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Many of the state’s hospitals have maintained lower numbers of beds in part to limit the length of patient stays and lower costs. But that approach is now being tested.
The attorney general’s comments were a rebuke of the president’s increasingly spurious claims about election fraud.
The emergency approval, ahead of the United States and the European Union, clears the way for Britain to begin mass inoculations. “Help is on its way,” one official said.
The coronavirus has upended criminal trials in the city, infiltrating courtrooms in ways that threaten both health and justice.
New York City’s Open Storefronts initiative lets retailers use sidewalk space in a manner similar to restaurants. So far, the program is a flop.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 2, 2020, covering December 2, 2020.
BTS
Megan Thee Stallion
Ariana Grande
Pop Smoke
Future & Lil Uzi Vert
2020Pat Patterson, American wrestler (born 1941)[†]
Pat Patterson was a Canadian-American professional wrestler and producer, widely known for his long tenure in the professional wrestling promotion WWE, first as a wrestler, then as a creative consultant and producer, or agent. He is recognized by the company as their first Intercontinental Champion and creator of the Royal Rumble match. He was inducted into the WWF Hall of Fame as part of the class of 1996.
2020Cannabis is removed from the list of most dangerous drugs of the international drug control treaty by the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs.[†]
Cannabis, commonly known as marijuana, weed, pot, and ganja, among other names, is a non-chemically uniform psychoactive drug from the Cannabis plant. Native to Central or South Asia, cannabis has been used as a drug for both recreational and entheogenic purposes and in various traditional medicines for centuries. Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the main psychoactive component of cannabis, which is one of the 483 known compounds in the plant, including at least 65 other cannabinoids, such as cannabidiol (CBD). Cannabis can be used by smoking, vaporizing, within food, or as an extract.
In 2020, the world population was approximately 7,887,001,292 people[†]