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☆ Off the grid, heavily armed and radicalized: He's a law enforcement nightmare
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-17 | by ( Rich Schapiro | Rich Schapiro Is A Reporter For The Nbc News Investigative Unit. | ) www.nbcnews.com + 0.00 time to read: +12 min

Lonnie Coffman had no criminal record. And no city officials or law enforcement in the area had ever come into contact with him. Police determined the jars of liquid found in Lonnie Coffman's truck were Molotov cocktails. U.S. Capitol PoliceOne of the weapons found in the truck of Lonnie Leroy Coffman in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021. A crossbow was among the weapons found in Lonnie Coffman's truck.

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☆ UK hopes to ease lockdown from March: minister
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-17 | by ( William Schomberg | ) www.reuters.com sentiment -0.98 time to read: +2 min

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s government hopes to ease some lockdown restrictions in March as it presses ahead with Europe’s fastest rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, foreign minister Dominic Raab said on Sunday. Slideshow ( 2 images )The country, which also has Europe’s highest COVID-19 death toll, has been under national lockdown since Jan. 5, with schools closed for most pupils, non-essential businesses shut and people ordered to work from home where possible. “What we want to do is get out of this national lockdown as soon as possible,” Raab told Sky News television. He has said that England can consider easing lockdown restrictions from that time if all goes smoothly. The Sunday Times said that British ministers had settled their differences to back a three-point plan that could lead to some lockdown restrictions being lifted as soon as early March.

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☆ Uganda's Museveni wins sixth term, rival alleges fraud
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-16 | by ( Reuters Staff | ) www.reuters.com + 0.00 time to read: +5 min

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has scored a decisive election victory to win a sixth term, the country’s election commission said on Saturday, but his main rival Bobi Wine denounced the results as fraudulent and urged citizens to reject them. Polling agents from the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party celebrate the victory of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni in the concluded general elections in Kampala, Uganda January 16, 2021. REUTERS/Baz RatnerThe 76-year-old Museveni, in power since 1986 and one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders, won 5.85 million votes, or 58.6% in Thursday’s election. The campaign was marked by a deadly crackdown by security forces on Wine, other opposition candidates and their supporters. “It further exposes how dictatorial the Museveni regime is,” added Wine, who campaigned to end what he called widespread corruption.

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Dustin Higgs, 48, was convicted in the 1996 kidnapping and killings of three women in a Maryland wildlife refuge. Higgs, who was pronounced dead at 1:23 a.m., was the thirteenth federal convict put to death under Trump. President-elect Joe Biden, scheduled to be inaugurated Wednesday, opposes the federal death penalty and has signaled he’ll end its use. The number of federal death sentences carried out under Trump since 2020 is more than in the previous 56 years combined, reducing the number of prisoners on federal death row by nearly a quarter. It contained Higgs’s nickname, “Bones,” his telephone number, his address number and the tag number for his van.

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ET Covid-19 Live Updates: India Starts Vaccinating Its 1.3 Billion People President-elect Joe Biden plans to create mobile vaccine clinics and expand Americans’ access to shots, but he warned that “things will get worse before they get better.” RIGHT NOW India begins inoculating its 1.3 billion people. India begins inoculating its 1.3 billion people. Covishield and another vaccine called Covaxin were authorized for emergency use in India earlier this month. “The honest truth is this, things will get worse before they get better,” Mr. Biden said. “The vaccine rollout in the United States has been a dismal failure so far,” Mr. Biden said.

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Contact usBut the state’s health officer, Dr. Thomas Dobbs, said the problem isn’t a lack of health care workers. Rogelio V. Solis / APJoseph Goode, a spokesman for CVS, said the company had vaccinated more than 3,000 long-term care residents and staff in Mississippi since Dec. 28. Walgreens did not say how many long-term care residents in Mississippi the company had vaccinated. For long-term care residents and staff in communities that have struggled to bring the virus under control, the consequences could be dire. “I can’t think of anything more heartbreaking than that.”In Mississippi, residents of long-term care facilities have accounted for more than a third of those dying from Covid-19.

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☆ For Los Angeles-area ambulance crews, the COVID-19 calls never stop
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-15 | by ( Norma Galeana | Alan Devall | ) www.reuters.com + 0.00 time to read: +2 min

SANTA FE SPRINGS, Calif. (Reuters) - For Southern California ambulance crews, the shifts feel never-ending and the calls to pick up COVID-19 patients seem endless. California hospitals have grown so full of COVID-19 patients that state officials ordered hospitals to delay non-life-threatening surgeries, preserving space for serious cancer removal and necessary heart operations. Outside many Southern California hospitals, ambulances loaded with COVID-19 patients wait for hours until space becomes available in the intensive care unit (ICU) or emergency room (ER). Beside affecting the patients, the backlog has taken its toll on the ambulance crews who respond to calls for the sick. In Los Angeles County, with a population of about 10 million, COVID-19 kills someone every eight minutes, health officials say.

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REUTERS/Jeenah MoonTrump’s executive order requires U.S. investors to completely divest from the securities of 44 companies deemed to be linked to the Chinese military. One source familiar with the views of three U.S. banks said the institutions doubt Biden will reverse, or significantly ease, the ban anytime soon. “I would certainly hope that there would be better guidancecoming out” from Biden, said a U.S. stock exchange executive. “This is forcing investors to sell now while they still can,” said David Loevinger, a managing director at TCW Group. persons.” Until there is more clarity, many investors say they will avoid anything that might get ensnared by the rules.

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☆ ‘We Need to Stabilize’: Big Business Breaks With Republicans
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-15 | by ( David Gelles | ) www.nytimes.com sentiment -0.97 time to read: +1 min

“They’re not just the money,” said Nancy Koehn, a historian at Harvard Business School. They carry an enormous amount of weight, regardless of your political loyalties.”For decades, the Republicans were seen as the party of big business. Their support for low taxes and light regulation was manna to executives eager to raise profits and avoid government entanglements, and chief executives and big companies were reliable funders of Republicans up and down the ballot. Mr. Trump has frayed those bonds. Four years ago, few major chief executives supported Mr. Trump during his first campaign.

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☆ Insurers Must Pay Businesses for Pandemic Claims, British Court Rules
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-15 | by ( Eshe Nelson | ) www.nytimes.com sentiment -1.00 time to read: +1 min

The Lazy Claire Patisserie, a couple of months shy of its two-year anniversary, wouldn’t reopen its doors for more than three months. “We followed the advice; we believed that was the right thing to do and that was what was mandated,” Mr. Duckett said. There was one consolation: Mr. Duckett had purchased business interruption insurance, which covers lost earnings when unexpected events beyond the shop’s control force it to close. The day they locked the doors, he filed a claim to to Hiscox, a major insurance provider in Britain. Mr. Duckett said that Hiscox told him that the pandemic wasn’t something the company had envisioned being covered by their policies.

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ET Covid-19 Live Updates: Over Two Million Around the World Have Died From the Virus President-elect Joe Biden plans a big vaccination push, despite limited supplies. He has vowed to have 100 million doses in arms during his first 100 days in office, and other governments have likewise made ambitious pledges. Federal officials had promised that 20 million people would be immunized before the end of 2020, but only about 9.7 million have received their first dose so far. Overall, only about 36 percent of the 30.6 million doses that have been distributed have been injected into arms, according to federal data. A plant in Marburg that BioNTech purchased last year is expected to start producing vaccine doses soon.

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☆ Campaigners to Biden: Environmental justice key to tackling climate change
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-14 | by ( Valerie Volcovici | Matthew Green | ) www.reuters.com + 0.92 time to read: +2 min

(Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Joe Biden must place environmental justice at the heart of his plans to tackle climate change by tailoring policies to address the global inequalities at the root of the crisis, guests in a Reuters Next panel said on Thursday. Slideshow ( 4 images )Biden has pledged to return the United States to a leadership role in climate diplomacy by rejoining the 2015 Paris accord, and spend $2 trillion on projects to decarbonize the economy while creating thousands of jobs. “We know to be able to solve the climate crisis we need to mobilize resources on an emergency scale,” said Mohamed Adow, director of Power Shift Africa, a think-tank in Nairobi. “The climate crisis really emerged from interlocking systems of capitalism, resource extraction, racism, patriarchy and colonization,” Lake said. “When thinking about fighting climate change, it’s not just about stopping emissions,” Otto said.

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☆ No jab, no job? UK plumbing firm exploring vaccine rules for staff
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-14 | by ( Estelle Shirbon | ) www.reuters.com sentiment -0.94 time to read: +2 min

Slideshow ( 3 images )Pimlico Plumbers, with a workforce of more than 400, has been talking to its lawyers about making the vaccine mandatory for new hires within a few months, founder Charlie Mullins said. The firm was also exploring how it might modify existing staff contracts, he said, although he insisted no one would be forced to receive a vaccine or be fired over the issue. “We wouldn’t dream of forcing anybody but I’m pretty much certain that 99% of our staff would jump at the opportunity,” Mullins told Reuters in a telephone interview. “Who in their right mind would turn down one needle or one jab that could save your life?” he added. In that context, he said, he did not believe many people would find a “no jab, no job” policy controversial.

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☆ Airlines face more turbulence before vaccine relief
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-14 | by ( Laurence Frost | Sarah Young | ) www.reuters.com + 0.00 time to read: +4 min

PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - For a year expected to mark a turning point for pandemic-stricken European airlines, 2021 is off to a rough start. “Meanwhile the cash burn is going to continue” and may even in increase in Europe, Pearce told an online conference on Wednesday. For bailed-out airlines like Air France-KLM and Lufthansa, a longer slump increases both debt and the likelihood more support will be needed. “It’s going to be a difficult quarter.”Data provider OAG, which tracks airline schedules, predicted “carnage in Europe” after airlines slashed western Europe capacity by a quarter. Recovery hopes have driven a share rebound for European airlines since the first vaccine breakthrough in November, before lockdown setbacks pared average gains to 30%, based on the Stoxx Europe airlines index.

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☆ UPDATE 3-China 2020 meat imports close to 10 mln tonnes, up 60% on year
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-14 | by ( Dominique Patton | ) www.reuters.com sentiment -0.79 time to read: +1 min

(Adds chart)BEIJING, Jan 14 (Reuters) - China imported 9.91 million tonnes of meat in 2020, customs data showed on Thursday, as the world’s biggest consumer of meat stocked up on proteins after a further plunge in its pork output. Shipments were up 60.4% on the year before and came after China’s output of pork, its staple meat, slumped 19% in the first half. Imports of pork from the United States, China’s largest supplier, rose 223.8% in yuan terms in 2020, customs spokesman Liu Kuiwen told reporters at a briefing. Testing of imported chilled foods for the novel coronavirus during the second half of 2020 slowed imports but arrivals still kept up a healthy pace. Domestic pork prices PORK-CN-TOT-D slumped during October but began rising strongly again at the end of November on growing demand, making cheaper imported meat more attractive.

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☆ Tips for Getting Your Financial Life in Order in Hard Times
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-14 | by ( Paul B. Brown | ) www.nytimes.com sentiment -0.99 time to read: +2 min

It is just rolled into what becomes an extended version of the loan. Certain financial truisms — like “past performance is no guarantee of future results”— are repeated so often that they can easily be ignored. “It’s not what you make, it’s what you keep,” is another adage that is worth taking seriously. The second way involves minimizing your taxes, the subject of “The New Retirement Savings Time Bomb” (Penguin, $18)by Ed Slott, a well-known certified public accountant. The last two were revisions of his “The Retirement Savings Time Bomb,” which came out in 2003.

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☆ Can’t Measure Heart? N.F.L. Teams Are Trying
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-14 | by ( Bill Pennington | ) www.nytimes.com + 0.68 time to read: +2 min

“We can all see what a player’s pure speed is when he’s running in a straight line in shorts at the league’s combine. Wes Welker, a 5-foot-9 wide receiver who played for five N.F.L. teams and ranks 22nd in career receptions with 903, was not even invited to the N.F.L. “Lewis played much faster because of his intelligence, which helped him to read opponents’ tendencies,” Pioli said. You have to look for all those attributes.”Teams are increasingly using tech help to recognize and verify those unique qualities.

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☆ U.S. House poised to impeach Trump for second time; McConnell spurns immediate trial
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-13 | by ( David Morgan | Richard Cowan | ) www.reuters.com + 0.00 time to read: +7 min

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has told the chamber’s top Democrat Chuck Schumer he is unwilling to call an emergency session to consider removing Trump from office following a House impeachment, a McConnell spokesman said. 3 House Republican. Slideshow ( 12 images )Under the U.S. Constitution, impeachment in the House triggers a trial in the Senate. A source said earlier on Wednesday that the Republican Senate leadership had discussed whether to initiate a trial as early as Friday. Democrats could also use an impeachment trial to push through a vote blocking Trump from running for office again.

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☆ U.S. House begins vote on impeaching Trump after U.S. Capitol siege
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-13 | by ( David Morgan | Richard Cowan | ) www.reuters.com + 0.00 time to read: +7 min

During his speech, Trump repeated false claims that the election was fraudulent and exhorted supporters to march on the Capitol. 3 House Republican. “It’s the only way to defeat fear.”In a break from standard procedure, Republican House leaders refrained from urging their members to vote against impeachment, calling the vote a matter of individual conscience. A source said earlier on Wednesday that the Republican Senate leadership had discussed whether to initiate a trial as early as Friday. Democrats could also use an impeachment trial to push through a vote blocking Trump from running for office again.

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☆ U.S. House impeaches Trump for a second time; 10 Republicans vote yes
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-13 | by ( David Morgan | Richard Cowan | ) www.reuters.com + 0.00 time to read: +8 min

The Senate’s Republican majority leader, Mitch McConnell, rejected Democratic calls for a quick impeachment trial, saying there was no way to conclude it before Trump leaves office. But even if he has left the White House, a Senate conviction of Trump could lead to a vote on banning him from running for office again. During his speech, Trump repeated false claims that the election was fraudulent and exhorted supporters to march on the Capitol. In a video statement released after the vote, Trump did not mention the impeachment vote and took no responsibility for his remarks to supporters last week, but condemned the violence. Wednesday’s article of impeachment accused Trump of “incitement of insurrection,” saying he provoked violence against the U.S. government in his speech to supporters.

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☆ World Bank's Malpass hammers private sector to back debt reduction push
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-13 | by ( David Lawder | Andrea Shalal | ) www.reuters.com + 0.00 time to read: +3 min

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - World Bank President David Malpass urged private sector creditors to finally step up and help poor countries deal with the economic and health crises unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic and stop collecting funds urgently needed elsewhere. FILE PHOTO: World Bank President David Malpass attends the "1+6" Roundtable meeting at the Diaoyutai state guesthouse in Beijing, China November 21, 2019. Malpass expressed continuing frustration about the lack of private sector support for the G20’s Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI), which allows the poorest countries to defer official bilateral payments through the end of June. A major debt reduction initiative lowered debt burdens a decade ago, but since then lending had increased sharply by both China and through private sector bond markets. Malpass said he expected to see some advances in individual countries, including potentially Chad, which is working with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to resolve its official and private sector debt problems.

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☆ Progress stalls in Afghan peace talks as sides await Biden
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-13 | by ( Abdul Qadir Sediqi | Charlotte Greenfield | ) www.reuters.com + 0.00 time to read: +3 min

A diplomatic source in Kabul said expectations were low for progress before Biden takes office on Jan. 20. But that depends on the Taliban meeting security conditions which the Afghan government says have not been met. The talks then broke up in December, in part to allow negotiators to return home for consultations with their leadership. The sides announced last week they would re-start talks on Saturday. But so far only limited meetings between smaller teams called ‘contact groups’ have taken place, three diplomatic and Afghan government sources told Reuters.

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ET Capitol Riot Live Updates: Trump Urges No Violence or Vandalism at Planned Demonstrations The fallout from last week’s attack on the Capitol continued as the Army secretary announced that the inauguration would be secured by armed National Guard members. “In lights of reports of more demonstrations, I urge that there must be NO violence, NO lawbreaking and NO vandalism of any kind,” Mr. Trump said. For President Trump, the past week has included a flurry of rebukes from businesses and once-loyal politicians. A majority of House members vote to impeach. Mayor Bill de Blasio said New York City is ending its contracts with the Trump Organization after the deadly riot incited by President Trump at the U.S. Capitol.

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“He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding.” “These facts require immediate actions by President Trump,” he continued. A few Republicans defended him, but most others simply argued that a rush to impeach Mr. Trump without a hearing or an investigation raised constitutional questions. With Democrats controlling the House, Mr. Trump is expected to become the first American president to be impeached twice. Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington sent a letter to Mr. Trump on Sunday asking for an emergency declaration to obtain additional funding for inauguration security. On Tuesday, a federal inspector general questioned an order to deliver the estimates before Mr. Trump leaves office, after whistle-blowers warned that the rush would imperil their accuracy.

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Finally Lands in China to Begin Tracing the Coronavirus A glimmer of hope from one California region emerging from lockdown. On Thursday, China’s National Health Commission reported a coronavirus death in the mainland for the first time since May. A pharmacist administers the Covid-19 vaccine to a health care workers last month in Columbus, Ohio. “It’s just lost.”The death of a Miami doctor who received a coronavirus vaccine is being investigated. Credit... via Facebook Health authorities are investigating the case of a Florida doctor who died from an unusually severe blood disorder 16 days after receiving the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine.

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