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End of era: New York’s famed $1 street pizza is under threat from rising costs amid supply chain problems and inflation.
Abdul Muhammad, the owner of 99 Cent Fresh Pizza, an eight-location chain in Manhattan, said he may be forced to raise the price of a slice for the first time since opening in 2001, as nearly two years of pandemic-reduced foot traffic is deeply affecting his cost of doing business.
🗣“I have to think about it because my customers, many of them unemployed and struggling to make rent, can’t afford to pay more,” Muhammad said, “I feel bad because everybody has had a lot of problems with the coronavirus, no jobs, everything was closed, and the food stores that were open doubled their prices. So I try to stay open to help the people.”
Abdul Muhammad, the owner of 99 Cent Fresh Pizza, an eight-location chain in Manhattan, said he may be forced to raise the price of a slice for the first time since opening in 2001, as nearly two years of pandemic-reduced foot traffic is deeply affecting his cost of doing business.
🗣“I have to think about it because my customers, many of them unemployed and struggling to make rent, can’t afford to pay more,” Muhammad said, “I feel bad because everybody has had a lot of problems with the coronavirus, no jobs, everything was closed, and the food stores that were open doubled their prices. So I try to stay open to help the people.”
👮♀️The wife of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was arrested Christmas Eve on a domestic violence charge.
Erika Wulff Jones faces misdemeanor charges of 'assault causing bodily injury to a family member and resisting arrest, search or transport.' Alex Jones, a founder of the right-wing media group Infowars, suggested his wife's violent actions, reportedly directed at him, stem from a “medication imbalance”
🗣Jones claimed that his wife’s arrest “doesn’t concern my politics” and that “it wasn’t some kind of personal hateful thing or anything.”
Erika Wulff Jones faces misdemeanor charges of 'assault causing bodily injury to a family member and resisting arrest, search or transport.' Alex Jones, a founder of the right-wing media group Infowars, suggested his wife's violent actions, reportedly directed at him, stem from a “medication imbalance”
🗣Jones claimed that his wife’s arrest “doesn’t concern my politics” and that “it wasn’t some kind of personal hateful thing or anything.”
Possible relics of a lost WWII-era US bomber and crew were found in Sicily, Italy.
A six-week archaeological dig that ended this week was carried out by a team from the Pentagon’s Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, which locates and identifies missing US military personnel anywhere around the world.
The dig uncovered wreckage “consistent only to a B-25 aircraft,’’ said archaeologist Clive Vella, with confirmed remains possibly linked to the missing crew of a bomber shot down on July 10, 1943.
The evidence, which includes likely human bones as well as purported remnants of an aircraft, has been transported to a laboratory in the US for examination.
A six-week archaeological dig that ended this week was carried out by a team from the Pentagon’s Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, which locates and identifies missing US military personnel anywhere around the world.
The dig uncovered wreckage “consistent only to a B-25 aircraft,’’ said archaeologist Clive Vella, with confirmed remains possibly linked to the missing crew of a bomber shot down on July 10, 1943.
The evidence, which includes likely human bones as well as purported remnants of an aircraft, has been transported to a laboratory in the US for examination.
🇺🇦🤷♀️ About 59,000 of The New York Times readers fail to locate Ukraine on the map.
One of the 40 questions in the online 2021 news quiz claims that "Thousands of Russian troops moved near Ukraine’s border late this year, stoking fear of an invasion." The readers are then asked to locate Ukraine on the map.
According to current results, only 68 percent of 185,242 readers managed to correctly pinpoint Ukraine’s location. Thus, about 59,000 people do not know where Ukraine is situated.
🤔 Does that say something about the newspaper?
One of the 40 questions in the online 2021 news quiz claims that "Thousands of Russian troops moved near Ukraine’s border late this year, stoking fear of an invasion." The readers are then asked to locate Ukraine on the map.
According to current results, only 68 percent of 185,242 readers managed to correctly pinpoint Ukraine’s location. Thus, about 59,000 people do not know where Ukraine is situated.
🤔 Does that say something about the newspaper?
A kangaroo is strangled to death by a Tennessee resident.
When exotic animals don't live in their natural habitat accidents like this happen. And this time a resident in Sumner County, Tennessee, says she was attacked by her neighbor’s kangaroo when she went to her neighbors property to get the animal back to its usual confinement, as it was out. The husband then stepped in, strangling the kangaroo.
The owners of the kangaroo say they are heartbroken over the death of their beloved “Carter.” Now, the Leas say they are looking for some kind of restitution over Carter’s death, as he was choked on their property, which was entirely fenced in.
Photo credit: Hope Lea
When exotic animals don't live in their natural habitat accidents like this happen. And this time a resident in Sumner County, Tennessee, says she was attacked by her neighbor’s kangaroo when she went to her neighbors property to get the animal back to its usual confinement, as it was out. The husband then stepped in, strangling the kangaroo.
The owners of the kangaroo say they are heartbroken over the death of their beloved “Carter.” Now, the Leas say they are looking for some kind of restitution over Carter’s death, as he was choked on their property, which was entirely fenced in.
Photo credit: Hope Lea
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🇺🇸 The man who told US President Joe Biden “Let’s Go Brandon” during the Christmas Eve Santa tracker phone call says he “mean[s] no disrespect to him.”
🔎“At the end of the day, I have nothing against Mr. Biden, but I am frustrated because I think he can be doing a better job,” Jared Schmeck, 35, who is a father of four and works for an electric company (also used to work as a Medford police officer), told The Oregonian.
Schmeck, who posted a video of the livestreamed call on YouTube, said he is not a “Trumper,” but a “free-thinking American and follower of Jesus Christ.”
The phrase “Let’s Go Brandon” became popular with US conservatives after an October NASCAR race in Alabama. The crowd was shouting a vulgar anti-Biden slur, but a TV reporter was trying to hide it by suggesting during an interview with racing driver Brandon Brown that the people were actually chanting “Let’s go, Brandon.”
🔎“At the end of the day, I have nothing against Mr. Biden, but I am frustrated because I think he can be doing a better job,” Jared Schmeck, 35, who is a father of four and works for an electric company (also used to work as a Medford police officer), told The Oregonian.
Schmeck, who posted a video of the livestreamed call on YouTube, said he is not a “Trumper,” but a “free-thinking American and follower of Jesus Christ.”
The phrase “Let’s Go Brandon” became popular with US conservatives after an October NASCAR race in Alabama. The crowd was shouting a vulgar anti-Biden slur, but a TV reporter was trying to hide it by suggesting during an interview with racing driver Brandon Brown that the people were actually chanting “Let’s go, Brandon.”
❗️Stoltenberg wants to hold Russia-NATO Council talks on 12 January, reports say
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❗️Stoltenberg wants to hold Russia-NATO Council talks on 12 January, reports say
❗️NATO confirms it is in contact with Moscow on organising bilateral council
Sen. Kevin Cramer claims West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin might have actually done the Democratic Party a favor.
🗣 "In my mind, what's such a great tragedy about it is that a once-great Democratic Party has become this bizarre socialist agenda where they seem to be putting all the chips on the table this year while they have control of the House, the Senate and the White House. And thank God for Joe Manchin and others like him, but especially Joe Manchin, who is trying to save America and in the process may very well save the Democratic Party."
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🗣 "In my mind, what's such a great tragedy about it is that a once-great Democratic Party has become this bizarre socialist agenda where they seem to be putting all the chips on the table this year while they have control of the House, the Senate and the White House. And thank God for Joe Manchin and others like him, but especially Joe Manchin, who is trying to save America and in the process may very well save the Democratic Party."
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🚔 A nightmare before Christmas on the streets of Las Vegas. Las Vegas police found a severed human head in the truck of a suspect they were arresting on completely different charges
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✈️❌🌐 Global flight cancellations continue as the Christmas weekend nears end: 2,513 flights were cancelled on Sunday (927 of them in the US), according to FlightAware. 🦠 Several airlines, including United, JetBlue and Delta told The New York Times on Sunday that flights were being canceled over concerns of Omicron infections among crew members.
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🕷 ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ defeats ‘Infinity War’ & notches second-biggest box office debut in history with $260M After a harsh one and a half years for movie theaters in the United States and across the globe, Peter Parker came to the rescue this weekend…
🕷 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' continues to break records. This time, the superhero blockbuster became the first film of the pandemic era to break the $ 1 billion mark at the worldwide box office.
On Christmas Eve, it became Sony's highest grossing noscript of all time after ending Friday with $ 405.5 million in domestic ticket sales, unadjusted for inflation
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On Christmas Eve, it became Sony's highest grossing noscript of all time after ending Friday with $ 405.5 million in domestic ticket sales, unadjusted for inflation
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Freudian slip?
Margaret Brennan, the host of CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” asked Kamala Harris about the one national security threat that keeps her up at night worrying.
🗣 “Frankly, one of them is our democracy. There is, I think, no question in the minds of people who are foreign policy experts that the year 2021 is not the year 2000,” Kamala answered
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Margaret Brennan, the host of CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” asked Kamala Harris about the one national security threat that keeps her up at night worrying.
🗣 “Frankly, one of them is our democracy. There is, I think, no question in the minds of people who are foreign policy experts that the year 2021 is not the year 2000,” Kamala answered
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📡🔭The testing of the James Webb Space Telescope’s antenna assembly has been successfully completed, NASA says. The gimbaled antenna assembly (GAA) includes Webb’s high-data-rate dish antenna that will be used to send at least 28.6 Gbytes of data twice a day.
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💸 Santa Drake hands out presents. Rapper Drake was spotted giving money to some people during the Christmas holiday in his home town Toronto, Canada, according to a video
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🇺🇸 The man who told US President Joe Biden “Let’s Go Brandon” during the Christmas Eve Santa tracker phone call says he “mean[s] no disrespect to him.” 🔎“At the end of the day, I have nothing against Mr. Biden, but I am frustrated because I think he can…
💸 The community behind the 'Let's Go Brandon' coin is reportedly donating $ 1.5 million FJB to charity on behalf of Jared Schmeck, an Oregon father who spoke to President Joe Biden on Christmas Eve.
It was during this call that Schmeck told the president, "Let's go, Brandon," to which the president replied, "Let's go, Brandon, I agree."
A million dollar joke
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It was during this call that Schmeck told the president, "Let's go, Brandon," to which the president replied, "Let's go, Brandon, I agree."
A million dollar joke
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California is facing heavy snowfall and this month is close to become the snowiest December in the history of the state, challenging December 1970, UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab says. According to the Poweroutage.us portal, some 50,000 people in California have been left without electricity as a result of the snow storm.
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