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The panel is expected to announce criminal referrals by January 6
The US House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing in early January about President Joe Biden’s administration’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis. According to reports, the panel will look into how the “weaponisation of the federal government” led to the surge in cases of the virus. The hearing will also be held on…
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Southwest cancels more than 2,800 flights.
Over 2,300 Southwest Airlines flights were cancelled on Thursday after the carrier was forced to cancel over 2,000 flights across the US due to the COVID-19 crisis. Some airports in the US, including Chicago’s Midway International, Harry Reid in Las Vegas and William P. Pershing International Airport in western New York, did not resume passenger…
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The obstacles to invention were overcome.
An economist from Columbia University in New York City has said the response of researchers and inventors to COVID-19 crisis is similar to the approach taken during the Second World War. He co-wrote a paper that explored the parallels between the two world-altering calamities. Sampat also co-wrote a paper for the US-based National Bureau of…