Новости за 30.12.2020

NPR honors milestones — the pins people use to map out their lives and mark their accomplishments — that were lost this year due to the pandemic.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with health equity advocate Joia Crear-Perry about a video in which the late Dr. Susan Moore said her treatment for COVID-19 suffered because she was Black.

It's a tamale season. Nowhere is the holiday tradition more beloved than along the southern border. But this year the pandemic is affecting who makes tamales and how people get them in Texas.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Alex Padilla, California's former secretary of state who is set to take Vice President-elect Kamala Harris' Senate seat, about his background and his new position.

Colorado officials reported a suspected second case of the U.K. coronavirus variant after confirming the first case on Tuesday. The persons in both cases are members of the Colorado National Guard.

Boston Celtics player and coach K.C. Jones has died at age 88. NPR remembers his understated manner and how he let the players have the limelight.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, about how he thinks the federal government can ramp up COVID-19 vaccination.

Police in Nashville, Tenn., were warned in 2019 that Anthony Warner was building explosive devices. Authorities had previously said Warner, who detonated a bomb on Christmas Day, was unknown to them.

The Louisville Metro Police Department says it plans to fire two more officers involved in the raid that led to Breonna Taylor's death. Taylor was the Black woman killed by police in a botched raid.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Sarah McKeon, deputy general manager of New Jersey Airports at the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, about keeping airports safe during a surge in air travel.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Julia Ebell, former creative director of The Gibson cocktail bar in Washington, D.C., about which cocktail is best to bid farewell to 2020.

2020 saw an unprecedented number of statues and other symbols related to America's racist past removed. People with racist tattoos followed suit, by getting their tattoos covered up.

The Bills may be making a veteran addition to their receiving corps ahead of the postseason. Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that the team is visiting with wide receiver Kenny Stills this week. Schefter adds that there is optimism that a deal will get done, but Stills still has to go through COVID-19 testing protocols. [more]

Donald Trump's legacy, like the man himself, will be complicated, but the one certainty will be his record of achieving what conventional wisdom said couldn't be done. His world-shocking victory in the 2016 election is the best example, and commanding the development and approval of COVID-19 vaccines in just nine months is another.

Creator, writer and star of Mrs Brown's Boys has vowed his sitcom will not be driven off air by political correctness

Mahomes will get two weeks off before the Chiefs begin their title defense

A SEARCH has been launched for two teenage girls who have gone missing in Bedford. Madison McKellar, 15, and Summer Southam, 16, were last seen in Bedford town centre at around 3.25pm on Monday. Bedford Police have launched an appeal for information that could help locate the pair. They also said the girls are believed […]

The Mercedes-Benz CLS63 AMG Shooting Brake is a special high-performance wagon -- and today I'm reviewing it. First I'll show you all the quirks and features of the CLS63 Shooting Brake, and then I'm driving the CLS63 to review the driving experience of this special AMG Wagon.

INDIANAPOLIS, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020 – INDYCAR race winner and Indianapolis 500 veteran John Paul Jr., widely considered as one of the most gifted and versatile drivers of his generation, died Dec. 29 after a long, valiant fight with Huntington’s disease. He was 60. Paul, a native of Muncie, Indiana, made seven Indianapolis 500 starts […]

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President-elect Joe Biden has accused President Donald Trump and his loyalists of obstructing the new administration's incoming national security team. When retired Adm. James G. Stavridis — former supreme allied commander of NATO — appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday morning, he made it clear that he shares Biden's concerns and warned that there could be "real-world consequences" if the president-elect's team isn't adequately prepared from a national security standpoint.

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