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Cuomo Aides Rewrote Nursing Home Report to Hide Higher Death Toll

Cuomo Aides Rewrote Nursing Home Report to Hide Higher Death Toll

State health officials could see from the data that a significant number of residents died after being transferred to hospitals. The state health commissioner, Dr. Howard Zucker, had been aware as early as June that officials in his department believed the data was good enough to include in the report, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions. But Dr. Zucker testified to…

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YouTube will lift ban on Trump channel when risk of violence decreases: CEO

YouTube will lift ban on Trump channel when risk of violence decreases: CEO

Alphabet’s YouTube will lift its suspension on former President Donald Trump’s channel when it determines the risk of real-world violence has decreased, the company’s CEO, Susan Wojcicki, said on Thursday. YouTube suspended Trump’s channel for violating policies against inciting violence after the assault on the US Capitol by the former president’s supporters in January. “The… Source link

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Meghan and Harry should quit whining instead of complaining to Oprah

Meghan and Harry should quit whining instead of complaining to Oprah

Judging from the trailers CBS has released of the two-hour Oprah special — set to a movie-like soundtrack of soaring violins — the clap-trap uttered by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex is just another ridiculous pity party. Source link

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China NPC: Beijing set to overhaul Hong Kong electoral system

China NPC: Beijing set to overhaul Hong Kong electoral system

The changes will be discussed at China’s largest political meeting which has kicked off in Beijing. Source link

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Robinhood exec wants users to stop worrying about its business model

Robinhood exec wants users to stop worrying about its business model

Beleaguered no-fee trading app Robinhood is now turning to its chief operating officer to help quell backlash over its response to the “Reddit rally” in January. In a Thursday blog post, Robinhood COO Jim Swartwout vowed to “demystify” the company’s controversial practice of selling order flow to Wall Street. Swartwout, a 50-year-old former executive at… Source link

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Yankees prospect Yoendrys Gomez hits 97 on radar gan

Yankees prospect Yoendrys Gomez hits 97 on radar gan

Observations from the Yankees’ spring training game on Wednesday. Prospect watch Yoendrys Gomez came on to pitch the last inning of the Yankees’ 15-0 eight-inning loss to the Phillies in Clearwater, Fla., and in his scoreless outing showed why he is considered by Baseball America as the organization’s eighth-overall prospect. The 21-year-old right-hander spent 2019… Source link

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WATCH: Jen Psaki Shuts Down Reporter Who Wanted Her to Credit Trump for Vaccines

WATCH: Jen Psaki Shuts Down Reporter Who Wanted Her to Credit Trump for Vaccines

There were many traditions that looked quite different during Donald Trump’s presidency.  But nothing, however, was quite as unusual as Trump’s press secretaries and the way they handled themselves during briefings. Sean Spicer, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Stephanie Grisham and Kayleigh McEnany were not only combative with the press, they also lied with ease. The briefings … Continue reading “WATCH:…

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Lil Baby Is as ‘Real as It Gets’ in New Music Video, Featuring EST Gee

Lil Baby Is as ‘Real as It Gets’ in New Music Video, Featuring EST Gee

Lil Baby enlists up-and-coming Louisville rapper EST Gee for his latest “Real As It Gets” music video. The two count up their respective stacks while rolling with a large entourage before debating where to keep rolling in the Caleb Jermale-directed video. Before wrapping his lyric about being impatient, someone discusses shooting one more scene, to which Lil Baby nonchalantly replies, “We finna…

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Heavily shorted Tanger Outlet stock pops 20% in sudden move, then pulls back

Heavily shorted Tanger Outlet stock pops 20% in sudden move, then pulls back

The retail stock may be the latest attempted short squeeze by traders in 2021. Source link

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The shady ways Myers-Briggs and AI are used in corporate hiring

The shady ways Myers-Briggs and AI are used in corporate hiring

Say you’re a job-seeker who’s got a pretty good idea of what employers want to hear. Like many companies these days, your potential new workplace will give you a personality test as part of the hiring process. You plan to give answers that show you’re enthusiastic, a hard worker and a real people person. Then… Source link

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What Is Home? - The New York Times

What Is Home? – The New York Times

Want to get the At Home newsletter in your inbox? Sign up here. Welcome. The British phrase “as safe as houses,” which describes something that is totally secure, protected from harm, has been pinballing around my brain lately. Exposure to coronavirus is still, a year on, a pressing concern. When we plan an outing, when we consider a gathering with friends, our first question — before “Will it be…

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Longtime Tesla investor Ron Baron dumps nearly 2 million shares

Longtime Tesla investor Ron Baron dumps nearly 2 million shares

Billionaire Tesla bull Ron Baron recently sold about a quarter of his company’s stake in the electric-car maker — but not, he claims, because he thinks the stock is too pricey. Baron told CNBC that his firm dumped 1.8 million of its 8 million Tesla shares in recent months at an average price of around $660… Source link

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Veteran leaves home for first time in 2 years after volunteers build wheelchair ramp

Veteran leaves home for first time in 2 years after volunteers build wheelchair ramp

Volunteers for a California nonprofit that helps veterans and their families have finished building a wheelchair ramp for a disabled Coast Guard veteran who hadn’t left his home in two years. Chuck Wood, 83, served in the Coast Guard from 1956 to 1960 during the Cold War, but for two years up until recently, he was unable to leave his Sacramento home without a ramp because… Source link

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Covid: Italy 'blocks' AstraZeneca vaccine shipment to Australia

Covid: Italy ‘blocks’ AstraZeneca vaccine shipment to Australia

Italy’s new Prime Minister Mario Draghi, an influential figure in Europe as the former president of the European Central Bank, argued in a videoconference with EU leaders that the rules should be applied rigorously, furious at reductions by AstraZeneca of up to 70% in the doses it was contracted to provide. Source link

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Chinese astronauts training for space station crewed flights

Chinese astronauts training for space station crewed flights

BEIJING — China said Thursday a cohort of astronauts is training for four crewed missions this year as the country works to complete its first permanent orbiting space station. The station’s core module, christened Tianhe, could be launched as soon as next month, according to the China National Space Administration and foreign observers. The massive… Source link

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Mets’ Seth Lugo ‘on track’ in rehab from elbow surgery

Mets’ Seth Lugo ‘on track’ in rehab from elbow surgery

PORT ST. LUCIE – Seth Lugo said Thursday morning that his rehabilitation from right elbow surgery has gone smoothly so far, although the right-hander declined to place a timetable on his return to major-league action. “I don’t know that answer. I’m just going one day at a time right now,” Lugo said at a Zoom… Source link

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Abbott Blames Biden Administration, Undocumented Immigrants for Spreading Covid in Texas Days After He Rescinds Statewide Mask Mandate

Abbott Blames Biden Administration, Undocumented Immigrants for Spreading Covid in Texas Days After He Rescinds Statewide Mask Mandate

Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) blamed the Biden administration for spreading Covid-19 in his state just days after he rescinded the statewide mask mandate and ordered all businesses to fully reopen against the advice of public health experts. “The Biden administration was releasing illegal immigrants into our community who had Covid,” he told Fox News. … Continue reading “Abbott Blames Biden…