CNBC – Greg Iacurci – Dec 30, 9:18 AM Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Dead people may get some of the $600 stimulus checks the federal government began issuing Tuesday night. That would mirror what happened this past spring, when deceased individuals were among… |
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Bloomberg – Angelica LaVito – Dec 30, 12:32 PM U.S. states are improvising new delivery systems and rewriting priorities as Covid-19 vaccinations are off to a tortoise-paced start. Colorado on Wednesday said it would vaccinate people 70 and older, joining Texas and Florida in trying to quickly… |
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The Financial Times – Martin Sandbu in London – Dec 30, 8:00 PM When Big Ben strikes 11pm on New Year's Eve, the UK will leave Europe's single market. It will be a moment of national catharsis — and like in Greek tragedies — a moment when the protagonist's own triumphs of the past catch up with… |
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The Mercury News – Evan Webeck – Dec 31, 2:07 PM Categories: Crashes and Disasters, Crime and Public Safety, News, Uncategorized For some Bay Area residents, the final wake-up call of 2020 came courtesy of a small earthquake Thursday morning just outside San Francisco. A magnitude-3.6 quake… |
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TechCrunch – Catherine Shu – Dec 31, 3:59 AM Image Credits: Chris Jung/NurPhoto / Getty Images Samsung Electronics vice chairman Jay Y. Lee faces a nine-year prison term in the bribery case that contributed to the downfall of former president Park Guen-hye. Prosecutors argued that the length… |
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