“Cause the snow keeps fallin’, even though we were bad. It’ll cover the filth. We should both just be glad.” -- Cyndi Lauper and The Hives, (A Christmas Duel)
Deaths
US: 337,066 (+2848)
World: 1,749,429 (+11,911)
Cases
US: 19,111,326 (+194,174)
World: 79,731,500 (+680,062)
Countdown 1: 12 days.
Countdown 2: 27 days.
Study finds new COVID-19 strain is 56 percent more contagious. The study, released by the Center for Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, noted that while the data suggests that the new variant is more contagious, there are no results showing it to be more deadly.
A person who went to work while sick is likely the cause of two separate Covid-19 outbreaks in Oregon. Two separate Covid-19 outbreaks have now been traced back to that person, officials said. Seven people died as a result of the first outbreak, and hundreds of people were forced to self-isolate over the second one.
Pelosi says House to vote on bigger stimulus payments after GOP blocks increase.
Hours before President Donald Trump retweeted a message for his vice president to "act" in stopping the ratification of the Electoral College, he met for more than an hour in the Oval Office with Mike Pence, whom he has complained recently isn't doing enough to support his bid to overturn the election.
By pardoning Paul Manafort and Roger Stone on Wednesday night, President Donald Trump concluded a four-year campaign to use his office to cover up his own wrongdoing in the Trump-Russia scandal. Trump aided and abetted Vladimir Putin’s attack on the 2016 election—which had the aim of helping Trump win the White House—by denying this assault was real, while he simultaneously sought to exploit Moscow’s operation for his own political gain. Ever since, Trump has strived to keep this scandal from defining his presidential victory and his presidency, and he has endeavored to hide his own possible criminality. With these pardons, that effort, which has largely succeeded, is complete.
50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says. Tax cuts for the wealthy have long drawn support from conservative lawmakers and economists who argue that such measures will "trickle down" and eventually boost jobs and incomes for everyone else. But a new study from the London School of Economics says 50 years of such tax cuts have only helped one group — the rich...But the analysis discovered one major change: The incomes of the rich grew much faster in countries where tax rates were lowered. Instead of trickling down to the middle class, tax cuts for the rich may not accomplish much more than help the rich keep more of their riches and exacerbate income inequality, the research indicates...For the first time in a century, the 400 richest American families paid lower taxes in 2018 than people in the middle class, the economists found. — And that has been the GOP plan all along. We all lose when you vote Republican.
Wildfire breaks out at Southern California's Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base.
A Turkish court has convicted journalist Can Dundar on espionage and terror-related charges for a news report. Dundar's lawyers did not attend the hearing in protest, saying the proceedings violated the rules of fair trial and impartiality.
Asteroid chips that look like charcoal sent back to Earth by Japanese space probe.
This year has been a tough one no matter where you live in the world, but discoveries beyond our planet and dazzling images of the cosmos provided a bright spot in 2020.
Life’s short. Live, love, create, and help others.
Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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