Look, it’s bad enough to leave the country for a resort town when a) you’re a United States senator and b) your state is dealing with widespread power outages and frigid temperatures. It’s worse when you blame your kids for your decision to leave.
Texas GOP congressman knocks Cruz for Cancun trip and says when a crisis hits, ‘I’m not going to go on some vacation’
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Texas GOP Rep. Michael McCaul on Sunday delivered a pointed rebuke of Sen. Ted Cruz following his much-criticized trip to Cancun, Mexico, as a winter disaster rocked Texas last week. "Look, when a crisis hits my st...
‘Saturday Night Live’ mocks Ted Cruz’s trip to Cancun and others who needed to apologize
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New York (CNN Business)"Saturday Night Live" felt like a lot of people needed to apologize this week, so on Saturday's episode that's what happened. The NBC variety show opened with Britney Spears, played by Chloe Fi...
Handforth Parish Council had another Zoom meeting, and it was even worse than the viral original
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London When members of an English town's local government committee met to discuss planning matters before Christmas, they had little idea that their Zoom call would become the cinematic event of the decade. But on W...
The story keeps getting worse for Andrew Cuomo on Covid-19
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Amid the swirling controversy over whether New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration knowingly undercounted deaths among nursing home residents during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in the state, a top aide f...
Climate change is making pollen season — and your allergies — worse
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Allergies aren't just a sneezy seasonal annoyance. Hay fever has major health and economic consequences. It exacerbates asthma and weakens defenses against respiratory viruses, resulting in more emergency room visi...
Anger as Mexico’s Covid-19 czar makes beach trip amid worst days of pandemic
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Mexico City Imagine Dr. Fauci heading to a beach in Miami for some vacation right now. That's how some Mexicans are describing the actions of Dr. Hugo López-Gatell, a deputy secretary of health and the leading pu...
2020 was the year of scary bugs, and 2021 will be even worse
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In biblical terms of awfulness, 2020 ticked every box: There was war. There was famine. Above all, there was pestilence. And there were scary bugs. There were so, so many scary bugs. Weird worms, poisonous caterpi...
Acting Secretary of Defense Miller made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan
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Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan, the Pentagon announced Tuesday. While in Afghanistan, Miller met with President Ashraf Ghani at the Presidential Palace in Kabu...
‘Let Them All Talk’ takes a breezy boat trip with Meryl Streep and company
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"Let Them All Talk" is as breezy as an ocean cruise (pre-Covid), and mostly a welcome excuse to enjoy its three septuagenarian leads -- Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen and Dianne Wiest -- as they banter their way acros...
‘The Flight Attendant’ serves up a fun trip thanks to Kaley Cuoco
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"The Flight Attendant" feels like the TV equivalent of summer beach reading, in mostly good ways. Kaley Cuoco stars as the globetrotting party gal of the title, who has the unfortunate experience of waking up next t...
Coronavirus across the US is getting worse. Here’s a refresher on how to stay safe
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It's a recurring headline these days: New cases of coronavirus are surging around the country, along with hospitalization rates and Covid-19 deaths. And with winter coming, health experts say it's only going to get...
Women in the UK already earn less than men. The coronavirus is making that worse
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Friday, November 20 marks the day women in the United Kingdom effectively stop being paid. That's because of the UK's 11.5% gender pay gap for full-time employees -- meaning that women in those positions earn 11.5% ...