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“Well guys, barring a reverse Christmas miracle, this is the last Weekend Update with Donald Trump still in office.” Colin Jost kicked off the latest Weekend Update sketch with a Green Day-accompanied photo montage of some laugh-worthy moments from Trump’s time in office. Though as with all things Trump, the…
As the number of coronavirus cases ticked upward in mid-November worse than the frightening days of spring and ahead of an expected surge after families congregated for Thanksgiving four doctors on President Trumps task force decided to stage an intervention. © Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post Trump speaks during a coronavirus…
Name: Edouard MassihLocation: Greenpoint, BrooklynHow many people eat together in your home? One. “I live one building away from Edy’s Grocer now. It’s a good and a bad thing.”Avoidances: “I hate shredded coconut, sweet potatoes, and mixing sweet with salty (like pineapple on pizza).” Edouard Massih, a professional chef and caterer,…
7. Tomorrow is the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the longest, darkest night of a long, dark year. This winters darkness is as literal as it is metaphorical, with the catastrophic toll of Covid-19, and fear and dread for what is to come. But as our faith and politics…
The hard thing to do, the courageous thing to do, is to fulfill your oath, especially when you know its going to make your political supporters unhappy. It doesnt matter what your role is, whether youre the Republican secretary of state of Georgia or any other elected official. So Im…
Whether Mr. Trump intervenes in the Virginia race, how the Republican candidates approach him and what kind of response voters have to the soon-to-be former president may set the stage for the 2022 midterm elections, in which both parties fortunes may turn on the strength of the countrys recovery from…
(CNN)Covid-19 vaccines are coming, but in most of Europe, winter is coming faster. In several countries, cases are surging again after many countries seemed to be turning the tide. Politicians are desperate to find a balance of restrictions that flatten the curve without flattening the economy or upsetting residents who…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) – The Shelby County Health Department is responding after a draft of Health Directive 16 was leaked to the public. The proposed directive, which is not finalized, would close all non-essential businesses and bans in-person dining for 2 weeks. The Shelby County Health Department says this leaked…
I have moved through this fourteenth year of Brain Pickings — a devastating year for the world we share, a discomposing year for my private world — by leaning on the writings and wisdom of the long-gone for succor, for calibration of perspective, for the beauty that makes life livable.…
