MIAMI — Linda Kleindienst Bruns registered for a coronavirus vaccine in late December, on the first day the health department in Tallahassee, Fla., opened for applications for people her age. Despite being 72, with her immune system suppressed by medication that keeps her breast cancer in remission, she spent days […]
Day: January 10, 2021
Since the middle of last year, Polygon has been publishing outstanding oral histories of the Street Fighter series, and it recently published a related oral history for the Capcom vs. SNK series. A lot of details of the internal workings of Capcom and SNK alike came out of it, including […]
Here come the droids. Yukai Engineering This story is part of CES, where our editors will bring you the latest news and the hottest gadgets of the entirely virtual CES 2021. This year’s all-digital CES is going to be a tough one for everyone involved, but it may be even […]
Extremists in the U.S. Capitol building after overrunning police.Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP (Getty Images) The first inkling I had that something was very wrong on Wednesday was when my wife said, “Oh shit, is this real?” as we were en route to Trader Joe’s after spending a few hours on the […]
If your 2020 resolutions got canceled along with the rest of the year, we are right there with you. But we here we are, in January 2021, the usual time for setting self-improvement goals. If you don’t have space to make any resolutions this year, we get that. Or maybe […]
We all make spelling mistakes from time to time — in fact, “misspelled” is itself often misspelled as “mispelled.” It’s easy to get many words wrong, particularly homophones. These are words that sound the same but have different spellings. For example, “there,” “their,” and “they’re” are all pronounced the same […]
Tracy Harmon | The Pueblo Chieftain CANON CITY — When its time to ditch the remote meetings and gather in person, one local rafting outfitter has a plan for getting people outdoors to reconnect with business associates, family and friends. Andy Neinas, Echo Canyon River Expeditions owner, is ready to […]
Mark Hutt, a self-proclaimed conspiracy theorist and creator of the LGBTrump social pages, was present in the attack on the U.S. Capitol that left five people dead, LGBTQ Nation has learned. Hutt is a Rochester, New York native that was arrested — not once, but twice — for defacing the Black […]
A new Cyberpunk 2077 tweaked ini file has been shared online, not only bringing performance improvements but also fixing select features that are not functioning properly. The General Optimization tweaks aim to improve the game’s performance by disabling select features that do not impact the visuals a whole lot and […]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Legislature will convene Monday with Republicans holding large majorities and promising an agenda that could include tax cuts and changes to voting, gun and school attendance laws. Republicans, who in November expanded their majority in the House and maintained their edge in the […]
Dear Car Talk: On a recent business trip to Minnesota, I succumbed to a local Craigslist posting for a 1988 Mercedes 560 SL convertible. Rust-free and smooth-shifting, it was more than your brother ever asked for in a car. I bought the car, parked it in a friend’s barn and […]
Premise: This is a revival of the 1984 coming-of-age action movie “The Karate Kid” and the subsequent film franchise. Netflix acquired the rights to the first two seasons (which debuted on YouTube) and added those seasons to the service in August 2020. This is the first season to debut on […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A 22-year-old California woman who wrongly accused a Black teenager of stealing her phone and tackled him at a New York City hotel in a widely seen video was charged after returning to the city on Saturday. Miya Ponsetto was charged with attempted robbery, grand larceny, […]
“How funny would it be if I actually found the love of my life during a pandemic,” she asked jokingly. “I’m looking for that soulmate stuff—that thing where that something inside you recognizes that something inside them.” Sharna also revealed why it’s been so important for her to maintain some […]
My garage contains a magic box full of time-saving miracles. OK, it’s actually a chest freezer with homemade dinners. But however you want to describe it — poof! I can put dinner on the table in a flash. How did this real-life fantasy come to be? It’s because I live […]
Ella Stanley of Cape Elizabeth applied to and was accepted at Wellesley College, near Boston, but has not been able to tour the campus. Photo by Ben McCanna/Staff Photographer While trying to make one of the biggest decisions of her young life – picking a college where she’ll spend the […]
WASHINGTON—Getting a mortgage for a resort-area condo might become more difficult after Fannie Mae FNMA -2.49% and Freddie Mac FMCC -4.81% moved to tighten rules on buildings with many short-term rentals and hotel-like amenities, some Realtors and bankers say. Fannie Mae last month changed its rules to make it clearer […]
This column is part of a Dallas Morning News opinion project outlining critical issues at stake as the Texas Legislature convenes. Find the full project at dallasnews.com/opinion. Texas lawmakers will rightly focus on the immediate budget shortfall when they meet this session, but there’s another view that’s equally important to […]
The California woman caught on video wrongly accusing a Black teen of stealing her iPhone at a SoHo hotel was ordered freed on supervised release Saturday on charges of attempted robbery and assault. The court hearing capped a day of proceedings before police, lawyers and a Manhattan Criminal Court judge […]
As the coronavirus pandemic and related health orders closed and limited businesses, the City of Lawrence planned for multimillion-dollar revenue losses. However, that worst-case scenario did not occur, putting the city in a stronger-than-anticipated position going into 2021. Though the city did see significant drops in several revenue streams, some […]
Asked why Shaw, Lindelof and Pogba were not in the squad, Solskjaer added: “They are injured.” A weakened United side were far from convincing but Scott McTominay’s fifth-minute header was enough to ensure Solskjaer’s side avoided more cup disappointment after Wednesday’s Carabao Cup semi-final exit to Manchester City. Solskjaer made […]
CES has long been the launchpad for a wide range of tech products – not all of which make it to market Under normal circumstances this would have been one of the busiest weeks in the tech calendar. Thousands of new products would have been unveiled; chief executives and celebrities […]