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Read More »Cuomo Aide Admits State Released Inaccurate Nursing Home Covid-19 Death Data
In a private call with Democratic lawmakers, audio of which was leaked to the New York Post, secretary to Gov. Cuomo Melissa DeRosa said that the governor’s office “froze” when they were asked by the Department of Justice to turn in the state’s data on nursing home deaths from the …
Read More »Inside 'UFC Fight Island' During the Poirier Vs. McGregor 2 Fight
As I sit on a 16-hour chartered flight home from Abu Dhabi to Las Vegas, it’s still somewhat surreal to think what unfolded on Saturday night. Conor McGregor was knocked out by Dustin Poirier mere feet in front of me in the UFC 257 main event. It’s not that Poirier …
Read More »It's All Going to Shot: Willie Nelson Gets the Covid Vaccine
On Wednesday morning, Willie Nelson, 87, fired up his car at his Spicewood, Texas, ranch and headed to a drive-up clinic in nearby Cedar Park to receive his Covid-19 vaccination shot. “We’re lucky,” Nelson’s wife Annie tells Rolling Stone. “We made sure that [he] wasn’t cutting anybody — in fact, …
Read More »Congress Passes Covid-19 Relief Bill With Funding for Live Music Venues
After a series of protracted negotiations that threatened to derail any financial relief for millions of Americans, Congress passed a new Covid-19 relief bill Monday night that will include funding for independent music venues that have been closed throughout the pandemic. The bill will now move to the White House …
Read More »Governors Are 'Angry,' Frustrated at Trump Administration's Bungling of Vaccine Distribution
Governors across the country have been frustrated for the past two days with the Trump administration’s inept distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine created by Pfizer-BioNTech. They say the number of doses they expected was cut by nearly half in some cases, and they were left in the dark as to …
Read More »Mickey Guyton: Charley Pride 'Made It Possible for Me to Have a Career in Country Music'
Mickey Guyton never had the opportunity to meet Charley Pride in person but she says his groundbreaking role as a black singer of country music helped her to have her own career in Nashville. Pride died Saturday from complications related to Covid-19. Related: Charley Pride’s Essential Songs “Charley Pride means …
Read More »Surprise! Dozens Test Positive for Covid-19 After Swingers' Convention
The sex industry has evolved to the challenges put forth by the coronavirus pandemic in creative ways, whether it be by launching Instagram strip clubs or password-protected Zoom circle-jerks. Yet transitioning intimacy over to the digital realm is admittedly pretty difficult, and even though cases are once again climbing across …
Read More »How Network TV Shows Are Coping With Covid
Early in Monday night’s season premiere of The Good Doctor, the action on the ABC medical drama pauses for an onscreen disclaimer that reads, “This episode of The Good Doctor is a made-up story about a real battle still being fought. Honor the heroes: doctors, nurses and other frontline workers, …
Read More »How Trump Took the Middle Class to the Cleaners
Donald Trump is gifted at marketing stodgy, old-line Republican policies as though they’re bold, transgressive, and new. Think of it as policy laundering. And nowhere has this deception been executed to more damaging effect than in Trump’s handling of the economy. As a candidate, Trump positioned himself as a different …
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