Nobel Prizes awarded in pandemic-curtailed local ceremonies
Winners of the 2021 Nobel Prizes began receiving their awards on Monday in scaled-down local ceremonies adapted for pandemic times.
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Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee statue to be melted down, turned into new art
The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that drew violent protests to Charlottesville, Virginia, will be melted down and turned into a new piece of public art by an African American heritage center.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: World needs ‘kosher hate’ of evil
Orthodox Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, known for “hot takes” on numerous issues, says the answer to global problems of racism, including antisemitism, is a healthy dose of “kosher hate.”
‘Don’t be afraid, God is in control,’ says evangelist Greg Laurie
Jussie Smollett: Don Lemon tipped me off about Chicago police
‘Cheugy,’ ‘omicron’ among 2021’s most mispronounced words
Magnus Carlsen in control as challenger blunders again in world chess title match
Regular churchgoers top Gallup’s mental-health poll, Democrats bring up rear
San Francisco restaurant owners apologize for denying service to police officers
“Allyship” is 2021 word of the year for online dictionary site
Allyship, an old noun made new again, is Dictionary.com’s word of the year.
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The Houston plumber who found a stash of cash in the wall of a bathroom at Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church will have a very merry Christmas indeed.
Federal judge halts Biden vaccine mandate for contractors nationwide
The Biden administration's order that federal contractors vaccinate their workers against COVID-19 has been halted nationwide.
Microsoft seizes websites from Chinese hackers targeting U.S. for intelligence gathering
Microsoft said it has seized websites used by China-based hackers targeting the U.S. for intelligence collection.
Results expected next week from U.S. labs testing vaccines' strength against omicron
The answer to the world's biggest question right now rests in a series of Petri dishes at Duke University.
Fauci: Omicron may cause milder disease, though still early
Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday health officials' earliest "inkling" about the omicron variant is that it appears to cause a less severe form of illness, but he cautioned it will take weeks to get the full picture across age groups and different global populations.
Major outage hits Amazon Web Services; many sites affected
Amazon Web Services suffered a major outage Tuesday, the company said, limiting service at many key and popular sites.
Magnus Carlsen takes control of chess title match after challenger's blunder
It took 136 moves in one game and one fateful oversight in another, but we finally got a pair of decisive results from the title match between Norwegian champion Magnus Carlsen and Russian challenger GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in their scheduled 14-game match just past the halfway point in Dubai.
China fumes, Uyghurs cheer, EU shrugs about U.S. diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics
China on Tuesday slammed the U.S. for its diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics, but the move was hailed by Uyghur rights groups for drawing attention to China's abuses of ethnic minorities.
Fired CNN anchor Chris Cuomo steps away from SiriusXM show
Fired CNN anchor Chris Cuomo said he's dropping his SiriusXM radio show, a decision that followed a sexual harassment allegation.
Biden pledges lower insulin costs under 'Build Back Better'
President Biden said Monday that people who have diabetes would no longer have to ration insulin and Americans would see lower prices at the pharmacy counter under his social-welfare legislation.
Bipartisan group of lawmakers votes to block Louisiana governor's vaccine mandate for students
A bipartisan group of Louisiana lawmakers Monday voted against Gov. John Bel Edwards' coronavirus vaccine requirement for some students, but the Democratic governor intends to overrule the rejection and add the shot to the immunization schedule starting next school year.
Derby winner Medina Spirit collapses, dies in California
Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit collapsed and died after a workout Monday at Santa Anita.
