Month: September 2020

Fans Choose Demi Lovato and Marshmellos OK Not to Be OK as This Weeks Favorite New Music – Billboard
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Fans Choose Demi Lovato and Marshmellos OK Not to Be OK as This Weeks Favorite New Music – Billboard

Demi Lovato and Marshmello's "OK Not to Be OK" has topped this week's new music poll. Music fans voted in a poll published Friday (Sept. 11) on Billboard, choosing the inspiring ode to mental health as their favorite new music release from the past week. "OK Not to Be OK" brought in 52 percent of the vote this week, beating out new music by Usher ("Bad Habits"), Major Lazer and Mr. Eazi ("Oh My Gawd"), David Guetta and Sia ("Let's Love"), and others. In an interview with Apple Music, Marshmello explained that the emotional subject matter in "OK Not to Be OK" took on a new meaning, given that it was released on World Suicide Prevention Day (Sept. 10). "I think it's just such an important subject," the DJ-producer said. "I think a lot of people, about negative feelings and ...
Mariah Carey Says Breonna Taylors Killing Hurts Especially Bad Right Now – Billboard
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Mariah Carey Says Breonna Taylors Killing Hurts Especially Bad Right Now – Billboard

Mariah Carey, wearing a T-shirt with the demand to "arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor," is reminding her fans to stay vigilant in the fight against racial injustice. In a social media message posted on Sunday (Sept. 13), the back of the singer's shirt shows Taylor's face and the words "say her name." The singer also shared a picture in remembrance of Taylor, who was fatally shot by police in Louisville, Ky., in March. "It’s been six months since #BreonnaTaylor, a frontline medical worker was killed by police in a ‘no-knock’ raid targeting the WRONG apartment," Carey posted, sharing a message from the Instagram account @wearepushblack. "Medical workers like her save lives every day - but police violence claims Black lives at nearly the same pace." "Her killing hurts ...
Coronavirus cases are growing in 11 U.S. states as Fauci warns of disturbing data – CNBC
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Coronavirus cases are growing in 11 U.S. states as Fauci warns of disturbing data – CNBC

Coronavirus cases continued to grow over the weekend in nearly a dozen U.S. states as Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease expert, warns about the nation's worrying level of new infections. Covid-19 cases were growing by 5% or more, based on a weekly average to smooth out daily reporting, in 11 states as of Sunday, according to a CNBC analysis of data collected by Johns Hopkins University, an increase from eight states on Friday. The states were Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Wisconsin hit a record high in its average of daily new cases, reporting 1,353 new infections, a roughly 32% increase from a week ago, the Hopkins data shows. Kansas and Montana both hit record hi...
Hawaii officials report 2 coronavirus-related deaths on Oahu and 114 new infections statewide – Honolulu Star-Bulletin
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Hawaii officials report 2 coronavirus-related deaths on Oahu and 114 new infections statewide – Honolulu Star-Bulletin

Hawaii Department of Health officials today reported two more coronavirus-related deaths on Oahu and 114 new infections statewide, bringing the state’s totals since the beginning of the pandemic to 99 fatalities and 10,700 COVID-19 cases. No further information was immediately provided about the latest deaths. A total of 86 deaths have been on Oahu, nine on Maui, three on the Big Island, while one was a Kauai resident who died on the mainland, according to state health officials. State health officials have yet to count the latest reported coronavirus-related deaths on Hawaii island at the Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Home, where 10 residents died following an outbreak there. Health officials have told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser that the Hilo deaths are pending verification. Meanwh...
Drew Barrymore reflects on her wild past, flashing David Letterman: I pushed the limits a lot – Yahoo Entertainment
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Drew Barrymore reflects on her wild past, flashing David Letterman: I pushed the limits a lot – Yahoo Entertainment

As Drew Barrymore prepares to launch her very own talk show, she’s reflecting on some of her own headline-making appearances as a guest on the late-night circuit — like the 1995 moment when she hopped on David Letterman’s desk and lifted her top in honor of his birthday. "I think if there's one thing I've learned in a very long life in front of people is there is a line,” Barrymore now says of the notorious clip, according to a new interview with CBS Sunday Morning. “There is TMI. And I kind of know what that line is, and it's a feeling." Now a 45-year-old mother of two who’s launched her own production company in addition to a beauty line and other businesses, Barrymore is a far cry from the former child star and teen tabloid favorite who went to rehab at age 13. A scion of the famed a...
Sen. Schumer Tries Stand-Up Alongside Jerry Seinfeld, Tells Great Joke – TMZ
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Sen. Schumer Tries Stand-Up Alongside Jerry Seinfeld, Tells Great Joke – TMZ

Play video content Senator Chuck Schumer just tried his hand at stand-up alongside one of the comedy greats, Jerry Seinfeld, and we gotta say ... he ain't half bad!!! Chuck was in NYC Sunday at the famous Gotham Comedy Club, where he and Jerry were pitching a new bill the Senator from New York wants to get introduced in Congress ... which will help fund comedy clubs and live venues throughout the city to keep them afloat. While they were talking shop, Schumer eventually waded into the humor side of things and told a verrry long joke ... which came to him courtesy of his retired parents, who took a college humor course and told it to ...
Bar Rafaeli sentenced to nine months community service by Israeli court – Fox News
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Bar Rafaeli sentenced to nine months community service by Israeli court – Fox News

Model Bar Refaeli was sentenced by an Israeli court on Sunday to nine months of community service along with her mother, who received 16 months in prison for tax evasion, putting an end to a prolonged court battle. The 35-year-old Refaeli and her mother were convicted in July on offenses of evading paying taxes on income nearing $10 million in a case that sullied the name of the once-beloved national icon. Refaeli entered the Tel Aviv courthouse in a beige T-shirt and wearing a light blue surgical face mask. She was accompanied by her father, Raffi, her mother, Zipi, and flanked by lawyers. MODEL AND EX-GIRLFRIEND OF LEONARDO DICAPRIO, BAR REFAELI, COULD BE INDICTED FOR TAX EVASION According to a plea bargain accepted by the court, the two were also ordered to pay a $1.5 million fine...
Conflicting Virus Data in Texas Raises Distrust of the Government – The New York Times
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Conflicting Virus Data in Texas Raises Distrust of the Government – The New York Times

Inconsistencies and problems with Covid-19 data collection in Texas have clouded the picture of the pandemic’s trajectory in the state, to the point that some residents and officials say they cannot rely on the numbers to tell them what is really going on. The state has overlooked thousands of cases, only to report them weeks after infection. It has made major adjustments to its case and death counts, defining them one way and then another, suddenly reporting figures for some counties that were vastly different from those posted by the local health department. “The changing of gears and data reporting at the state has a lot of public health departments feeling a significant case of whiplash,” Mayor Ron Nirenberg of San Antonio said. The daunting task of reporting coronavirus cases and de...
Eastern Shore’s positivity rate climbs as Maryland reports 577 newly confirmed coronavirus cases – Baltimore Sun
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Eastern Shore’s positivity rate climbs as Maryland reports 577 newly confirmed coronavirus cases – Baltimore Sun

Wicomico County — which has a population of about 104,000 people and includes Salisbury — has an average positivity rate nearly double that of the state at 7.02%, an increase of 0.39 percentage points from Saturday. The county confirmed 16 new cases Sunday, for a total of 1,770, and has seen its average positivity rate climb by more than 2 percentage points since Sept. 5.
COVID-19 death toll surpasses 9,000 in Massachusetts; more than 3 million tests administered – WCVB Boston
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COVID-19 death toll surpasses 9,000 in Massachusetts; more than 3 million tests administered – WCVB Boston

COVID-19 death toll surpasses 9,000 in Massachusetts; more than 3 million tests administered Updated: 5:17 PM EDT Sep 13, 2020 The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported an additional 267 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, bringing the statewide total to 122,904.State health officials also confirmed 14 new COVID-19-related deaths across Massachusetts, bringing the state's confirmed coronavirus death toll to 9,001.More than 3 million molecular tests for COVID-19 have now been administered in the state to more than 1.95 million individuals. The rolling average of the positive test rate is now approximately 0.8%, DPH reported.Click here to s...