KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Patrick Mahomes was in the locker room and dealing with the abrupt ending of the Kansas City Chiefs‘ season after their 2018 AFC Championship Game overtime loss to Tom Brady and the New England Patriots when in walked a visitor. It was Brady, who before he left to begin preparations for […]
Day: February 1, 2021
Unique ways to bond with your mother-in-law
Your mother-in-law might feel insecure that now you may be the most important person in her son’s life. To help eliminate this feeling, try engaging in conversations where she can talk about her son and most importantly, his childhood. She will immediately start showing you photo albums and tell you all the embarrassing stories about […]
$500 billion in aid to small businesses: How much did it help?
As Democrats and Republicans spent months last fall arguing over how to rescue the economy, one provision drew widespread support from lawmakers: reviving the Paycheck Protection Program, the government’s marquee effort to help small businesses weather the pandemic. The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, called the lending program “a bipartisan slam dunk.” House […]
US Won’t Make Immigration Arrests At Virus Vaccination Sites
WASHINGTON: The U.S. government says it wont be making routine immigration enforcement arrests at COVID-19 vaccination sites. Vaccination sites will be considered sensitive locations and generally off limits for enforcement actions, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement Monday. It says arrests would only be carried out under the most extraordinary of circumstances. […]
Severe Punishment Awaits Protesters in Russia, Kremlin Says
MOSCOW — A day after protests swept across Russia in support of a jailed opposition leader, the authorities said Monday that some participants face harsh punishment, including spells in the prison system once known as the gulag. The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, told journalists on a conference call on Monday that the protests included […]
UK trains volunteer vaccine army in Covid inoculation race
LONDON: More used to wielding a camera than a needle, taking part in a national vaccination campaign was the “last thing” documentary director Mike Day expected to be doing before the start of the coronavirus pandemic. But the 41-year-old is no one of an army of volunteers — many with no medical qualifications — being […]
How Rich Hospitals Profit From Patients in Car Crashes
As part of its check-in process, a Catholic hospital in Oklahoma offers some accident victims a waiver to sign stating they do not want their health plan billed for care. One patient received the waiver shortly after a car accident in which her head hit the windshield. She said she had no recollection of signing […]