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ACCORDING TO THE BUREAU OF Labor Statistics year-end report, 2020 ended with 9.8 million fewer jobs than before the pandemic and an unemployment rate of 6.8 percent—much improved from the all-time high of 14.7 percent in April, but a still worrying n

THE DAY BEFORE PHOTOGRAPHER Nick Ut was scheduled to receive the Medal of Arts from Donald Trump, another famous soon-to-be medal recipient publicly declined the honor: Bill Belichick, head coach of the New England Patriots and longtime friend of the

Bulgarian dancers costumes perform a ritual dance with flaming torches during the Kukeri Carnival in western Bulgaria, on January 13. The Kukeri Carnival, a festival of brightly colored masks and costumes, marks the beginning of Spring. Every partici

Members of the National Guard rest in the Capitol Visitors Center on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., January 13, ahead of a House vote impeaching U.S. President Donald Trump. The troops are also assembling for the inauguration of President-elect Jo

“I did not know if I was going to make it to the end of the day alive.” —REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIOCORTEZ DESCRIBING A “VERY CLOSE ENCOUNTER” AT THE CAPITOL ON JAN. 6 “THE DECISION HAS BEEN MADE NOT TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE AWARD.” —NEW ENGLAND PATR

SO, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HAS been booted off Twitter, as of now forever. Facebook also gave him the heave-ho. Apple and Google, meanwhile, have tossed the riot-friendly Parler app out of their stores. Parler became a social media cave for the Trump

YOU CAN ONLY BE NONCOMMITTAL about the crucial question of accountability for Donald Trump so long, especially when you are the next president of the United States. And for Joe Biden, with mere days left before he takes the oath of office on January

Newsweek wrote that “what President Nixon needs to win re-election, an aide says, is not so much an economic boom as ‘arguable prosperity’—and his success or failure in achieving it promises to be the central issue of the fall campaign.” The economy

TWELVE YEARS AFTER JOE BIDEN was sworn in as the vice president of hope and change, hope is in short supply and the need for change is even more acute. Progressives have a rare opportunity to enact their agenda—but they will need to play the kind of

On January 9, heavy snowstorms in Madrid and much of Spain left three people dead and trapped motorists—more than 1,000 according to The Washington Post—and closed the capital’s air and rail links. Storm Filomena dropped 20 inches of snow in the subu

Indonesian Navy divers hold wreckage from Sriwijaya Air flight SJY182 during a search and rescue operation in the Java Sea on January 10. The Boeing 737-500 crashed the day before, shortly after taking off from Jakarta airport. The cause of the crash

IF THE COVID-19 VACCINE IS TO liberate us, we urgently need new ways to deliver it. Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) recently proposed enlisting retired medical professionals. Just a few days later, University of Massachusetts leaders Dr. Michael Collins

ONE THING IS CERTAIN ABOUT GREAT ACTORS, THEY CAN’T BE PIGEONHOLED. “I may indeed be perceived as a character actor, but I just think of myself as an actress that serves the work,” says Lorraine Toussaint, who co-stars with Queen Latifah in the new d