U.S. COVID death toll reaches 800,000, entering a vaccine-driven year
On Tuesday, the number of deaths caused by COVID-19 in the United States exceeded 800,000. This once unimaginable number is regarded as a double tragedy, as more than 200,000 people died after the vaccine was almost available for inquiry last spring.
The death toll compiled by Johns Hopkins University is approximately equal to the combined population of Atlanta and St. Louis, or the combined population of Minneapolis and Cleveland. This roughly corresponds to how many Americans die of heart disease or stroke each year.
The United States has the highest number of reported deaths of any country. Since the outbreak in China two years ago, the United States has accounted for approximately 4% of the world’s population, but it accounts for approximately 15% of the 5.3 million known deaths from the coronavirus.
Because the cases are ignored or concealed, the figures for true deaths in the United States and around the world are much higher.
The forecasting model closely followed by the University of Washington predicts that as of March 1, the number of deaths reported in the United States will exceed 880,000.
The Associated Press found that there were too few election frauds to lean towards Trump
Atlanta (Associated Press)-The Associated Press reviewed every potential voter fraud case in the six battlefield states in which former President Donald Trump was controversial, and found fewer than 475 cases-this number is for the 2020 presidential election There is no impact.
Democrat Joe Biden won Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin with a total of 311,257 votes out of 25.5 million presidential votes and their 79 votes. Controversial votes accounted for only 0.15% of his wins in these states.
Even if all potentially fraudulent votes were cast for Biden, this is not the case. Even if these votes are actually counted (in most cases they are not counted), these cases will not question the results.
The review also revealed that there was no collusion intent to manipulate the vote. Almost every case is based on a person acting alone to cast additional votes.
The findings are based on a large number of other evidence that the election was not rigged, including the verification of the results by the Republican governor.
The House of Representatives voted to despise Mark Meadows in the January 6 investigation
Washington (Associated Press)-After former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows stopped working with the committee investigating the Capitol Rebellion on January 6, the House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to make him despise Congress-the first time the House of Representatives Vote for former members who have been despised since the 1830s.
The 222-208 votes close to the party are the second time the special committee has tried to punish witnesses who ignore subpoenas. The vote was the latest demonstration of force by the panel on January 6th, which was investigating the worst attack on the Capitol in more than 200 years, without any unexplored perspective-and no unanswered subpoenas. Legislators in this group are determined to get answers quickly, and in doing so, reaffirm the authority of Congress that was eroded during the tenure of former President Donald Trump.
"History will be written into these times, about the work carried out by the committee," said Benny Thompson, the chairman and Miss Republican. "History will not treat any of you as a martyr. History will not treat you as a victim."
Two Republicans voted - Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois to serve on the committee - in October nine Republicans voted for the former special After Trump's ally Steve Bannon defied this resolution. Although Bannon’s case is more clear-he has not contacted the committee at all-Meadows has handed over the documents and negotiated interviews with the expert team for two months. Meadows also has a closer relationship in the Republican Caucus and just left Congress last year.
Meadows is also Trump's senior aide in the White House, which gives him even more reason to advocate executive privileges. Bannon has not worked in the White House since 2017.
The worker said that if she leaves her job in a storm, she will face disciplinary action
Mayfield, Kentucky (Associated Press)-An employee of the Kentucky Candle Factory said on Tuesday that eight workers at the factory were killed by a tornado. If she went home early because the storm was approaching, a supervisor threatened her to take a written statement. Disciplinary action.
Haley Conder, who has worked intermittently for 10 years at the Mayfield consumer goods factory, also questioned why the company discouraged workers from going home - or at least letting them better understand the dangers - the first tornado occurred around 6 o'clock. The alarm was between Friday afternoon and another around 9 pm, shortly before the tornado hit.
"They (the company) allowed us to go home from 6 to 9 and tell us what happened and we need to prepare for the worst," Kant said in an interview with the Associated Press. Telephone interview. "It's not like that. No supervisor told us what happened."
A spokesperson for the company insisted that employees can leave at any time.
On the same day Kant made his comments, the governor of the state stated that the Kentucky Workplace Safety Agency would investigate the eight deaths, which were caused by tornadoes in five states due to bad weather.
The Senate votes to raise the debt ceiling by 2.5T USD to avoid default
Washington (Associated Press) - The Senate approved a piece of legislation on Tuesday to raise the national debt ceiling by $2.5 trillion in accordance with an agreement reached between party leaders to resolve a problem of instability before next year’s midterm elections. At the same time, the majority of Democrats got into trouble with a strong vote.
The 50-49 party line vote is only one day away from the deadline set by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. She warned last month that she had no leeway to avoid the first US default. The measure is now transferred to the House of Representatives, and a vote may be taken as early as Tuesday night and sent to President Joe Biden’s desk.
"It's about paying the debts accumulated by both parties, so I'm very happy that Republicans and Democrats have come together," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., said of the agreement, which created a A workaround that allows Democrats to avoid Republicans from obstructing the proceedings.
Although the name may seem straightforward, the country’s debt limit has little effect on reducing future debt. It was founded in 1917, instead it became a brake on spending decisions approved by Congress and the White House decades ago. Failure to pay could weaken the market, put the economy in trouble, and shake global confidence in the United States.
This has not stopped the Republicans from rattling their swords. For months, they have been using the debt limit to attack the Democratic Party’s large-spending social and environmental agenda, while promising to resolutely oppose current efforts to raise the threshold. As recently as October, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell stated that he would not “be a party to any future efforts to mitigate the consequences of the Democratic Party’s mismanagement”.
In the Kimport trial, the jurors had two views on the former police officer
Minneapolis (Associated Press) - The jurors in the Kimport manslaughter trial were given two versions of the former Minneapolis suburban white police officer who said she fired and killed with a pistol instead of a taser Dant Wright, the black driver, made a tragic mistake when he died.
The prosecutor portrayed this long-time Brooklyn Center police officer as an experienced police veteran who should have learned more, but failed to try to help Wright and even failed to promptly report what happened to others. Can help him and make the situation worse.
The defense hopes that the jurors will see the person who was interested in police affairs when she was in elementary school. She raised two sons while balancing her special interest in helping victims of domestic abuse, and she never started. Gun or Taser for her duties before shooting Wright on April 11.
Soon, Porter herself will make a stand to strengthen the second image-if she is to persuade the jury to acquit her on the two manslaughter charges, this gamble may be crucial.
Susan Gaertner, a former chief prosecutor in neighboring Ramsey County and now a defense attorney, said it’s important for any defendant to appear truthful.
Chavin is expected to admit to violating Freud's civil rights
British stone. Paul, Minnesota (Associated Press)-Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin will appear in federal court in person on Wednesday morning to change the plea hearing. He is expected to admit that he violated George Floyd’s Civil rights.
Although the change to the schedule of the guilty plea hearing indicates that the guilty plea is imminent, the details have not been made public, and nothing will be formal until Xiao Wan pleads guilty in court and the agreement is accepted by the judge.
Chauvin was charged with two counts of depriving Freud of rights because the black man said he could not breathe and failed to provide medical services to Freud on May 25, 2020, resulting in Freud's arrest and death. Chauvin has been convicted of state murder and manslaughter and is serving 22 1/2 years in prison.
In another case involving the restriction of a black teenager in 2017, he faced two more charges. It is not clear whether the guilty plea will be changed in this case, as this is not part of the schedule notice issued by the court.
A bystander captured Freud's arrest and death via mobile phone video, triggering large-scale protests across the country, calling for an end to racial inequality and police abuse of blacks.
Explainer: Frightened the Internet’s security breaches
Boston (Associated Press)-Security experts say this is one of the most serious computer vulnerabilities they have ever seen. They said that state-backed Chinese and Iranian hackers and rogue cryptocurrency miners have caught it.
The Department of Homeland Security issued a terrible alert, ordering federal agencies to urgently eliminate this loophole because it can be easily exploited — and telling those with public-facing networks to install a firewall if they are unsure. The affected software is small and usually undocumented.
The vulnerability was detected in a widely used utility called Log4j, which allows Internet-based attackers to easily control everything from industrial control systems to web servers and consumer electronics. Simply determining which systems use the utility is a huge challenge; it is usually hidden under other software layers.
In a conference call with state and local officials and private sector partners on Monday, Jen Easterly, America’s top cybersecurity defense official, believes that this flaw is “one of the most serious flaws I have seen in my entire career, if not the most serious. of". It was publicly disclosed last Thursday that it is a safe haven for cybercriminals and digital spies because it allows easy, passwordless entry.
The Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), run by Easterly, created a resource page on Tuesday to help eliminate what it says are flaws in hundreds of millions of devices. Other highly computerized countries also take it seriously, and Germany has launched its National IT Crisis Center.
NASA spacecraft "touched" the sun for the first time and dived into the atmosphere
Cape Canaveral, Florida (Associated Press) - A NASA spacecraft officially "touched" the sun and passed through the unexplored solar atmosphere, known as the corona.
Scientists announced the news at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union on Tuesday.
The Parker Solar Probe actually flew over the corona during the eighth time the spacecraft was approaching the sun in April. Scientists say it took several months to recover the data, and then it took several months to confirm.
"Very exciting," said Nour Raouafi, a project scientist at Johns Hopkins University.
Parker launched into space in 2018, and when it first crossed the jagged, uneven boundary between the solar atmosphere and the outward solar wind, it was 8 million miles (13 million kilometers) from the center of the sun. According to scientists, the spacecraft entered and exited the corona at least three times, with a smooth transition each time.
Warriors' Stephen Curry broke NBA career three-pointer record
New York (Associated Press)-Stephen Curry never wanted to say it himself, even if others have been saying it for years.
He refused to call himself the greatest shooter of them until the number was so.
"I got that kid," Curry said, raising his arms.
In the first quarter of the Golden State Warriors' victory over the New York Knicks, he made the 2,974th three-pointer, setting an NBA record, and he made the same pose early on Tuesday night.
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