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Corporate America halts donations to Republicans who voted to overturn the election

Some of America’s biggest companies are suspending donations to Republican Congress members who objected to the Electoral College’s votes.

Stelter: Fox News and Facebook are part of the pro-Trump fantasyland that enabled the Capitol siege

A sick brew of misinformation and hate, cooked up for years by pro-Trump media and enabled by Big Tech, culminated last Wednesday in the siege of the US Capitol, the symbol of American democracy.

Apple suspends Parler from its App Store while Amazon will shut off web hosting service over violence threats

Apple suspended the Parler social media app from its App Store saying there’s “no place on our platform for threats of violence and illegal activity.”

      

Who is Taylor Heinicke? Meet Washington Football Team QB who subbed for injured Alex Smith

The Washington Football Team started Taylor Heinicke at quarterback on Saturday against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in place of the injured Alex Smith.

      

Capitol riot live updates: Air Force veteran fired after reported participation; Apple suspends Parler from App Store

More rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol arrested and charged. Trump banned from Twitter. Latest Capitol riots news.

      

Trump would be only the 4th president to boycott his successor’s inauguration

President Donald Trump announced Friday that he won’t attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20.

A high school student and her brother are helping seniors feel less lonely with notes and care packages

When the coronavirus pandemic first hit, nursing homes across the United States scrambled to protect their vulnerable residents. They shut their doors and banned visitors, leaving seniors isolated from the outside world.

Lessons learned from the Democratic wins in Georgia

Georgia Democrats Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock stunned the political world this week.

The fried chicken sandwich wars are heating up. Here are the new entrants

The fried chicken sandwich wars sparked by Popeyes in 2019 are still clucking along two years later — and they’re heating up again.

A fantasy football bet leads to a $1,000 tip for a Waffle House server

As the NFL regular season came to a close, Michael Carsley knew the penalty for finishing last in his fantasy football league.

‘We’re on the brink of utter collapse.’ Yellow cabdrivers in New York struggle to stay alive as the pandemic rages on

For Augustine Tang, driving a taxi was a way to carry on his father’s legacy, who died unexpectedly in 2015. But the coronavirus pandemic has turned his taxi into a burden, a sentiment shared by thousands of other cabdrivers in New York.

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