Whether we’re texting or using tools, our hands — perhaps more than any other body part — are what equip us for modern life. The killer app in the evolution of our hands was our opposable thumbs, which allow humans to precisely hold tiny things between our fingertips and pad of our thumb. When did
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A possible explanation is emerging for why federal data shows only about half of the vaccine supply delivered in the US has been administered. The nation’s vaccine distribution figures have baffled observers for weeks, with states claiming they need more vaccine when the data indicates they still have many doses on hand. Health officials for
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McDonald’s US sales popped in the fourth quarter as guests spent more per order, but international sales took a hit from lockdowns related to Covid-19. The company said Thursday that sales at US restaurants open at least a year rose 5.5% in the three months ending on December 31. It said its marketing investments, especially
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From Wall Street to the White House, everyone is watching GameStop shares. What’s happening: Stock in the left-for-dead video game retailer shot up an astonishing 135% to $347.51 on Wednesday, bringing gains since the start of January to 1,745%. In the battle between day traders coordinating on Reddit and legacy hedge funds betting GameStop shares
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Kelli Ward, the chair of the Arizona Republican Party who promoted President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election, now faces an audit on her own recent electoral victory. Sergio Arellano, a Tucson small business owner who ran for Congress in 2018, is requesting an audit of the votes cast in
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Click here for updates on this story SUGAR CITY, Idaho (East Idaho News) — Football player, college student, cheerleader, track star, son, brother, friend. Dylan Pope is all of those, but the description he’s proud of most is stem cell donor. The 21-year-old was raised in Sugar City, where he played football, cheered and ran
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — The Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association is calling on the state to lift some restrictions on restaurants and allow them to have indoor dining. The organization says the restaurants and lodging industries continue to suffer greatly. It points to Oregon Employment Department data that
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS (FOX5/KVVU) — In a first for the Las Vegas area, spinal surgery is now being done using augmented reality. Only a small number of hospitals in the country have the technology and Southern Hills Hospital is now one of them. Augmented reality is being used to
Continue Reading President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order that would set up his goal of admitting tens of thousands more refugees to the United States, according to two administration officials. Though White House officials discussed having President Biden sign a round of immigration-related executive orders Friday, it now appears likely those will be
Continue Reading The US economy grew at an annualized and seasonally adjusted rate of 4% in the fourth quarter of 2020, just as economists had predicted, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. But that didn’t make up for a bad first quarter and an historically awful second quarter. For 2020 as a whole, GDP decreased by 3.5% from
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Britney Spears is jamming out to music by none other than her ex, Justin Timberlake. Spears posted to Instagram a video of herself dancing to Timberlake and Jay-Z’s song, “Holy Grail,” and even tagged her ex in the post. She captioned it, “Danced in my black (turtle emoji) neck last week to HOLY GRAIL !!!!
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America’s unemployment crisis is now President Joe Biden’s problem, and jobless claims in his (partial) first week as president show how far the economy has to go to get back to normal. Another 847,000 Americans filed for first-time unemployment benefits last week on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the Department of Labor. It was
Continue Reading Video of Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene confronting Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg before she was elected to Congress went viral Wednesday amid an uproar over newly surfaced comments she made in 2018 and 2019 as reported by CNN’s KFile. In the video from March 2019, Greene follows Hogg as he walks toward the US
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Three-time tennis grand slam champion Naomi Osaka says she has invested in National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) franchise North Carolina Courage. Named Forbes’ highest paid female athlete in 2020, Osaka is the daughter of a Haitian father and Japanese mother and, like the members of the Courage, used her platform prominently in 2020 in support
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The Reddit message board that’s breaking the internet by sending Wall Street into a frenzy was briefly taken private by its moderators on Wednesday, adding further confusion to a wild day. “We are experiencing technical difficulties based on unprecedented scale as a result of the newfound interest,” said a message on the WallStreetBets subreddit, adding
Continue Reading Senate Republicans plan to object to any efforts to quickly confirm Alejandro Mayorkas as secretary of Homeland Security, further delaying his confirmation as the department grapples with the Covid-19 pandemic, national security concerns and President Joe Biden’s ambitious immigration plans. In confirming the GOP’s plans to filibuster, Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas told reporters
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SEDONA, Arizona (KPHO/KTVK) — It looked like a scene right out of an action movie. An Arizona National Guard rescue team flying in to save three stranded hikers Tuesday, above the Haribo Canyon in Sedona. All three hikers were visiting from out-of-town. Scott Brand and his wife Crystal
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Since President Joe Biden took office last week, many White House national security staffers have been relegated to working from home — cutting dozens of them off from vital classified materials needed to do their jobs and raising security concerns as most work from unsecure laptops and cell phones that can be vulnerable to software
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK) — A homeowner is asking for answers from the Phoenix Police Department after she recorded two Phoenix police officers striking a man at a homeless encampment in an alleyway on Tuesday. The incident happened near 16th Street and Jefferson Street. Her boyfriend heard someone yelling for
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK) — Phoenix fire crews got creative to lift the spirits of one of their own who fought COVID-19 in the hospital. Friends describe Phoenix firefighter Dan Volcko as tough. After 20 years on the job, a bad case of COVID-19 now has the rescuer needing help.
Continue Reading President Joe Biden will sign a presidential memorandum on Thursday to reverse restrictions on abortion access domestically and abroad imposed and expanded by the Trump administration, according to the Biden administration. Biden will be fulfilling a campaign promise in the memorandum, rescinding the so-called Mexico City Policy, a ban on US government funding for foreign
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OTTAWA, Ontario (CTV News) — Of the very few good things to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic, bed bug sightings plummeted in 2020. In a report released on Tuesday from Orkin Canada, bed bug sightings dropped by 20 per cent in 2020, marking the first decline in
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV News) — Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller has a simple message for anyone thinking of following the lead of the Vancouver couple who allegedly flew to a remote community in Yukon to jump the COVID-19 vaccination queue: Don’t. “There’s extreme scarcity of the doses and
Continue Reading Carey Mulligan has doubled down on her thoughts about a review which referenced her looks. Variety published a review written by freelancer Dennis Harvey of her film “Promising Young Woman,” a darkly comic #MeToo revenge tale. In it he wrote, “Mulligan, a fine actress, seems a bit of an odd choice as this admittedly many-layered
Continue Reading Kelli Ward, the chair of the Arizona Republican Party who promoted President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election, now faces an audit on her own recent electoral victory. Sergio Arellano, a Tucson small business owner who ran for Congress in 2018, is requesting an audit of the votes cast in
Continue Reading The European Union has been locked in a very public and acrimonious fight with AstraZeneca over vaccine delays. The temperature may have cooled slightly after a meeting late Wednesday, which both sides said was constructive, but the problem hasn’t been fixed yet and the stakes for EU countries are high. These are the battle lines:
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — A photo shared over social media showing a huge crowd of unmasked drinkers at a popular beer hall along the beltline continues to draw widespread condemnation. Pour Taproom has subsequently shut its doors, temporarily, of its own accord saying it needs to do better. “It’s
Continue Reading More than 30 House members sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Thursday requesting more flexibility for using their congressional allowances toward helping their personal safety by hiring local law enforcement or other security personnel for their home district offices. “While the U.S. Capitol is protected by
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ACWORTH, Georgia (WGCL) — A disturbing letter mailed to Acworth neighbors has police investigating who is behind the racist message. “We want this neighborhood just for white people. Out Hispanics, out Blacks, out Asians,” the six-line paper reads. Residents in Abernathy Farm began receiving the mail Tuesday night.
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