Saturday, January 16, 2021

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  Niskanen Center

  • Coordination between DOT and DOE could get US on the fast track to building new transmission The post Transmission Should Be a Department of Transportation Priority appeared first...

  • Consolidating the EITC into a child allowance is tricky, but can be done. The post How the Bruenig Benefit Can Keep Families Whole appeared first on Niskanen Center...

    • Three simple rules that can put fiscal policy back on track for recovery and beyond. The post Rules for Sustainable Fiscal Policy: Three Perspectives appeared first on Niskanen Center...

  • The F-word is one we are rightly wary of using, but how else to describe the disgraced president?Assurances that “fascism couldn’t happen here” are always appealing in Anglo-Saxon...

  • After the pandemic is over, I strongly believe we cannot go back to the insecure and impoverished society we had beforeAnas Sarwar is Labour MSP for GlasgowMy grandfather arrived...

    • Millennials, meanwhile, will continue to struggle as they to wait for their liberating jabsThe “wrong kind” of older, or middle-aged, people are supposed to be receiving the...

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  • Canada's procurement minister urged drugmaker Pfizer-BioNTech to get the country's COVID-19 vaccine delivery schedule back on track as soon as possible as cases of the novel coronavirus...

  • In his first hours as president, Joe Biden plans to take executive action to roll back some of the most controversial decisions of his predecessor and to address the raging coronavirus...

    • More than seven in 10 Canadians support or somewhat support barring those who don’t have proof of vaccination from businesses where people are in close contact, according to a new...

  • Originally posted on STOP THESE THINGS: As Margaret Thatcher put it: “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” That adage, however...

  • But every squillionth of a degree counts for those trying to promote a human-caused climate crisis that never lives up to the hype of the computer models. In contrast with dire predictions...

    • Let’s keep pretending the climate will notice if a few hundred wind turbines are dotted around the seas. Better still, let’s make them even more expensive and unwieldy by adding...

  • Amid rising concerns over its privacy policy, WhatsApp has announced that it has postponed its planned privacy update, which will give users more time to review the policy and accept...

  • The company posted on Twitter that it was experiencing technical difficulties and was "working hard to restore service as quickly as possible. "Ever since its rival WhatsApp, owned...

    • Samsung, leading technology conglomerate has confirmed that the future phone offering from the company will come without chargers and earphones.

  • The lander recently was granted a two-year extension for scientific work, now lasting until the end of 2022.

  • According to NASA, the Quadrantids peak during the first week of January but they remain active for around 6 hours.

    • The stunning picture of 'Wolf Moon' was shared by NASA on their official Instagram page on December 30.

  • Joe Biden has appointed Indian-American community and economic development expert Sameera Fazili to a key position.

  • More than 30,000 people in Norway have reportedly received the first shot of the coronavirus vaccine since late last month.

    • Verma, 50, tendered her resignation to President Donald Trump on Thursday as Administrator of Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services, a position she served in the Trump administration...

  • Sameera Fazili and Aisha Shah have been named in Joe Biden' team.

  • This is the second earthquake to hit Jammu and Kashmir this week.

    • The ground-breaking ceremony of Ahmedabad Metro Rail Project Phase-II and Surat Metro Rail Project will take place on January 18.

      Channel NewsAsia World News

  • LONDON: Britain announced plans to hold the first in-person meeting of the G7 for nearly two years in June, inviting the leaders of major developed economies to a picturesque seaside...

  • Scattered shortages of COVID-19 vaccines persisted on Saturday under pressure from growing demand, as previously inoculated Americans returned for their required second shots...

    • GUATEMALA CITY: Thousands of Hondurans, including many families with children, walked together across Guatemala on Saturday (Jan 16) hoping to reach the United States, fleeing...

  • BATANGAS, Philippines: When the Philippines' second most active volcano Taal erupted in 1965, Teodora Caraig, born and brought up on Volcano Island, fled but returned a year later...

  • BANGKOK: During good times, mining for Bitcoin is an around the clock job. In Nonthaburi, a province outside Bangkok, through the day and night one facility’s thousands of machines...

    • Students piled bamboo canes and stationery in front of Thailand's Ministry of Education and splashed crimson paint on it to protest corporal punishment, one of several protests...

      Channel NewsAsia Front Page News

  • British food-delivery company Deliveroo said on Sunday it had raised a further US$180 million from existing investors, including minority shareholder Amazon, in a move that values...

  • LONDON: Britain announced plans to hold the first in-person meeting of the G7 for nearly two years in June, inviting the leaders of major developed economies to a picturesque seaside...

    • LONDON: Leicester City maintained their impressive form as a 2-0 home win against Southampton extended their unbeaten Premier League run to five games to lift them into second place...

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