Text size The spread of a Covid-19 variant in Brazil has airline analysts concerned. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Brazil’s Covid-19 crisis is worsening and could spill over its borders, threatening progress in bringing the global pandemic under control and potentially derailing a recovery in international travel. Covid cases are surging in […]
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Austin water and power crisis continues, your questions answered
Staff reports | Austin American-Statesman Austin water outage: Director updates city on service restoration Austin Water Director Greg Meszaros gives an update on water outages on Feb. 18, 2021. A citywide boil water notice was issued on Feb. 17, City of Austin via Facebook Editor’s note: The Statesman is making […]
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New cladding-style fire crisis could be lurking inside Britain’s homes
Alan Crawford, of the Crawford Partnership, an architecture and interior design practice, said: “There’s been a drive over the past few years for clients demanding open-plan homes. “That changes things like staircase design – previously staircases were enclosed, now they have become almost a piece of sculpture. It is then […]
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When a Mental-Health Crisis Lands You in Jail
Photographs by Arlene Mejorado and Carlos Chavarría When Antonietta Zuñiga woke up to smoke pouring through her bedroom window, everything she had learned about how to care for her grandson completely left her mind. It was November 2019, in the Los Angeles County city of Pico Rivera. Antonietta’s grandson, Carlos […]
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OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Nine, including former Michigan governor, charged over Flint water crisis | Regulator finalizes rule forcing banks to serve oil, gun companies | Trump admin adds hurdle to increase efficiency standards for furnaces, water heaters
HAPPY THURSDAY! Welcome to Overnight Energy, The Hill’s roundup of the latest energy and environment news. Please send tips and comments to Rebecca Beitsch at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter: @rebeccabeitsch. Reach Rachel Frazin at [email protected] or follow her on Twitter: @RachelFrazin. Signup for our newsletter and others HERE. FLINT […]
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Manchester United face potential defensive injury crisis after squeezing past Watford
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 […]
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This Is How Bad The COVID-19 Crisis Is In Los Angeles Right Now
It’s hard to grasp that the stories coming out of Los Angeles County’s COVID-19 outbreak are happening on American soil: patients dying in crowded hospital hallways, medical providers running out of oxygen canisters and dead bodies piling up with nowhere left to store them. The county surpassed 10,000 coronavirus deaths […]
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100 Best Companies Of 2020: Agility Amid Coronavirus Crisis Saw At-Home Plays, Biotechs Excel
A pandemic is arguably the ultimate black swan event. In a stroke, the Covid-19 crisis managed to be a game changer across nations and industries alike. X But while a brief bear market took hold, a strong economic rebound also took hold as America reacted to the issue at hand. […]
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The looming eviction crisis – CBS News
It is deeply ingrained among our most enduring clichés: “There’s no place like home.” “Home is where the heart is.” “A man’s home is his castle.” So, what happens when a family is evicted from their home? “It’s catastrophic,” said Matthew Desmond, a sociology professor at Princeton University. These days, […]
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Brits ‘to buy extra 145 million presents online’ due to the coronavirus crisis
Brits are due to buy an extra 145million presents online this year due to the Covid-19 crisis – meaning more than one billion presents will be purchased electronically, a study has revealed. Experts have calculated that the excess packaging from all the presents being delivered online is going to see […]
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Inside China’s Online Fentanyl Chemical Networks Helping Fuel The Opioid Crisis : NPR
He is a slight, bespectacled man. Colleagues at the industrial materials company where he works describe him as a humorous but diligent employee, known for driving his white Jeep around town in northwestern China’s Ningxia region to meet potential clients. Unbeknownst to them, he goes by Benjamin Chen online, where […]
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The other public health crisis
According to prominent medical doctors, we are in the midst of “the biggest public health challenge of the 21st century.” But it’s not the one you think. The toll of the COVID-19 pandemic is enormous and devastating. But the public health impacts of climate change could be vastly greater. Dr. […]
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Racism gets label: Public health crisis | US
CHICAGO – Christy DeGallerie noticed a startling trend in her online group for coronavirus survivors: White patients got medications she’d never heard of, were offered X-rays and their doctors listened to their concerns. That wasn’t her experience. When the 29-year-old Black woman sought a COVID-19 test at a New York […]
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When You’re Retired and Stuck at Home, a Broken Washer Qualifies as a Crisis
Our columnist’s washing machine is no longer making a strange noise. This isn’t his washing machine. Chernetskaya/Dreamstime Text size We had our first household crisis as the coronavirus pandemic shut down the country in March. Sickness? Nope. Job loss? Nope. We’ve been lucky on the big stuff. “The washing machine […]
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How to make your DevOps dollars go further during a crisis
The temptation during any major (or unprecedented) financial crisis is to either massively cut costs or spend money to get you out of the particular hole you’ve found yourself in. A Harvard Business Review study from 2010 found that companies that cut costs quickly in a recession a far more […]
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Disney’s trouble with Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is a great lesson for startups in a crisis
Like most other companies, my tech- and design-startup has felt the impact of COVID-19. People taking more time with decisions. Growth is pretty much paused in some markets. Teams are working from home and creating new kinds of cultural habits in the textannotation”>organization. We’ve grown from nothing to a company […]
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A crisis hotline for transgender people, by transgender people
Oriana, a volunteer with the peer-support network Trans Lifeline, at home in Boston in July. The phone shows the total calls answered by the nonprofit to date. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Oriana went through the usual motions of preparing for a two-hour shift on the hotline. They filled […]
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NYC Property Mogul Charles Cohen Sticks With Buy-and-Hold Plan in Crisis
(Bloomberg) — All over Manhattan, trouble is brewing for billionaire Charles Cohen. Rent collections lag at the Decoration & Design Building, his Midtown showroom palace for interior designers. He’s 60 days delinquent on loan payments for his 42-floor office tower at 3 Park Avenue South. Even Quad Cinema, his beloved […]