It's not even Christmas yet in the real world (or in Burning Man's' default world) but in the tabloid world, it's already the New Year, with this week's rags all gleefully emblazoned with the date: January 4, 2021.
Entering into the spirit of a bright, shiny New Year, the tabloids arrive newly invigorated, with fresh and innovative story ideas and fact-based investigative reporting. — Read the rest
Israel 'launched an aggression by directing a barrage of rockets' from the north of the Lebanese city of Tripoli towards the Masyaf area, The Syrian Ministry of Defense says
Juan Carlos stunned Spain in August when he moved to the United Arab Emirates.
For thousands of families, the Christmas season brings with it economic uncertainty. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected Alberta’s economy in a way not seen in decades. As provincial affairs reporter Tom Vernon explains, the province has big plans to rebuild in 2021.
Maybe some of the advertising money was misplaced.
The Turkish government should withdraw provisions in a draft law that would arbitrarily curtail nongovernmental organizations’ activities and have the potential to violate the right to freedom of association, Human Rights Watch said today. Parliament is due to vote on the law on December 24, 2020.
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10 Susquehanna Valley restaurants ordered closed for violating indoor dining shutdown WGAL Susquehanna Valley Pa.
Sixty-two per cent of the cybercrime complaints lodged in 2020 were related to financial frauds, police said in a statement.
Underwater excavation, borehole drilling, and modelling suggests a massive paleo-tsunami struck near the ancient settlement of Tel Dor between 9,910 to 9,290 years ago, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Gilad Shtienberg, Richard Norris and Thomas Levy from the Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology, University of California, San Diego, USA, and colleagues from Utah State University and the University of Haifa.
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(DW.COM) – Hundreds of trucks were stuck in massive traffic jams in the port of Dover on England's southern coast on Tuesday, with drivers expressing anger and sadness over the sudden travel ban. France shut its borders with the United Kingdom on Sunday, imposing a ban on travel by land, sea, rail and air, after…
Читать дальше..."In an appalling abuse of the legal system, Uganda plans to detain human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo through the Christmas holiday," said the chairman on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Eliot Engel.
On Jan. 1, “The Great Gatsby” will enter the public domain, making its text free for any American to read—and to remix into new creations.
The supersharp radio "vision" of the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) has revealed previously unseen details in a jet of material ejected at three-quarters the speed of light from the core of a galaxy some 12.8 billion light-years from Earth. The galaxy, dubbed PSO J0309+27, is a blazar, with its jet pointed toward Earth, and is the brightest radio-emitting blazar yet seen at such a distance. It also is the second-brightest X-ray emitting blazar at such a distance.
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PARIS (Reuters) - For the first time since a fire that nearly destroyed it, the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris played host to a Christmas Eve choral concert, an annual tradition in France.
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If the second round of stimulus checks remains at a $600-per-person cap, our stimulus check calculator can help you estimate how much money your household would get.
Which state should get income taxes when out-of-state workers no longer go to the office?
Santa Claus helps to unload gifts, joining multiple faith-based groups bringing Christmas to the family of a child with cancer during their 3rd Annual Reindeer Ride in St. Peters on Friday, Dec. 24, 2020. Santa, in other seasons known as T. J. Harris of the Faithful Few motorcycle club, helped with the big delivery to ...
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Coronation Street airs on unusual days in the coming weeks, to ensure plenty of Christmas and New Year episodes
