Month: August 2020

Your Horoscope for the Week of August 2nd – Cosmopolitan.com
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Your Horoscope for the Week of August 2nd – Cosmopolitan.com

Happy August! On Monday (the day ruled by the Moon, ICYDK), we have the annual Full Moon in Aquarius lighting up our willingness and action towards social justice, community healing, and friendship. On Tuesday, Mercury enters open-hearted Leo, where it stays until August 20, inspiring more vulnerability. On Friday, romantic Venus moves into Cancer until September 6, helping us find lovers that keep us safe. This content is imported from {embed-name}. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Aries Power to the people, Aries! Monday’s Full Moon in Aquarius motivates you to get more involved with a social cause that’s near and dear to you. Mercury enters Leo on Tuesday, helping you share the s...
How Did Jennifer Lopez Get Her J.Lo Nickname? – Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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How Did Jennifer Lopez Get Her J.Lo Nickname? – Showbiz Cheat Sheet

Jennifer Lopez is one of the most talented stars of her generation, a bestselling musical artist who can also dance, act, and handle business like no one else. Lopez is considered to be one of the world’s most powerful celebrities, an influential force in anything that she chooses to do. She is also a mother of two children and is engaged to marry fellow superstar Alex Rodriguez. Most fans know Lopez best as “J.Lo,” a nickname that she has had since early on in her career. What fans might not know is how she got the nickname in the first place, and the star who is responsible for coining the moniker.  How did Jennifer Lopez get her start? RELATED: Jennifer Lopez Once Received a $105,000 Toilet Seat Containing Diamonds from an Ex Lopez was born in New York C...
Louisiana contact tracing stymied as 73 percent of people who answer don’t share contacts – NOLA.com
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Louisiana contact tracing stymied as 73 percent of people who answer don’t share contacts – NOLA.com

When Louisiana began to open back up again after a hard lockdown this spring, Gov. John Bel Edwards touted two key antidotes to ensuring coronavirus did not spin out of control again: testing and contact tracing. Things haven’t gone according to plan. Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Lake Charles and several other cities are struggling to contain the virus. Hospital intensive care units are overwhelmed. School leaders don’t know whether they should open classrooms in the fall. And Louisiana has the highest per-capita rate of known coronavirus cases in the nation. Contact tracers are supposed to speak with infected people as soon as they test positive, find out who they’ve been in contact with, and warn those people to self-quarantine. But that's proved easier sa...
20,000 more Americans could die from Covid-19 in the next 21 days, CDC ensemble forecast shows – CNN
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20,000 more Americans could die from Covid-19 in the next 21 days, CDC ensemble forecast shows – CNN

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Do some people have protection against the coronavirus? – CNN
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Do some people have protection against the coronavirus? – CNN

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Experts fear political pressure on COVID-19 vaccine | TheHill – The Hill
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Experts fear political pressure on COVID-19 vaccine | TheHill – The Hill

Public health experts are raising red flags that the Trump administration could exert political pressure on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve a COVID-19 vaccine before one is ready. President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump nomination to be held in private: report Graham defends Trump on TikTok, backs Microsoft purchase Federal appeals court rejects Stormy Daniels libel case against Trump MORE, searching for a political win just over three months from the election, has latched onto the push for developing a vaccine in record time and promoted it in a number of recent appearances. Trump spoke optimistically of the prospects for a vaccine during a visit to a biotech facility in North Carolina on Monday, despite experts cautioning one may not be widely available for another...
The Umbrella Academy Recap: The Ghost With the Most – Vulture
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The Umbrella Academy Recap: The Ghost With the Most – Vulture

Photo: Christos Kalohordis/Netflix Despite setting most of the story in Dallas circa 1963 — with the JFK assassination looming on the horizon — Umbrella Academy spent the first few minutes of its second season setting up some very familiar stakes: an apocalypse that could only be prevented if the Umbrella Academy could figure out what caused it, and how to stop it, in a matter of days. For most of the season, it’s been hard to parse why Umbrella Academy  built season two around a story that echoed season one so nakedly. If you were generous, you could make the case that Umbrella Academy was arguing that history repeats itself; if you were ...
Montana Couple Married at Age 91, Signed a Prenup – TMZ
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Montana Couple Married at Age 91, Signed a Prenup – TMZ

A love story more than 8 decades in the making reached a high point last week ... when Ivan O'Neil and Gerry Souhrada got married in Montana. The couple, both 91, said their "I dos" in front of immediate family July 25 in Lakeside ... after more than a decade of dating. The nuptials were also live streamed on Facebook so loved ones all over could watch. Ivan and Gerry met in first grade and grew to be friends during high school. They both went on to get married to other people, but continued to bump into each other over the years at various local events, and committee meetings to plan their class reunions. Play video content TMZ.com ...
The next coronavirus may already be circulating in bats, study suggests – TribLIVE
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The next coronavirus may already be circulating in bats, study suggests – TribLIVE

TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. While the exact origin of the coronavirus remains murky, scientists have been racing to determine how it jumped from animals to humans so they can prevent another pandemic. The next one could just be a matter of time, a new study suggests. The authors said a virus with similar ability to infect humans may already be out there, carried by a type of bat known for having horseshoe-shaped “leafs” on their noses. Scientists made that prediction after constructing a family tree of the coronavirus — tracing its ancestry by comparing its genetic code with that of other coronaviruses found in bats, humans and a scaly animal called the pangolin. The lineage of th...