"Taylor Swift has confirmed that the rights to her first six albums have been sold to a private equity firm without her knowledge, in the latest dispute over the pop megastar's lucrative back catalog. The 30-year-old singer has become one of the most bankable musicians in the world after more than a decade of chartbusting hits including 'Shake It Off' and 'I Knew You Were Trouble.'"
"An Arianespace Vega rocket suffered a major failure shortly after launch on Monday (Nov. 16), leading to loss of satellites for Spain and France." Space is still hard.
"After a surge of new infections over the summer, California's Covid-19 numbers began showing signs of progress and counties slowly transitioned toward less restrictive tiers in the state's reopening plan… Then things took a turn for the worst."
"As hospitals in Iowa fill up with COVID-19 patients amid a major surge in cases in recent weeks, Gov. Kim Reynolds, who once dismissed coronavirus restrictions as 'feel-good' measures, has abruptly reversed course, issuing the state's first mask mandate."
"Anger in North Dakota after governor asks Covid-positive health workers to keep working." :: Waves in Ohio ::
"If you think a negative test result means you don't have coronavirus, you could be wrong… It can take days before a new infection shows up on a Covid-19 test." Jazz hands.
"Pfizer's vaccine must be kept at nearly minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit to remain effective. That's about 20 degrees colder than extreme winter temperatures at the South Pole… In order to get around that, Pfizer has developed specially built deep-freeze 'suitcases' that can be tightly sealed and shipped even in non-refrigerated trucks. But while Pfizer may have solved the problem of how to ship the frozen vaccine, these highly engineered shipping containers create other problems, particularly for the hospitals, pharmacies and outpatient clinics that will have to administer the vaccinations to hundreds of millions of Americans."
"The latest example of a cozy relationship between law enforcement and the far-right Proud Boys happened in the nation's capital last week when the Metropolitan Police responded to a stabbing involving members of the Proud Boys and an associate… Provocateur Bevelyn Beatty and the chairman of the Proud Boys, who was with her, told police they were both stabbed by people associated with Black Lives Matter in a street fight early the morning after the presidential election. The Metropolitan Police Department repeated their claim to media outlets, leading to headlines around the country claiming Black Lives Matter had attacked the Proud Boys… There's no evidence Black Lives Matter had anything to do with the incident. Police officials have since walked back their initial statements, saying it's unclear whether anyone involved was affiliated with political groups."
"Craig Easton’s photographs of the Williams family in Blackpool in the early 90s exposed Thatcherism’s legacy of child poverty. Over two decades later, he tracked them down."
For your "college is full of liberals" friends… "Paul Ewell, the now former dean of the Virginia Wesleyan University Global Campus, resigned from both his deanship and his faculty post after allegedly writing a Facebook post on his since-deleted account that referred to voters for President-elect Joe Biden as 'anti-American' and 'anti-Christian.'"
"Peru’s political crisis appeared on the verge of resolution Monday as Congress cleared the way for an elder statesman and consensus candidate to become the country’s third president in a week."
"Ethiopia’s prime minister on Tuesday declared 'the final and crucial' military operation will launch in the coming days against the government of the country’s rebellious northern Tigray region."
"President Donald Trump asked senior advisers last Thursday about potential options for attacking Iran's main nuclear site, US media report… The advisers warned him that military action could spark a broader conflict, officials were cited as saying… The White House has not commented on the accounts of the meeting." Withdrawing form that deal isn't looking so good now, is it?
"The recount uncovered more than 2,600 ballots in Georgia's Floyd County that weren't initially tallied, which could give Trump about 800 new votes, Floyd County's Republican Party chair Luke Martin told the AJC. President-elect Joe Biden's lead in the state is currently around 14,000, so those votes seemingly won't alter the result, especially since Martin said that while the uncounted ballots are 'very concerning' there does not appear to be a 'widespread issue.' Martin added that he's "glad the audit revealed" the missing votes."
"Republican senators in Georgia, where runoff elections in January will determine which party controls the Senate, expressed concerns about their chances of victory and described President Donald Trump as a political liability in a conference call on November 10, The Washington Post reported on Monday."
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