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    Amanda Curtis, Contributing Writer|Jan 7, 2021

    Legendary French fashion designer Pierre Cardin died at the age of 98. His fashionable creations and powerful branding made him a household name. Stars like Elizabeth Taylor and The Beatles wore his designs. Lori Loughlin, Full House actress, was released from prison after serving just two months for her role in the college admissions scandal. Police were responding to a report of shots fired downtown when they discovered a suspicious vehicle parked nearby. Anthony Quinn Warner detonated a bomb...

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    Dec 17, 2020

    The U.S. surpassed 300,000 virus-related deaths recently, so for some, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine authorized by the Food and Drug Administration last week comes as a relief, a sign of hope. The first shots were given in the American mass vaccination campaign on Monday in Queens, NY. Nurse and Director of Patient Services in the intensive care unit at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Sandra Lindsay, was the first to be given the vaccine shot outside of a vaccine trial. Over the course of 2020, the amount of SNAP benefits redeemed at farmers...

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    Amanda Curtis|Nov 5, 2020

    UNITED STATES - More than 96 million Americans had already cast ballots in early in-person and mail-in voting. According to election officials, the race, as usual, may come down to a few key states. This year, all eyes are on Arizona and Pennsylvania as they don’t even start counting mailed ballots until election day. Puerto Rico is also voting, again, on possible statehood, and other local votes on abortion accessibility and marijuana legality are being made. With federal law allowing states t...

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    Amanda Curtis, Contributing Writer|Oct 29, 2020

    Confirmed by the Senate, Amy Coney Barrett is the newest Supreme Court justice. Barrett takes the bench one month after her nomination following the death of Justice Ruth Badar Ginsburg. The court now holds a 6-3 conservative majority. The dreaded fall surge, warned about in the spring, seems to have made its appearance. The US has seen almost half a million new coronavirus cases in one week. The American Academy of Pediatrics says it’s seen a 14% increase in child Covid-19 cases over the l...