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US Covid Cases Rising Rapidly As Delta Variant Dominates

The spike comes as Delta variant accounted for around 52% of cases in 2 weeks ending July 3 (File) Washington: Covid cases are rising rapidly in the United States as the highly contagious Delta variant dominates and vaccinations stagnate, data showed Wednesday. The seven-day-average of new cases was 13,859 as of July 6, up 21 […]

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Minneapolis Fed announces a vaccine requirement for employees.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis will require employees to be vaccinated against the coronavirus when they enter its office next month. By the end of August, they must attest that they are fully vaccinated if they wish to remain employed, Neel Kashkari, the president of the Minneapolis Fed, wrote in a memo posted to […]

Technology

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg celebrates US Independence day in unique way. Watch Video

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a unique video celebrating Independence Day in the United States. Zuckerberg chose to go Wakeboarding while carrying the flag of USA. July 4, 2021 marks the 245th anniversary of the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from British colonial rule. Zuckerberg is seen blasting the song ‘Take Me Home, Country […]

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Shohei Ohtani hits 32nd home run to break Hideki Matsui’s record for homers by a Japanese player in a major league season

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Shohei Ohtani hit his major-league-leading 32nd homer for the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday, breaking Hideki Matsui’s record for homers in a major league season by a Japanese player. Ohtani surpassed Matsui’s full-season record before the All-Star break with his solo shot to right in the fifth inning against Boston on Wednesday. […]

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States bring new antitrust suit against Google over Google Play

Google announced last week 60% of its workforce will work around three days a week in the office, 20% in new office locations, and 20% from home. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images A group of state attorneys general have again teamed up to file an antitrust lawsuit against Google, this […]

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Haiti Is in a ‘State of Siege.” Here’s What It Means.

Not long after Haiti’s president was shot to death by assassins who burst into his home, the country’s interim prime minister announced that he had declared an “état de siège” — a state of siege. To many people around the world watching with alarm as events unfold in Haiti, the term was unfamiliar, even baffling. […]

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Delta Dominant Variant in US, Makes Up More Than Half of COVID-19 Cases: CDC

The highly contagious Delta variant has become the dominant coronavirus strain in the US, accounting for more than 51 per cent of Covid infections in the country, according to new data released by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. The variant, also known as B.1.617.2, was first detected in India in December and is […]

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Dozens of States Are Suing Google Over App Store Fees

WASHINGTON — A group of dozens of states and the District of Columbia is suing Google on Wednesday on claims that its mobile app store abuses its market power, expanding the legal challenges facing the internet search giant. The suit would be the fourth state or federal antitrust lawsuit filed against Google since October, but […]

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Golfer Angel Cabrera sentenced to 2 years in prison for assaulting former partner

BUENOS AIRES — Argentinian golfer Angel Cabrera, a former Masters and U.S. Open champion, was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison on charges he assaulted his former partner. A court in the province of Cordoba, 500 miles northwest of Buenos Aires, convicted the 51-year-old of assaulting, threatening and harassing Cecilia Torres Mana, his partner […]

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Why Is Haiti Poor? Years of Outside Exploitation

Haiti has been thwarted by outside interests from its very beginning. For decades, European powers, and later the United States, refused to recognize it as an independent republic. The Caribbean nation became the world’s first Black-led republic when it declared its independence from France on New Year’s Day 1804. That day, Saint-Domingue, once France’s richest […]