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For the first time, the United States reported more than 3,000 coronavirus deaths in a day. But with cases still rising, experts warn “the worst is yet to come.”
The pandemic has created a crisis in New York City’s commercial real estate industry. Some leaders think it’s time to reimagine the city’s business districts.
A woman in Colombia with a rare genetic mutation recently made the ultimate donation to science.
A pandemic relief program allows no forgiveness of overpayments, even when recipients are not at fault and the funds are already spent.
New York’s enduring vertical village, the cooperative, has faced a variety of challenges during the pandemic.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 9, 2020, covering December 11, 2020.
Bad Bunny
Miley Cyrus
BTS
Ariana Grande
Pop Smoke
2020James Flynn, New Zealand intelligence researcher. (born 1934)[†]
James Robert Flynn was an American-born New Zealand moral philosopher and intelligence researcher. Originally from Washington, D.C., and educated at the University of Chicago, Flynn emigrated to Dunedin in 1963, where he taught political studies at the University of Otago. He was noted for his publications about the continued year-after-year increase of IQ scores throughout the world, which is now referred to as the Flynn effect. In addition to his academic work, he championed social democratic politics throughout his life.
2020The Food and Drug Administration issues an Emergency Use Authorization on the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the first COVID-19 vaccine to be approved by the agency.[†]
The United States Food and Drug Administration is a federal agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. The FDA is responsible for protecting and promoting public health through the control and supervision of food safety, tobacco products, caffeine products, dietary supplements, prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceutical drugs (medications), vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, blood transfusions, medical devices, electromagnetic radiation emitting devices (ERED), cosmetics, animal foods & feed and veterinary products.
In 2020, the world population was approximately 7,887,001,292 people[†]