Category: News


Staying Apart, Together: Cheers to a New Year (more than ever)


As has been repeated by me, you, your friends, Netflix and everyone between, this year has been pretty horrible. But we all know that when the clock strikes midnight on Thursday night,

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2020/12/29/cheers-new-year-more-than-ever/4072982001/

MF Doom: Hip-hop star dies aged 49


The London-born musician, real name Daniel Dumile, was known for his sharp, intricate rhymes and his signature mask, which he never removed in public.

Joe and Jill Biden talk COVID-19 heroes, vaccines in odd, Jumbotron ‘New Year’s Rockin’ Eve’ interview


That now includes speaking with their image broadcast from a giant Times Square Jumbotron, answering questions from a winter jacket-wearing Ryan Seacrest perched on the opposite end of the surreally deserted square.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2020/12/31/jill-joe-biden-talk-covid-19-vaccine-interview-new-years-rockin-eve/4106670001/

Republican senator to dispute certification of Biden victory


A Republican says he will be the first senator to object when Congress certifies US President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory next week.

https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-55494005

Covid-19: US reports first known case of highly-infectious variant


The first reported US case of the highly-infectious Covid-19 variant that emerged in the UK has been confirmed in the state of Colorado.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55479590

Keyon Harrold: Jazz trumpeter says son assaulted after false theft accusation


An investigation has been launched after a 14-year-old black teenager was allegedly assaulted by a white woman who falsely accused him of stealing her phone in a hotel lobby in New York.

Game of Thrones games maker dies ‘after poisoning’


A Chinese tycoon who died on Christmas Day was poisoned, Shanghai police say. Lin Qi, 39, was the chairman and chief executive of games developer Yoozoo, best known for the Game of Thrones: Winter Is Coming strategy game.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55463081

Apple iPhone again best tech seller of the year, thanks to the working-from-home trend


Once again, the best-selling tech product of 2020 was Apple’s iPhone – topping the phone’s sales in 2019 – despite being a pandemic year when so many people were thrown out of work and money was harder to come by.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/12/28/apple-iphone-best-selling-tech-device-year-work-home-helped/4048111001/