no evidence of community transmission" despite three…
Art Workers Are Up to Six Times More Likely to Be Out of a Job. 10 Big-City Mayors Are Imploring Biden to Bail Them Out
Mayors from 10 US cities, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago, have co-written a letter to the Biden-Harris administration to urge an integrated federal approach to helping reboot the arts. The mayors have come up with a plan that…
Surreal Photos Show DC In Lockdown As Inauguration Day Approaches
As Washington, DC, still reels from the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol, it also prepares for the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.Photos this week show the city mounting unprecedented preparations against the backdrop of the coronavirus…
50 Times Schitt’s Creek Epitomised 2020 For All Of Us
Thanks to a mixture of word of mouth during lockdown and its clean sweep at the Emmys, Schitt’s Creek has enjoyed an explosion in popularity in 2020. And for millions of us, it has been the binge-worthy boxset that has seen us…
Voice boomed before Music City explosion
Police say a spooky audio recording boomed from an RV parked in downtown Nashville early Christmas morning, just before the vehicle blew up and turned a historic stretch of the bar-lined tourist district into a glass-strewn shambles.Officers, responding to a…
Editors’ Picks: 17 Events for Your Holiday Art Calendar, From a Christmas LED Flower Display to an Origami Extravaganza
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. In light of the global health crisis, we are currently highlighting digital events, as well as in-person exhibitions in the New York area. See our picks…
MasterChef Australia Judge Melissa Leong Separates From Husband Joe Jones
‘MasterChef Australia’ judge Melissa Leong has announced her separation from husband Joe Jones. Sharing the news with her Instagram followers on Sunday evening, the food writer said the couple have chosen to “part ways” after eloping in 2017. “It has brought…
How to stay safe — and sane — during the coronavirus surge
We all know, it’s getting worse. Reality check: Here are a few things every one of us can do to stay safe and sane in coming months:Wear masks. Hopefully this dumb debate is ending and we can all agree masks…
Trump’s Cruel And Unusual Parting Gift: A Spree Of Federal Executions
When Yusuf Ahmed Nur, a professor at the University of Indiana, was asked to administer last rites to federal death row inmate Orlando Hall last month, he knew that there was a chance he would contract the coronavirus. Prisons are known…
The winners and losers of the COVID holiday season
The pandemic has upended Thanksgiving and the shopping season that the holiday kicks off, creating a new crop of economic winners and losers.The big picture: Just as it has exacerbated inequality in every other facet of American life, the coronavirus…
