January 6, 2021, 2:03pm It’s 2021, but (surprise!) essentially nothing has changed: COVID is still ravaging the United States and no meaningful government aid has arrived. Oh, one thing has changed: a new, more contagious variant of COVID has spread to the U.S. Happy New Year! During times of crisis, carving out time to write
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Palestinian DJ Sama’ Abdulhadi has been released on bail after serving eight days in a Jericho jail. The Palestinian Authorities court order is subject to investigation on charges of “desecrating a holy site and religious symbols and violating COVID-19 emergency measures.” Sama’ was recording her set for Beatport‘s series The Residency at a courtyard within Maqam Nabi
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This afternoon, as Congress counted electoral votes to confirm Joe Biden’s victory, a mob of Trump supporters who had traveled to Washington at the behest of the President attacked police outside the Capitol and forced their way inside the building. Senators and members of Congress were locked inside their respective chambers; security escorted Vice-President Mike
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This afternoon (Jan. 6) supporters of President Trump invaded the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., breaking through unprepared security to prevent the Electoral College certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. Musicians have taken to Twitter in response to the chaos. Various news sources have reported a shooting inside the Capitol Building, while
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January 6, 2021, 2:07pm 2021 is already starting off right (movie-wise, at least): Deadline has just announced that Tiffany Haddish is in final negotiations to star in the screen adaptation of National Book Award winner M.T. Anderson’s sci-fi novel Landscape with Invisible Hand, which will be produced by MGM, Annapurna and Brad Pitt’s Plan B Productions.
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(CNN) — The days of strolling into an airport, flashing a passport, then hopping on a flight to wherever one likes are, for now, a distant memory. The Covid-19 pandemic has transformed the travel landscape, potentially for decades to come. Countries all over the world are entering fresh lockdowns, but even when restrictions do lift,
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Departing US President Trump is maintaining his campaign against Chinese commercial interest for as long as he can. Yet another executive order has been issued by the Donald ‘Addressing the Threat Posed By Applications and Other Software Developed or Controlled By Chinese Companies’. There’s the now-standard preamble about how anything Chinese is intrinsically dodgy and
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